NEWSLETTER 115 | March 2024
Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare
INTERVIEW
ASIX, AN INNOVATIVE X-RAY DETECTOR FOR INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH
Interview with Luca Baldini, researcher at the University of Pisa and INFN, and Principal Investigator of the ASIX project
The Ministry of University and Research (MUR) recently awarded funding worth € 1,531,691.47 to the ASIX project to develop an innovative X-ray detector as part of the first edition of the MUR tender for FISA, the Italian Fund for Applied Sciences. The purpose of the fund is to promote the competitiveness of the national production system by enhancing industrial research and experimental development. The ASIX project, which will last four years, will be carried out at the INFN Pisa Division and was funded within the Space macro area of FISA. We asked Luca Baldini, researcher at the Department of Physics of the University of Pisa and INFN, to tell us about the goals of the project that he is Principal Investigator of.
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LAYING OF THE FIRST STONE OF THE CAOS LABORATORY IN PERUGIA
The first prototype, at a scale of ten metres, of one of the arms of the third-generation gravitational wave detector Einstein Telescope will be produced in Perugia, in the future CAOS (Center for Applications on Gravitational Waves and Seismology) International Laboratory. On 19 March, the ceremony to lay its first stone was held and it was also attended remotely by the Minister of University and Research, Anna Maria Bernini. The new laboratory of the University of Perugia will be built thanks to the collaboration between the Department of Physics and Geology and the Perugia INFN Division and an investment worth more than € 6 million overall. This includes € 5.7 million from NRRP funds of the ETIC (Einstein Telescope Infrastructure Consortium) project, funded as part of Mission 4 coordinated by the MUR (Ministry of University and Research), and approximately € 500 thousand from University of Perugia MUR Departments of Excellence funds, and University funds too. ...
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Cover image: first polarized light image of the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), credits Event Horizon Telescope (EHT)