20th LSC Scientific Committee Meeting (May 11th-12th 2017)
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 Committee had a presentation from a specialist firm from Zaragoza on the benefits of an electromagnetic survey of the lab and [...]
NEXT Collaboration Meeting (May 9th-11th, 2017)
Around 40 researchers from the NEXT collaboration met at the LSC facilities in Canfranc to carry out one of the annual meetings of this collaboration.
Meeting for the review of the Risk Analysis of the NEXT-NEW gas system (March 8th-9th, 2017)
The LSC director calls a panel of experts from different institutions for the second review of the Risk Analysis of the NEXT-NEW gas system and the development of a report issued after this meeting.
Meeting of the “Consejo de Turismo de Aragón” (March 3rd, 2017)
On Friday 3rd of March, the facilities of the Laboratorio Subterráneo de Canfranc held the annual meeting of the “Consejo de Turismo de Aragón” chaired by the “Consejero de Vertebración del Territorio, Movilidad y Vivienda”, José Luis Soro. This meeting took place at the auditorium located at the LSC headquarters [...]
Workshop on Double Beta Decay (February 7th-8th, 2017)
The LSC Director called a workshop on Double Beta Decay which took place at the LSC facilities on February 7-8. This workshop had a double objective, firstly the revision of the radon background problem of the NEXT experiment, carried out by a panel of experts, and secondly attracting interest for [...]
Completed the Installation of the Field Cage in NEW by the NEXT Experiment
El experimento NEXT ha completado la construcción del detector NEW (NEXT-WHITE, nombre que honra la memoria de James White, físico líder de NEXT tristemente desaparecido,) con la instalación de su jaula eléctrica. Con la puesta en marcha de NEW, el experimento NEXT comienza su primera fase de funcionamiento bajo tierra [...]