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Gran Sasso Laboratory: present and future - LIGO

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LNGS<br />

ROME<br />

INFN <strong>Gran</strong> <strong>Sasso</strong> National <strong>Laboratory</strong><br />

In 1979 A. Zichichi proposed to<br />

the Parliament the project of a<br />

large underground laboratory<br />

close to the <strong>Gran</strong> <strong>Sasso</strong> highway<br />

tunnel, then under construction<br />

In 1982 the Parliament approved<br />

the construction, finished in 1987<br />

In 1989 the first experiment,<br />

MACRO, started taking data<br />

QuickTime <strong>and</strong> a<br />

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L’AQUILA Tunnel of 10.4 km<br />

TERAMO

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