Objective
Key questions in physics can be answered only by constructing a giant underground observatory to search for rare events and study terrestrial and astrophysical neutrinos. The Astroparticle Roadmap of ApPEC/ASPERA strongly supports this, recommending that: “a new large European infrastructure of 100'000-500'000 ton for proton decay and low-energy neutrinos be evaluated as a common design study together with the underground infrastructure and eventual detection of accelerator neutrino beams”. The latest CERN roadmap also states: “a range of very important non-accelerator experiments takes place at the overlap of particle and astroparticle physics exploring otherwise inaccessible phenomena; Council will seek with ApPEC a coordinated strategy in these areas of mutual interest.”
Reacting to this, uniting scientists across Europe with industrial support to produce a very strong collaboration, the LAGUNA FP7 design study has had a very positive effect. It enabled, via study of seven pre-selected locations (Finland, France, Italy, Poland, Romania, Spain and UK), a detailed geo-technical assessment of the giant underground cavern needed, concluding finally that no geo-technical show-stoppers to cavern construction exist. Building on this, the present design study will address two challenges vital to making a final detector and site choice: (i) to determine the full cost of construction underground, commissioning and long-term operation of the infrastructure, and (ii) to determine the full impact of including long baseline neutrino physics with beams from CERN.
Call for proposal
FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2011-1
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Funding Scheme
CP - Collaborative project (generic)Coordinator
8092 Zuerich
Switzerland
Participants (38)
3012 Bern
1211 Geneve
6648 Minusio
1211 Geneve 23
40100 Jyvaskyla
00014 Helsingin Yliopisto
90014 Oulu
00520 Helsinki
75015 Paris 15
75794 Paris
80333 Muenchen
20148 Hamburg
31 342 Krakow
05 400 Otwock
50-370 Wroclaw
53-659 Wrocław
22888 Canfranc
28049 Madrid
28006 Madrid
28108 Alcobendas
SW7 2AZ London
DH1 3LE Durham
OX1 2JD Oxford
L69 7ZX Liverpool
S10 2TN Sheffield
SN2 1SZ Swindon
CV4 8UW Coventry
E1 4NS London
SO50 4sr Eastleigh Uk So50 4Sr
DN1 2DY Doncaster
SA73 2RX Milford Haven
92200 Neuilly Sur Seine
06126 Perugia
15341 Agia Paraskevi
077125 Magurele Ilfov
050663 Bucuresti
3050801 Tsukuba
188300 Gatchina