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One of the 3 km-long Advanced Virgo tunnels nearby Pisa, where laser light travels. Credits: EGO/Virgo

A transverse view of the ATLAS detector in open configuration, with the eight toroid magnets surrounding the calorimeter

Examples of Feynman diagrams for Higgs boson production and decay. Nature 607, 52 (2022)

Kinetic simulation of magnetized plasma turbulence

Optomechanical set-up with laser beams exciting, probing, and controlling microcavities

Scheme of laser-cooled trapped ions subject to an optical lattice potential. Phys. Rev. Res. 3, 013031 (2021)

Quantum materials: superimposed graphene sheets forming a Moiré pattern. Courtesy: L. Cavicchi

M74 spiral galaxy imaged by Hubble (left), JWST (right), and with combined acquisitions (center). Credits: Esa/Nasa

Basic principles like unitarity and crossing symmetry, combined with the formalism of conformal field theories, can be used to precisely determine interesting observables in critical phenomena, such as the Ising model in 3D

CT, PET, and co-registered PET/CT imaging of glucose uptake in rat brain. EJNMMI Phys 9, 10 (2022)

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This is the website of the Department of Physics ‘Enrico Fermi’ of the University of Pisa, an internationally recognized center for scientific research and advanced education in Physics and in its interdisciplinary applications. Broad and intense teaching activities are performed for about 1000 undergraduate students, and 60 PhD students and postgraduate specializing students.

At the top places of the national ANVUR ranking 2023-2027, the Department of Physics of the University of Pisa got the highest score for its research (100/100) as well as for its development program (30/30).

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Event of 11 May 2025

Elba Island to Host International Workshop “Higgs Pairs 2025”

From 11 to 17 May 2025, the island of Elba will host the international workshop Higgs Pairs 2025, bringing together…

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News

Published on 28 April 2025

Laura Zani, Physics Graduate from the University of Pisa, Wins the 2025 Young Experimental Physicist Prize

Laura Zani, who graduated in Physics from the “E. Fermi” Department of Physics, where she also completed her Ph.D., has…

Published on 17 March 2025

International Summer School series INFIERI – INtelligent signal processing for FrontIEr Research and Industry

From September 1st to September 14th 2025 , Pisa will host the 8th edition of the International Summer School series…

Published on 17 February 2025

Celebrating Women and Girls in Science: breaking barriers and promoting equality

In celebration of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, held on February 11, 2025, researchers from the…

Published on 13 January 2025

Student from the University of Pisa wins prestigious INFN “Milla Baldo Ceolin” award

Miriam Patroclo, who holds a Master’s degree in Physics from the University of Pisa, has received the prestigious INFN “Milla Baldo…

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Last updated on: 16/06/2023