Blog

July 2026

The CdWO₄ crystal has been successfully installed, and data taking has begun!

May 2026
The shielding is now in place and ready at Gran Sasso National Laboratories, while we wait for the detectors to be installed!

Pictures of the assembled PTFE box

*A drawing of the PTFE box containing the shield and the detector*

News

09 - September - 2026 - Alice Leoncini gives a talk at RICAP-2026 - Roma International Conference on AstroParticle Physics, “Constraining the effective axial-vector coupling through precision β spectroscopy: the GAIAS experiment.”

09 - September - 2026 Mattia Atzori Corona gives a talk at 112° Congresso Nazionale della Società Italiana di Fisica (SIF), “Exploring high-precision beta spectroscopy with GAIAS for axial coupling constant measurement.”

24 - August - 2026 - Alice Leoncini gives a talk at XV International Conference on New Frontiers in Physics (ICNFP), Crete (Greece), “Crystal scintillators for high precision beta spectroscopy: the GAIAS experiment”

09– July – 2026: Alice Leoncini gives a seminar at Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, “Crystal Scintillators for High Precision Beta Spectroscopy: the GAIAS Experiment”

21 - Mag - 2026: article "Potential enhancement of alpha decay in metals at cryogenic temperatures" published on EPJplus has been selected to be highlighted on EPJplus website

14 – Jan – 2026: Riccardo Cerulli gives a talk at the LPP Workshop, “GAIAS Experiment for axial coupling constant assessment with crystal scintillators”