Low Noise Underground Laboratory (LSUB)
The LSBB is a "Unité Mixte de Service" under the pluri-tutelle of the University of Nice - Sophia-Antipolis (UNS), the University of Avignon and the Pays de Vaucluse (UAPV), the CNRS, the University of Aix-Marseille (AMU) and the Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur (OCA)
It is a set of sub-horizontal underground galleries dug into the Grande Montagne limestone massif, on the southern edge of the Albion plateau, in the commune of Rustrel (Vaucluse), which has many qualities (natural and geological environment preserved, non-displaceable and sustainable), and properties (infrastructure inherited from the military site), making this Research and Development platform unique.
The LSBB is a federating platform that promotes academic and industrial synergies and brings together industrialists, competitive clusters and national and international research organisations.
The Low Noise Underground Laboratory has 3 main functions:
- hosting and accommodating academic and industrial activities;
- hosting and developing multidisciplinary observations in the framework of national and international observation networks;
- initiation and promotion of exploratory interdisciplinary research projects.
Skills and Know-How
- Sustainable management of groundwater resources and global change.
- Demonstrator of monitoring technologies.
- Instrumentation for exploitation and storage in geological reservoirs
- Integration into national networks of seismological, magnetic, hydrogeological and geodetic observatories
- Real-time data dissemination to national and international bodies
- Observation and modelling of electromagnetic phenomena
- Integration into the TELERAY network for radioactivity alert for national security
- Metrology, instrumentation, measurement protocols
- Test facility for developing, calibrating and characterising high sensitivity sensors
- Measurement protocols for multiphysical environmental characterisation
- Geological, hydrogeological, electromagnetic, radiation, electronic risks
- Consortium Archive du Monde Contemporain, TGIR HUMA-NUM, Humanité Numérique
- Labelled as a 20th century heritage site for military works on the Albion plateau.
- Demonstrator of monitoring technologies.
- Instrumentation for exploitation and storage in geological reservoirs
- Integration into national networks of seismological, magnetic, hydrogeological and geodetic observatories
- Real-time data dissemination to national and international bodies
- Observation and modelling of electromagnetic phenomena
- Integration into the TELERAY network for radioactivity alert for national security
- Metrology, instrumentation, measurement protocols
- Test facility for developing, calibrating and characterising high sensitivity sensors
- Measurement protocols for multiphysical environmental characterisation
- Geological, hydrogeological, electromagnetic, radiation, electronic risks
- Consortium Archive du Monde Contemporain, TGIR HUMA-NUM, Humanité Numérique
- Labelled as a 20th century heritage site for military works on the Albion plateau.
Specific equipment
- Environment :
- low level of anthropogenic disturbance ;
- Unique geological analogue of Urgonian oil fields in the Middle East;
- access from the surface to the deep unsaturated zone of a major karst aquifer;
- in the heart of the major seismic zone of Provence.
- Unique geological analogue of Urgonian oil fields in the Middle East;
- access from the surface to the deep unsaturated zone of a major karst aquifer;
- in the heart of the major seismic zone of Provence.
- Infrastructure :
- preserved surface access (54 ha) and underground access (~ 4 km);
- fully equipped (galleries, caves and underground spaces);
- EM armoured capsule of 1240 m3 at a depth of 518 m.
- fully equipped (galleries, caves and underground spaces);
- EM armoured capsule of 1240 m3 at a depth of 518 m.
- A platform for research and R&D:
- ultra-sensitive experiments low anthropogenic disturbance ;
- large underground volumes;
- surface/bottom synchronisation (GPS, FO Internet) ;
- environmental control and low noise properties.
- large underground volumes;
- surface/bottom synchronisation (GPS, FO Internet) ;
- environmental control and low noise properties.
Urls : http://www.lsbb.eu
Mis à jour le 6 November 2023