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| Title | Design of a pan-European Infrastructure for Large Apparatus studying Grand Unification, Neutrino Astrophysics and Long Baseline Neutrino Oscillations |
| Grant Agreement Number | 284518 |
| Funding Programmes | FP7 |
| Dates | 01/09/2011 - 31/08/2014 |
| Project URL | http://www.ethz.ch |
| Scientific Domain |
Physical Sciences and Engineering |
| Action Line | Collaborative project |
| Type Of Project | CP |
| Abstract | 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. |
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Partners
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B.P.Konstantinov PETERSBURG NUCLEAR PHYSICS INSTITUTE RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, Russian Federation UNIVERSITY OF DURHAM, United Kingdom THE HENRYK NIEWODNICZANSKI INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR PHYSICS, POLISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, Poland QUEEN MARY AND WESTFIELD COLLEGE, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON, United Kingdom UNIVERSITAET BERN, Switzerland OULUN YLIOPISTO, Finland NARODOWE CENTRUM BADAN JADROWYCH, Poland UNIVERSITE DE GENEVE, Switzerland POLITECHNIKA WROCLAWSKA, Poland IMPERIAL COLLEGE OF SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND MEDICINE, United Kingdom NATIONAL CENTER FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH "DEMOKRITOS", Greece JYVASKYLAN YLIOPISTO, Finland THE UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD, United Kingdom University of Bucharest, Romania UNIVERSIDAD AUTONOMA DE MADRID, Spain LOMBARDI ENGINNERING SA, Switzerland AGT INGEGNERIA SRL, Italy KGHM CUPRUM SP ZOO CENTRUM BADAWCZO-ROZWOJOWE, Poland Kalliosuunnittelu Oy Rockplan Ltd, Finland UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK, United Kingdom CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS, Spain RHYAL ENGINEERING LIMITED, United Kingdom INSTYTUT PROBLEMOW JADROWYCH IM.ANDRZEJA SOLTANA - ANDRZEJ SOLTAN INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR STUDIES, Poland SOCIETE FRANCAISE D ETUDES ET DE REALISATIONS D EQUIPEMENTS GAZIERS SOFREGAZ SA, France ACCIONA INGENIERIA SA, Spain ALAN AULD GROUP LIMITED, United Kingdom HELSINGIN YLIOPISTO, Finland Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Romania TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET MUENCHEN, Germany CONSORCIO PARA EL EQUIPAMIENTO Y EXPLOTACION DEL LABORATORIO SUBTERRANEO DE CANFRANC, Spain TECHNODYNE INTERNATIONAL LIMITED, United Kingdom THE UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL, United Kingdom INTER-UNIVERSITY RESEARCH INSTITUTE CORPORATION, HIGH ENERGY ACCELERATOR RESEARCH ORGANISATION, Japan UNIVERSITAET HAMBURG, Germany THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, United Kingdom |
