On February 27, Minister of University and Research Anna Maria Bernini visited CERN, the world’s largest and most important particle physics laboratory, where the Higgs boson was discovered in 2012, only the latest of the many historic scientific achievements made here, and where there is a lot of Italy, thanks to the work of the many and many compatriots, researchers, engineers, technicians, who come from Italian universities and INFN, which coordinates Italy’s participation in the great European center.
Minister Bernini, accompanied by the Italian delegation and INFN President Antonio Zoccoli, was welcomed by CERN Director General Fabiola Gianotti, and other scientific and institutional representatives, to the laboratory where the new superconducting magnets for High Luminosity LHC, the project to upgrade the LHC that is scheduled to start operations in 2029, are being developed. The minister’s visit continued to the ATLAS experiment, the protagonist together with CMS of the discovery of the Higgs boson, and then to the LHC tunnel, ending at the Globe, where the minister met with the Italian community.
