Tag: Italy
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23rd IPPOG Spring Collaboration Meeting in Podgorica, Montenegro
by Fabiola Cacciatore It is May, spring is at the height of its colours and the sun is already hot here. Did you know that at the airport Podgorica, in Montenegro, there are rose plants bigger than you’ve ever seen, and they are there to welcome you after landing? Yes, in Podgorica, the capital of…
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Asimmetrie n. 18: #newphysics
The discovery of the Higgs boson came at the end of a long journey, where the direction was marked, but the road had to be built. What now? Now the physicists are looking out onto a world we don’t know, where there are no paths, and even the directions to be followed aren’t very clear.…
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INFN-OCRA
INTRO OCRA – Outreach Cosmic Ray Activities was born in 2018 as a national outreach project of the Italian National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN) with the aim of collecting, within a national framework, the numerous public engagement activities in the field of cosmic ray physics already present at a local level in the divisions…
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Extreme Energy Events
INTRO Science inside Schools (EEE), is a joint educational and scientific initiative studying cosmic rays. This strategic project of Centro Fermi, Rome is conducted in collaboration with CERN, INFN and MIUR and carried out with the essential contribution of high school students and teachers. The physics research interests include the properties of the local muon flux, the detection…
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Winners
Winners of the 2018 Particles4U Competition Congratulations to all participants of this year’s Particles4U Competition. We received a total of 77 entries from 15 countries spanning the globe: Austria, Brazil, Bulgaria, Colombia, France, Greece, Iran, Italy, Japan, Philippines, Poland, Slovakia, South Africa, Spain, and the United States. The jury was impressed by the quality of…
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GLOBAL COSMIC RAYS PORTAL
Welcome! The IPPOG Global Cosmic group invites educators and students to embark on hands-on sessions using setups suitable to be deployed as tabletop designs. In some of them the participants receive step-by-step instructions to build and assemble cosmic ray detectors, often using scintillator materials and photomultipliers. In others, open source software is prepared to facilitate data…
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The fantastic voyage of Nino the neutrino, from the Sun to the Earth
Nino the neutrino travels from the Sun to the Earth with his friends (like a proton and a photon). But not everyone arrives to the INFN Lab’s of Gran Sasso in Italy. And someone even can’t stop there! This funny cartoon shows the properties of the neutrinos. It’s in Italian with English subtitles.