The Construction and Anticipated Science of SNOLAB

F. Duncan; A.J. Noble; D. Sinclair

doi:10.1146/annurev.nucl.012809.104513

Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science

Volume 60, 2010

Review Article

The Construction and Anticipated Science of SNOLAB

F. Duncan¹, A.J. Noble², and D. Sinclair³
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Affiliations: ¹SNOLAB, Lively, Ontario P3Y 1N2, Canada and Department of Physics, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario P3E 2C6, Canada; email: [email protected] ²Department of Physics, Queen's University at Kingston, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada; email: [email protected] ³Department of Physics, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario K1S 5B6, Canada and TRIUMF, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 2A3, Canada; email: [email protected]
Vol. 60:163-180 (Volume publication date November 2010) https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.nucl.012809.104513
First published as a Review in Advance on June 07, 2010
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Abstract

A new laboratory for astroparticle physics has been created in the Creighton Mine near Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. The laboratory is located at a great depth to provide shielding from the cosmic-ray backgrounds, and it has been constructed as a clean room to protect experiments from radioactive dust contamination. In this review, we discuss the motivation for the establishment of the laboratory and the design and construction process. We also introduce the initial suite of experiments.

Keyword(s): astroparticle physics, dark matter, deep underground laboratory, double-β decay, neutrinos, seismology, supernovae

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