This year our "Welcome Day" (October 16, 2015) featured a visit to the stunning Stiffe Caves in the morning as well as a superb lunch in a typical country restaurant, Fattoria Antica Forconia. Later in the afteroon we visited the Gran Sasso National Laboratory (LNGS), the largest underground laboratory in the world for experiments in particle physics, particle astrophysics and nuclear astrophysics located between the towns of L'Aquila and Teramo - about 120 km away from Rome. There was an introductory lecture + guided tour led by Prof. Roberto Aloisio from GSSI, whom we wish to thank for having hosted us.
The presentation was held in the headquarters of the LNGS, located in an external building near "Assergi" motorwary exit. We then moved to the actual underground facilities, located on a side of the ten kilometres long motorway tunnel crossing the Gran Sasso Mountain. According to LNGS website, the laboratories lie beneath 1,400 metres of rock and "consist of three large experimental halls, each about 100 m long, 20 m wide and 18 m high and service tunnels, for a total volume of about 180,000 cubic metres".
We hope everybody enjoyed it as much as we did!
This year our "Welcome Day" (October 16, 2015) featured a visit to the stunning Stiffe Caves in the morning as well as a...
Posted by MathMods on Domenica 18 ottobre 2015
