To measure is to know

Lo scorso sabato 5 aprile 2025, a Los Angeles, il Breakthrough Prize 2025 in Fundamental Physics, il premio “Oscar per la Fisica”, è stato assegnato alle collaborazioni scientifiche degli esperimenti ALICE, ATLAS, CMS e LHCb all’acceleratore LHC, Large Hadron Collider, il più grande e potente acceleratore di particelle mai costruito, attualmente in funzione al laboratorio CERN di Ginevra. Tra le migliaia di fisici di oltre 70 paesi del mondo vincitori di questo importante premio, ci sono anche una trentina di fisici di Pavia, che partecipano a 3 (ALICE, ATLAS e CMS) dei 4 esperimenti premiati.

Prof. Alessandro Menegolli and Dr. Riccardo Rossini have won an International Exchange Grant issued by the Royal Society. In addition, Dr. Rossini has won a grant by the Della Riccia Foundation. The research group of the Department of Physics of the University of Pavia will work on the design and implementation of the beam monitors of the RIKEN-RAL muon beam, the only pulsed muon source in Europe. This facility is part of the ISIS-RAL Laboratory located in Didcot, United Kingdom.
The research activity of the group led by Prof. Menegolli in the characterisation of charged particle beams started in the framework of the FAMU experiment (measurement of the Zemach radius of the proton), and will now continue in order to optimise the RIKEN-RAL facility for future experiments.

Una stretta collaborazione tra l’Università di Pavia, l'Istituto Nazionale di Ottica (INO) del CNR di Trento e l’Istituto di Nanotecnologie (NANOTEC) del CNR di Lecce ha condotto alla prima realizzazione sperimentale di uno stato "supersolido" ottenuto in una guida d’onda a semiconduttore, nell'ambito di un lavoro internazionale che ha coinvolto anche l'Università di Innsbruck, l'Università di Princeton e il Lawrence National Laboratory di Berkeley.

Dr. Beatrice Costeri has been awarded the National Prize "Milla Baldo Ceolin -- Woman in Theoretical Physics" for the year 2023. The prize is awarded to the 10 best master theses in a theoretical topic of interest to the INFN. She has defended her thesis “A Microlocal Approach to the Study of the Nonlinear Stochastic Dirac Equation” at the University of Pavia on the 22nd of September 2023. At the moment Beatrice Costeri is a PhD student at the Department of Physics of the University of Pavia and she is a member of the Pavia branch of the Infn within the initiative GeoSym_QFT.

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The research activity at the Department of Physics covers several branches: theoretical and experimental physics, condensed matter, nuclear and particle physics, astrophysics, applied physics, science education and history of physics. In addition there are several active collaborations with national and international research centers.