August 2023
Assembly and insertion of NeXT-100 TPC
Over this summer, members of the staff of the NEXT experiment from England, Spain and the United States completed the assembly and insertion of the NEXT-100 TPC.
June 2023
Spanish representation in HKFF celebrated in Tokyo
Ana Aricha Yanguas, Vice Deputy Director-General for the Internationalisation of Science and Innovation, Secretary General for Research, Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation and the LSC Director represented Spain in the HyperKamiokande experiment Financial Forum (HKFF) celebrated in Tokio on June 7. Additionally, they visited the excavated 21 meter [...]
May 2023
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.
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.