The LNF scientific community is discussing the perspectives in fundamental physics research in Frascati. In the long-term LNF research program, the protagonist will be EUPRAXIA, project dedicated to the development of a new generation of accelerators based on cutting edge technologies like plasma acceleration.
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INTERLAB 2021
During the days 12-13-14 January 2021, the first edition of the meeting INTERLAB 2021 has gathered together more than 100 scientists engineers and technicians from Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste, INFN Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, ENEA C. R. Frascati, CNR, and from several other Universities and research institutes, with the aim of exploring the possible synergies in the development of accelerators dedicated to light sources and to other applications.
Read More »High quality electron beams generated with the SPARC_LAB plasma experiment
Using an innovative technique, researchers from the SPARC_LAB group have recently demonstrated the acceleration of a high-quality electron beam in a plasma accelerator. The experiment highlighted, for the first time, the possibility to reduce the energy spread during acceleration.
Read More »Luca Giannessi receives the innovation award on Synchrotron Radiation
The Helmoltz-Zentrum Berlin, leading research centre for structure of matter, assigned the Innovation Award on Synchrotron Radiation to Luca Giannessi, researcher at INFN-LNF, Carlo Callegari, Kevin Prince and Giuseppe Sansone for their pioneering achievements in the development and application of innovative investigation methods exploiting the radiation emitted by a seeded free electron laser.
Read More »DART-WARS: may the force be in the qubit
Science fiction often takes a cue from Physics but the opposite is also true, especially in the choice of acronyms. This applies to DART-WARS, an electronics and detectors related project whereby INFN will contribute to the development of technologies for the superconducting quantum computer.
Read More »The MicroMegas detectors ready for ATLAS
Last 14 October, the ATLAS group of Frascati Laboratory of INFN completed the construction work of the MicroMegas chambers.
Read More »aMUSE financed by the European Community
The Frascati National Laboratory of INFN leads for the second time an H2020-MSCA-RISE European project, whose goal is to promote international and intersectoral collaborations by means of secondments of personnel.
Read More »PADME back hunting!
The pandemic that afflicts the planet is having important effects also on the scientific research and in particular on those fields where the experiment scale requires an international collaboration.
Read More »SuperKEKB breaks new luminosity world record
SuperKEKB , the electron–positron collider located at the KEK Laboratory (Tsukuba, Japan), on June 15th at 20:34 local time, achieved the world’s highest instantaneous luminosity, setting a record of 2.2×1034 cm-2 s-1, and thus surpassing the previous record of 2.14-1034 cm-2 s-1 obtained in 2018 by CERN’s LHC accelerator.
Read More »1st July 2020, Matteo Palutan (LNF) is the new deputy-spokesperson of LHCb experiment at CERN
LHCb experiment at CERN changes its spokesperson. The new one is Chris Parkes from the University of Manchester who starts today his three-year tenure as LHCb spokesperson.
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