Wednesday 14 October 2009

Speaker: Sean Paling   (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Sheffield University)

Title: Underground Science at Boulby Mine: Dark Matter and Beyond

Abstract:

Since the late 1980s UK astrophysicists have been running Dark Matter search experiments at Boulby mine - a working
Potash mine on the North East coast of England. The search for Dark Matter continues and the UK's experiments at
Boulby continue to lead in the field. Meanwhile the world of underground science is growing with a number of other
science areas emerging that require the special environment found deep underground. This talk will give an overview
of the UK's deep underground science facility at Boulby - describing the place, the facilities, the science currently
supported and the science that might be supported in the future.