BIO Retreat
The LSC held a “BIO-Retreat” given that, as part of its strategic plan, it has initiated the biology research area in the underground laboratory where the implications of low radiation on biological processes will be explored. Experts in Virology, Biochemistry, Mathematics and Physics from centres in Valencia, Madrid and [...]
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.
Trans-Pyrenees Foundation Meeting
The Monitoring Committee of the projects financed by the European funds of the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) for the reopening of the International Rail line of Canfranc has held a technical meeting at the LSC facilities to assess the status of the activities envisaged.
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.
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 [...]