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2014-2024: TIFPA, the Trento Institute for Fundamental Physics and Applications, one of three INFN National Centres, is celebrating its first ten years of work on 28 February. Established by four partners, INFN, the University of Trento, the Bruno Kessler Foundation, and the Provincial Company for Health Services (APSS) of Trento, TIFPA has become one of the main research centers in the area establishing fruitful collaborations with local scientific institutions and entities. From fundamental research to applications of physics technologies, TIFPA is strongly engaged in many of today’s leading sectors and is collaborating on INFN's main international projects. From the space sector to quantum technologies, to gravitational waves, from silicon sensors to proton therapy: talking with its director, Francesco Pederiva, we traced the history of TIFPA, considering its main lines of scientific research and activities, and also its future.
TIFPA has its origins and its home in INFN: why was TIFPA founded? In response to which needs and with which goals? What role does it have within INFN?
TIFPA was founded to give a common home to the research and technological development activities that concerned INFN and that took place in Trentino. Before the founding of TIFPA, the presence of INFN consisted of a group connected to the Padua division, alongside of which there were joint initiatives with the Bruno Kessler Foundation (FBK) and an interest in founding the new proton therapy centre right in Trento.
The winner of the main call of the NRRP ETIC (Einstein Telescope Infrastructure Consortium) project has been identified, following a careful selection process that verified its technical capabilities and the solidity of its previous experience: a consortium of Italian companies operating internationally, led by Rocksoil spa, has been awarded the contract to carry out the technical and economic pre-feasibility study of the Einstein Telescope infrastructure in Sardinia.
For the first time, a cloud of positronium, the lightest atom in nature, has been cooled thanks to the use of a laser. The experimental proof of this process was obtained by the scientific collaboration of the AEgIS experiment, to which the INFN contributes significantly.
The Belle II experiment, operating at the KEK laboratory in Tsukuba, Japan, has detected and recorded the first events of its second data taking campaign, Run 2, which comes after a year and a half of upgrade and maintenance work on both the detector and the accelerator.
INFN publishes two calls for a total value of almost 3,5 million euros aimed at both private and public entities to contribute to the development and growth of ICSC
On 14 February, the Euclid space mission of the ESA, which launched into orbit last 1 July and in which Italy is participating with ASI, INFN, and INAF, started its exploration of the dark universe.
In Amsterdam, the inaugural event of the European project SPECTRUM was recently held. The project will develop a sustainable strategy for collecting and processing data produced by experiments in high-energy physics and radio astronomy.
THE AGILE MISSION HAS ENDED AFTER 17 YEARS’ SUCCESS Last 14 February, after 17 years’ activity, the Italian Space Agency (ASI) scientific satellite AGILE (Astrorivelatore Gamma a Immagini Leggero) re-entered the atmosphere, thus ending its intense hunt for cosmic sources, that are among the most energetic in the universe, emitting gamma and X-rays. AGILE represented a unique, enormously successful space programme in the landscape of Italian space activities. AGILE was built by ASI in collaboration with INFN, INAF (the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics), Italian universities and industries, OHB Italia, Thales Alenia Space, Rheinmetall, and Telespazio. In more than 87,200 orbits around Earth, AGILE has monitored the sky at high energies, observing a vast variety of galactic and extragalactic gamma-ray sources, highlighting their very fast changes, frequent X- and gamma-ray emission episodes coming from neutron stars, remnants of supernovae explosions and black holes. The observations acquired from the satellite were received on Earth by the ASI Luigi Broglio Space Center station in Malindi, Kenya. The data were then retransmitted to the Telespazio control centre, before reaching the ASI Space Science Data Center (SSDC) in Rome, head of all data management, analysis, archiving, and distribution operations and those relating to catalogues accessible to the international scientific community....
IN TRENTO TIFPA CELEBRATES ITS TENTH ANNIVERSARY AND THE EXHIBITION QUANTO IS GOING ONLINE WITH THE SERIES QUANTO NE SAI? From 26 February to 28 March, every week from 17:00 to 18:00, the INFN is offering five live YouTube broadcasts to discover quantum mechanics, dedicated to high school teachers and students and those who are curious. During the live broadcasts, in addition to interviews with researchers, there will be a link with MUSE in Trento from the exhibition Quantum. The revolution in one leap to visit the exhibition and experience some interactive installations illustrating the key concepts of quantum mechanics.
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