Abstract

This laboratory portrait describes the developing infrastructure and science program at the Canadian deep underground research facility, SNOLAB. Several contemporary science studies in particle and astro-particle physics, such as Galactic dark matter searches, man-made, terrestrial, solar and supernova neutrino, and neutrino-less double-beta studies, require rigorous radio-isotopic background control and deep underground science facilities, to afford shielding from penetrating cosmic rays and their secondary by-products. New threads of research focused on deep sub-surface biology, chemistry, geology, and engineering have also been developing rapidly at several deep underground sites, benefitting from the significant investment in underground access and infrastructure developed.

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