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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.
What are the goals of the ASIX project?
The goal of the project is to build a new X-ray detector that combines the state-of-the-art of current detectors in terms of spatial and energy resolution but, above all, that can process photons one at a time with a high global counting rate. This would be a great innovation because, by reading one photon at a time, we would be able to eliminate a series of problems. For example, we would no longer be faced with the problem of not being able to distinguish two photons that, arriving at the same point or at points very close in the detector, mix until they are practically indistinguishable. In our future detector, we’ll be able to read a very small fraction of the detector matrix, thus managing to avoid the problem that I mentioned.
The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) scientific collaboration has produced the first polarized light image of the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*). The new image uncovered strong and organized magnetic fields spiraling from the edge of the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), at the heart of the Milky Way Galaxy.
Cerium is a metal and one of the so-called “rare earths”. It has numerous technological applications in daily use, from some types of light bulbs to flat screen TVs. But how is cerium produced in the universe?
The TeRABIT project enters the execution phase for the network component with the exclusive acquisition of a portion of Sparkle’s BlueMed submarine cable. This will allow to extend GARR-T, the new generation of GARR network, to Sardinia, thus connecting it to the rest of the research network on the national territory.
Entanglement, i.e. the correlation, the “intertwining” that exists at the quantum level among the properties of physical systems after these have interacted with each other, has been verified in atomic physics by measuring the violation of the “Bell inequality”, named after the physicist J. S. Bell.
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. ...
A SPRING OF FESTIVALS Science and Philosophy Festival Foligno
From 11 to 14 April, the XIII Science and Philosophy Festival will be held in Foligno. This year the leitmotif of the events will be the Mediterranean, from cradle of science and philosophy to scenario of the challenges for change. The INFN will be present with four events.
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first polarized light image of the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), credits Event Horizon Telescope (EHT)
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