A U.S. Deep Underground Science & Engineering Laboratory: Scientific Opportunities and Technical Requirements

如果美国深地下科学与工程实验室Dusel建成，科学家们将能够回答有关暗物质的性质、中微子的性质、恒星的演化和物质的稳定性等基本物理问题。它将提供一个独特的天文台来探索地球表面下的微生物过程和演化，以及构造、岩石性质和多方面反应和运输现象之间的复杂联系。它将为工程师提供研究地下建筑、资源开采和环境修复的巨大机会。DUSEL还将为跨学科教育和外展提供独特的机会，并为少数族裔服务机构和当地社区的参与提供独特的机会。这项建议代表着全社区对NSF征集NSF-04-595的响应，建议支持必要的会议和研究，以开发由DUSEL提供的研究机会的现场独立案例，建立各种实验的技术要求，并将实验分组为具有共同基础设施要求的模块。该提案涉及在撰写本提案时确定的所有八个可能的杜塞尔选址的成员。这项建议的成果将是一份40-50页的文件，描述DUSEL将实现的科学和工程研究，以便建立基准，以衡量后续DUSEL建议的能力，以回应NSF随后的征集。该提案的六个PI分别代表天体物理学、核物理和粒子物理学、地质工程学、地球微生物学和微生物生物学。大部分工作将在14个工作组中进行。计划举办的三个讲习班将聚集社区，综合各个工作组的结论。该提案要求支持科学家和工程师的各种努力，他们最终将产生这份40-50页的文件，这将是他们努力的最终结果。

If a U.S. Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory, DUSEL, is built, it will allow scientists to answer fundamental physics questions as to the nature of dark matter, the properties of the neutrinos, the evolution of stars, and the stability of matter. It will provide a unique observatory to explore the microbial processes and evolution under our planet's surface, as well as the complex connection between tectonics, rock properties, and multifaceted reaction and transport phenomena. It will enable dramatic opportunities for engineers to study underground construction, resource extraction, and environmental remediation. DUSEL will also provide unique opportunities for cross-disciplinary education and outreach, and for involvement of minority-serving institutions and local communities.This proposal represents the community-wide response to NSF Solicitation NSF-04-595, for proposals to support the meetings and study necessary to develop the site-independent case for the research opportunities afforded by a DUSEL, for establishment of the technical requirements for the various experiments, and for grouping of the experiments into modules with common infrastructural requirements. The proposal involves members of all eight of the possible sites for a DUSEL that were identified at the time this proposal was written. The deliverable of this proposal will be a 40-50 page document describing the science and engineering research that a DUSEL would enable, so as to establish the benchmarks against which the capabilities of subsequent site dependent proposals for a DUSEL, in response to subsequent NSF Solicitations, can be measured. The six PIs of this proposal represent astrophysics, nuclear and particle physics, geology-engineering, geomicrobiology and microbial biology. The bulk of the work will be performed in fourteen working groups. Three planned workshops will gather the community to synthesize the conclusions of individual working groups. The proposal requests support for the various endeavors of the scientists and engineers who will ultimately produce the 40-50 page document that will be the end result of their efforts.