April 2023
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.
March 2023
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.
February 2023
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.
September 2022
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).