[Triumf-seminars] TRIUMF Seminar today at 14:00

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Date/Time: Thu 2004-06-24 at 14:00

Location:  Auditorium          

Speaker:   Wick Haxton (Dept of Physics, U. Washington, Seattle)

Title:     Deep Underground Science and the Possibility of a Cascades Site for DUSEL

Abstract: I will review the science motivations for creating a Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory (DUSEL) to host a variety of neutrino, dark matter, proton decay, nuclear astrophysics, gravity, geomicrobiology, earth science, and engineering experiments. Efforts in the US to create DUSEL focused until recently on the abandoned Homestake Mine, a facility where deep access is gained by hoists. With the decision to flood Homestake, members of the DUSEL collaboration began a search for possible alternatives, focusing on drive-in access via tunnels under a steep mountain. A search over most of the western US yielded 12 candidate sites, one of which is particularly suitable. It is located in the Mount Stuart batholith, a granite mass rising 8300 feet from the Columbia basin,in a region famous for record-setting tunnels. I will summarize the recently released DUSEL-Cascades pre-proposal (http://int.phys.washington.edu/NUSEL/icicle.html). If DUSEL were sited in the Northwest, it would be an important asset to regional universities and research centers. This talk is motivated by TRIUMF's long interest in neutrino physics, nuclear astrophysics and related problems.

Stimulants available 15 minutes before the talk.

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