Boulby Underground Laboratory
The Boulby Underground Laboratory is an underground experimental station for experiments in particle physics.
It is located near Whitby in the Boulby Mine , the deepest mine in England.
The laboratory is 1,100 m below the ground, which corresponds to the shielding of 3,000 m of water against the disturbing cosmic radiation .
In the laboratory, two different detectors are used to search for WIMPs , the hypothetical components of dark matter , ZEPLIN and DRIFT .
The Boulby Underground Laboratory, like the three other European underground laboratories, Laboratoire Souterrain de Modane , Laboratorio subterráneo de Canfranc and Laboratori nazionali del Gran Sasso, is part of the ILIAS coordination group.