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Gran Sasso d'Italia
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Gran Sasso d'Italia

Highest mountain group in the Apennines, in Abruzzi region, south-central Italy. The highest point, at 2,912 m/9,554 ft, is Corno Grande, which is partially glaciated.

Mussolini was imprisoned here, in the Hotel Campo Imperatore, after the fall of the fascist regime in 1943, until rescued by a German force.



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Next year, a detector more sensitive than KamLAND to Earth-generated antineutrinos is slated to start operating under the Gran Sasso mountain in Italy.
Glints from inner space: sensing Earth's hidden radioactivity by Weiss, P. / Science News
Beneath the Apennine Mountains at the Gran Sasso National Laboratory east of Rome, the team analyzes faint flashes of light emitted by sodium iodide detectors when subatomic particles collide with them.
Votes cast for and against the WIMP factor by Cowen, R. / Science News
At the Gran Sasso underground laboratory in Italy, GALLEX researchers looked for low-energy neutrinos produced by the decay of chromium-51, a specially prepared, highly radioactive isotope of chromium.
Counting neutrinos from an 'artificial sun.' by Peterson, Ivars / Science News
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