An Assessment of the Science Proposed for the Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory by Ad Hoc Committee to Assess the Science Proposed
National Academies Press | February 3, 2012 | English | ISBN: 0309217237 | 142 pages | PDF | 7 MB
According to the big bang theory, our Universe began in a state of unimaginably high energy and density, contained in a space of subatomic dimensions. At that time, unlike today, the fundamental forces of nature were presumably unified and the particles present were interacting at energies not attainable by present-day accelerators. Underground laboratories provide the conditions to investigate processes involving rare phenomena in matter and to detect the weak effects of highly elusive particles by replicating similar environments to those once harnessed during the earliest states of the Earth. These laboratories now appear to be the gateway to understanding the physics of the grand unification of the forces of nature.
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