Gamma Spectrometer for agriculture missions and environmental monitoring
The CAEN i-Spector gamma spectrometer has been used within the project Pignoletto mounted on a drone (image below), in search of natural radiation from the soil and the environment to help next-generation agriculture missions. Pignoletto aims to create a multiscale analysis system of the characteristics of the soils and the environment, based on the combination of geophysical field […]
CAEN as technology provider for borders security
The University of Tartu and the start-up company GScan announced that they have just completed a laboratory prototype of a muon tomography scanner, suitable for customs and security control. Exploiting natural radiation, this innovative technology will allow to scan vehicles at borders, cargo, sea containers and even human people, avoiding the use of harmful X-rays. This new technology will […]
Germanium solutions for LEGEND-200 experiment
The GERDA (GERmanium Detector Array) experiment, which started in the first decade of 2000 as a new 76Ge neutrinoless double beta decay experiment at LNGS, has finally completed his goals with incredible results. A new record has been published on 17 September on Physical Review Letters but now it’s time for LEGEND-200 (Large Enriched Germanium Experiment for Neutrinoless Decay) to proceed […]
One-minute CAEN Pills is our new Newsletter
Our November newsletter is out! Check the web version here. The One-minute CAEN Pills is our new newsletter format dedicated to products but also application examples of the latest CAEN solutions condensed into a few lines. Join our mailing list by registering on our website or sign up here with your email address only.
ENTRANCE Project officially launched on 13 October 2020!
Press release The ENTRANCE project on EfficieNT Risk-bAsed iNspection of freight Crossing bordErs without disrupting business was officially launched on 13 October 2020! As gatekeepers of EU borders, customs authorities have seen their mission to detect and seize maximum amounts of illicit goods on their way to enter the EU become increasingly challenging. New threats have emerged, […]
The intrinsically pervasive role of CAEN Multihit Digital TDC to HAWC tests speed of light
Whenever engineering creates, manufactures and markets products and services for our- society, we realize that its practical utility is realized to the extent that efforts fall into the indispensable role of knowledge and tools of electronics. The result that well expresses the “intrinsically pervasive” role of this discipline, and how it has managed to respond […]
COVID-19 Flights restrictions: cargo flights fully operational
With the current evolving Covid-19 virus situation in Europe many passenger flights to and from Italy have been reduced or prohibited. We at CAEN want to clarify that the above-mentioned flights are of a commercial nature and do not apply to the movement of goods. All cargo flights in and out of Italy are fully […]
Results of FlexiSpec for WBC @ JRC Ispra
In this news we present the official results of the background reduction obtained thanks to the CAEN FlexiSpec acquisition system installed at the Whole Body Counter (WBC) laboratory at the Joint Research Center (JRC) in Ispra. The results of the upgraded WBC at JRC Ispra The Whole Body Counter (WBC) at the Joint Research Centre […]
INAIL mentioned MICADO as good practice of a digitization process
The Istituto Nazionale per l’Assicurazione contro gli Infortuni sul Lavoro or INAIL (‘National Institute for Insurance against Accidents at Work’) is the Italian authority appointed to monitor and authorize the activities concerning ionizing radiation sources. Recently INAIL wants to update the procedures for handling industrial high activity sources. In particular, the aim of this update […]
CAEN Educational is flying up Update 26/01/2020
In Château-d’Oex on January 25th, Hans Peter Beck (University of Bern and Fribourg, and CERN) will repeat with some of his students the balloon flight of Albert Gockel from 1909 (with modern equipment using CAEN Cosmic Hunter), and measure cosmic rays. Students from Uni Fribourg are estimating and then measuring the flux of cosmic muons […]
CAEN is member of HiPEAC Project
CAEN is proud to be a member of HiPEAC Network which provided a hub for European researchers and industry representatives in computing systems. About HiPEACHiPEAC (High Performance and Embedded Architecture and Compilation) is the premier focal point for networking, dissemination, training, and collaboration activities in Europe for researchers, industry, and policy related to computing systems. Today, its network, […]
CAEN has joined to Eduroam Network as Resource Provider
CAEN has joined, as a Resource Provider, the EDUROAM Federation (EDUcation ROAMing) with its wireless network, which aims to offer all users of participating organizations easy and secure wireless access to the Internet. On the one hand this service facilitates the free mobility of students, teachers and researchers, on the other it marks an important […]
