Template:Underground laboratories

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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):
 * Meuse/Haute Marne Underground Research Laboratory (France)
 * Mizunami Underground Research Laboratory (Japan).
 * Horonobe Underground Research Center (Japan).
 * Whiteshell underground research laboratory (Canada)
 * Other labs listed in http://www.oecd-nea.org/rwm/reports/2013/78122-rwm-url-brochure.pdf
 * Shallow one-experiment "laboratories" for man-made neutrino oscillation studies:
 * Aberdeen Tunnel Underground Laboratory (Hong Kong)
 * Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment
 * Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory
 * Reactor Experiment for Neutrino Oscillation
 * NOνA far detector
 * etc.
 * Planned or closed laboratories which don't have wikipedia articles already:
 * Sieroszowice Underground Laboratory (SUNLAB): 51.55583°N, 16.04167°W (Poland).  A candidate to host LAGUNA but currently just planned, AFAICT.
 * Solotvina Underground Laboratory (Ukraine) Seems to be defunct. (Located in Solotvyno.)
 * Closed laboratories:
 * Particle experiments at Kolar Gold Fields. This used to be listed struck out, but after discussion about the ugliness, got removed.
 * Subsurface physics experiments that don't have accessible lab space.
 * IceCube
 * ANTARES (telescope)

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: }}