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The European Research Council received this year 548 applications for the Synergy Grant 2024, the grant that encourages and promotes scientific collaborations; and chose, among the 57 winning projects, GravNet, A Global Network to Search for High Frequency Gravitational Waves. Ambitious in its goals and novel in its method, this project could revolutionise the study of phenomena such as primordial black hole mergers and ultralight dark matter, and will require, over the six years of the grant, very different skills and resources shared among Germany, Spain and Italy. The four researchers leading GravNet are in fact Matthias Schott of the University of Bonn, Diego Blas of the Spanish Institute of High Energy Physics, Dmitry Budker of the Helmholtz Institute at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, and Claudio Gatti of INFN Frascati National Laboratories (LNF). We met with Claudio to hear about the project, from its conception to its future prospects.
What is GravNet and what are its goals?
GravNet will be the first global network of detectors to search for high-frequency gravitational waves, i.e., detectors searching for signals in the mega to gigahertz band.
The European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking has announced the outcome of the call issued last September to create the first European AI Factories, selecting the IT4LIA AI Factory project, the initiative nominated by Italy, with the participation of Austria and Slovenia, and co-financed by the Ministry of University and Research, the CINECA consortium, INFN, the National Cybersecurity Agency (ACN), the Emilia-Romagna Region, the ItaliaMeteo Agency, the Italian Institute for Artificial Intelligence for Industry (AI4I) and the Bruno Kessler Foundation (FBK).
Ancient minerals, formed six million years ago, during the drying up of the Mediterranean Sea, and known as "evaporites", could hold precious traces of the interaction with cosmic rays, and reveal important information about the history of our universe.
On 6 December, INFN and the Deutsches Zentrum für Astrophysik (DZA) signed a letter of intent to launch a collaboration aimed at strengthening research and technology development activities for the Einstein Telescope (ET) project.
The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) international scientific collaboration recently observed and studied at different wavelengths a spectacular flare from the powerful relativistic jet at the centre of the same galaxy, the brightest in the Virgo cluster.
It is the largest undersea research infrastructure at more than three thousand metres deep in the Mediterranean Sea: it is called KM3NeT and is a cosmic neutrino detector that in its final configuration will occupy a volume of one cubic kilometre, with the ARCA detector, in Italy, off Portopalo di Capo Passero in Sicily, optimised for searching for high-energy neutrino sources in the universe, and the ORCA detector, in France, off Toulon, dedicated to the study of the neutrino mass. The KM3NeT infrastructure also hosts instrumentation for Earth and ocean sciences.
ALICE EXPLORES STRONG INTERACTION IN THREE-BODY SYSTEMS A fundamental force is usually described as an interaction between two bodies, i.e., the force between two bodies is assumed to be unaffected in any way by the presence of others nearby. But when we go from simple pairs to more complex systems, the description of the dynamics of this interaction becomes particularly elusive, especially from an experimental point of view. In a study recently published on Physical Review X, the ALICE experiment at CERN's LHC accelerator tested an innovative experimental method for investigating three-body nuclear systems, paving the way for the precise measurement of their interactions, with the possibility of including exotic particles. ...
FRIDAYS OF THE UNIVERSE
Once again this year, the INFN renews its participation in the series of seminars Fridays of the Universe, organized by the INFN Ferrara division and the University of Ferrara, in collaboration with the Astrophiles Group “Columbia” and Esploriamo L’Universo. The 2025 edition will take place at Sala Estense, in Piazza del Municipio, Ferrara, featuring six events from January 24 to April 4.
January 24, 9:00 PM
Integrated knowledge, creativity, and innovation: a modern symbiosis between scientific and humanistic disciplines With Paolo Dell’Aversana, geophysicist and project manager at ENI
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