GeRysy in its new shielding
GeRysy, an ultra-pure germanium detector, has been operating for a month in its new shielding inside a removable clean tent.
Collaboration ICTS SOCIB – LSC Project @HyperKamiokande
Between 13 and 17 February, the Balearic Islands Coastal Observation and Forecasting System (ICTS SOCIB) placed the Oceanographic Vessel B/O SOCIB at the disposal of the LSC. This collaboration between the two institutions has made it possible to validate the resistance to underwater implosion of the light sensors of the Hyper-Kamiokande international neutrino telescope in the bay of Palma, Mallorca.
LSC & ICRR Sign Agreement to Promote Hyper-Kamiokande
The Laboratorio Subterráneo de Canfranc (LSC) in Spain and ICRR, UTokyo signed an agreement to promote Hyper-Kamiokande on the basis of the MoU signed in August 2022 by the Ministry of Science and Innovation (MCIN) of Spain, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK) and The University of Tokyo (UTokyo).
Spain and Japan sign a MoU
The Ministry of Science and Innovation (MCIN) of the Kingdom of Spain, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK) and The University of Tokyo (UTokyo) signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU), which aimed to promote the Hyper-Kamiokande international scientific research project, whose main detector has been under construction with plans to start operation in 2027 at Kamioka, Hida City, Gifu Prefecture in Japan. Nineteen countries showed their interest in participating in this Japan-led project and the Kingdom of Spain is the second nation to sign MoU following Poland in February.
OPENING THE CRYOSTAT OF THE CROSS EXPERIMENT
Members of the CROSS-experiment collaboration are at the LSC this week carrying out works aimed at measuring the vibration of the cryostat’s holding structure and of the cryostat itself to define a vibration function.
BIOLOGY BRINGS MORE LIFE TO THE LSC
New installations underground, a lead castle to host experiments in a reduced gamma background and the microbiology laboratory to prepare and manipulate samples, will be ready to host experiments that explore the striking impact of life in absence of cosmic rays since 2022.
WORKSHOP RADIUM TAGGING (RITA)
On Thursday 16 September, the Radium Tagging (RITA) Workshop was held at the LSC, where researchers from the DIPC, UPV/EHU, CFM, Ikerbasque and the LSC presented results on the design of barium and radium chelating molecules, surface binding, ultra-high vacuum measurements of molecular properties, cation separation by ICP-MS techniques and laser-induced fluorescence measurements, preparatory to the RITA facility that will be hosted at the LSC in 2022.
New additions to the LSC
Rebecca Hernandez Antolin recently joined the LSC staff as [...]
New crystals in CROSS
Six new bolometers have been installed these days in [...]
Quantum computing meets ultralow background underground experiments
The experimental proposal ArQ (Abatement of Radioactivity for Qubits) [...]