Establishment of a new HEP/SS facility for construction of large HEP and SS projects.

MSSL是一个高度PPARC支持的UCL设施。PPARC沿着有大约50名非常熟练的工程和技术人员，以及设备齐全的实验室和车间。粒子物理（PP）和空间科学（SS）工程和技术人员之间所需的技能几乎完全重叠。随着更多实验室空间的增加，可以在MSSL建立一个粒子物理硬件组，可以使用这些技术资源，从而立即改善UCL PP设施。预计这样的投资将通过创建一个独特的设施，利用空间科学和粒子物理学之间的协同作用，使我们能够承担目前不可能的项目，从而使英国受益。此外，这将使伦敦大学学院的PP技术人员获得监督和培训的优势，这是由于缺乏合格的人员来承担这些责任而缺乏的。这个新设施的直接计划将是扩大我们的超级NEMO项目的研发计划。该项目预计耗资约2000万英镑，预计将于2007年左右开工，前提是获得所有必要的批准。伦敦大学学院集团计划承担这项实验的大部分建设，这项建设将在新设施中进行。超级尼莫是下一代双β衰变实验。中微子物理学领域在过去几十年里出现了最大的惊喜之一：中微子不是无质量的。保守估计表明中微子的质量在50 meV左右。振荡实验不能说明中微子的基本类型：是马约拉纳中微子还是狄拉克中微子。这只能通过在中微子是Majorana类型（粒子和反粒子相同）的情况下，无中微子双β衰变的肯定识别来回答，并且Super-NEMO将在这个质量水平上敏感。UCL已承诺为这一新设施的建设提供资金。PPARC的贡献将侧重于使其达到适合上述目的的水平。我们已将所需工作和设备的优先顺序排列如下。第一个优先事项是为实验室经理提供资金（三年15万美元），该经理可以在第一时间监督实验室的装备，并确保设施尽快投入使用。第二个优先事项是物理学家/机械工程师（两年期间10万英镑），具有粒子物理技术专业知识和正确的经验，以确保新设施的基础设施与即将考虑的项目相匹配。下一个优先事项是对专业实验室基础设施的贡献，专门针对大型粒子物理项目。

MSSL is a heavily PPARC supported UCL facilty. There are presently around 50 very highly skilled engineering and technical staff supported by PPARC along with well equipped labs and workshops. The overlap in skills required between Particle Physics (PP) and Space Science (SS) engineering and technical staff is almost total. With the addition of some more lab space, identified below, a particle physics hardware group could be established at MSSL with access to these technical resources, allowing an immediate improvement in the UCL PP facilities. It is expected that an investment like this will benefit the UK through the creation of a unique facility, exploiting the synergies between Space Science and Particle Physics that will allow us to take on projects not presently possible. In addition it will give the PP technical staff at UCL the advantage of supervision and training, which has been lacking with the absence of qualified people to take on these responsibilities. The immeadiate plans for this new facility would be to expand our R&D programme for the Super NEMO project. This project is expected to cost about £20m and construction is expected to start around 2007, assuming all necessary approvals. The UCL group plans to take on a large part of the construction of this experiment, and this construction would take place in the new facility. The Super-Nemo is a next generation double beta decay experiment. The field of neutrino physics has turned up one of the biggest surprises in the last few decades: that neutrinos are not massless. Conservative estimates show that the mass of the neutrinos is in the range of about 50meV. The oscillation experiments cannot say anything about the fundamental type of the neutrino: whether it is Majorana or Dirac. This can only be answered by the positive identification of neutrinoless double beta decay in the case that the neutrinos are of Majorana type (particle and antiparticle are the same) and Super-NEMO will be sensitive at this mass level. UCL has committed to funding the building of this new facility. The PPARC contribution will be focussed on commissioning it to a level where it is fit for the purpose described above. We have prioritised the required work and equipment below. The first priority is funding (150K over three years) for a lab manager who can oversee the equipping of the lab in the first instance and ensure that the facility becomes useful as soon as possible. The second priority is for a physicist/mechanical engineer (£100k over a two year period) with particle physics technical expertise and the right experience to ensure that the infrastructure of the new facility iswell matched to the projects that will come under consideration. The next priority is a contribution to specialist lab infrastructure, aimed specifically at large Particle Physics projects.