The Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF)
The Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Science has the opportunity to enhance the prospects for major scientific discoveries in the US in the coming decade by supporting underground physics experiments that will profoundly advance our understanding of the physical universe.
Recent Presentations and Reports
- NRC Assessment of DUSEL
- The Marx Report
- Marx Briefing to HEPAP
- Kevin Lesko's remarks to the House Committee briefing at FNAL (9/2011)
- Kevin Lesko's Presentation to the Intensity Frontier Workshop (11/30/2011)
- Kevin Lesko's Presentation to the FNAL-DUSEL PAC (6/2010)
- Kevin Lesko's Presentation to the NRC (12/2010)
Presentations to the Marx Committee (4/2011)
Last December, the National Science Board (NSB), in its role as the oversight body for the National Science Foundation (NSF), unexpectedly decided to deny further NSF funding for the Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory (DUSEL) [1] As it did so, the NSB nevertheless expressed its interest in the scientific programs moving forward. [2,3]
These programs have been thoroughly vetted by the High Energy Physics (HEP) and Nuclear Physics (NP) communities and are essential elements to advance these disciplines. The US and international communities have been actively engaged with the SURF Project team. With NSF and DOE sponsorship, about 25 collaborations with over 700 researchers are developing experiments. The SURF Project, including NSF and DOE, have spent ten years forging the path for creating these experiments and providing the facilities necessary to lead the worldwide effort.
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