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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).

Events

Event of 13 May 2024

Second seminar on “Nuclear Weapons, Disarmament, and Proliferation”

On May 13th, from 4:30 to 6:30, the second seminar of the “Nuclear Weapons, Disarmament, and Proliferation” series will take…

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News

Published on 31 January 2024

‘Summer Students at Fermilab 2024′

The new call for applications for the “Summer Students at Fermilab 2024” program is published. The deadline for submitting applications:…

Published on 31 January 2024

The 2024 Bruno Rossi prize has been awarded to the IXPE team

The 2024 Bruno Rossi Prize has been awarded to Dr. Martin Weisskopf, Dr. Paolo Soffitta, and the IXPE team for…

Published on 22 January 2024

Prof. Franceso Forti is the new editor in chief for ‘Experimental Physics I: Accelerator Based High-Energy Physics’

As of January 1st, Francesco Forti, Professor at the Physics Department of the Pisa University, is the new Editor-in-Chief for…

Published on 28 July 2023

Prof. Luca Baldini featured in NASA blog

In the post ‘Taking Full Measure of the Sky’, the NASA blog reports on the research and development of X-ray…

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