Department of Physics
La Fisica della Materia studia sia tramite teoria e simulazioni al calcolatore che tramite sofisticati esperimenti, i comportamenti, le proprietà e le applicazioni della materia, formata da costituenti semi-elementari (generalmente atomi o molecole, di cui sono ben note le proprietà individuali). Lo specifico stato di aggregazione di questi componenti origina comportamenti nuovi e inediti, che in molti casi sono ancora da esplorare e da utilizzare.
High energy physics: Discovering fundamental interactions
High-energy physics deals with studying the properties of the fundamental constituents of the universe. The greater the energy at which the interactions take place, the smaller the distances at which the properties of elementary particles and spacetime itself can be probed.
Particle physics experiments
- Alice and the plasma of quarks and gluons
- LHCb and the asymmetry between matter and anti-matter
- CMS and the Higgs boson
- DarkSide and dark matter
Theoretical physics of high energy
- Elementary particles, relativity and vibrating strings
- The 3D structure of nuclear power plants
Gravitational waves
- The Einstein Telescope project
Medical physics
Physics has played a fundamental role in the development of medical diagnostic and therapy techniques such as CT, MRI and PET. Physics also plays an important role in neuroscience. Physicists contribute to this area of research thanks to their expertise in neural signal models, the dynamics of neural networks and experimental techniques.
Diagnostic for images
Neuroscience