Design of a pan-European Infrastructure for Large Apparatus studying Grand Unification, Neutrino Astrophysics and Long Baseline Neutrino Oscillations
The Astroparticle Roadmap of ApPEC/ASPERA strongly recommends that: “a new large European infrastructure of 100'000-500'000 ton for proton decay and low-energy neutrinos be evaluated as a common design study together with the underground infrastructure and eventual detection of accelerator neutrino beams”. The LAGUNA FP7 design study will study seven pre-selected locations (Finland, France, Italy, Poland, Romania, Spain and UK), perform a detailed geo-technical assessment of the giant underground cavern needed, and determine costs and the full impact of including long baseline neutrino physics with beams from CERN.

Coordinator: ETHZ, Switzerland

CERN Contact: Ilias Eftymiopoulos

EU funding: 4.9 M€ over 3 years

1 September 2011 - 31 August 2014