Gran Sasso National Laboratory

The Gran Sasso National Laboratory (LNGS) is one of four laboratories of the Italian National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN). It is the largest underground laboratory in the world for experiments in particle physics, particle astrophysics and nuclear astrophysics. The mission of the Laboratory is to host experiments that require a low background environment in the field of astroparticle physics and nuclear astrophysics and other disciplines that can profit of its characteristics and of its infrastructures. The average 1400 m rock coverage gives a reduction factor of one million in the cosmic ray flux; moreover, the neutron flux is thousand times less than on the surface, thanks to the smallness of the Uranium and Thorium content of the dolomite rocks of the mountain. Students will listen seminars on the main research topics of the LNGS: neutrino physics with neutrinos naturally produced in the Sun and in Supernova explosions and neutrino oscillations with a beam from CERN (CNGS program), search for neutrino mass in neutrinoless double beta decay, dark matter search, nuclear reactions of astrophysical interest.