2008 APS April Meeting and HEDP/HEDLA Meeting
Volume 53, Number 5
Friday–Tuesday, April 11–15, 2008;
St. Louis, Missouri
Session S2: American Particle Physics in the Coming Era II
1:30 PM–3:18 PM,
Monday, April 14, 2008
Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel),
Room: St. Louis D
Sponsoring
Unit:
DPF
Chair: Robert Cahn, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Abstract ID: BAPS.2008.APR.S2.2
Abstract: S2.00002 : DUSEL and its Physics Program*
2:06 PM–2:42 PM
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Abstract
Author:
Kevin Lesko
(UC Berkeley)
The recent discoveries by the SNO, KamLAND, and Super-K
collaborations; the
precision measurements at MINOS, Borexino, and K2K; and the
significant
increases in dark matter sensitivities reported by CDMS and
Xenon10, have
highlighted the increasing world-wide interest in underground
physics,
astrophysics and other fields of science that require deep
underground
laboratory and research facilities. The National Science
Foundation has
embarked on the third and fourth stages of a program to establish a
world-class, multi-disciplinary deep underground science and
engineering
laboratory - DUSEL. The first stage of this effort to assess the
scientific
drivers was completed with the release of Deep Science
(http://www.deepscience.org/) and the associated Town Meetings
(http://cosmology.berkeley.edu/DUSEL/Town\_meeting\_DC07/)
in November 2007. I shall review this report's finding on the
scientific
motivations for DUSEL, the documented shortage of underground
space to
pursue the experiments, and additional facility requirements that
influence
DUSEL's design. The NSF's DUSEL Review Panel in July 2007
selected the
former Homestake mine in South Dakota as the prime site to be
developed for
an international world-class research facility. I shall review
the Homestake facility plans (http://www.lbl.gov/nsd/homestake/)
including
the near-term experimental program hosted by the state-sponsored
Sanford
Laboratory and the plans for the development of the entire site as a
multidisciplinary user facility with depths extending to 8000
feet below
ground. Our plans for DUSEL as an NSF Major Research Equipment and
Facilities Construction proposal would provide funding for the
facility as
well as significant Initial Suite of Experiments (ISE). The
Initial Suite of
Experiments would be constructed concurrently with the facility
as early as
2011 or 2012. I shall review a number of candidate experimental
programs
being considered for DUSEL's Initial Suite of Experiments of
particular
interest to the particle physics community including: a
comprehensive long
baseline neutrino program, nucleon decay experiments, dark matter
searches,
neutrinoless double beta decay experiments as well as solar and
geoneutrino
measurements and potential gravity wave and n-nbar oscillation
experiments.
*Work supported by the NSF under cooperative agreement PHY-0717003.
To cite this abstract, use the following reference: http://meetings.aps.org/link/BAPS.2008.APR.S2.2