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17/02/2026, 09:00
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ALESSANDRO MENEGOLLI, CHIARA AIMÈ, ILARIA VAI, NICOLA MANENTI, NICOLÒ VALLE, Sonia Carrà17/02/2026, 09:15
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RICARDO LUIS RAMOS17/02/2026, 10:15
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FRANCO MARABELLI, GIULIA FULVIA MANCINI, MATTEO GALLI, PIETRO CARRETTA17/02/2026, 14:30
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CHIARA MACCHIAVELLO, DARIO GERACE, LORENZO MACCONE, MATTEO COCOCCIONI17/02/2026, 15:30
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ALESSANDRO BISIO, Carlo Michel Carloni Calame (INFN Pavia), GIACOMO LIVAN, MAURO CHIESA, PAOLO RINALDI, SIMONE RODINI18/02/2026, 09:00
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GIANLUCA INTROZZI, LUCIO FREGONESE, MASSIMILIANO MALGIERI, PAOLO MARIA MONTAGNA18/02/2026, 10:00
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Alessandro Bacchetta, GIORGIO BAIOCCO, GIULIA FULVIA MANCINI, Lucio Andreani (Department of Physics "A. Volta", University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy), MARCO LISCIDINI (Department of Physics - University of Pavia)18/02/2026, 14:30
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SAVERIO ROTA
We explore the integrability of the 1+1 dimensional massless Thirring Quantum Cellular Automaton, which describes the discrete-time evolution of fermionic modes on a lattice with local, number-preserving interactions. This interaction serves as a discrete-time analogue of those characterising integrable Hamiltonian systems such as the Thirring and Hubbard models. Motivated by this...
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Dr ALESSANDRO COLOMBI (INFN - Sezione di Pavia)
The production of neutron beams with optimal energy and angular distributions is crucial for Boron Neutron Capture Therapy (BNCT). While the 7Li(p,n) reaction is well established, the 9Be(p,xn) reaction is characterized by scarce data and inaccurate descriptions. We developed a model for the beryllium reaction that incorporates two dominant channels: (p,n), supported by experimental data, and...
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Mr Davide Cugini (University of Pavia), FRANCESCO GHISONI
Quantum computing is often presented as a route to solving classically intractable problems, yet this promise is fundamentally constrained by limited hardware resources. This poster explores how this tension can be addressed across quantum simulation, quantum chemistry, and quantum machine learning.
In quantum simulation, key challenges lie in the efficient preparation of physically...
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EZEQUIEL IGNACIO CANAY
Space radiation poses a major challenge for human exploration beyond Earth orbit, requiring biophysical models capable of accurately predicting biological effects under both chronic and acute exposure conditions. In this work, we present recent updates to the BIANCA model, focusing on the incorporation of dose-rate effects through the Lea-Catcheside formalism. This extension modifies the...
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Francesca Brero (Physics Department, University of Pavia and INFN, Pavia Section)
Magnetic nanoparticles (MNPs) are widely used in biomedical applications, including their role as hyperthermic agents for tumor treatment via Magnetic Fluid Hyperthermia (MFH) and as tracers in Quantitative Susceptibility Mapping (QSM).
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In MFH, MNPs exposed to an alternating magnetic field generate localized heat within pathological tissues, enabling targeted thermal therapy. QSM is an... -
SETAREH FATEMI (INFN)
The PNC-PNRR ANTHEM project aims at building a Boron Neutron Capture Therapy clinical facility in Caserta. A RFQ proton accelerator with 5 MeV Energy and 30 mA current will be coupled to a Beryllium target, thus obtaining neutrons with energy up to 3 MeV. Both the RFQ accelerator and the Be target have been designed and developed by the INFN Legnaro National Laboratories. Spoke 4, Pilot 4.9 of...
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Dr Hanan Ali (Università degli studi di Pavia)
We demonstrate that bound states in the continuum (BICs) can arise in plasmonic metasurfaces and enable a strong chiral optical response. The metasurface consists of a gold film on glass patterned with a square lattice of nanoholes whose shapes are deformed from circular to oval. Symmetry breaking induces a quasi-BIC in the absorption spectrum on the low-energy side of the...
