ILIAS (Integrated Large Infrastructures for Astroparticle Physics)
http://www-ilias.cea.fr/

ILIAS is an Integrated Infrastructure Initiative that has pulled together all of Europe's leading infrastructures in Astroparticle Physics to produce a focused, coherent and integrated project to improve the existing infrastructures and their operation as well as to organise and structure the scientific community to prepare the best infrastructures for the future.

ILIAS results from an extensive consultation of the community and an internal review process through the Astro particle Physics European Co-ordination (ApPEC). ILIAS has 20 participants (contractors) directly funded by EU. In addition, there are numerous institutions that are contributing to the activities of ILIAS as associated participants.

The activities of ILIAS are listed in the following. LNGS is especially involved in the activities N2, A1, and JRA1

i) Networking Activities

N1 - I3 Management

N2 - Network of the EU Deep Underground Science Laboratories (DUSL)
Common outreach webpage

N3 – Direct Dark Matter Detection (DMD)

N4 – Search on Double Beta Decay (DBD)

N5 - Gravitational Wave Antennas (GWA)

N6 - European Network of Theoretical AstroParticle Physics (ENTAPP)

i) Transnational Access Activities

A1 - Transnational Access to the EU Deep Underground Laboratories (TA-DUSL)

i) Joint Research Activities (JRA)

JRA1- Low Background Techniques for Deep Underground Science (LBT-DUSL)

JRA2 - Integrated Double beta decay European Activities(IDEA)

JRA3 - Study of Thermal noise REduction in Gravitational wave detectors (STREGA)

 

A large portion of the ILIAS activities will take place in at least one of the four European deep underground laboratories: the “Laboratorio Nazionale del Gran Sasso” (LNGS, Italy ), the “Laboratoire Souterrain de Modane” (LSM, France), the “Laboratorio Subterráneo de Canfranc” (LSC, Spain ) and the “Boulby Mine Underground Laboratory” ( IUS, Great-Britain).