Project Title	Study of proton beam induced gamma background in metallic bakings
LNGS Facility	LUNA - 400 kV accelerator
Group leader	Zsolt Fulop
Researchers involved and home institution	Z. Fulop, G. Gyurky, E. Somorjai MTA Atomki, Institute of Nuclear Research of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Debrecen - Hungary
Status of the project	COMPLETED Access period: October 2002 - February 2003 Tot. Access: 56 person-days
Description of the project	Final report

 

Project Title	Study of Ta, Zr, and Ti nitride films by NRA
LNGS Facility	LUNA - 400 kV accelerator
Group leader	Adelaide Pedro de Jesus
Researchers involved and home institution	A. Pedro de Jesus, P. Ribeiro, N. Cruz, R. Parafita Centro de Fisica Nuclear de Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa - Portugal
Status of the project	COMPLETED Access period: May 2002 - October 2002 Tot. access : 36 person-days
Description of the project	Final report

Project Title	Elements of the reconstruction program for the ICARUS experiment - Part I
LNGS Facility	Computing infrastructures and PC arrays
Group leader	Agnieszka Zalewska
Researchers involved and home institution	A. Zalewska J. Lagoda : Institute of experimental Physics of the Wasaw University, Warsaw - Poland J Stepaniak: The Andrzej Soltan Institute for Nuclear Studies (IPJ) 05-400 Swierk/Otwock, Poland J. Holeczek: University of Silesia, Institute of Physics, Katowice (Poland) M. Markiewicz : Faculty of Physics of the University of Mining and metallurgy, Krakow - Poland
Status of the project	COMPLETED Access period: June 2002 - February 2003 Tot. access: 90 person-days
Description of the project	Final Report

Project Title	FADC400
LNGS Facility	Infrastructures for low background measurements - CTF
Group leader	Herve De Kerret
Researchers involved and home institution	H. De Kerret, M. Obolenski, A. De Bellefont, D. Kryn, J. Lamblin, G. Mention : Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire et Cosmologie, Collège de France, Paris - France
Status of the project	February 2002 - October 2003
Description of the project	Final Report

Project Title	PURAZOT-I : Nitrogen purification from Radon
LNGS Facility	Rn counters
Group leader	Marcin Wojcik
Researchers involved and home institution	M. Wojcik, G. Zuzel, M. Misiaszek: Smoluchowski Institute of Physics, Jagellonian University, Krakow - Poland
Status of the project	February 2002 - October 2003
Description of the project	Final Report

Project Title	BACLISS Background characterization for liquid scintillation spectrometry at underground laboratory of Gran Sasso
LNGS Facility	Low background facilities
Group leader	L. Kahiola
Researchers involved and home institution	L. Kaihola: Perkinhelmer life Sciences, Turku. Finland
Status of the project	COMPLETED Access period: April 2003-June 2003 Tot. Access: 28 man-days
Description of the project	Final report

LNGS-TARI P07/02

Project Title	GRAMOF, Groundwater Radon Monitoring through overthrust fault
LNGS Facility	Rn counters
Group leader	J. Wiegand
Researchers involved and home institution	J. Wiegand, S. Awissus, Universitaet Essen, Geology Department,Germany
Status of the project	Started February 2003 - ongoing
Description of the project	Status Report (October 2003)

Project Title	TRIGLISS, : Ultra-low level detection of the tritium groundwater samples for liquid scintillation spectrometry at underground laboratory Gran Sasso
LNGS Facility	Rn counters and geophysics instrumentation
Group leader	M.S. Cuna
Researchers involved and home institution	M.S. Cuna, J. Chereji: National Inst. of Research-Dev. for isotopic and molecular technologies, Cluj-Napoca (Romania)
Status of the project	COMPLETED Access period: - March 2003 - June 2003 Tot. Access:  86 man-days
Description of the project	Final Report

Project Title	COBRA, CdTe detectors test
LNGS Facility	Low Background facilities
Group leader	Kai Zuber
Researchers involved and home institution	K. Zuber: University of Oxford, Dept. of Physics, Oxford (UK)-    H. Kiel C. Goessing, D. Muenstermann, S. Ohel, T. Villet, K. Warda: University of Dortmund, Physics department, Dortmund (Germany)
Status of the project	Started May 2003 - ongoing
Description of the project	Status Report

Project Title	Software development and mechanical calculations for the ICARUS detector
LNGS Facility	Computing infrastructures and PC arrays
Group leader	J. Kisiel
Researchers involved and home institution	J. Kisiel, B. Bekman, J.Holeczek, Nowak : University of Silesia, Institute of Physics, Katowice (Poland) J. Lagoda, K. Cieslak: Institute of experimental physics, Warsaw University, Warsaw  (Poland) K. Cieslik: H. Niewodinski Institute of Nuclear Physics (PL) C. Juszczak, K. Graczyk: University of Wroklaw, Physics Dept., Wroklaw (Poland)
Status of the project	Started February 2003 - ongoing
Description of the project	Status Report

Project Title	Study of radioactive trace contaminations in metal loaded scintillators for solar neutrino detection
LNGS Facility	Low Background facilities
Group leader	S. Schoenert
Researchers involved and home institution	S. Schoenert, C. Buck, D. Motta, F. Hartmann, U. Schwan, P. Peiffer : Max Planck Institut fuer Kernphysik, Heidelberg (Germany) E. Yanovich, I. Barabanov : Russian Academy of Science INR Moscow (Russia) N. Danilov, Y. Krilov : Institute of Physical Chemistry and INR Moscow, Moscow (Russia)
Status of the project	Started February 2003 - ongoing
Description of the project	Status Report

Project Title	Proton induced gamma background in gas target systems
LNGS Facility	LUNA Accelerator
Group leader	Z. Fulop
Researchers involved and home institution	Z. Fulop, G. Gyurky, E. Somorjai : MTA Atomki, Institute of Nuclear Research of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Debrecen - Hungary
Status of the project	Started July 2003 - ongoing
Description of the project	Status Report

Project Title	Elements for the reconstruction program for the ICARUS experiment - Part II
LNGS Facility	Computing infrastructures and PC arrays
Group leader	Agnieszka Zalewska
Researchers involved and home institution	A. Zalewska : Institute of experimental Physics of the Wasaw University, Warsaw - Poland J Stepaniak: The Andrzej Soltan Institute for Nuclear Studies (IPJ) 05-400 Swierk/Otwock, Poland J. Holeczek: University of Silesia, Institute of Physics, Katowice (Poland) M. Markiewicz : Faculty of Physics of the University of Mining and metallurgy, Krakow - Poland K. Cieslik: H. Niewodinski Institute of Nuclear Physics (PL)
Status of the project	Started July 2003 - ongoing
Description of the project

Project Title	Facility for the measurement of low radioactivity lead samples
LNGS Facility	Low background
Group leader	D. Freckers
Researchers involved and home institution	D. Frekers, N. Bruski, S. Rakers, C. Baumer, C. Wachsmann, H. Baumeister, J. Schmand: University of Muester (Germany)
Status of the project	Expected start: February2004
Description of the project

Project Title	PURAZOT-II : Nitrogen purification from Radon
LNGS Facility	Rn counters
Group leader	Marcin Wojcik
Researchers involved and home institution	M. Wojcik, G. Zuzel, M. Misiaszek: Smoluchowski Institute of Physics, Jagellonian University, Krakow - Poland
Status of the project	Ongoing since January 2004
Description of the project	Planned activity