Spanish representation in HKFF celebrated in Tokyo
Ana Aricha Yanguas, Vice Deputy Director-General for the Internationalisation [...]
1st SCIENCE CLASSROOM FOR STUDENTS 2nd YEAR
El LSC ha celebrado la primera Aula Científica para estudiantes de 2º de la ESO, en el marco del Foro de Comunicación y Escuela, organizado por el Principado de Asturias en la cual, 46 alumnos de 5 institutos de Asturias han convivido con 15 alumnos de Jaca con un programa científico diseñado a su medida.
MINISTER OF SCIENCE AND INNOVATION VISITED THE LSC
Diana Morant Ripoll, Minister of Science and Innovation, visited the LSC facilities to see the progress of the Spanish contribution to the construction of the HyperKamiokande experiment and the underground construction of the NEXT-100 detector.
Assembly of the copper bars of the NeXT experiment
This week, staff from the NEXT collaboration completed the assembly of the 40 radio-pure copper bars, provided by the LSC, which form part of the shielding of the new NEXT-100 detector.
I2SysBio experiment at BIO platform
Between March 3-17, Lorena Martínez, from the Computational Synthetic Biology group (I2SysBio), travelled to the LSC to carry out the first phase of the ‘Yeast chronological aging and mutation rate’ experiment in an underground environment.
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.