Paarl Africa Underground Laboratory (PAUL)
Abstract
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, the Paarl Africa Underground Laboratory, is an initiative foreseeing an open international laboratory devoted to the development of competitive science in the austral region. It has the advantage that the location, the Huguenot tunnel, exists already and the geology and the environment of the site is appropriate for an experimental facility. The paper describes the PAUL initiative, presents the physics prospects and discusses the capacity for building the future experimental facility.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2306.12083,
title = {Paarl Africa Underground Laboratory (PAUL)},
author = {Robert Adam and Claire Antel and Munirat Bashir and Driss Benchekroun and Xavier Bertou and Markus Böttcher and Andy Buffler and Andrew Chen and Rouven Essig and Jules Gascon and Mohamed Gouighri and Trevor Hass and Gregory Hillhouse and Abdeslam Hoummada and Anslyn John and Pete Jones and Youssef Khoulaki and Luca Lavina and Lerothodi Leeuw and Mantile Lekala and Robert Lindsay and Roy Maartens and Yin-Zhe Ma and Fairouz Malek and Peane Maleka and Jacques Marteau and Rachid Mazini and Thebe Medupe and Bruce Mellado Garcia and Marcello Messina and Lumkile Msebi and Chilufya Mwewa and Zina Ndabeni and Richard Newman and George O'neill and Fabrice Piquemal and Lydia Roos and Daniel Santos and Silvia Scorza and Fedor Simkovic and Ivan Stekl and Yahya Tayalati and Smarajit Triambak and Zeblon Vilakazi and Shaun Wyngaardt and JJ van Zyl},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.12083},
year = {2023}
}
Comments
11 pages including one authors page, 6 Figures, 45 references