Canfranc Underground Laboratory
Established | 2006[1] |
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Research type | Low-background physics |
Location | Canfranc, Aragón (Spain) |
Operating agency | University of Zaragoza |
Website | www.lsc-canfranc.es |
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[]
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Cosmic-ray muon flux at Canfranc Underground Laboratory". Eur. Phys. J. C 79 (8) 721 (2019). doi:10.1140/epjc/s10052-019-7239-9.
- ^ "The Canfranc Underground Laboratory" (PDF). lsm.in2p3.fr. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 July 2014. Retrieved 22 March 2014.
- ^ a b Iliana Mier (July 15, 2019). "The secret lab where Nazis hid gold". BBC Reel. BBC Travel. Retrieved August 9, 2019.
- ^ Obscura, Atlas. "The Abandoned Nazi Train Station Turned Underground Astroparticle Laboratory". slate.com. Retrieved 22 March 2014.
- ^ Povinec, Pavel (28 July 2011). Analysis of Environmental Radionuclides. ISBN 9780080553375. Retrieved 22 March 2014.
- ^ "Current Experiments Canfranc Underground Laboratory". LSC Canfranc.
External links[]
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- The Canfranc Underground Astroparticle Laboratory: Experimental Program Status, Results & Prospects presentation, Angel Morales, University of Zaragoza
- Estación internacional de Canfranc. Ayuntamiento de Canfranc
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