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New results on the X17 particles (Nov 2024)
New results on the X17 particles (Nov 2024)
Looking for new physics in nuclear processes,
searching for the X17 particle with MEG !
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New Erasmus Mundus Lascala call is open
(Dec 2022)
New Erasmus Mundus Lascala call is open
(Dec 2022)
Interested in a true international experience? want a different type of education about Physics of Accelerator and Lasers ? Apply for the Erasmus Mundus Joint Master degree Lascala.
Details here
Applications close on Feb 2023. Bachelor in Physics required within Sep 2023.
Nanotubes for light dark matter
(Dec 2021)
Nanotubes for light dark matter
(Dec 2021)
The project lead by INFN ANDROMeDa (Aligned Nanotube Detector for Research On MeV Darkmatter), and coordinated by Francesco Pandolfi has been awarded a PRIN 2020 grant. ANDROMeDa aims to develop a novel type of detector for light dark matter in our Galaxy using vertically aligned carbon nanotubes. Details on this proposal were published in PLB
Sapienza is part of the network of ANDROMeDa.
Shedding light on X(17)
(Sep 2021)
Shedding light on X(17)
(Sep 2021)
A mysterious bump was first found few years ago in the distribution of electron - positron pair produced in the nuclear reaction p + Li. This was first interpreted as a new boson particle with a mass of about 17 MeV.
A workshop was organized in Roma for theorists and experimentalists to discuss the prospect to understand the origin of this effect.
The MEG group in Roma is involved in the experimental search of a confirmation of the presence of this particles with the MEG-II detector at PSI
CARBON NANOTUBES SYNTHESIS (Aug 2020)
A new Chemical Vapour deposition (CVD) vacuum chamber is operational the the laboratory Segrè of INFN Roma - located at the Sapienza Campus - dipartimento di Fisica.
Its main use is to synthesize carbon nanostructures, We are currently focusing in growing vertically aligned Carbon Nanotubes (VA-CNT) - see Fig.2. - aiming at a diversified number of appilcations as very efficient sensors for UV light, light dark matter detector, bio-sensors, special composite materials.
The CVD chmaber was financed with the EU Attract NanoUV project (INFN - Sapienza and RomaTre collaboration - coordinator F.Pandolfi) and with Sapienza's grants.
MSCA RISE 2020: aMUSE got financed (Aug 2020)
MSCA RISE 2020: aMUSE got financed (Aug 2020)
aMUSE (H2020-MSCA-RISE), advanced Muon campus in US and Europe, submitted to the European Commission and selected among the 408 proposals, got funded with a total of 1.9 Meuro. It will coordinate the activities of about 80 researchers from twelve European research institutes and industries from Italy, Germany, Portugal, Switzerland, France and Poland participating to the search for New Physics in the muon sector and to the design of a new generation accelerator, a muon collider, in high-profile US laboratories (Fermilab, BNL, SLAC).
The project involves the two Fermilab Muon Campus Experiments: Muon (g-2) and Mu2e. Muon (g-2), which takes data since 2016, will provide a factor of four improvement in the precision of the anomalous magnetic momentum of the muon and will shed light on the discrepancy between this measurement and the Standard Model predictions.
Mu2e is devoted to the search of the Charged Lepton Flavour Violation (cLFV), with the goal of improving by four order of magnitudes the discover sensitivity for the conversion of a muon to an electron, not yet observed.
With respect to the previous project, aMUSE proposes the creation of a European-USA network for the development of higher intensity muon beams and the design of new detectors, for even more sensitive experiment to search for cLFV. Also the study of a futuristic muon collider at the energy frontier in the multi-TeV range will be part of the activity of the network.
The department of Physics of Sapienza will be part of this network that is coordinated by the INFN and G.Cavoto is the local coordinator.
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