The “High Energy Particle Detector” (HEPD) was calibrated at the Beam Test Facility (BTF), at the National Laboratory of Frascati. HEPD is part of a number of innovative detectors that will be installed on the Chinese satellite CSES (China Seismo Electromagnetic Satellite), for the Italian-Chinese project CSES-LIMADOU.
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Sergio Ferrara was awarded the Majorana Medal
Sergio Ferrara was awarded the prestigious medal “Ettore Majorana” by the EMFCSC at Erice, together with Daniel Freedman and Peter van Nieuwenhuizen, 40 years after the formulation of supergravity.
Read More »NAUTILUS passes the baton
On October 7th, 2016, the gravitational wave antenna NAUTILUS (Nuova Antenna a Ultra bassa Temperatura per esplorare In Lontano Universo le Supernovae) has ended its long data collection started in February 2003.
Read More »Nicola Bianchi elected as the next president of the Nuclear Physics Committee of the European Physical Society
During the last meeting of the Eurpean Physical Society at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research of Dubna in Russia, our colleague Nicola Bianchi was elected as the next president of the Nuclear Physics Division (EPS http://www.eps.org).
Read More »Growing little scientists
The National Laboratory of Frascati offered the students from the “T. C. Onesti” High School in Fermo a chance to work on one of its particle accelerators: the Beam Test Facility.
Read More »Dafne to start over with a new challenging program
The particle accelerator DAFNE is in full warm-up to start again with KLOE-2’s Run-3. All of the tests on its machinery and many subsystems have been completed.
Read More »Incontri di Fisica 2.0: a refresher course on Modern Physics
The INFN National Laboratory of Frascati open their XVI edition of Incontri di Fisica (IdF 2.0 – 2016), a refresher course on Modern Physics addressed to high school teachers from all over Italy.
Read More »DAΦNE takes a well deserved break
The DAΦNE accelerator complex has just completed the second cycle of operations, Run II, aimed at providing data to the KLOE-2 experiment.
Read More »Acceleration re-defined once again in Pisa
In 1589 the Italian scientist Galileo Galilei performed in Pisa his ground-breaking acceleration experiments, observing balls accelerating down a ramp. He timed the rolling balls by counting his heart beat, finding that the “the spaces traversed were to each other as the squares of the times”. Galileo’s results violated the ancient theory from Aristotles and a few years later Galieo’s contract as lecturer at Pisa University was not renewed. Nowadays school kids all over the world learn about acceleration with the famous formula from Galileo.
Read More »New power for the DAΦNE cryogenic systems
The 4th of July the installation process of a brand new compressor for the DAΦNE cryogenic plant has started.
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