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ANDREA PARPINEL (Università di Pavia)
Given Dirac fields on AdS$_n$ in Poincaré chart, one wishes to classify the boundary conditions at conformal infinity that ensure the existence of advanced and retarded propagators. Here this analysis is carried out for each mass window. In particular, the well-known MIT-bag class is distinguished from a generalized family, thereby extending to arbitrary dimensions the procedure initiated...
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RAMAN DEEP SINGH (UNIVERSITÀ DI PAVIA)
The dynamics of quantum fields are profoundly influenced by the presence of boundaries. We investigate a Klein–Gordon field on half-Minkowski spacetime subject to Robin boundary conditions, which couple the field to its normal derivative at the boundary. By constructing the advanced and retarded fundamental solutions of the Klein–Gordon operator, we analyse how the boundary reshapes causal...
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Prof. Vittorio Bellani (Dipartimento di Fisica “A. Volta” Università di Pavia and INFN, Pavia, Italy)
The MANIFOLD project (Multidimensional nANodevice archItectures For lOw-perturbation singLe ion Detection) introduces a cutting-edge detector for low-perturbation, high-resolution sensing of diluted H/He ion beams (100 keV–2 MeV). Using multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs), it delivers submicrometric resolution with negligible beam disturbance.
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Ions or single particles traverse a MWCNT-lined... -
ILARIA VAI
CERN has developed several strategies to reduce the use and release of greenhouse gases (GHG), including environmentally friendly gas mixtures and recovery systems for detector exhaust. Among these gases, CF₄ plays a significant role, contributing about 20% of CERN’s direct GHG emissions. Building on this expertise, the CH₄ Livestock Emission (CH4rLiE) project—born as a spin-off of the CMS...
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MASSIMILIANO MALGIERI
Countering pseudoscientific misinformation is an important goal for outreach initiatives, especially when directed to young students. Quantum physics and quantum technology are especially prone to being communicated, intentionally or otherwise, in a deformed way which may induce severe misconceptions, make the public vulnerable to scams and deceptions, or even pave the way to anti-scientific...
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ANGELA ROSY MORGILLO, Davide Poderini (Department of Physics, University of Pavia)
Positive non-decomposable maps play a fundamental role in quantum information theory, as they provide a tool to detect entanglement beyond what is possible with decomposable maps.
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Despite their importance, relatively little is known about the structure of positive non-decomposable maps or systematic methods to generate them. In this work, we present a fully differentiable optimization... -
MARCO CLEMENTI
Silicon nitride (Si₃N₄) is a widely used platform for integrated nonlinear and quantum photonics, yet its amorphous nature prevents access to second-order processes such as second-harmonic generation (SHG) and spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC). We show that an all-optical poling mechanism can permanently inscribe a photo-induced χ(2) response within SiN microresonators, breaking...
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MASSIMO BORGHI
Quantum extreme learning machines (QELMs) are unconventional computing architectures that have shown strong potential for classical and quantum machine-learning tasks. However, the probabilistic nature of quantum measurements typically requires extensive experimental repetitions to accurately estimate expectation values, leading to severe trade-offs among acquisition time, experimental...
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ANDREA PIZZAMIGLIO
Quantum simulation aims to deepen our understanding of the physics of quantum systems with many constituents, whose analytical or numerical treatment on classical computers remains unattainable. Most quantum simulators are digital, evolving networks of qubits in discrete time steps; consequently, understanding discrete quantum dynamics is crucial for their development. When locality and...
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Giacomo Prando (Dipartimento di Fisica - Università degli Studi di Pavia)
We report on the non-volatile control of the electronic ground state of octahedral TiSe$_{2}$ by means of electric field-driven hydrogen intercalation via ionic liquid gating. Based on measurements of electrical transport, dc magnetometry, and muon-spin rotation, we demonstrate that charge-density wave and superconductivity coexist in H$_{x}$TiSe$_{2}$ through most of the electronic phase...
