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, [...]
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 [...]
Quantum computing meets ultralow background underground experiments
The experimental proposal ArQ (Abatement of Radioactivity for Qubits) and members of the CROSS experiment collaboration have met at the LSC to discuss the influence of cosmic rays in supercomputing qubits.
Publication on CROSS prototypes’ results
Results on beta-particle surface sensitivity achieved with the LSC’S ‘CROSS’ experiment prototypes at IJCLab have been published by Applied Physics Letters. The article has been chosen as an "Editor's pick"; and advertised by a special communication named "Scilight". You can read them at the following links: https://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/5.0050124 https://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/10.0005010 [...]
Copper, copper, copper
The structural component closest to the active detection system in LSC experiments is copper. A large LSC team is completing the procurement of ultra-pure copper, screening by gamma spectrometry (HPGe) and mass spectrometry (ICPMS) and radiopurity improvement by electroforming (EFCu).
Launch of the LSC’s new quarterly Newsletter
The LSC launches its new Newsletter that will be published quarterly. This newsletter will include the most relevant news from the laboratory during that period. You can subscribe to receive it at the following email address: info@lsc-canfranc.es