{"id":39975,"date":"2026-06-17T14:51:25","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T12:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"\/gruppo4\/?page_id=39975"},"modified":"2026-06-17T14:55:37","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T12:55:37","slug":"tasp_eng","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"\/gruppo4\/en\/tasp_eng\/","title":{"rendered":"TaSP_eng"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

TaSP<\/span><\/h2>\n

Theoretical Astroparticle Physics<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n

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Local Coordinator: \u00a0<\/strong>Silvia Pascoli<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

E-Mail: <\/span>Silvia.Pascoli@bo.infn.it<\/a>
Tel: +39-051-2091016
<\/span>Site: Irnerio<\/span>
<\/span><\/strong>Ufficio: <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Nazional website<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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The questions that drive TASP-BO<\/b>\u2019s scientific research focus on fundamental particles and interactions and their impact on the Universe: What gives neutrinos their mass, and why do they oscillate between different flavors? What is dark matter made of? Why does the Universe contain more matter than antimatter? Where do the masses of fundamental particles come from, and what is the origin of electroweak symmetry breaking? How did the cosmos evolve into what we observe today?<\/span><\/div>\n
To tackle these questions, we build theoretical models that explore physics beyond the Standard Model<\/b>\u00a0and the history of the Universe. Our group\u2019s approach is rooted in the need to test these ideas against data. Therefore, we connect our models to a broad range of experimental searches \u2014 spanning particle physics, astroparticle physics, cosmological observations, and astrophysics \u2014 from neutrino and dark matter detectors to particle accelerators and telescopes. We also propose and explore new ways to test these models, including searching for gravitational waves<\/b>\u00a0produced by phase transitions in the early Universe, developing techniques to detect dark matter through its imprint in large neutrino detectors, hunting for unusual signatures of richly structured dark sectors, such as semi-visible decays, performing global fits<\/b>\u00a0of neutrino oscillation data, both in standard and non-standard scenarios. Alongside this, we develop and maintain open scientific software<\/b>, freely available to the entire research community, also with the support of AI<\/b>.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Research Staff List<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n
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Silvia Pascoli – Full Professor<\/span><\/div>\n
Personal webpage (https:\/\/www.unibo.it\/sitoweb\/silvia.pascoli<\/a>)<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
Via Irnerio 46, I-40126 Bologna<\/span><\/div>\n
Tel: +39 051 209 1016 \u2013 e-mail: silvia.pascoli<\/u><\/b>@unibo.it<\/u><\/b><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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Michele Lucente – Associate Professor<\/span><\/div>\n
Personal webpage (https:\/\/www.unibo.it\/sitoweb\/michele.lucente<\/a>)<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
Via Irnerio 46, I-40126 Bologna<\/span><\/div>\n
\u2013 e-mail: michele.lucente<\/u><\/b>@unibo.it<\/u><\/b><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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Filippo Sala – Associate Professor<\/span><\/div>\n
Personal webpage (https:\/\/www.unibo.it\/sitoweb\/f.sala<\/a>)<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
Via Irnerio 46, I-40126 Bologna<\/span><\/div>\n
Tel: +39 051 209 1117 \u2013 e-mail: f.sala<\/u><\/b>@unibo.it<\/u><\/b><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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Xavier Mancano – RTDa<\/span><\/div>\n
Personal webpage (https:\/\/www.unibo.it\/sitoweb\/xabier.marcano<\/span><\/a>)<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
Via Irnerio 46, I-40126 Bologna<\/span><\/div>\n
Tel: \u2013 e-mail: xabier.marcano@unibo.it<\/u><\/b><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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Claudia Garcia Garcia – Postdoc<\/span><\/div>\n
Personal webpage (https:\/\/www.unibo.it\/sitoweb\/claudia.garciagarcia<\/a>)<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
Via Irnerio 46, I-40126 Bologna<\/span><\/div>\n
Tel:\u00a0 \u2013 e-mail: claudia.garciagarcia@unibo.it<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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Andrea De Marchi – PhD student<\/span><\/div>\n
Personal webpage (https:\/\/www.unibo.it\/sitoweb\/andreagiovanni.demarchi<\/a>)<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
Via Irnerio 46, I-40126 Bologna<\/span><\/div>\n
Tel: \u00a0\u2013 e-mail: andreagiovanni.demarchi@unibo.it<\/u><\/b><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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Elina Merkel – PhD student<\/span><\/div>\n
Personal webpage (https:\/\/www.unibo.it\/sitoweb\/elina.merkel<\/a>)<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
Via Irnerio 46, I-40126 Bologna<\/span><\/div>\n
Tel: \u00a0\u2013 e-mail: elina.merkel@unibo.it<\/u><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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Elena Pressendo – PhD student<\/span><\/div>\n
Personal webpage (https:\/\/www.unibo.it\/sitoweb\/elena.pressendo2<\/a>)<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
Via Irnerio 46, I-40126 Bologna<\/span><\/div>\n
Tel: \u00a0\u2013 e-mail: elena.pressendo2@unibo.it<\/u><\/b><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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TaSP Theoretical Astroparticle Physics   Local Coordinator: \u00a0Silvia Pascoli E-Mail: Silvia.Pascoli@bo.infn.itTel: +39-051-2091016Site: IrnerioUfficio: Nazional website \u00a0 \u00a0 The questions that drive TASP-BO\u2019s scientific research focus on fundamental particles and interactions and their impact on the Universe: What gives neutrinos their mass, and why do they oscillate between different flavors? What is dark matter made of? […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-page-builder-no-sidebar.php","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-39975","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/gruppo4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/39975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"\/gruppo4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"\/gruppo4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/gruppo4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/gruppo4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39975"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"\/gruppo4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/39975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39991,"href":"\/gruppo4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/39975\/revisions\/39991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/gruppo4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}