Wednesday Friday 30 July 2010, 15:00

Speaker:   Nigel Smith   (Director of SNOLAB)

Title:   SNOLAB and its programme

Abstract:

Many areas of particle and astroparticle physics require the quiet environment afforded by deep
underground laboratories where cosmic radiation and the byproducts thereof are reduced by many
orders of magnitude. The deepest laboratory currently in operation is SNOLAB based at the Creighton
mine in Sudbury, Canada. This talk will review the current status of the SNOLAB underground
facility, detailing progress in the development of the research infrastructure and outlining the
experimental programme.