Download or read book Science And Technology In Deep Underground Laboratories written by Aldo Ianni and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2024-12-31 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deep Underground Laboratories are multidisciplinary research infrastructures with a rock overburden that goes from a few hundred meters to a few kilometers. Presently, there are 13 laboratories in operation on three Continents (North America, Europe, Asia, Australia) for a global excavation volume of order 10^6 m3. New laboratories are being constructed/proposed including a new one in South America. The main reason to develop an underground infrastructure is related to operate in a less radioactive environment where in particular muons from cosmic rays are strongly suppressed. This low background environment opens the possibility to search for very rare events such as low energy neutrino interactions, dark matter direct detection, and neutrinoless double beta decay. These are crucial studies to enhance our understanding of the Universe. In addition, these special environments in which these infrastructures are located provide opportunities to carry out many and varied studies on geology, geophysics, biology and planetary exploration of significant interest and impact in both pure and applied science. A number of technological challenges over the last decades have been faced by scientists working in these infrastructures. As a consequence, state-of-the-art facilities are in operation in Underground Laboratories for radio-purity assay, ultra-low temperature detectors, quantum computing, radon suppression and mitigation, advanced machining, and next-generation gravitational wave detectors.