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NICOLA MANENTI
The search for neutrinoless double beta decay (0νββ) is crucial for testing lepton-number violation, probing physics beyond the Standard Model, and determining whether neutrinos are Majorana particles. CUORE, a tonne-scale cryogenic experiment at LNGS, studies 0νββ in $^{130}$Te using 988 TeO$_2$ bolometers operated below 15 mK.
Since 2017, CUORE has collected over 2.5 tonne-years of...
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TOMMASO CRESTA
The development of a new Power System for the ATLAS Muon Spectrometer is a key priority to meet the challenges of the High-Luminosity LHC, which will start in 2030.
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The Pavia team defined it and now is testing the first prototypes, while its design is done by the CAEN company. Since most of the modules will be placed in hostile environments, they must sustain high radiation levels and work in... -
Andrea Maestri, Andrea Schiavi, BARBARA PASQUINI (Dipartimento di Fisica), SIMONE RODINI
A number of numerical approaches has been developed to study quantum field theories in non-perturbative regimes. One method consists in confining space-time to a finite volume and discretizing it, allowing for ab initio simulations. In the case of Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD), this framework is known as Lattice QCD. Another strategy is to numerically diagonalize the Hamiltonian of the theory,...
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MATTEO COCOCCIONI
Molecular magnets are systems of great technological appeal for a broad range of applications.
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In the first part of my poster I discuss the magnetic properties of two ring-shaped molecular magnets with eight transition metal atoms: Cr$_8$ and V$_8$, as obtained from ab initio Hubbard-corrected DFT calculations. Our results highlight a significant difference between the two systems, with V’s... -
FRANCESCO FLORIS (Dipartimento di Fisica)
The detection of chiral properties via circular dichroism (CD) is attracting significant attention, with plasmonic metasurfaces providing essential signal enhancement through tailored symmetry breaking. This work reports the experimental characterization of the chiral optical response from a gold metasurface featuring asymmetric oval nanoholes, supporting both surface plasmon polariton (SPP)...
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ROSSELLA SEMERANO
Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL) is commonly treated with L-Asparaginase (L-ASNase), a chemotherapy agent that exploits metabolic vulnerability in leukemic cells by depleting asparagine/glutamine, aminoacids required for their proliferation and survival. Single-cell-RNA sequencing (scRNAseq) is a high-throughput technique providing unprecedented insights into treatment response. In this...
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ANDREA PARETI (Università di Pavia)
Among the currently open questions in particle physics are the origin of the extremely small neutrino masses, and the nature of dark matter. One possibility to solve both problems is to consider neutrinos as Majorana particles, and extend the Standard Model with three additional particles, the heavy neutral leptons (HNLs). In this model, the masses of these particle species are related, such...
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ANTONIO EMANUELE MAZZARONE
We analyze in a comprehensive and quantitative approach the trade-off among beam delivery, its properties at the image plane, and achievable resolutions for Ultrafast Tabletop EUV Ptychography, retaining high throughput and data processing speed.
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73. From Survival Curves to Isoeffective Dose: Radiobiological Modelling of BNCT Mixed-Field EffectsIAN POSTUMA
Boron$~$Neutron$~$Capture$~$Therapy$~$(BNCT)$~$delivers$~$tumor-selective high-LET damage through a mixed radiation field in which $^{10}$B(n,α)$^7$Li products coexist with photons and protons. At the University of Pavia, we integrate radiobiological experiments with detailed Monte Carlo dosimetry to improve mixed-field dose response modeling and strengthen the photon iso-effective dose...
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SARA CONGIA
Biphoton quantum frequency comb (BQFC) sources generate high-dimensional entangled states in the frequency domain and represent a powerful resource for quantum information processing. Their coherent manipulation requires frequency-bin processors capable of performing reconfigurable unitary operations on frequency bins with high fidelity and success probability. In this work, we present a fully...
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Lorenzo Maccone
We propose a new framework for relativistic quantum mechanics in which the object of the theory are quantum events, rather than the quantum systems of textbook quantum mechanics. The basic framework is presented and the case of very simple relativistic systems (Dirac and Klein-Gordon) is worked out. The long term goal is to recover all known relativistic quantum mechanical effects and,...
