New additions to the LSC
The LSC has completed the recruitment of the temporary recruitment quota authorised for the 2020 financial year, consisting of a mass spectrometry and analysis technician and a cryogenics and gas system technician. Once the corresponding selection processes have been completed, Ms Laura Cid Barrio will join as an analysis [...]
New Equipment for the Copper Electroforming Service (CES)
The Copper Electroforming Service (CES) at the LSC has been recently completed by the installation of two new equipment: a monitoring and control system and a new power supply. The Monitoring and Control System allows to carry out a wide variety of electroforming techniques, process parameters monitoring, automatic control [...]
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" [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Astroparticle Marathon 2020
On the 20th of February researchers from CAPA, University of Zaragoza, held at the Planetario de Aragón, Huesca, an Astroparticle Marathon in which the LSC Director, Carlos Peña Garay, gave the talk "What are we researching at LSC?". Also, members of staff from the LSC offered a workshop on cosmic [...]