XI International Cosmic Day
LSC contributed one more year to the celebration of the “XI International Cosmic Day” together with the high schools of Jaca, I.E.S. Domingo Miral and I.E.S. Pirineos. Students from both schools carried out several activities with our muon telescopes, visited the LSC’s museum and the underground facilities and participated [...]
Master in Physics of the Universe
The LSC staff gave two laboratory practices for the ‘Master in Physics of the Universe’ of the University of Zaragoza. Two laboratory practices were carried out, one on gamma spectrometry with HPGe and NaI(Tl) detectors and the other with the muon telescope. This is the second year of implementation [...]
Big Science Business Forum (BSBF) 2022
BSBF is a business oriented congress which congregates the main European Research Infrastructures, focused on technology and with the aim to be the main meeting point between Research Infrastructures and industry. The LSC took part along with 11 other ICTS in the second edition of this event, which was [...]
LSC & ICRR Sign Agreement to Promote Hyper-Kamiokande
The Laboratorio Subterráneo de Canfranc (LSC) in Spain and ICRR, UTokyo signed an agreement to promote Hyper-Kamiokande on the basis of the MoU signed in August 2022 by the Ministry of Science and Innovation (MCIN) of Spain, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK) and The University of Tokyo (UTokyo).
Spain and Japan sign a MoU
The Ministry of Science and Innovation (MCIN) of the Kingdom of Spain, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK) and The University of Tokyo (UTokyo) signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU), which aimed to promote the Hyper-Kamiokande international scientific research project, whose main detector has been under construction with plans to start operation in 2027 at Kamioka, Hida City, Gifu Prefecture in Japan. Nineteen countries showed their interest in participating in this Japan-led project and the Kingdom of Spain is the second nation to sign MoU following Poland in February.
UNIZAR Extraordinary Course in Physics of the Universe
On Tuesday 19 July, one of the days of the extraordinary UNIZAR course was held at the LSC facilities. This day consisted of a visit to the underground facilities where Pipo Bayo and Beatriz Hernández gave the students an extensive tour of the facilities and experiments housed in them [...]