Paarl Africa Underground Laboratory (PAUL)

25 Oct 2023, 12:00
10m
Oral Presentation DETECTORS AND FUTURE EXPERIMENTAL FACILITIES Detectors and Future Experimental Facilities

Speaker

Prof. Fairouz Malek (LPSC, CNRS and UGA, Grenoble, France)

Description

Establishing a deep underground physics laboratory to study, amongst others, double beta decay, geoneutrinos, reactor neutrinos and dark matter has been discussed for more than a decade within the austral African physicists’ community. PAUL, Paarl Africa Underground Laboratory, is foreseen as an open international laboratory,inside the Huguenot Tunnel, which is located between the towns of Paarl and Worcerster in the Western Cape Province of South Africa. A progress report and the prospects of the initiative will be presented.

Primary author

Prof. Fairouz Malek (LPSC, CNRS and UGA, Grenoble, France)

Presentation materials