https://doi.org/10.1140/epjp/i2012-12105-0
Regular Article
Underground laboratory in China
Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100049, Beijing, China
* e-mail: chenhs@ihep.ac.cn
Received:
6
August
2012
Accepted:
7
August
2012
Published online:
20
September
2012
The underground laboratories and underground experiments of particle physics in China are reviewed. The Jinping underground laboratory in the Jinping mountain of Sichuan, China is the deepest underground laboratory with horizontal access in the world. The rock overburden in the laboratory is more than 2400 m. The measured cosmic-ray flux and radioactivities of the local rock samples are very low. The high-purity germanium experiments are taking data for the direct dark-matter search. The liquid-xenon experiment is under construction. The proposal of the China National Deep Underground Laboratory with large volume at Jinping for multiple discipline research is discussed.
© Società Italiana di Fisica and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2012
