Pedro Duque visits LSC
The Minister of State for Science, Innovation and Universities and the Science Chief Adviser on Innovation and Research visited LSC The Minister of State for Science, Innovation and Universities, Pedro Duque, and the Science Chief Adviser on Innovation and Research, Pilar Alegría, visited the LSC’s underground facilities. The Minister [...]
Double beta decay is back at LSC!
This week, the NEXT-NEW experiment started their Run V, the first run with enriched Xenon (90% 136Xe). The experiment is already accumulating double beta decay events, which will be separated from the background noise. Also, the CROSS collaboration started the construction of the lead shielding which will host the [...]
Life outside the Tunnel
After a day's work at the LSC we are surprised with this beautiful image on our way out
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 [...]