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Basic navbox for underground physics laboratories. Country, abbreviated name, access (tunnel or shaft), and equivalent shielding. (Depth is not well defined for ones under non-flat mountains.) Under construction in italics.
In terms of size and general significance of laboratories, there are clearly five "large" labs of particular significance: CJPL, Kamioka, LNGS, SNOLAB, and SURF. Is it worth grouping or highlighting those?
These are the large, multi-experiment laboratories, which in practice means particle physics. Omitted are:
- Laboratories used only for waste disposal research (mostly because there are lots, but only one has an article on Wikipedia):
- Meuse/Haute Marne Underground Research Laboratory (France)
- Mizunami Underground Research Laboratory (Japan).
- Horonobe Underground Research Center (Japan).
- Whiteshell underground research laboratory (Canada)
- Other labs listed in http://www.oecd-nea.org/rwm/reports/2013/78122-rwm-url-brochure.pdf
- Shallow one-experiment "laboratories" for man-made neutrino oscillation studies:
- Planned or closed laboratories which don't have wikipedia articles already:
- Sieroszowice Underground Laboratory (SUNLAB): 51°33′21″N 16°2′30″E / 51.55583°N 16.04167°E (Poland). A candidate to host LAGUNA but currently just planned, AFAICT.
- Solotvina Underground Laboratory (Ukraine) Seems to be defunct. (Located in Solotvyno.)
- Closed laboratories:
- Particle experiments at Kolar Gold Fields. This used to be listed
struck out, but after discussion about the ugliness, got removed.
- Particle experiments at Kolar Gold Fields. This used to be listed
- Subsurface physics experiments that don't have accessible lab space.
On the other hand, if a laboratory is significant enough, it's included as a redlink. Currently, that's Oto Cosmo Observatory, Laboratoire Souterrain à Bas Bruit and the Astroparticle Research Facility under construction in Korea.
One lab with only brief mention in another article:
- Kimballton Underground Research Facility has no article, but is linked to Kimballton, Virginia, which mentions the laboratory in passing and has a link to its web page.
Note that nobody WP:OWNs this template; these omission decisions are subject to change by other editors. If you disagree strongly enough, WP:Be Bold. (Just please update the documentation to explain the new rules!)
Three useful surveys of current and planned deep underground laboratories:
- Bettini, Alessandro (September 2014). "New underground laboratories: Europe, Asia and the Americas". Physics of the Dark Universe. 4: 36–40. Bibcode:2014PDU.....4...36B. doi:10.1016/j.dark.2014.05.006.
- Ragazzi, S. (11 September 2015). Underground Laboratories (PDF). XIV International Conference on Topics in Astroparticle and Underground Physics (TAUP2015). Torino. Retrieved 2015-11-30.
- Aldo, Ianni (27 July 2017). Status of Underground Labs. XV International Conference on Topics in Astroparticle and Underground Physics (TAUP2017). Sudbury, Canada. Retrieved 2017-10-14.