Sentences with phrase «gran sasso»

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«The neutrinos were timed on the journey from CERN's giant underground lab near Geneva to the Gran Sasso Laboratory in Italy, after travelling 732 kilometres (454 miles) through the Earth's crust.»

Rescuers were at the scene overnight as they fought to reach the hotel close to the Gran Sasso Mountain.

One of Italy» s most innovative and sophisticated residential retreats is located in a mediaeval village of Santo Stefano in the beautiful Gran Sasso Natural Park of the Abruzzo region.

Leaving the Med, we took an express across country to Pescara on Italy's Adriatic coast in the Abruzzo region, where amongst the mountain villages of the Gran Sasso we found saffron, lentils and some of the best olive oil in the land.

The results are consistent with the modulation in signals first recorded more than a decade ago by the DArk MAtter / Large sodium Iodide Bulk for RAre processes (DAMA / LIBRA) experiment at Gran Sasso, Italy.

She then studied neutrinos from stellar collapses at the underground laboratories of Mont Blanc and Gran Sasso, and extensive air showers at the EAS - TOP observatory, where she lead the analysis of the data from the hadronic calorimeter.

INFN carries out research activities at four national laboratories, in Catania, Frascati, Legnaro and Gran Sasso and 20 divisions, based at university physics departments in different cities of Italy.

Researchers are searching for these in the Italian Gran Sasso underground laboratory, for example.

This technique, developed at the INFN and first successfully put into operation in the ICARUS experiment at the INFN's Gran Sasso National Laboratory, will make in the new dedicated facility at Fermilab a fundamental contribution to neutrino research.»

XENON1T installation in the underground hall of Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso.

Results from another Gran Sasso experiment called XENON100, which uses liquid xenon, seemed to exclude the very dark matter particles DAMA was suggesting.

The IRSN report, made public on 6 February, says Mayak's attempt to manufacture a capsule of cerium - 144 destined for Gran Sasso «should be investigated» as a possible cause.

Last month the OPERA collaboration at Gran Sasso, Italy, announced that neutrinos had arrived from CERN, 730 kilometres away in Switzerland, 60 nanoseconds faster than light speed.

Scientists at Gran Sasso needed the cerium for a search — now called off — for hypothetical particles called sterile neutrinos.

IRSN argues that the leak could have taken place when Mayak technicians botched the fabrication of a highly radioactive component for a physics experiment at the Gran Sasso National Laboratory in L'Aquila, Italy.

For three years, a source at CERN in Switzerland has been firing billions of muon neutrinos towards the OPERA experiment beneath the Gran Sasso mountain in Italy, 730 kilometres away.

The ingots arrived at Gran Sasso thanks to an agreement dating back to 1991.

Around four tons of ancient Roman lead was yesterday transferred from a museum on the Italian island of Sardinia to the country's national particle physics laboratory at Gran Sasso on the mainland.

For instance, OPERA, which detected the apparently faster - than - light neutrinos beamed from CERN, lies inside the Gran Sasso mountain in Italy.

Then there are detectors, such as the Xenon100 experiment at Italy's National Laboratory in Gran Sasso, built to register direct hits from particulate dark matter.

The DAMA experiment under the Gran Sasso mountain in central Italy claims to have seen a signal of Earth ploughing through a sea of dark matter — but other experiments fail to verify it

INFN President Fernando Ferroni (left), shown here on a tour of the Gran Sasso lab with Senate President Renato Schifani (center), says the proposed cuts are «outrageous.»

Their competitors in Europe, including the XENON teamworking at the Gran Sasso underground lab near Rome, Italy, have forgone solids in favor of liquids.

Rita Bernabei, a physicist at the University of Rome Tor Vergata who has led DAMA since its early days, presented the latest results on 26 March at a meeting at central Italy's Gran Sasso National Laboratory, where the experiment sits in a cavern under a mountain.

And revised analysis of data from another pair of experiments, XENON - 10 and XENON - 100, housed at the Gran Sasso underground lab in Italy, now supports the lightweight signal (arxiv.org/abs/1304.6066).

