News Sito Bologna in Inglese
The Governing of AIDAinnova, the largest European project on R&D for particle physics, financed within the Horizon-2020 programme with 10 million euros for a duration of 4 years, has unanimously endorsed the nomination of Paolo Giacomelli of INFN Bologna, as the next Scientific Coordinator of the project from the 1st of April 2022 until the end of the project on 30th March 2025.
ICHEP, the International Conference on High Energy Physics, is coming to Italy for the first time from 6-13 July 2022. It will gather in Bologna theoretical and experimental physicists from around the world who are engaged in the field of
particle physics. On the occasion of this big event, the conference organising committee has launched, in collaboration with AIAP, the Italian Association for Visual Communication, a competition for designing a brand or logotype and poster that define the visual identity of the 2022 edition of the prestigious conference, with a prize of €3,000.
The competition is aimed at students in design, graphic design, and communication design courses as well as graphic designers and designers – both individually or organised in groups – who will have up to 15 December to send in their work. The brand or logotype will need to constitute the distinctive, identifying element of the event, synthesising, in a single image, both regional aspects, linked to the peculiarities of the host city, and scientific ones, i.e. those pertaining to the conference theme. The poster will, on the other hand, be the essential tool for presenting the event: it will need to be visually coherent with the brand or logotype and will need to contain text and institutional logos. The organisation of the 41st edition of the conference, was entrusted to the INFN divisions of Bologna and Ferrara.
Tiziano Peraro, researcher in theoretical physics at the University of Bologna and member of the research project QFT@Colliders of INFN, has been awarded one of the prestigious ERC Starting Grants 2021, by the European Research Council [1].
After obtaining his PhD at the Max Planck Institute for Physics and the TUM University in Munich, Tiziano worked as a postdoctoral researcher in Edinburgh, Mainz and Zurich. Since September 2020 he is researcher and teacher at the University of Bologna and INFN associate.
His scientific activity concerns the field of theoretical physics of fundamental interactions and related phenomenology, with the objective of finding the most fundamental constituents of nature – the so-called elementary particles – and understanding their interactions. His research project, for which he was granted 1.1 million euros, has the goal of developing new techniques for obtaining theoretical predictions at high precision and using them for studying the Higgs boson and the top quark.
These new predictions will be compared with high-precision measurements in high-energy scattering experiments, such as the ongoing ones at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, in Geneva. This will allow to either shed light on uncertain aspects of the Standard Model, or to find new physics, if present. The studies of Tiziano are about obtaining precise theoretical predictions, namely at a high perturbative order, especially for complex processes relevant for the LHC and involving many particles in the final state.
Tiziano developed new mathematical and computational techniques that led to huge progress in obtaining multi-loop amplitudes. Among these, finite fields and rational reconstruction techniques allow to replace complex algebraic calculations with much simpler ones involving “small” integers. Tiziano pioneered these techniques and their usage in the calculation of high-precision observables with many particles in the final state. Further development in these techniques will enable us to obtain high-precision theoretical predictions for key processes at the LHC, such as top quark pair production in association with a Higgs boson.
Tiziano’s research project will last five years and has several objectives, from the development of new cutting-edge techniques and computational methods, to the production of theoretical predictions to compare with experimental data, combining several fields of physics, mathematics and informatics. It is one of the 397 research projects (out of more than four thousand proposals) who won an ERC Starting Grant this year and the only one of these in the field of fundamental constituents of matter (PE2) hosted by an Italian institution.
[1] https://erc.europa.eu/sites/default/files/document/file/erc_2021_stg_results_all_domains.pdf
The INFN Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics shares the strong and firm position of the European Union and of the Italian Government to condemn Russia’s aggression against Ukraine, as well as any form of oppression among states and people, in the name of respect, confrontation and cooperation. These are the only and essential tools to have democratic states, guarantee the freedom of people, and achieve the progress of society. This is what science shows us every day as researchers, this is what we want to represent every day as a public scientific institution of a free and democratic State, these are our values.
In this deeply dramatic moment, which leaves all of us bewildered by its senselessness and brutality, we express our full solidarity with the Ukrainian people. And we assure our willingness to support the initiatives for peace and in support of people in difficulty that will be promoted by the Italian Government and the Ministry of University and Research. We are working to offer support to our Ukrainian colleagues with welcoming initiatives, and we will help to spread initiatives to help the Ukrainian population promoted by our local structures, our staff and the scientific community. INFN will also be aligned with the decisions of the Government and the Ministry of University and Research regarding the management of international scientific collaborations involving Russia. We would also like to express our deep sadness for the condition of Russian colleagues and their fellow citizens who suffer the tragic choices of their government. Science has been, is and will always continue to be, by its very nature, a place of freedom and a ground for dialogue and collaboration among people: we believe in this, as people and as scientists, and we work for this as INFN.
The n_TOF facility at CERN, a project conceived by Carlo Rubbia in the late ’90s, started operations in 2001. In the occasion of its 20th anniversary, an event to mark the achievements and the future plans of the nuclear physics community working with neutrons worldwide, is organized by the n_TOF Collaboration at CERN. The event is an workshop NSTAPP – Neutrons is Science, Technology and Application, to be held at the Main Auditorium at CERN on 22th of November 2021.
NSTAPP will provide the opportunity to review the state of the art of neutron-induced reaction studies and their applications in science and technology. More in detail, after an overview of neutron facilities in the world, advancements in nuclear technology (energy production, nuclear waste transmutation and safety), formation of elements (Big Bang and stellar nucleo synthesis) as well as treatment of cancer with neutrons will be presented.
More details, including the program of the workshop, are available online at the https://indico.cern.ch/event/1073008/ webpage. It is possible to register and follow the event online.
We are glad to remind that the Bologna division of INFN is part of the international collaboration working at n_TOF since the beginning of the project.
More information on n_TOF: https://www.bo.infn.it/gruppo3/n_tof/
Contacts: Cristian Massimi massimi@bo.infn.it , Alberto Mengoni mengoni@bo.infn.it
Professor Federico Boscherini, Deputy Director of the Department of Physics and Astronomy “Augusto Righi” at the University of Bologna has been appointed Chair of the XFEL, ( European X-ray Free Electron Laser Facility),with effect as of 1 July 2022 for a first term of two years.
The Council, is the supreme organ of the European XFEL, which decides on all important issues of the company (like the annual financial statement and the annual operation budget, and important personnel matters as well as the further development of the facility).
The European XFEL is located in the metropolitan area of Hamburg, Germany and is organized as a non-profit company under German private law (GmbH) that is publicly funded (total construction budget: 1.54 B€; operation
budget for 2022: 141 M€) through its international shareholders from 12 Europeancountries, including CNR and INFN from Italy.
The MoEDAL experiment at CERN‘s Large Hadron Collider recently published an article in Nature on the search for magnetic monopoles generated in the strong magnetic fields – 10,000 times more intense than those present on neutron stars – produced in the collisions of Lead ions at LHC.
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Pietro Antonioli has been elected National Coordinator of EIC_NET for a three year period, effective since November 1st.
EIC_NET is an initiative of CNS3, aimed to define INFN engagement in an international Collaboration of an experiment at the Electron-Ion collider at Brookhaven (USA), an accelerator approved by DoE in January 2020.
Congratulations to Pietro from the whole Section and “good luck” for the success of EIC_NET through next years challenges.
