NEUTRINO GROUP
The neutrino group of the Donostia International Physics Center is investigating the origin of matter using the most elusive particle in the universe.
The NEXT experiment is an international collaboration that searches for the neutrinoless double-beta decay at the Canfranc Underground Laboratory in Canfranc, Huesca (Spain). NEXT stands for Neutrino Experiment with a Xenon TPC. The detection concept consists of a Time Projection Chamber filled with high-pressure gaseous Xenon, which exploits the electroluminescence process for the detection of the signal.
The technology developed for neutrino detection can be employed also for the development of innovative medical imaging devices. PETALO (a Positron Emission Tof Apparatus based on Liquid xenOn) is a project that seeks to demonstrate that liquid xenon, together with a SiPM-based readout and fast electronics, can provide a significant improvement in the field of medical imaging with PET-TOF. The CRYSP project is exploring the possibility of employing pure cesium iodide crystals for accessible full-body PETs.
The European Spallation Source (ESS), presently well on its way to completion, will soon provide the largest pulsed neutrino flux suitable for the detection of Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering (CEνNS). The DIPC is leading this effort with the GanESS experiment, which stands for Gaseous detector for Neutrino physics at the ESS, and with the ESSCEνNS project, which will employ cryogenic undoped caesium iodide scintillators.
Hyper-Kamiokande is to be the next generation of large-scale water Cherenkov detectors. It is planned to be an order of magnitude bigger than its predecessor, Super-Kamiokande, with the optimal design consisting of two half megaton tanks equiped with ultra high sensitivity photosensors. The Hyper-Kamiokande detector is both a “microscope,” used to observe elementary particles, and also a “telescope” for observing the Sun and supernovas, using neutrinos.
Juan José Gómez Cadenas
Ikerbasque Research Professor
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Juan I. Collar
Ikerbasque Research Professor
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Charles Mark Lewis
Postdoctoral researcher
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Mikel Elorza
PhD student
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Helena Almazán Molina
Research Fellow
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Samuele Torelli
Postdoctoral fellow
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Nerea Salor
PhD student
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Marc Seemann
PhD student
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Alfonso Yubero Navarro
PhD student
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