The laboratory is located under the Mount Tobazo in the Spanish Pyrenees, between the freeway and a dismissed railway tunnel. With its total volume of about 12 500 m3 it is the second largest in Western Europe. The 800 m rock overburden creates the cosmic silence necessary for the frontier experiments searching for the extremely rare. The old LSC has been operated since 1986 by the Nuclear and High-Energy Physics Department of the Saragossa University for experiments on dark matter and neutrino physics. The new LSC was built taking profit of the excavation of the road tunnel. It will be available in 2008. LSC is managed by a Consortium between the Spanish Ministry for Education and Science, the Government of Aragon and the University of Saragossa. The experiments will be hosted in the Hall A of 40´15´12 m3, in the Hall B of 15´10´8 m3; a clean room, workshops and offices are also available. The LSC is managed as an international laboratory aiming to host frontier experiements on underground sciences from the international community, which will be selected on the basis of scientific merit under the reccomendations of an international committee.
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 The Underground facilities |
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Hall A |
Hall B |
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The old LSC structures |
Working in the old laboratory
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