POLA-R Detectors at the “Dirigibile Italia” Research Base in Svalbard islands

Since May 12 to May 19, a team of researchers from the EEE Collaboration – Francesco Noferini (INFN Bologna), Alessandro Corvaglia (INFN Lecce), and Corrado Cicalò (INFN Cagliari) – have conducted maintenance work on the POLA-R detectors at the CNR research station “Dirigibile Italia” in Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard.

Ny-Ålesund

The operations have been supported by station leaders Anna Baldo and Leandro Nauhel Rotondo.

The POLA-R detectors, developed through the collaboration between the Enrico Fermi Research Center (CREF) and the National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN), are part of the EEE Project (Extreme Energy Events), an experiment dedicated to the study of cosmic rays that also involves high school students from all over Italy. Since 2019 as part of the EEE@NyAlesund mission, these detectors play a key role in data collection at extreme latitudes. The long time series collected over more than five years now enable in-depth analyses of signal periodicities, offering insights into the nature of cosmic ray sources.

  Researchers of Collaboration EEE: Francesco Noferini (INFN Bologna), Alessandro Corvaglia (INFN Lecce) e Corrado Cicalò (INFN Cagliari)

INFN researchers, CNR and Institute of Polar Science

Measurements under such geographical and environmental conditions are particularly rare and valuable for the scientific community.