Some open questions in physics can be answered only by a giant underground observatory constructed to search for the highly elusive neutrinos. Bringing together scientists from across Europe and soliciting industrial support to produce a strong collaboration, an EU-funded study foresaw no major barriers to its construction.
The EU-funded study LAGUNA-LBNO (Design of a pan-European infrastructure for large apparatus studying grand unification, neutrino astrophysics and long baseline neutrino oscillations) brought together more than 300 scientists from 39 academic institutions and industrial partners.
Further information: Goal: The next-generation neutrino observatory in Europe