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CERN IN THE 70 YEARS OF INFN
Interview with Fabiola Gianotti, director-general of CERN
From the founding of the Italian Institute for Nuclear Physics, on 8 August 1951, to today, the history of research into fundamental physics in Italy has known seventy years of excellence that led to historic results and discoveries. Rooted in the intertwining of two research currents, the physics of atomic nuclei and the study of cosmic particles, INFN was set up a short time after the founding of particle physics, constituting, right from the start, a solid base for the scientific successes that followed in subsequent years, in Italy and in the context of increasingly wide international collaborations.
Almost ten years ago, in 2012, you were head of the ATLAS experiment that, alongside the CMS experiment, announced the discovery of the Higgs boson. How did we get there?
It took 30 years. This is the time that passed from the very first ideas about the Large Hadron Collider in 1984 to the discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012. In my opinion, this discovery is emblematic of the way in which the scientific community works in our field.NEWS
SPACE
IXPE TAKES OFF
On December 9, from NASA Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Florida, IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) satellite successfully took off aboard a Falcon 9 launcher. Born from the collaboration between NASA and the Italian Space Agency (ASI), as leading partner, the INFN and the INAF National Institute for Astrophysics,
RESEARCH
GROWING NUMBER OF GRAVITATIONAL EVENTS OBSERVED BY LIGO AND VIRGO
The total number of observed spacetime perturbations has increased. Certifying this is the updated gravitational wave transient catalogue (GWTC-3) published by the Virgo, LIGO and Kagra scientific collaborations on 8 November in the ArXiv online archive.
AWARDS
ILARIA NARDECCHIA WINS THE VIRGO AWARD 2021
Ilaria Nardecchia, a researcher of the INFN Division of Rome Tor Vergata, is the winner of the first edition of the Virgo Award, an award given annually by the international collaboration Virgo to a young researcher for his or her significant contribution to the experiment.
RESEARCH
GAMMA RAYS PRODUCED IN THE RADIATION WINDS EMITTED BY BLACK HOLES DISCOVERED
Thanks to the observations of NASA's Fermi satellite telescope, an international team of researchers has, for the first time, identified the gamma rays emitted, in certain galaxies close to ours, by the so-called UFOs.
AGREEMENTS
CONFINDUSTRIA, FBK AND INFN CREATE THE GAIA-X HUB ITALIA ASSOCIATION
The Gaia-X Hub Italia Association was established on 3 December, with the aim of promoting the data ecosystem in the country. The initiative, shared with the Ministries of Economic Development, of Innovation and Digital Transition and of University and Research, sees among the founding members Confindustria, the Bruno Kessler Foundation (FBK) and the INFN.
AWARDS
FRANCESCA DORDEI WINS THE YOUNG WOMAN OF SCIENCE 2021 AWARD
On Novemer 9, during the final day of the Festival of Science in Cagliari, the Young Woman of Science 2021 Award was given to Francesca Dordei, researcher of the INFN Cagliari division and of the collaborations LHCb, at CERN, and DarkSide, at the INFN Gran Sasso National Laboratories, for her research achievements in particle physics and for her commitment in scientific outreach.
OUTREACH
THOUSANDS OF STUDENTS DISCOVERING RADIOACTIVITY AND COSMIC RAYS
In November, the European Radon Day and the International Cosmic Day were celebrated. At the European level, the European Radon Day is the day dedicated to information and awareness on radon and natural radioactivity and falls every year on 7 November, the anniversary of the birth of Maria Skłodowska Curie.
OUTREACH
PHYSICS NOBEL PRIZE WINNER GIORGIO PARISI AT THE ROME SCIENCE FESTIVAL
28 November was the final day of the week of "Sfide" (Challenges), the 16th edition of the Rome Science Festival, produced by the Fondazione Musica per Roma with the project partnership of Codice Edizioni, implemented together with INFN, ASI Italian Space Agency, and with the participation of many research organisations and national scientific and cultural institutions.
FOCUS
THE PHYSICIST WHO LIVED TWICE: ON THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF HIS BIRTH, A SYMPOSIUM REMEMBERS BRUNO TOUSCHEK
1921-2021: on the hundredth anniversary of his birth, INFN, the Sapienza University of Rome and the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei celebrated Bruno Touschek and his scientific legacy. A brilliant Austrian physicist, thanks to his ingenious insights and fruitful initiative, Touschek wrote a decisive chapter in the history of physics, and particularly marked the history of particle accelerators, creating the first accumulation ring, AdA, at the INFN Frascati National Laboratories, forerunner of subsequent collision rings.
TAKE PART IN
UNTIL FEBRUARY 27, 2022 - THE EXHIBITION “UNCERTAINTY” CONTINUES TOGETHER WITH ITS PROGRAM OF PUBLIC EVENTS
The exhibition curated by INFN "Uncertainty. Interpreting the present, predicting the future" continues at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome. The exhibition, dedicated to the theme of uncertainty and how science has learned to understand and "manage" it, is part of the wider Palaexpo special project "Three Stations for Art and Science", promoted by Roma Culture, which includes the exhibitions "La Scienza di Roma" and "Ti con Zero".
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The drawing “Magnetic discussion” by Bruno Touschek.
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