NEWSLETTER 124 | Dicembre 2024
Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare
INTERVIEW
GRAVNET: TAKING THE SEARCH FOR GRAVITATIONAL WAVES TO A NEW FREQUENCY
Interview with Claudio Gatti, particle physics researcher at INFN Frascati National Laboratories, and one of the creators of GravNet, the project awarded a 10-million-euro ERC Synergy Grant
The European Research Council received this year 548 applications for the Synergy Grant 2024, the grant that encourages and promotes scientific collaborations; and chose, among the 57 winning projects, GravNet, A Global Network to Search for High Frequency Gravitational Waves. Ambitious in its goals and novel in its method, this project could revolutionise the study of phenomena such as primordial black hole mergers and ultralight dark matter, and will require, over the six years of the grant, very different skills and resources shared among Germany, Spain and Italy. The four researchers leading GravNet are in fact Matthias Schott of the University of Bonn, Diego Blas of the Spanish Institute of High Energy Physics, Dmitry Budker of the Helmholtz Institute at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, and Claudio Gatti of INFN Frascati National Laboratories (LNF). We met with Claudio to hear about the project, from its conception to its future prospects.What is GravNet and what are its goals?
GravNet will be the first global network of detectors to search for high-frequency gravitational waves, i.e., detectors searching for signals in the mega to gigahertz band. I
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ALICE EXPLORES STRONG INTERACTION IN THREE-BODY SYSTEMS
A fundamental force is usually described as an interaction between two bodies, i.e., the force between two bodies is assumed to be unaffected in any way by the presence of others nearby. But when we go from simple pairs to more complex systems, the description of the dynamics of this interaction becomes particularly elusive, especially from an experimental point of view. In a study recently published on Physical Review X, the ALICE experiment at CERN's LHC accelerator tested an innovative experimental method for investigating three-body nuclear systems, paving the way for the precise measurement of their interactions, with the possibility of including exotic particles. ...
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FRIDAYS OF THE UNIVERSE Once again this year, the INFN renews its participation in the series of seminars Fridays of the Universe, organized by the INFN Ferrara division and the University of Ferrara, in collaboration with the Astrophiles Group “Columbia” and Esploriamo L’Universo.
The 2025 edition will take place at Sala Estense, in Piazza del Municipio, Ferrara, featuring six events from January 24 to April 4.
January 24, 9:00 PM
Integrated knowledge, creativity, and innovation: a modern symbiosis between scientific and humanistic disciplines With Paolo Dell’Aversana, geophysicist and project manager at ENI
Cover image: ALICE ©CERN
