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nation of great depth and cleanliness that SNOLAB affords allows extremely rare interactions and weak processes to be stud- ied. The science programme at SNOLAB is currently focussed on sub-atomic phys- ics, largely neutrino and dark matter phys- ics. SNOLAB seeks to enable, spearhead, catalyze and promote underground science, whilst inspiring both the public and future professionals in the eld.At 2km, SNOLAB is the deepest clean room facility in the world. It is an expansion of the existing facilities constructed for the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO) solar neutrino experiment. SNOLAB has 5,000 m2 of clean space underground for experiments and supporting infrastruc-ture. On surface there is a 3,100 m2 SNO- LAB building to support the underground experiments.DEAPDEAP-3600 is a second generation experi- ment that will search for dark matter par- ticle interactions on liquid argon The large detector (DEAP 3600) containing a total of 3600 kg of liquid argon is being designed, with a target sensitivity to spin-indepen- dent scattering on nucleons of 10-46 cm2, several hundred times more sensitive than current dark matter searches.February/March, 2016 | Canadian Industry Online |13