Lunar neutrino physics

The possibilities of the use of the moon as a base for conducting neutrino physics are examined, exphasizing neutrino astronomy. The principle advantage of the moon for this research is freedom from the atmospheric layer of the earth: cosmic rays hitting the atmosphere generate a rather copious source of neutrinos, which are a terrestrially inescapable diffuse background to neutrino astronomy. The cosmic ray generated neutrinos on earth are also a limiting background for other sensitive particle physics experiments, typically those performed underground