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The Beam Test Facility (BTF) at LNF will be open to external users during the following period: April 13, 2026 (week 15) – June 29, 2026 (week 27).

A significant step forward for the Mu2e experiment at Fermilab: the electromagnetic calorimeter, one of the fundamental components of the experiment, has been completed and installed in the experimental hall.

On September 23, the Circolo Cittadino in Latina hosted the MAGIC (MAgnetic Gadgets for Innovative Creations) awards ceremony. This initiative has been promoted by the Sezione Meccatronica of Unindustria and developed with the technical-scientific partnership of the Frascati National Laboratory in collaboration with the ITS Meccatronico del Lazio Academy.

As part of the MSCA Staff Exchange programme, the European Commission has recently selected the NEMESIS project (Neutron Experiments join Muon Experiments for Synergy in Investigation and Search for new physics) for funding. This is a consortium made up of research institutions and industrial partners, led by the National Laboratory of Frascati (LNF) of INFN.

The Minister of University and Research, Anna Maria Bernini, visited today, Friday, June 13, 2025, the Frascati National Laboratory, LNF, of the Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN).

Our colleague Riccardo Pompili, Scientific coordinator of the SPARC_LAB Facility and of the Plasma Working Area of the EuPRAXIA@SPARC_LAB project, is the winner of the “Hogil Kim” Prize, for his many important contributions in the plasma accelerators developments, culminated in the first worldwide demonstration of FEL lasing driven by a Plasma Accelerator (Beam Driven) at SPARC_LAB.

The new EU-funded project PACRI (Plasma Accelerator systems for Compact Research Infrastructures) officially started with a kick-off meeting in Trieste from March 12 to 14, 2025.

In a seminar held today, April 15, at the INFN Frascati National Laboratory, the scientific collaboration of the PADME experiment presented the results of data analysis collected in 2022 during the third data-taking phase (run3).

The EuPRAXIA consortium has selected the ELI Beamlines facility in Dolní Břežany, Czech Republic, as the site for implementing the laser-driven acceleration pillar of the project.

An important contribution to new developments in infrared optics has come from the Frascati National Laboratory (LNF) of the Italian National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN), where the experimental characterization of an innovative metamaterial was conducted at the Dafne-Luce facility.