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Anna Zakrzewska,
Poland
talk with
each other
and get to
know each
other better.
We spent
many hours
there, but I was-
n’t bored at all.
We also tasted
many local spe-
cialties and fa-
miliarized our-
selves with Finn-
ish traditions.
And while walk-
ing back to the
hotel in the
evening, some of
us were able to
see beautiful
northern lights!
Pyhäsalmi mine and Centre for Underground
Physics in Pyhäsalmi (CUPP)
04.03.2017
On March 2, the stu-
dents and the teach-
ers visited the Py-
häsalmi mine in Py-
häjärvi,
Finland,
which is the deepest
operational
base-
metal (copper and
zinc) mine in Europe.
It provides excellent
opportunities for the
research of under-
ground physics by
having very stable
bedrock, low back-
ground radiation level,
modern infrastructure,
and good traffic condi-
tions all around a
year. The mine ex-
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tends down to 1440 periments, since the
metres at the moment. distance to major ac-
celerator centres is
The students were very
interesting
given a presentation,
(Pyhäsalmi – CERN
in which they learned
2288 km) and it is
about the aim of the
technically possible to
CUPP-project.
construct the halls re-
It is to construct a quired to host very
large
underground large-volume detec-
laboratory in the Py- tors. An experiment
multiple
häsalmi mine, which is measuring
muon
events
is
start-
particularly attractive
for
future
long- ing at the shallow
baseline neutrino ex- depths. The single-