Summary of Letters of Interest Submitted to the National Underground Science Laboratory Committee

Summary of Letters of Interest Submitted to the
National Underground Science Laboratory Committee

March 2001

Interest in Multiple Areas

1. Multiple Interest - Siegrist, Schroeder, LBNL, 1-Mar-01

solar neutrino, double beta decay, dark matter, long baseline, low background, &

,nuclear astrophysics

2. Multiple Interest - Bowles et al LANL, 28-Feb-01

LENS (solar neutrino), long baseline, low background, supernova,
& nucleon decay

3. Multiple Interest - Peter Smith, Rutherford Lab 12-Feb-01

OMNIS (supernova), large scintillator–solar nu detector, & liquid Xe dark matter

4. Supplement to above Smith letter, Peter Smith, Rutherford Lab, 20-Feb-01

5. Multiple Interest - McKeown and Vogel Cal Tech, 12-Feb-01

solar neutrino, double beta decay, dark matter

6. Multiple Interest - Avignone South Carolina, 19-Feb-01

solar neutrino, double beta decay, dark matter, supernova

Solar Neutrino

7. CLEAN (Low energy solar neutrino cryogenic) – Doyle, Harvard, 7-Feb-01

8. HERON (superfluid He LE neutrino) – Lanou, Brown, 7-Feb-01

9. High Pressure TPC for solar neutrinos – Bonicini, Wayne State, 5-Feb-01

10.Hybrid radiochemical low energy solar neutrino - Lande et al, Penn

11. Solar Neutrinos – Gavrin, INR, Russia, 19-Feb-01

Also see: 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, and 13.

Double Beta Decay

12. EXO (¹³⁶Xe bb) – Gratta, Stanford, 5-Feb-01

13. MOON (¹⁰⁰Mo bb & solar nu) - Ejiri & Robertson, Osaka, Univ Wash, 3-Mar-01

Also see: 1, 2, 5, 6, and 16.

Dark Matter

14. CryoArray -- CDMSIII, WIMP detection - Gaitskell & Akerib,

University College London & Case Western Reserve, 16-Feb-01

15. Dark Matter - Collar, CNRS, France, 20-Feb-01

16. Dark Matter, neutrino detection – Willis, Columbia, (see Aprile below)

17. DRIFT (WIMP TPC detector) - Martoff & Snowden-Ifft Temple University

18. Liquid Xe for Dark Matter - Aprile & Hailey, Columbia, 18-Feb-01

19. WIMPS with neutrons – Ward, Dept. of Energy, 20-Feb-01

Also see: 1, 2, 3, 5, and 6

Nucleon Decay

20.UNO (nucleon decay) – Jung & Sobel, Stony Brook & UCI for UNO

proto-collaboration, 20-Feb-01

21.Nucleon Decay - Mann and Lande, Univ. of Penn, 5-Feb-01

Also see: 2 and 3.

Atmospheric Neutrinos

See: Nucleon Decay, Long Baseline, and Solar Neutrino Experiments.

Long Baseline Neutrino Oscillation Experiments

22.Long Baseline – Neutrino Factory Schellman for 23 signers,
15 Institutions, 18-Feb-01

23.Neutrino Factory Detector at WIPP – Cline, UCLA,

Also see: 1, 2, and 3.

Supernova Neutrinos

24. OMNIS (supernova) at WIPP - Boyd and Murphy, Ohio State

25. OMNIS - Fenyves & Burgett, Univ. of Texas-Dallas, 16-Feb-01

Also see: 1, 2, 3, 6, Nucleon Decay, and Solar Neutrino Experiments.

Nuclear Astrophysics

26. Nuclear Astrophysics accelerator Measurements – Gai, Univ. Conn, 16-Feb-01

27. Nuclear Astrophysics accelerator Measurements – Greife, Colorado School

of Mines, 7-Feb-01

Also see: 1

Geoscience

28. Geophysics – Benson, LBNL, 19-Feb-01

Also see 33

Materials Development and Technology

29. Low background studies - Coursey, Karam, Lindstrom, Nico, NIST, 21-Feb-01

30. Cyro-detectors for neutrino scattering and gravity - Trimble (for Weber),
UCI, 8-Feb-01

Also see: 1, 2, 31, and 32.

Monitoring Nuclear Tests

31.PIsCES (ultra-low bckgrd detectors and materials analysis) – Hartmann for collaboration, NRL,

32.PIsCES (ultra-low bckgrd detectors and materials analysis) – Gursky, NRL, 8-Feb-01

Microbiolgy

33. Biology and Geoscience, Onstott for collaboration, Princeton, 16-Feb-01