Sanford Lab: the long view

Just as the Sanford Lab itself is evolving, so too is the project?s long-term future. Today?s graphic by Multimedia Specialist Matt Kapust updates the latest long view.

The lab spaces highlighted in violet represent existing facilities. The Large Underground Xenon (LUX) dark matter detector, for example, has been installed in the Davis Campus, and the Majorana Demonstrator experiment is currently under construction there. Kapust included in this category the next generation dark matter experiment, LUX ZEPLIN (LZ), because LZ will use the LUX space.

The next experiments could be the Low Background Counting Facility and the Dual Ion Accelerators for Nuclear Astrophysics (DIANA). (The DIANA collaboration recently chose the Sanford Lab as its preferred site.)

The illustration also shows the underground option for the Long Baseline Neutrino Experiment (LBNE). Current funding calls for a detector on the surface; however, the LBNE team is pursuing partners to fund the much preferred underground site. The Environmental Assessment for both LBNE options has begun. Last week a public information meeting was held at Fermilab near Chicago. Public meetings in South Dakota will be held June 25 at the Days Inn in Lead and June 26 at the Best Western Ramkota Hotel in Rapid City. (Both meetings are 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.)

Finally, the generically named Experiment Hall could provide space for third-generation dark matter and second-generation neutrinoless double-beta decay experiments.