ANAIS-25 setup

25 kg of ultrapure NaI(Tl) were installed at Canfranc Underground Laboratory in December, 2012. The two modules were built by Alpha Spectra, Colorado, USA.

They are taking data and preliminary results will be presented in several conferences along 2013.

ANAIS25_team

Clara Cuesta’s PhD defence

The defence of Clara Cuesta’s PhD dissertation will take place next Friday, May the 10th, in the Sala de Grados of the Science Faculty of the Zaragoza University. The tribunal is composed by José Ángel Villar (UZ), Carlos Muñoz (UAM), Alessandro Bettini (LSC), Fabio Capella (Univ. Roma La Sapienza), Susana Cebrián (UZ).

tesis_clara

The ANAIS article “Background model for a NaI (Tl) detector devoted to dark matter searches published in Astroparticle Physics, Volume 37, September 2012, Pages 60-69, is among the 25 hottest articles in Astroparticle Physics in the periods from July to September 2012
http://top25.sciencedirect.com/subject/physics-and-astronomy/21/journal/astroparticle-physics/09276505/archive/40/

and from October to December 2012.
http://top25.sciencedirect.com/subject/physics-and-astronomy/21/journal/astroparticle-physics/09276505/archive/41/