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The European Research Council has awarded Valentina Sola, a researcher at the University of Turin and at the INFN Turin Division, a €1.8 million Consolidator Grant for her research project called CompleX, which will study how to extend, through the development of an innovative design, the operation of silicon detectors in environments with extreme radiation levels, such as those at the next-generation particle accelerators. ERC Consolidator Grants are European grants awarded to outstanding researchers of any nationality and age, with at least seven and up to twelve years of post-doctoral experience and a promising scientific track record, who carry out their work in a public or private research organisation based in one of the EU Member States. CompleX has the potential to have a strong impact on the future of particle physics. We asked Valentina Sola to tell us about the goals and development expectations of the project she has conceived.
Can you tell us about the CompleX project? What are its objectives?
The CompleX project is about the development of silicon detectors for future particle accelerators, such as the eventual future accelerators at CERN in Geneva, the Future Circular Collider (FCC-hh) or the Muon collider, which are environments with extremely high radiation levels. Silicon detectors are key elements in the high-energy physics experiments and today they already have a high resistance to radiation.
Ten international institutions – including INFN, on behalf of Italy, and CERN – signed an agreement to build the gigantic underground neutrino detector, DUNE (Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment), in the US. DUNE is an international scientific experiment that will use enormous particle detectors to study the behaviour of neutrinos and, in particular, neutrino oscillation.
Promoting industrial development by strengthening research activity within Italian companies, to encourage the development of innovative projects: this is the goal of the memorandum of understanding signed between INFN and Cassa Depositi e Prestiti (CDP).
Preserving the European cultural heritage, thanks to the most innovative digital technologies currently available, and linking together the resources of many centres and European institutes are the two goals of the 4CH Competence Centre.
The Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN), the Japanese High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK) and the University of Tokyo (UTokyo) signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU), which aimed to promote the Hyper-Kamiokande international scientific research project, a large experiment dedicated to neutrino physics, whose main detector has been under construction with plans to start operation in 2027 in Kamioka, in Japan.
On 1st December, at the rector’s office of the University of Belgrade, as part of the event: Future challenges of physics – New opportunities for cooperation in science between Italy and Serbia, the official signing ceremony for new collaboration agreements between INFN and Serbian scientific institutions was held.
On 7 December, at the INFN Legnaro National Laboratories, the physicist Renato Angelo Ricci was awarded the INFN Medal.
THE ITALIAN GOVERNMENT STRENGTHENS THE EINSTEIN TELESCOPE CANDIDACY The Italian Government is ready to support the financial commitment required to host the Einstein Telescope (ET), the large research infrastructure dedicated to the study of gravitational waves that Italy has proposed to build in Sardinia, in the area of Sos Enattos, in Lula. The government has expressed its commitment, both institutional and financial, to strengthen our country’s candidacy for ET in a letter addressed to Antonio Zoccoli, the President of the National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN), which is coordinating the Italian candidacy. ...
QUANTUM. THE REVOLUTION IN ONE LEAP. THE NEW EXHIBITION OF INFN AND MUSE OPENS IN TRENTO Quantum. The revolution in one leap was opened last 6 December. It is a new exhibition, designed and curated by INFN and co-produced by INFN and MUSE (Science Museum of Trento). Designed for schools and the wider public, the exhibition is dedicated to quantum mechanics and the revolutionary impact it has had on physics, scientific progress, and society. “Quantum” tells the story of a theory that changed science and our lives, an idea that overturned our way of seeing reality and of understanding the universe: counter-intuitive, explosive, fascinating. Designed by the Dotdotdot design studio, the set-up guides visitors along a visionary voyage across time that, starting from the atom, leads to the universe. Multimedia and interactive installations, exhibits, modern and historic research tools, and video projections accompany the visitor in discovering the wonderful world of quantum mechanics.
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The exhibition “Quantum. The revolution in one leap”
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