Canfranc Underground Laboratory

The Canfranc Underground Laboratory (Spanish: Laboratorio Subterráneo de Canfranc or LSC) is an underground scientific facility located in the former railway Tunnel of Somport under Monte Tobazo (Pyrenees) in Canfranc. The laboratory, 850 m deep protected from cosmic radiation, is mainly devoted to study rarely occurring natural phenomena such as the interactions of neutrinos of cosmic origin or dark matter with atomic nuclei. The Canfranc Underground Laboratory (Spanish: Laboratorio Subterráneo de Canfranc or LSC) is an underground scientific facility located in the former railway Tunnel of Somport under Monte Tobazo (Pyrenees) in Canfranc. The laboratory, 850 m deep protected from cosmic radiation, is mainly devoted to study rarely occurring natural phenomena such as the interactions of neutrinos of cosmic origin or dark matter with atomic nuclei. Access to the tunnel containing the laboratory is at the Estación Internacional de Canfranc, a former international railway station in the village of Canfranc. As of 2018, the following experiments are ongoing in Canfranc: As of 2018, two further experiments were in proposal stage: CUNA, an underground nuclear astrophysics facility, and GOLLUM underground biology experiment.