SNOLAB & DUSEL

Dan Akerib

Case Western Reserve University

4th SNOLab Workshop

17 August 2005

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Context, history, & past attempts

• Goal: establish a large deep underground multi-purpose lab to anchor the national underground science program and draw world-wide participation

• US attempts Early 1960’s - Alvarez, Pevsner, Reines

Early 1980’s - Mann & Sharpe (Yucca Mtn.); UC Irvine (San Jacinto)

Around 2000 it was time to try again...

• Triggered by Homestake site - end of mining operations

• 4 site proposalsHomestake

Soudan

WIPP

San Jacinto

• Foundered politically…

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New NSF process

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The EarthLab Underground Observatory

Surface laboratories

The Deep Flow and Paleoclimate Laboratory and Observatory

The Induced Fracture and Deformation Processes Laboratory

The Deep Coupled Processes Laboratory

The Ultradeep Life and Biogeochemistry Observatory

The Deep Seismic Observatory

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New NSF process

• 3 solicitations - charge to community:Restart the process - build on the recent workshops (Lead, NeSS02, EarthLab), reports (Bahcall, NRC Neutrinos & Beyond, Quarks to the Cosmos)

Lead with the science - “Solicitation 1” - planning grant(s) to define science and infrastructure requirements

• Recognize on “day one” the interdisciplinary nature of this field and build that into the planning process

• Attempt to decouple the science planning from the site selection

Site development grants - “Solicitation 2” - proposals to develop site plan and how infrastructure needs for science and engineering modules could be met

Full proposal development - “Solicitation 3” - including suite of initial experiments

Review at NSF - initiate Major Research Equipment Facility Construction process (MREFC)

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Solicitation 1 status

• Goal: single response from the communityBerkeley workshop (Aug ‘04)

Coming together of diverse fields

Watershed event for the physicists: these other guys mean business!

• OrganizationPI group but no site proponents

— Gene Beier, U Penn (Particle Physics)

— Charles Fairhurst, U Minnesota (Engineering/Geology)

— Tullis Onstott, Princeton (Biogeology)

— Hamish Robertson, U Washington (Nuclear Physics)

— Bernard Sadoulet, UC Berkeley (Astrophysics)

— James Tiedje, Michigan State (Biology)

Working groups (~15) on the various disciplines

Site proponent contacts - 2 per site x 8 sites

• Proposal submitted Sept ‘04 -- $500,000 to develop science roadmap, technical requirements, involvement of geoscience and geomicrobiology

Workshops throughout the year: Blacksburg.(Geosci.), Boulder, Minneapolis

clear consensus that broad interdisciplinary nature of lab is critical

Sound (and positive) acknowledgement of what SNOLAB brings to the field

• Report expected by end of 2005

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Solicitation 2 status

• 8 sites made submissions

• Cascades-Icicle Creek (WA)

• San Jacinto (CA)

• Homestake (SD)

• Henderson (CO)

• Soudan (MN)

• WIPP (NM)

• Kimbleton (VA)

• SNOLab (Canada)— not a full-scale proposal -- explore cooperative aspects with Dusel

Selected in July 05 - $500,000 each to develop conceptual design, engineering feasibility.

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Homestake

Kevin T. Lesko for the Homestake Co aboratioLawrence Berkeley National Lab

Institute for Nuclear and Particle Astrophysics

Progress in Establishing an Underground Lab at

Homestake

Many more details giving at Joe Wang s lecture series

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Homestake

Expedient access to 20 cubic kilometers of rock mass, depths to 4850 feet, many existing spaces and excavations suited for science in the near term

4850 Laboratory open by 2007

DUSEL

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Henderson

Chang Kee JungDUSEL Lecture Series, Mar. 18, 2005

Henderson DUSELHenderson DUSEL

ChangChang Kee Kee JungJung

Stony Brook University andStony Brook University and

Universitat Autonoma Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona de Barcelona

July 22, 2005July 22, 2005

Unearthing the Secrets of the Universe UndergroundUnearthing the Secrets of the Universe Underground

A Brief Look AheadA Brief Look Ahead……

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Henderson

Chang Kee JungDUSEL Lecture Series, Mar. 18, 2005

~10 miles

Mill Site

Red Mt.#2 shaft

Vast InfrastructureVast Infrastructure

• Existing tailing site and all necessary environmental permits

• Henderson 2000 modernization project: ~$150M

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Henderson

Chang Kee JungDUSEL Lecture Series, Mar. 18, 2005

Henderson DUSEL Conceptual DesignHenderson DUSEL Conceptual Design

Central Campus

Elev. 6750 ft, (4200 mwe)

Midway Campus

Elev. 5825 ft, (5100 mwe)

Lower Campus

Elev. 4900 ft. (6000 mwe)

Internal Shaft

Access Ramps EarthLab/

Geoscience

Area

Silver Plume

Granite Silver Plume

Granite

Urad Porphyry

7065 Level

7500 Level

Shaft

Red Mountain

Porphyry

Henderson

Granite

Primos

Porphyry

Henderson

Orebody

Harrison MountainElev. 12,300 ft

Red MountainElev. 12,300 ft

Upper Campus 1&2

Elev. 8100 ft, (2500 mwe)

Elev. 7700 ft, (3100 mwe)

pristine rock

perturbed rock

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SNOLAB & DUSEL

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PHY - UNDERGROUND PHYSICS

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Case Western Reserve University

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Case Western Reserve UniversitySears Library, 6th FloorCleveland, OH. 441067015

SNOLab and Dusel

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Physics Department

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10900 Euclid Avenue

Cleveland, OH 441067079United States

Daniel S Akerib PhD 1991 216-368-2813 akerib@case.edu

Andrew Hime PhD 1991 505-667-0191 ahime@lanl.gov

Kate Scholberg PhD 1997 919-660-2962 schol@phy.duke.edu

077758407

• A. Hime

• K. Scholberg

• D. Akerib

• + D. Sinclair

•S2 proposal for SNOLAB-DUSEL cooperation & planning: denied

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SNOLAB & DUSEL: approach

• “This proposal, in part, attempts to inform the NSF of the present vision for SNOLAB both with respect to its capabilities and limitations, and to put this into the context of the international needs for underground science and the process underway in the United States to establish a Deep Underground Science and Engineering Lab (DUSEL).”

