Italian Research Facilities for Fundamental Physics

Marco Selvi,Francesco Terranova

doi:10.3390/universe8020082

Abstract

This Special Issue of Universe addresses the international community working at the Italian Research Facilities for Fundamental Physics, Italian labs and facilities playing a pivotal role in the core fields of this journal, such as gravitational waves, dark matter and rare event searches, neutrino astronomy, and underground physics [...]

Highlights

Publisher’s Note: MDPI stays neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. This Special Issue of Universe addresses the international community working at the Italian Research Facilities for Fundamental Physics, Italian labs and facilities playing a pivotal role in the core fields of this journal, such as gravitational waves, dark matter and rare event searches, neutrino astronomy, and underground physics
The experiments hosted at LNGS (Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso), LNS/KM3NeT (Laboratori Nazionali del Sud), Laboratories of the INFN (LNF) (Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati), Legnaro Laboratories (LNL) (Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro), and the EGO (European Gravitational Observatory) are among the most sensitive detectors in the world, fostering a broad community of experimentalists and theoreticians
The twofold goal of this Special Issue is to review the most important discoveries achieved in these research centers in the last few years and discuss future perspectives, a timely task since the results of observational cosmology and high-energy accelerators have completely reshaped our research aims and raised new questions requiring the development of novel approaches and experimental techniques, representing both a challenge and an opportunity for existing facilities to broaden their research scope and blur the traditional boundaries among disciplines

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Publisher’s Note: MDPI stays neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. This Special Issue of Universe addresses the international community working at the Italian Research Facilities for Fundamental Physics, Italian labs and facilities playing a pivotal role in the core fields of this journal, such as gravitational waves, dark matter and rare event searches, neutrino astronomy, and underground physics.

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