Interview of Peter Gallinelli, skipper of Nanuq, polar sailboat

• Main Author: Catapano, Paola
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: CERN 2018
• Subjects: EEE,; cosmic; rays,; Centro; Fermi,; polar; expedition,; muons,; Peter; Gallinelli,; Nanuq; Arctic; Norway; Svalbard; Svalbard Archipelago; Iceland; nanuq
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.17181/cds.2630302; https://videos.cern.ch/record/2630302

-FOOTAGE- Peter Gallinelli is on his way to embark upon his sustainable arctic sailboat Nanuq from Isafjordur Iceland to reach the Svalbard archipelago, North of the Arctic Polar circle. On board, among other experiments, the PolarquEEEst, a cosmic ray detector especially built at CERN for this polar expedition within the EEE (Extreme Energy Events) project, by Centro Fermi Rome and INFN Bologna, with the participation of school students from Norway, Italy and Switzerland. Nanuq will circumnavigate the archipelago of Svalbard reaching a latitude of 82°N where cosmic rays have never been measured before.