Talk:Stawell Underground Physics Laboratory

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The Stawell proposal is much further advanced, with a mine already existing and lab construction money flowing, but there is a serious proposal for an ANDES (Agua Negra Deep Experiment Site) laboratory, modelled on LNGS, in the Agua Negra tunnel between Argentina and Chile. Now, the lab isn't funded, and haven't even started digging the tunnel (although they've signed the treaty and say it'll start this year), so a lab is more than 5 ears out, but it is proposed. 71.41.210.146 (talk) 05:27, 17 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Tweaks made. If ANDES doesn't have an English language article, it should! kencf0618 (talk) 06:34, 20 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

No, it doesn't. There's a brief reference at Agua Negra Pass, but neither the tunnel nor lab proposal have an article. Note that the lab is trying to get funding, which is why the web site is so slick and uses such hopeful wording. But while the proponents are writing in English, proper balance requires news about the tunnel project and funding situation, which is in various newspapers in Spanish only. 71.41.210.146 (talk) 15:36, 21 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Useful references[edit]

Trembath, Brendan (9 December 2014). "Deep mine is dark matter research prospect". The World Today. Retrieved 2015-08-21.. Explains why Stawell was chosen: it's deep, but deep mining is winding down. Thus, lower levels are available, but mine is not closing; it's re-mining higher levels.

Since the DAMA/LIBRA detector is finding signs of annual modulation in its signal, the idea is to build an improved version called SABRE (Sodium-iodide with Active Background REjection) in both Gran Sasso and Stawell. If they both observe the same annual modulation, that's strong evidence it's not due to terrestrial effects.

Shields, Emily; Calaprice, Frank; Xu, Jingke (2013-09-12). SABRE: A new NaI(Tl) dark matter direct detection experiment. 13th International Conference on Topics in Astroparticle and Underground Physics, TAUP 2013.
Shields, Emily; Xu, Jingke; Calaprice, Frank (2015). "SABRE: A New NaI(Tl) Dark Matter Direct Detection Experiment". Physics Procedia. 61: 169–178. doi:10.1016/j.phpro.2014.12.028. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help) Alternate URL.
Xu, Jingke (2014-02-28). SABRE: A new NaI(Tl) dark matter direct detection experiment (PDF). Dark Matter 2014. Westwood, California.

71.41.210.146 (talk) 14:48, 21 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]