Conveners
On PAUL: On PAUL
- Fabrice Piquemal (CNRS)
The physics department at the University of the Western Cape is involved in measurements to limit the background in the planned nEXO experiment. This experiment will look for neutrinoless double beta decay from $^{136}$Xe in SNOLAB in Canada.
The background issues involved in underground laboratories namely the natural activity from the surrounding rocks and the radon exhalation from the...
Underground laboratories provide the low radioactive background environment necessary to cutting edge experiments in particle and astrparticle physics and other disciplines such as geology and biology, that can profit of their unique characteristics and reduced muon flux. The laboratories requires continuous monitoring of environmental parameters, spanning from temperature, humidity to radon...
I'll discuss my personal perspective on PAUL based on the last 12 years process of the ANDES initiative. I will focus on a potential design for the underground laboratory, and on a specific science case: the search for daily modulation of potential dark matter signals.
