June 30th 2008

Centre Paul Langevin, Aussois, France

The Laboratoire Souterrain de Modane is planning to build a new international facility (4800 m.w.e) for deep underground research. The project consists of two cavities (20x15x100 m and 20x15x50 m) plus smaller dependencies with a total available volume of 60 000 m³.
A particular feature of the project is to provide a “zero background” environment, optimally shielded against all radioactivity sources, an “Underground Large Infrastructure for Super Shielded Experiments”
The creation of this new laboratory takes advantage of the recent decision of Italian and French governments who agreed to dig a safety gallery in parallel to the existing highway tunnel.
Thanks to this opportunity, the new facility, which will be ready by 2014, will be able to host next generation experiments in dark matter, neutrino physics in line with the recent European Astroparticle Physics roadmap together with new interdisciplinary activities,

A particular objective of this first meeting will be to gather experiment representatives potentially interested in being hosted in the new facility and all interested in this new ambitious project. The workshop will be the opportunity to evaluate the infrastructure demands of the future experiments.
The joint program already lists anticipated potential new experiments whose representatives will report about their projects.

Submission of further contributions is open to anyone willing to cover any aspect of underground science which would benefit from the projected new laboratory, ideally before June 5th.
Due to schedule constraints, the definitive timing of contributions will be fixed by June 15th.

A visit to the laboratory is arranged for July 1st.

Local Organizing Commitee:

• Fabrice Piquemal
• Michel Zampaolo
• Gilles Gerbier
• Pia Loaiza

To register, send a mail to: ploaizaATlsm.in2p3.fr or fabrice.piquemalATlsm.in2p3.fr