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The 2011 National Research Plan (NRP) includes a list of 14 flagship projects of strategic interest that are part of the activities of the competent public research agencies and are the subject of a multi-year development plan and budget.
The SuperB Factory project proposed by the INFN and currently managed by the Cabibbo Lab consortium has been chosen as one of the 14 flagship projects. This integrated project involves the construction of a next-generation accelerator (electron-positron collider) called SuperB Factory, conceived to address the needs of both fundamental and applied physics. The scientific programme aims to investigate physics beyond the standard model, and shed new light on the basic mechanisms which led to the imbalance between matter and antimatter and the dawn of the universe in the immediate aftermath of the Big Bang. SuperB will be built at the Cabibbo-lab on the Rome Tor Vergata University campus and will cover an area of approx. 30 hectares. It will work in close contact with the INFN national laboratory in nearby Frascati. When it becomes fully operational, the SuperB project will involve more than a thousand scientists and technicians from around the world. This is an extraordinary opportunity for the Cabibbo-lab which is set to become a unique research facility in Italy in terms of its economic and social impact at both national and international level.
Last Updated on Friday, 08 June 2012
