Soudan Underground Laboratory
Located: Soudan Underground Mine State Park, Minnesota, USA
On the Web: http://www.hep.umn.edu/soudan/brochure.html
Depth: 690 meters (2,263.77 feet)
Experiments: Nucleon Decay and the nature and interaction patterns of cosmic rays and neutrinos; MINOS; Soudan 2 Detector
Operational: Yes
Pictures: Click here to see photos on Flickr.
Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNOLAB)
Located: Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
On the Web: http://www.snolab.ca/
Depth: 2 kilometers (6,561.67 feet)
Experiments: DEAP-1, DEAP-3600, EXO, HALO, Mini-CLEAN, PICASSO, PUPS, SNO+, SNO
Operational: Yes
Pictures: Click here to see photos on Flickr.
Gran Sasso National Laboratory (Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso or LNGS)
Located: Gran Sasso Mountain, Italy
On the Web: http://www.lngs.infn.it/
Depth: 1,400 meters (4,593.17 feet)
Experiments: OPERA, ICARUS, LVD, MACRO, BOREXINO, CRESST, GALLEX, GNO, DAMA/Nal, CUORE/Cuoricino, XENON
Operational: Yes
Pictures: Click here to visit the Integrated Large Infrastructures for Astroparticle Science (ILIAS) Photo Gallery to view pictures of this lab.
Notes: For more information about this lab, see the Ettore Majorana Foundationa and Center for Scientific Culture PDF and/or the ILIAS presentation linked here.
Boulby Underground Laboratory
Located: Boulby Mine, Witby, England
On the Web: http://www.hep.shef.ac.uk/research/dm/boulby/boulby.php
Depth: 1.1 kilometers (3,608.9 feet)
Experiments: ZEPLIN-II, ZEPLIN-III, DRIFT-II, various low-background studies including NUTs
Operational: Yes
Pictures: Click here to visit a gallery of pictures on the Boulby Underground Laboratory's homepage. Click here to visit the Integrated Large Infrastructures for
Astroparticle Science (ILIAS) Photo Gallery to view pictures of this lab.
Notes: For more information about this lab, see the ILIAS presentation linked here.
Modane Underground Laboratory (LSM)
Located: Pointe du Fréjus, between France and Italy (perpendicular ot the Fréjus Highway Tunnel)
On the Web: http://www-lsm.in2p3.fr/
Depth: 1,700 meters (5,577.42 feet)
Experiments: EDELWEISS, EURECA
Operational: Yes
Pictures: Click here to visit the Integrated Large Infrastructures for
Astroparticle Science (ILIAS) Photo Gallery to view pictures of this lab.
Notes: For more information about this lab, see the ILIAS presentation linked here.
INR Baksan Neutrino Observatory (BNO)
Located: Baksan Gorge (the Caucasus)
On the Web: http://www.inr.ac.ru/INR/Baksan.html
Depth: 3,500 meters (11,482.93 feet)
Experiments: Baksan Underground Scintillation Telescope, Gallium-Germanium Neutrino Telescope, ANDYRCHI, Large Muon Detector, Neutron Monitor, low-background laboratories
Operational: Yes
Pictures: Click here to see photos via EnglishRussia.com.
Kamioka Observatory (Super-K)
Located: Mozumi Mine in Kamioka-cho, Gifu, Japan
On the Web: http://www-sk.icrr.u-tokyo.ac.jp/index_e.html
Depth: 1,000 meters (3,280.83 feet)
Experiments: Cherenkov neutrino detector, XMASS, Gravitational Wave group, NEWAGE, CANDLES
Operational: Yes
Pictures: Click here to see photos on the Super-K website.
Canfranc Underground Laboratory (LSC)
Located: International Railway Tunnel of Somport at Canfranc (Spanish Pyrenees)
On the Web: http://www.unizar.es/lfnae/lfnae_eng.html
Depth: 2,450 meters (8,038.05 feet)
Experiments: IGEX-DM, ANAIS, ROSEBUD, CAST
Operational: Yes
Pictures: Click here to see photos on the Canfrac Laboratory website.
Notes: For more information about this lab, see the Candrac Underground Laboratory report here (PDF) and/or the ILIAS presentation linked here.
Centre for Underground Physics in Pyhäsalmi
Located: Pyhäsalmi zinc and copper mine in Pyhäjärvi, Finland.
On the Web: http://cupp.oulu.fi/index_en.html
Depth: 1,050 meters (3,444.88 feet)
Experiments: MUG (Muons UnderGround), EMMA (Experiment with MultiMuon Array)
Operational: Yes
Notes: For more information about this lab, see a CERN PDF and/or the ILIAS presentation linked here.
Ultra-Low Radiation Background Laboratory
Located: Slanic Salt Mine (Slanic Prahova), Romania
On the Web: http://microbq.nipne.ro/
Depth: 200 meters (656.16 feet)
Experiments: Low background and cosmic ray studies; proposed as a candidate for a multipurpose megaton detector (Large Apparatus studying Grand Unification and Neutrino Astrophysics project).
Operational: Yes
Notes: For more information, see the ILIAS presentation here (PDF) and/or the Slanic Prahova presentation here (PDF).
Aberdeen Tunnel Underground Laboratory
Located: Aberdeen Tunnel, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
On the Web: http://theta13.phy.cuhk.edu.hk/aberdeenlab.htm
Depth: Unknown
Experiments: The Daya Bay Project (measuring how many neutrons will be produced from the cosmic ray muons)
Operational: Yes
Yangyang Underground Laboratory (Y2L)
Located: South Korea
On the Web: http://dmrc.snu.ac.kr/
Depth: 700 meters (2,296.58 feet)
Experiments: The Korea Invisible Mass Search (KIMS)
Operational: Yes
Pictures: See more photos on the official website.
