September 2022
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.
October 2021
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.
September 2021
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.
August 2021
New additions to the LSC
Rebecca Hernandez Antolin recently joined the LSC staff as a biochemistry technician for setting up the new biolab underground and to also provide local support to the research groups exploring the impact of low radioactivity in life. Likewise, the Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC) has seconded Jorge Pelegrin Mosquera, [...]
June 2021
New crystals in CROSS
Six new bolometers have been installed these days in the dilution refrigerator. Among them, the new CROSS lithium molybdate crystal contains a superconducting palladium-aluminium grille on five of its faces with a light detector on the sixth, with the technological challenge of separating beta decays on the surface from [...]