The Insulab group is involved in the development of detectors in the fields of particle physics, space physics and medical physics. The group has a long-time experience on detection systems based on scintillators, scintillating fibers, silicon detectors and on frontend and readout electronics for applications in tracking, calorimetry and imaging.
The ongoing projects are the following:
- ENUBET (Enhanced NeUtrino BEams from kaon Tagging - project ID 681647, ERC-CoG-2015 – http://enubet.pd.infn.it/) dedicated to the development of fast calorimeters readout by Silicon PhotoMultipliers to measure the positron rate in a short decay tunnel to improve the uncertainty on the cross section of electron neutrinos;
- OREO (ORiEnted CalOrimeter) whose goal is the construction of a new type of ultra-compact electromagnetic calorimeter made up of an array of oriented scintillator crystals (PWO) in which the radiation length and consequently the electromagnetic shower are much reduced compared to the calorimeters currently in use in high-energy and astroparticle physics;
- CORAL (Crystal radiatORs for AcceLerators) dedicated to the study of crystalline radiators (diamond and tungsten) for the production of high-intensity photon sources, for applications such as high-intensity positron sources (PRIN 2022 e+BOOST project):
- DUNE (Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment), a project dedicated to the study of neutrino oscillations with accelerator beams, whose demonstrator (ProtoDUNE) is installed at CERN and is being refurbished for the Run II phase.
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date/time interval:
(January 1, 2020 - )