Next Experiment, World Record
Congratulations to the NEXT collaboration! 136Xe World Record energy resolution at Qßß >3-times better than any other detector worldwide
23rd LSC Scientific Committee Meeting (12th-13th of December 2018)
The Scientific Advisory Committee is composed of scientist of international reputation. It gives advice on experimental proposals and monitors the progress of the approved experiments. On this meeting, the experiments ANAIS, ArDM, NEXT and TREX-DM presented their activities during the last semester. Also, presentations were heard from the EoIs: [...]
International Cosmic Day (29th of November 2018)
On November 29th, students from the I.E.S. Domingo Miral and I.E.S. Pirineos, highschools from Jaca, carried out measurements of cosmic rays with the LSC staff. Afterwards, the results obtained were shared, at an international level, with other laboratories around the world via a Skype connection. These measurements consisted in [...]
Open Day (25th November 2018)
The LSC organized an open day for the general public to visit its premises. Around 100 people took part in this visit which included a public talk on the history and present story of the lab, access to the underground facilities and demonstrations of the different components and techniques [...]
Probing the Dark Universe, OAJ-LSC synergies – Paraninfo Zaragoza (5-6 November 2018)
The Laboratorio Subterráneo de Canfranc, together with the Centro de Estudios de Física del Cosmos de Aragón and the University of Zaragoza, showed their work relating to dark matter at the scientific meeting of the Network of Astronomy Infrastructures, which was held for two days, with contributions from national [...]
Control Model Recently Installed in the ANAIS Experiment
The ANAIS experiment, on dark matter detection, has been running stably for a year (95.5% duty cycle) and has improved the background model. During this summer, the Collaboration has completed the installation of a blank module with similar PMTs to evaluate the impact of the PMTs on the radioactive [...]