October 2020
Visit of the Councillor for Science, University and Knowledge Society to the LSC
The Councillor for Science, University and Knowledge Society, Maru Díaz, visited the Canfranc Underground Laboratory on Thursday 15th October accompanied by the Director General of Innovation and Research, Enrique Navarro and the delegate of the Government of Aragon in Huesca, María Carmen Luesma. The Councillor praised the "very high level" [...]
September 2020
LSC formally joins the Hyper-Kamiokande Collaboration
The LSC becomes the Spanish hub of Hyper-Kamiokande with 7 institutions and 25 senior scientists and engineers. As well as the LSC, UAM, DIPC, USC, UPV, UO and UNIZAR also participate.Hyper-Kamiokande is going to build during the next 6 years a cylindrical ultrapure water tank of 68 m of diameter [...]
June 2020
A blue sparkle to discover where we come from
A new fluorescent molecule has been discovered that changes colour by capturing charged atoms essential for the single-molecule fluorescence imaging technique that aims to use the NEXT collaboration in the future to remove all background noise from its detector in the LSCYou can read the full article in the following [...]
December 2019
Getting ready for LSC 2020: Bigger and Cleaner
Installation of a new Clean Tent at Hall A During December we have completed a new 70 m² platform and a new clean tent to host the NEXT experiment.
November 2019
APPEC on Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay
APPEC Community Meeting on Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay This meeting took place on 31 October 2019 at the Hallam Conference Centre, London, UK. The recommendations include the list with the most prominent future projects with a strong European component: CUPID, LEGEND-1000 and NEXT-HD. We are in business at the LSC! [...]
2nd Edition of DULIA-bio
The 2nd edition of DULIA-bio at LNGS The 2nd edition of DULIA-bio happens at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso of INFN, Assergi, L’Aquila, Italy, on Nov 4-5, 2019 and is organized in collaboration with the Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, and with the Laboratorio Subterraneo de Canfranc, Spain. [...]