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The DAΦNE accelerator complex has just completed the second cycle of operations, Run II, aimed at providing data to the KLOE-2 experiment.

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.

The 4th of July the installation process of a brand new compressor for the DAΦNE cryogenic plant has started.

OPENLABS NIGHT – Scienza, Rete e Tecnologia Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati Venerdì 30 settembre, dalle 15:30 alle 21:00, i LNF aprono nuovamente al pubblico per un’edizione speciale di OpenLabs, in occasione della Notte Europea dei Ricercatori.

The seventh edition of the summer Erice International School of Science Journalism (EISSJC 2016) has now started in Sicily, at the Ettore Majorana Foundation, thanks to the support of the “Enrico Fermi” Centre for Study and Research, the INFN-National Laboratory of Frascati and the professional association Science Writers in Italy.

Theoretical and computational work on the interaction between electromagnetic radiation and matter, as well as the most advanced techniques employed for the construction of the large particle physics accelerators, also provide useful insights into complex biochemical and biological systems.

Scientists from the LIGO Scientific Collaboration (LSC) and the Virgo Collaboration will discuss their latest research in the effort to detect gravitational waves, at the 228th meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) in San Diego, California. The briefing is scheduled to begin at 10:15 AM Pacific Daylight Time on Wednesday, June 15th.

The installation of STAR (Southern Europe Thomson Backscattering Source for Applied Research), the compact hard X-rays source, designed and realized by INFN (Sezione di Milano and Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, with the collaboration of Gruppo Collegato di Cosenza), for advanced applied research in Materials Science, has started at the “Polo Tecnologico” of the University of Calabria.

Atlas, one of the major LHC experiments, is starting a new upgrade in Frascati. In fact, the first of a number of detectors for small angle muon detection was successfully completed and sent over at CERN in Geneva. The LNF researchers, in collaboration with the colleagues of the experiment, have already started the testing on particle beams.

The MONDO (MOnitor for Neutron Dose in hadrOntherapy) project’s goal is to develop a tracker for the neutrons produced from the beam of the patient undergoing oncologic therapy. The interest in this project stems from the fact these beams are “secondary” products, unintended, and as such their action is still little known and up for determination.