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Last 14 October, the ATLAS group of Frascati Laboratory of INFN completed the construction work of the MicroMegas chambers.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The first fixed target ever installed at the LHC is completing its way towards the mounting in LHCb, making the latter the first experiment having two different interaction points (beam-beam, beam-target) able to work simultaneously.

Today, on the 24th of April 2020, is the centennial of Giorgio Salvini’s birth.
Unforgettable reference figure in the scientific world in a crucial post-war period, we owe him a lot of what followed: the golden years of Particle Physics in Italy.

At LNF the construction of the Cosmic Ray Tagger (CRT) for ICARUS-T600 has just ended. The latter is one of the detectors of the Short Baseline Neutrino (SBN) experiment at Fermilab, aiming at discovering the so-called sterile neutrinos at the eV Scale or definitely excluding them.

For 10 years the INternational School on modern PhYsics and REsearch, INSPYRE, has been one of the major and most prestigious events of the Educational program of INFN Frascati National Laboratory (LNF).

Latest acceleration tests using plasma waves excited by a 350 pC electron beam (driver) generated by the SPARC_LAB photo-injector have produced the first significant results.