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Organisation

The project is organised the following way:

• Coordinator: Xavier Bertou (CAB, CNEA/CONICET)
• Country representatives:
  • Argentina: Osvaldo Civitarese (IFLP, UNLP/CONICET)
  • Brazil: João Carlos Costa dos Anjos (CBPF)
  • Chile: Claudio Dib (UTFSM)
  • Mexico: Luis Manuel Villaseñor (IFM-UMich)

And counts with an International Advisory Committee:

• Juha Aysto (Institute of Physics, Helsinki, Finland)
• Hiro Ejiri (RCNP, Osaka, Japan)
• Alejandro Garcia (University of Washington, Seattle, USA)
• Tony Noble (SNO, Sudbury, Canada)
• Onno Oncken (Potsdam, Germany)
• Fabrice Piquemal (LNM, Modane, France)
• Andre Rubbia (University of Zurich, Switzerland).
• Kai Zuber (Univ of Dresden, Germany, and LNGS, Italy)

Support for ANDES

The project receives strong regional and international support, as detailed in the ANDES support page.

Documents

• ANDES graphic brochure (May 2011)
• Memorandum of Understanding signed during the First ANDES Workshop (April 2011)
• Technical description of the laboratory (December 2012, includes plans, in spanish)
• Support documents from the international community (see the ANDES support page)
• Support documents from the latin american community (see the ANDES support page)
• Nuevo Estudio Conceptual, conceptual study of ANDES as part of Agua Negra done by Lombardi (January 2015, includes plans, in spanish)

Publications

• "The ANDES Deep Underground Laboratory in South America: status and prospects", X. Bertou, presented at APS April Meeting 2017 (talk)
• "Calculated WIMP signals at the ANDES laboratory: comparison with northern and southern located dark matter detectors", O Civitarese, K J Fushimi and M E Mosquera, Journal of Phys. G, Vol 43, N 12 (arXiv 1611.00802)
• "The ANDES Underground Laboratory", C. Dib, presented at NuFact15 - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - August 2015 (NuFact2015)
• "The ANDES Underground Laboratory Project", O. Civitarese, presented at X Latin American Symposium of High Energy Physics - Medellin, Colombia - Noviembre 2014 (Silafae 2014)
• "ANDES: an Underground Laboratory in South America", C. Dib, presented at 13th International Conference on Topics in Astroparticle and Underground Physics (TAUP 2013)
• "The ANDES Deep Underground Laboratory", X. Bertou, presented at 33rd International Cosmic Ray Conference, Rio de Janeiro 2013 (arXiv 1308.0059)
• "Potential of a Neutrino Detector in the ANDES Underground Laboratory for Geophysics and Astrophysics of Neutrinos", P. A. N. Machado, T. Mühlbeier, H. Nunokawa, R. Zukanovich Funchal (arXiv 1207.5454)
• "The ANDES Underground Laboratory", X. Bertou, Eur.Phys.J.Plus 127 (2012) 104
• "El laboratorio subterráneo ANDES", X. Bertou, Anales Aca. Nac. de Cs. Ex., Fís. y Nat., tomo 63 (2011): 67-70 (preprint)

Last generic ANDES presentation at a conference: X. Bertou at APS April Meeting 2017.

Workshops

• First Workshop in Buenos Aires, Argentina, April 2011
• Second Workshop in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 2011
• Third Workshop in Valparaíso, Chile, January 2012
• Fourth Workshop in Mexico City, Mexico, January 2014
• Fifth Workshop in Buenos Aires, Argentina, June 2017
• Sixth Workshop in São Paulo, Brazil, August 2018