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The Italian Physical Society (SIF) has awarded Alessandra Fantoni the “Laura Bassi Prize 2026” for Women in Physics, in the Mid-to-Full Career category, reserved for women with a degree in Physics who, over the past five years, have distinguished themselves for the quality and impact of their research activity.

Pasquale Di Nezza, senior researcher at the Frascati National Laboratories, has been elected National Representative of the Italian LHCb collaboration, one of the four major experiments at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC), for the next three years. In his new role, he will coordinate the research activities of around 250 researchers and technologists from 14 INFN Divisions and several Italian universities. LHCb has a broad scientific programme, with a particular focus on studying differences in the behaviour of matter and antimatter—key elements for understanding why matter clearly prevails over antimatter in the observable Universe. The experiment also investigates rare decays of hadrons containing beauty and charm quarks, processes that could reveal the existence of new particles or new fundamental forces, potentially opening the way to physics beyond the Standard Model.

On May 18, the first edition of the project ACME – A Contest in MEchatronics promoted by Unindustria and ITS Meccatronico del Lazio Academy in collaboration with the Frascati National Laboratory ended. Involving more than 130 students from 8 high secondary schools across the region, the initiative reached its final stage during an event held at the Benito Stirpe Stadium in Frosinone, where the eight finalist teams presented their projects to a jury made up of representatives from LNF and Unindustria.

  Two young researchers from the Frascati National Laboratory have won two prestigious INFN awards for their thesis work. Lucio Crincoli received the Resmini Prize for the best PhD thesis, awarded by National Scientific Commission 5, while Carlos Buitrago received the Vaccaro Prize for the best master’s thesis in accelerators, awarded by the INFN Accelerator Committee.

Today, March the 25th, our colleague Catalina Curceanu, director of research at INFN Frascati National Laboratory, has been awarded with the “Voci di Scienza, Voci di Donna 2026” prize by Radio Parlamentare and the Parliamentary Intergroup for Knowledge and Scientific Research, together with eight other representatives from the scientific community. The award “Voci di Scienza, Voci di Donna” aims to recognize the scientific and cultural value of women who, through their commitment to research, make a significant contribution to the advancement of knowledge and to the civic development of our society. It highlights the quality of their research, their intellectual responsibility, and their ability to represent with authority the presence of women in contemporary science, at any stage of their professional path. “I am very happy and deeply honored to receive the award “Voci di Scienza, Voci di Donna”. I accept it with gratitude and with a strong sense of responsibility,” says Catalina. “I dedicate this award to the memory of my parents: even though they are no longer here, they continue to accompany me every day, in my choices and in the passion that I have for what I do. I owe to them not only my path in science, but also the deepest roots of who I am. I share it with my sisters and with my family, a constant source of strength and inspiration. As for the “Voci di Scienza” part, I dedicate it to the National Institute for Nuclear Physics and to the Frascati National Laboratory, …

Frascati at the Center of the New European Generation of Compact Accelerators With the publication of the Technical Design Report (TDR), EuPRAXIA@SPARC_LAB takes a decisive step toward the realization of the world’s first user facility based on plasma acceleration. The project, led by the INFN National Laboratories of Frascati, defines in detail the construction of a compact 1 GeV accelerator that integrates X-band RF technology and beam-driven Plasma WakeField Acceleration (PWFA), with the goal of realizing a Free Electron Laser operating in the water window, beamline AQUA in the figure, a strategic spectral region for applications in biology, materials science, and life sciences. The project is funded by the Italian Ministry of University and Research, by INFN, and by a contribution from the Lazio Region aimed at the realization of an industrial applications beamline named ARIA. The TDR is the result of an extensive collective effort: 176 signatories from 28 institutes contributed to the definition of the project, demonstrating the strength of a highly integrated national and international scientific network. Alongside the Accelerator and Technical Divisions of LNF, which played a central role in the machine and infrastructure design, fundamental contributions were provided by CNR, Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste, ENEA, Sapienza University of Rome, the University of Milan, and the University of Rome Tor Vergata. EuPRAXIA@SPARC_LAB represents one of the two European pillars of the EuPRAXIA project, included in the ESFRI roadmap, and provides a concrete demonstration of the possibility of building more compact, energy-efficient, and scalable accelerators. The adopted acceleration …

The new Chief Editor of Nuclear Physics A has selected, among the journal’s most significant articles of recent years, the study conducted by the SIDDHARTA‑2 collaboration on the X‑ray transitions of kaonic helium‑4, confirming the role of the INFN Frascati National Laboratory and of DAΦNE as a top‑level infrastructure for exotic‑atom physics.

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).

Analogamente ad un pendolo che oscilla dolcemente con un moto periodico, gli elettroni in un plasma oscillano sotto l’influenza di campi esterni e della forza di richiamo generata dagli ioni del plasma stesso.

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.