The
INFN-Sezione di Padova and University of Padova
EXPERIMENTAL
NUCLEAR
PHYSICS RESEARCH GROUP
The University of Padova has a long and well established history in Nuclear Physics research, which goes back in 1960 with the foundation of the "Nuclear Research Centre" at Legnaro where the Van de Graaff CN accelerator was built, at the time being the most powerful research instrument for the Italian Nuclear Physics community. The national role of the the Legnaro Laboratory was recognized in 1968 when it became a National Laboratory of the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN).
Presently,
the Experimental Nuclear Physics Research Group in Padova consists of
fifteen academic staff (University of Padova) and fourteen INFN staff (Sezione di Padova)
with a variety of research interests, such as nuclear structure at
the limits of spin and isospin with gamma-ray methods, nuclear
reaction mechanism with stable and radioactive nuclei, reaction
dynamics at low, intermediate and ultra-relativistic energies,
nuclear astrophysics and civil security applications of nuclear
physics.
Most of our current
research is carried out by performing experiments at major
international facilities, such as Legnaro (Italy), CERN
(Switzerland), GSI
(Germany), GANIL
(France). Major projects with
which the Padova group is involved is the Advanced Gamma-ray Tracking
Array AGATA and
the ALICE
experiment at LHC. In
addition, the group is heavily involved in some of the main Legnaro
projects such as EXOTIC, GASP and PRISMA
and also leads programs of nuclear reactions at extreme low
energy for stellar nucleosynthesis at the Gran Sasso Laboratory
(LUNA).
A Theoretical Nuclear Physics Group is also active in Padova. More information on their activities can be found here.
For a
slightly more detailed introduction to what the Padova Experimental
Nuclear Physics
Group does, follow the links in this frame or in the menu frame on the
left. |
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The EXODET detector used at the EXOTIC facility |
The LUNA experiment at LNGS |
The EUCLIDES Si-ball mounted on GASP |
Schematic view of the ALICE detector at CERN. |
Photo of the AGATA Demonstrator array at LNL |