The Yemi Laboratory is located 1,100 meters underground on Mount Yemi. Photo: Center for Underground Physics Research at IBS
To unravel the mysteries of the universe, the Korea Institute for Basic Sciences (IBS) has built the deepest underground research facility in the country.
The Yemi Laboratory, located 1,100 meters underground on Mount Yemi in eastern Gangwon Province, will officially open in 2023, according to IBS.
The complex covers an area of 3,000 square meters and could house more than 10 types of experimental research at the same time.
The 31 billion won ($21.8 million) project started in 2017 and aims to conduct studies on the formation of the universe and its composition by detecting dark matter and measuring the mass of the neutrinoa very small electrically neutral particle that is part of the elementary fermions that form the fundamental forces of the universe.
Much of the essential nature of neutrinos is still unknown, and the IBS researchers say the underground facility will help them detect signals from these poorly understood materials without interference from outside background noise or lightning.
The laboratory will officially open in 2023. Photo: Center for Underground Physics Research at IBS
Photo: Center for Underground Physics Research at IBS
(With information from RT in Spanish)
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