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Description
Basic navbox for underground physics laboratories. Country, abbreviated name, access (tunnel or shaft), and equivalent shielding. (Depth is not well defined for ones under non-flat mountains.) Under construction in italics.
In terms of size and general significance of laboratories, there are clearly five "large" labs of particular significance: CJPL, Kamioka, LNGS, SNOLAB, and SURF. Is it worth grouping or highlighting those?
These are the large, multi-experiment laboratories, which in practice means particle physics. Omitted are:
- Laboratories used only for waste disposal research (mostly because there are lots, but only one has an article on Wikipedia):
- Shallow one-experiment "laboratories" for man-made neutrino oscillation studies:
- Planned or closed laboratories which don't have wikipedia articles already:
- Closed laboratories:
- Subsurface physics experiments that don't have accessible lab space.
On the other hand, if a laboratory is significant enough, it's included as a redlink. Currently, that's Oto Cosmo Observatory, Laboratoire Souterrain à Bas Bruit and the Astroparticle Research Facility under construction in Korea.
One lab with only brief mention in another article:
- Kimballton Underground Research Facility has no article, but is linked to Kimballton, Virginia, which mentions the laboratory in passing and has a link to its web page.
Note that nobody WP:OWNs this template; these omission decisions are subject to change by other editors. If you disagree strongly enough, WP:Be Bold. (Just please update the documentation to explain the new rules!)
Three useful surveys of current and planned deep underground laboratories: