Conveners
#1 Session chaired by S. Gaffet: Tuesday afternoon
- Stéphane Gaffet (LSBB, Laboratoire Souterrain Bas Bruit, CNRS, La grande combe, 84400 Rustrel, France)
Description
Session chaired by S. Gaffet
Created in 1997, the LSBB is located in the heart of the Luberon Regional Nature Park in the Vaucluse. Initially a military facility, the LSBB has been converted into a research laboratory whose activities have been contributing to the development of knowledge and know-how in many scientific fields for nearly 25 years. A Support and Research Unit under the supervision of Avignon University and...
The main objective of APOGEIA is the development of three types of interdisciplinary and mutually related
groundbreaking technologies: the use of fibre cables or mobile systems as distributed sensors, the use of particle detectors as prospection instruments, and the extremely low noise sensors developed in the European (worldwide) underground laboratories. These technologies build the...
Muography (or muon radiography) is an imaging technique that relies on the use of cosmogenic muons as a free and safe radiation source. It can be applied in various fields such as archaeology, civil engineering, geology, nuclear reactor monitoring, nuclear waste characterization, underground surveys, etc. In such applications, sometimes deploying muon detectors is challenging due to logistics,...
A commercial 3-axis high temperature SQUID system, cooled with liquid nitrogen, is currently operating unshielded as a geomagnetic sensor in an aluminium dewar at SANSA Space Science, South Africa. The collaborative project between South Africa (SANSA), France (LSBB) and Czech Republic (CTU) is aimed at continuous, low-noise geomagnetic space weather measurements. The environment is urban with...
A giant magnetic antenna has been installed at the mountain top surface of the LSBB site since 2010, initially dedicated to excite a SQUID magnetometer situated 520 meter underground. The antenna is a 300 meter long domestic cable laying on the ground and covering an area of 5600 m². Its unusual size and its location on a pluri-disciplinary instrumented site allows to make it an original and...
Vulcano is the southernmost of the seven islands forming the Aeolian volcanic archipelago. This island harbors a developed hydrothermal system and is the place where the first hyperthermophilic marine archaeon, Pyrodictium occultum was isolated. Shallow hydrothermal systems have been recently the subject of numerous investigations as they constitute easy access extreme environments, and may be...