Previously, two experiments, including the DAMA detector at Gran Sasso, Italy, reported observing just this sort of seasonal signal.

It was three weeks to the day after physicists in the OPERA collaboration at Gran Sasso, Italy, announced that neutrinos travelling from CERN had apparently moved faster than light.

They argue the leak may have happened when technicians botched the fabrication of a cerium - 144 source needed in the search for sterile neutrinos at the Gran Sasso National Laboratory in L'Aquila, Italy.

When I showed the Gran Sasso paper to Nobel Laureate Steven Weinberg, he told me: «It looks pretty impressive, but I still think that this will go away.»

So if the results of Gran Sasso are borne out by other experiments, then neutrinos are, in fact, tachyons — hypothetical particles, never before observed (except on Star Trek), that travel above light speed, and stay there.

The OPERA (Oscillation Project with Emulsion tRacking Apparatus) collaboration of almost 200 scientists working at the Gran Sasso underground laboratory in central Italy has discovered a phenomenon the physicists could simply not explain.

That trial centers on a phone call Bertolaso made to a local official in setting up the commission's meeting, in which he said he was sending the experts to L'Aquila on a «media operation» to reassure the public and «shut up» a technician in the nearby Gran Sasso nuclear physics laboratory who had allegedly made a series of alarming predictions of imminent strong earthquakes.

For over three years, the scientists have been collecting data on the flight of neutrinos — those mysterious, nearly massless particles that can travel through anything at immense speed — originating in the SPS accelerator at CERN, near Geneva, and traveling underground all the way to Gran Sasso, 731 kilometers (about 450 miles) away.

The Borexino detector at the Gran Sasso National Laboratory, 1400 meters below the Italian Apennines, is made up of a spherical transparent vessel filled with 300 tonnes of highly pure pseudocumene, a benzenelike liquid.

Even at Gran Sasso we will try to redo the experiment with other detectors such as Borexino or LVD.

The researchers, working on an experiment called OPERA, beamed neutrinos through the earth's crust, from CERN, the laboratory for particle physics near Geneva, to Gran Sasso National Laboratory in L'Aquila, Italy, an underground physics lab.

The experiment showed that the 16,000 neutrinos measured at Gran Sasso had traveled there through Earth's crust at faster than light speed.

These physicists say that if neutrinos were really as fast as the Gran Sasso data indicate, the neutrinos from the supernova, 168,000 light - years away, should have arrived on Earth some years before the photons from the supernova.

They are still running other tests, including measuring the length of a fibre - optic cable that carries information from the underground lab at Gran Sasso to a data - collection centre on the surface.

One of the main concerns was that it was difficult to link individual neutrino hits at Gran Sasso to the particles that left CERN.

XENON100, located in Italy's Gran Sasso National Laboratory, aims to directly detect particles of dark matter — the unknown substance that scientists believe makes up the bulk of matter in the cosmos (SN: 11/12/16, p. 14).

One such machine is reportedly located with Gran Sasso, whereas the others are reportedly in nearby Abruzzo, where the earthquake hit on Monday.

He works at the National Laboratories at Gran Sasso, though he's been variously identified as a seismologist, physicist, and technician at Italy's National Institute of Nuclear Physics, not Gran Sasso's National Institute of Nuclear Physics.

Paolo Diodati of the University of Perugia, who also works at Gran Sasso, thinks Giuliani is wrong to support the idea that earthquakes can be predicted.

Hints of it have popped up and vanished again in several experiments, including the Borexino detector at Gran Sasso (pictured below).

Many physicists argued that other factors besides dark matter could explain DAMA's signal, so for years, other experiments tried and failed to confirm it — including XENON10, also at Gran Sasso.

Now an upgraded, more sensitive experiment called XENON100, also at Gran Sasso, reports that after four full years of data, they see no evidence for a seasonal modulation (arxiv.org/abs/1701.00769).

A collaboration of 174 physicists fired bursts of neutrinos from the headquarters of CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, in Geneva, Switzerland, to a detector in Gran Sasso, Italy.