• “It is prudent, therefore, to consider and develop a cooperative relationship between SNOLAB and DUSEL that would optimize the deep underground space in North America, and promote the unique relationship between SNOLAB and DUSEL because of their proximity, depth, and long-standing role in US science.”

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SNOLAB & DUSEL: specific goals

• Describe the existing plans and scientific vision for SNOLAB that focuses upon next generation experiments in particle/astrophysics requiring the infrastructure of this deep site,

• Explore the potential expansion capabilities and limitations beyond the existing vision for SNOLAB,

• Explore the possibilities at SNOLAB for multi-disciplinary science and engineering beyond the core program for particle/astrophysics presently under development,

• Foster a program for cooperation and explore avenues for partnership between SNOLAB and DUSEL

• Consider any changes that might be necessary for laboratory management and organization, given partnership with DUSEL

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Summary and outlook

• NSF reopened study in 2004 3 phase process

• Solicitation 1: Science assessment -- to complete this fall

• Solicitation 2: Site concepts - Henderson & Homestake to produce conceptual designs -- 6--12 months

• Solicitation 3: Develop full technical design in FY07— Planning grant to develop full proposal including suite of proposed experiments

• Subsequent stepsReview and Decision to proceed through full MRE-NRC-NSB review

FY08 President's Budget - originally referred to - slippage??

• With regard to SNOLAB: wait and see how US situation develops...

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More information…

• August workshop (Berkeley)

http://neutrino.lbl.gov/DUSELS-1/talks/

• SCIENTIFIC REPORTSReports on underground science 2000

• http://www.sns.ias.edu/~jnb/Laboratory/science.pdf

Technical Evaluation of Underground Laboratory Sites

• http://www.sns.ias.edu/~jnb/Laboratory/evaluation.html

Lead workshops on underground science 2001:

• http://esd.lbl.gov/ESD_staff/wang/wang_eswkshp.html

• http://nucth.physics.wisc.edu/conferences/undscience/program.html

• http://nucth.physics.wisc.edu/conferences/white/Homestake.html

International Workshop on Neutrino and Subterranean Science 2002 (NeSS 2002)

• http://www.physics.umd.edu/events/spevents/NeSS02/

• EarthLabhttp://www.earthlab.org

contact: Brian McPhearson

• Deep Underground Science and Engineering Lab

http://www.dusel.org/

• NRC reports:Neutrino facilities

• http://www.nap.edu/catalog/10583.htmlQuarks to the Cosmos

• http://books.nap.edu/catalog/10079.html

• DOE NP Long Range Plan 2002http://www.sc.doe.gov/henp/np/nsac/nsac.html

• DOE Facilities for the Future 2003http://www.sc.doe.gov/Sub/Facilities_for_future/

facilities_future.htm

• DOE HEP long-range plan and other reportshttp://www.science.doe.gov/hep/

hepap_reports.shtm

• OSTP report February 2004• http://www.ostp.gov/html/

physicsoftheuniverse2.pdf

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Site links

•Cascades–Icicle Creek, WAhttp://mocha.phys.washington.edu/NUSEL/icicle.html

contact: Wick Haxton (haxton@phys.washington.edu)John Wilkerson (jfw@phys.washington.edu)

•Henderson Mine, COhttp://cause.mines.edu/

contact: Chang Kee Jung (alpinist@ale.physics.sunysb.edu) Bob Wilson (rwilson@lamar.colostate.edu)

•Homestake Mine Project, SD http://www.hpcnet.org/homestake#

also, http://ktlesko.lbl.gov/nusel

contact: Kevin Lesko (ktlesko@lbl.gov) Willi Chinowsky (wchinowsky@lbl.gov)

•Kimballton Mine, VA http://www.phys.vt.edu/~kimballton/

contact: R. Bruce Vogelaar vogelaar@vt.eduBob Bodnar (rjb@vt.edu)

•Mt. San Jacinto, CA http://www.ps.uci.edu/~SJNUSL/

contact: Hank Sobel (hsobel@uci.edu) Bill Kropp (wkropp@uci.edu)

•Soudan Mine, MNhttp://www.soudan.umn.edu/NUSEL/

contact: Marvin L. Marshak (marshak@umn.edu) Earl A. Peterson (eap@umphys.spa.umn.edu)

•The Sudbury Neutrino Observatory Laboratory

(SNOLAB), Creighton Mine, Ontariohttp://www.snolab.ca

contact: Andrew Hime (ahime@lanl.gov) David Sinclair (sinclair@physics.carleton.ca)

•WIPP (Waste Isolation Pilot Plan), NMhttp://www.wipp.ws/science/index.htm

contact: Roger Nelson (Roger.Nelson@wipp.ws) Lloyd Piper (lloyd.piper@wipp.ws)

•Green Fields Reporthttp://ktlesko.lbl.gov/NUSEL/green_fields.pdf