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A Town meeting for China Jinping Underground Lab's 2nd-phase development will be held on September 8, 2013 in Asilomar, California, USA. Details
DIANA chooses Sanford Lab -- The DIANA
scientific collaboration has chosen Sanford Lab as the preferred
site for the Dual Ion Accelerators for Nuclear Astrophysics
(DIANA) experiment, led by University of Notre Dame (UND)
Physics Professor Michael Wiescher. In addition to UND,
the DIANA collaboration includes researchers from MSU, UNC,
WMU, Colorado School of Mines, and LBNL, as well as from
a number of researchers from European Institutions.
DIANA study begins with subgrant. Details
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DIANA hunts for neutrons --
Researchers from the Dual Ion Accelerators for Nuclear Astrophysics
Project set up portable Helium 3 counters on the 4100 Level
of the Sanford Lab to measure neutron backgrounds. Details
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The annual meeting of the DUSEL
Research Association (DuRA) was held at the Fermi National
Accelerator Laboratory on January 19-20, 2012. The tentative agenda
anticipates presentations on the future of the South Dakota laboratory,
overviews of underground research around the world, and developments
in underground research in the U.S.
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The AGU Fall Meeting was held in San Francisco from
December 5 to 9, 2011. It is the largest worldwide conference
in the geophysical sciences, attracting nearly 20,000 Earth
and space scientists, educators, students, and policy makers.
This meeting showcases current scientific theory focused
on discoveries that benefits humanity and ensure a sustainable
future for our planet. Website
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DUSEL Changes Scope -- Once known as the DUSEL team, officials involved with planning efforts to build an underground science facility in Lead are now referring to the project as SURF — Sanford Underground Research Facility. Read more ...
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The 12th International Congress on Rock Mechanics,
with workshop WS-5 on Networks of underground research laboratories
for international disciplinary innovations took place in Beijing, China,
Oct. 18-21, 2011. More
information
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The Third International Workshop on Baryon and Lepton Number
Violation (BLV-2011) took place in Gatlinburg (Edgewater Hotel), Great
Smoky Mountains, Tennessee on September 22-24, 2011. The Workshop
purpose is to discuss state of the art of B,L, and B-L violation
search, stimulate experimental and theoretical developments
in this area, and attract new and young researchers to this
field. Website
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The DUSEL Project sponsored an international workshop on Cosmogenic Activity and Backgrounds in Berkeley, CA on April 13-15, 2011. Public Wiki
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The Committee to Assess the Deep Underground Science and
Engineering Laboratory (DUSEL) conducted its first meeting
at the Keck Center of the National Academies, in Washington,
DC on December 14-15, 2010. Details
| Presentations
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The DURA Annual Meeting and DUSEL
PDR Rollout took place at Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois from
September 2 to 3, 2010. This was the first annual meeting organized
by the newly formed DUSEL Research Association. Details
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On April 13-15, 2010, over one hundred and fifty people
met on the campus of the South Dakota School of Mines &
Technology in Rapid City, SD for the DUSEL NSF Status Review.
The DUSEL Science Presentation at the NSF Status Review can be viewed Here.
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The NSF has approved the S4 funding for the
development of an underground accelerator facility at DUSEL.
The main goal of the facility is the measurement of low energy
reaction cross sections of relevance for stellar nucleosynthesis
processes. The Dakota
Ion Accelerators for Nuclear Astrophysics DIANA will consist
of two accelerators to cover a broader energy range than presently
possible at the LUNA facility at the Gran Sasso underground
laboratory in Italy. --- Read
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