The Paarl Africa Underground Laboratory (PAUL) is envisaged being established off the Huguenot Tunnel in the Du Toitskloof Mountains, between the towns of Paarl and Worcester in the Western Cape Province of South Africa. PAUL is envisaged to be an underground laboratory with a floor space of about 600 square metres and a total volume of 10240 cubic metres, Ref: arXiv:2306.12083 [hep-ex]
The following are some of the research topics being considered at PAUL:
- Dark Matter search
- Ultra-low level radioactivity measurements for climate science
- Double beta-decay search
- Radiation biology
- Studies of antineutrinos from the Koeberg PWR (about 70 km away)
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Conference
Timezone
Africa/Johannesburg
Location
Du Kloof Lodge, Du Toitskloof Mountains
Category
Université Grenoble Alpes
Category ID
14325
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https://indico.cern.ch/event/1316503/
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