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Nuclear and subnuclear physics

In the Nuclear and Subnuclear physics group, we study the fundamental interactions of elementary particles and nuclei properties through experiments carried out at large national and international laboratories. Fundamental particles and force mediators are studied with large detectors at high-energy colliders like the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. Nuclear properties of matter and the formation of the quark-gluon plasma are also investigated in the same accelerator complex. Neutrinos have peculiar properties and their study requires dedicated facilities with long baselines. Another line of research uses natural particles produced in the Cosmos to study aspects of nuclear or subnuclear physics in a complementary way. 

Gravitational waves produced by astrophysical sources also come from the cosmos and are searched for with extremely sensitive interferometers.

Most of the activities cover all the life stages of large experiments, with a time span of about 10-15 years: research and development of new devices for particle detection, design of experiments through feasibility studies and Monte Carlo simulations of the processes under investigation, implementation, testing and calibration of experimental tools, data taking and statistical data analysis. These research activities have the direct support of the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN, National Institute of Nuclear Physics) which, thanks to the local Bologna section and the CNAF center, provides laboratories, detectors, instrumentation, computing power, funding and technical and research staff.

People

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B Rajesh Achari

PhD Student

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Emilio Apicella

PhD Student

keywords: Fisica delle particelle - Esperimento ATLAS@CERN - Machine Learning
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Giuseppe Baldazzi

Associate Professor

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Carlo Battilana

Associate Professor

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Francesca Bellini

Associate Professor

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Daniele Bonacorsi

Full Professor

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Sylvie Braibant

Associate Professor

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Angelo Carbone

Associate Professor

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Luca Clissa

Junior assistant professor (fixed-term)

Manuel Colocci

Associate Professor

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Federico Andrea Guillaume Corchia

PhD Student

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Marco Cruciani

PhD Student

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Marco Cuffiani

Associate Professor

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Elena Cuoco

Full Professor

Stefano De Castro

Assistant professor

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Tommaso Diotalevi

Fixed-term Researcher in Tenure Track L. 79/2022

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Matilde Dondi

PhD Student

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Laura Fabbri

Associate Professor

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Alessandra Fanfani

Associate Professor

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Luca Ferragina

PhD Student

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Fabio Ferrari

Senior assistant professor (fixed-term)

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Paolo Finelli

Associate Professor

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Matteo Franchini

Associate Professor

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Alessandro Gabrielli

Full Professor

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Domenico Galli

Associate Professor

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Simone Gasperini

PhD Student

keywords: Quantum computation, Quantum simulation, Data science, Scientific software
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Luigi Guiducci

Associate Professor

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Samuele Lanzi

PhD Student

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Giuseppe Levi

Assistant professor

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Annarita Margiotta

Associate Professor

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Cristian Massimi

Associate Professor

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Nicoletta Mauri

Associate Professor

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Licia Mozzina

PhD Student

Teaching tutor

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Claudia Patrignani

Associate Professor

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Nicholas Pieretti

PhD Student

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Claudia Pisanti

PhD Student

Teaching tutor

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Lorenzo Rinaldi

Associate Professor

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Tiziano Rovelli

Associate Professor

Bianca Sabiu

PhD Student

Gilda Scioli

Full Professor

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Maximiliano Sioli

Full Professor

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Gian Piero Siroli

Assistant professor

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Maurizio Spurio

Full Professor

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Sofia Strazzi

Research fellow

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Sara Valentinetti

Associate Professor

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Mauro Villa

Full Professor

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Iacopo Vivarelli

Full Professor

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Roberto Zarrella

Research fellow

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Antonio Zoccoli

Full Professor