Canfranc Underground Laboratory

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Canfranc Underground Laboratory - LSC
Established2006[1]
Research typeLow-background physics
LocationCanfranc, Aragón (Spain)
Operating agency
University of Zaragoza
Websitewww.lsc-canfranc.es
Entrance of the laboratory

The Canfranc Underground Laboratory (Spanish: Laboratorio Subterráneo de Canfranc or LSC) is an underground scientific facility located in the former railway tunnel of Somport under Monte Tobazo (Pyrenees) in Canfranc. The laboratory, 780 m deep and protected from cosmic radiation,[2] is mainly devoted to study rarely occurring natural phenomena such as the interactions of neutrinos of cosmic origin or dark matter with atomic nuclei.[3][1][4]

Access to the tunnel containing the laboratory is at the Estación Internacional de Canfranc, a former international railway station in the village of Canfranc.[5][4][6]

Experiments[]

As of 2018, the following experiments are ongoing in Canfranc:[7]

  • ANAIS WIMP dark matter search experiment
  • ArDM WIMP dark matter search experiment
  • WIMP dark matter search experiment
  • radio-purity of materials experiment
  • neutrinoless double beta decay experiment
  • (also known as SUPERK-GD or under similar names) experiment for mapping of background noise signal for the Super-Kamiokande neutrino telescope in Japan. There is a plan to operate the Super-Kamiokande detector with Gadolinium salt dissolved into the water-mass of the detector. This operation would introduce unknown backgrounds in the neutrino-detection process of Super-Kamiokande, and SuperK-Gd is mapping those backgrounds.
  • underground geology experiment

As of 2018, two further experiments were in proposal stage: , an underground nuclear astrophysics facility, and underground biology experiment.

As of 2018, the following experiments have completed their activities in Canfranc:

  • dark matter experiment
  • LAGUNA neutrino observatory study (just a study, no real experiment hardware built and no measurements of any sort took place).

References[]

  1. ^ a b "Canfranc Underground Laboratory is ready to go". 212.71.251.65/aspera. Archived from the original on 22 March 2014. Retrieved 22 March 2014.
  2. ^ "Cosmic-ray muon flux at Canfranc Underground Laboratory". Eur. Phys. J. C 79 (8) 721 (2019). doi:10.1140/epjc/s10052-019-7239-9.
  3. ^ "The Canfranc Underground Laboratory" (PDF). lsm.in2p3.fr. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 July 2014. Retrieved 22 March 2014.
  4. ^ a b Iliana Mier (July 15, 2019). "The secret lab where Nazis hid gold". BBC Reel. BBC Travel. Retrieved August 9, 2019.
  5. ^ Obscura, Atlas. "The Abandoned Nazi Train Station Turned Underground Astroparticle Laboratory". slate.com. Retrieved 22 March 2014.
  6. ^ Povinec, Pavel (28 July 2011). Analysis of Environmental Radionuclides. ISBN 9780080553375. Retrieved 22 March 2014.
  7. ^ "Current Experiments Canfranc Underground Laboratory". LSC Canfranc.

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