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Dr Simone Restelli (Università di Pavia, Dipartimento di Fisica “A. Volta” and INFN, Pavia, Italy)
This study’s aim is to explore the use of Gallium Nitride (GaN) nanowires (NWs) for photoelectrochemical water splitting. GaN's wide bandgap may offer a route for hydrogen production using solar energy. However, growth challenges, such as high defect densities, hinder its efficiency. Nanowire structures offer a solution due to their low defect density and efficient strain relaxation. We grew...
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LUCA DAVIDE TACCHINI
The European Strategy for Particle Physics identified an electron-positron Higgs factory as the highest priority next collider. From a calorimetry point of view, precision measurements at these accelerators require excellent hadronic energy resolution ($\sim \frac{30\%}{\sqrt{E}}$), especially in multi-jet events, to successfully separate Z, W, and Higgs decays.\
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Dr MAURO CHIESA (INFN)
The precision physics programme at the LHC,
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particularly measurements of Standard Model parameters like the $W$
boson mass and the weak mixing angle, rely heavily on
accurate theoretical predictions. These measurements employ template-fitting methods
where Monte Carlo (MC) event generators provide templates parameterized by the
fundamental quantity being measured. Theoretical... -
GIOVANNI CHESI (Università degli Studi di Pavia)
Quantum key distribution (QKD) protocols take at least two advantages from high-dimensional (HD) systems: the secret key rate scaling as the dimension and the opportunity of exploiting more than two mutually unbiased bases (MUBs). Indeed, if the dimension d of the system is a prime power, then d+1 MUBs exist. Here, we retrieve analytic key rates for a BBM92-like protocol, where the...
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CHIARA AIMÈ
The goal of precision physics is to perform extremely accurate and consistent measurements in order to test fundamental theories, understand the limits of current models, and search for new physics.
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In the standard model of particle physics, the masses of the carriers of the weak interaction, the W and Z bosons, are uniquely related, and a precise determination of their values is important... -
Ettore Budassi (University of Pavia - INFN Pavia)
The MUonE experiment proposes a novel spacelike determination of the hadronic leading-order contribution to the muon anomalous magnetic moment by measuring the running of the electromagnetic coupling, $\Delta\alpha_{had}(t)$, through high-precision μe elastic scattering at CERN. Achieving the target 10 ppm accuracy on the differential cross section requires a dedicated Monte Carlo event...
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GIULIA FULVIA MANCINI
We report the design of a compact beamline for Time-Resolved Ptychography driven by a 13nm and 30nm High-Harmonic Generation source. The microscope is capable of quantitative, ultrafast, full-field microscopy supporting near-wavelength spatial and sub-50fs temporal resolutions.
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CLAUDIA ANTOINETTE MARIA SCHRAMA (LUXEM)
We present an Extreme Ultraviolet Ultrafast Microscope relying on a technique for Coherent Diffractive Imaging called Ptychography, which is capable of full-field imaging with diffraction-limited spatial resolution, with sensitivity to both material quantitative composition (amplitude) and morphological (phase) contrast.
We establish a robust protocol for 2D nanoparticle superlattices...
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GIORGIO BAIOCCO
Understanding whether the unavoidable exposure to environmental radiation is necessary for maintaining proper functioning and stress-response capability in living organisms is an intriguing open question.
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The INFN-funded DISCOVER22 project investigated the immune response modulation in a below-background radiation environment exploiting the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso – LNGS... -
ALESSANDRO MENEGOLLI
The Department of Physics and the INFN Pavia Section are actively involved in the SBN-ICARUS and DUNE experiments, both based on liquid-argon time projection chamber (LAr-TPC) technology. The Short-Baseline Neutrino (SBN) program at Fermilab aims to precisely investigate anomalies in neutrino oscillations and to search for sterile neutrinos using a short-baseline beam. DUNE represents the next...
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LORENZO MARTI
The uneven distribution, limited abundance and difficult extraction of lithium pose significant threats to the future sustainability of rechargeable batteries industry supply chain, and makes the development of alternative technologies a pressing need. Fluoride-ion batteries (FIBs) exhibit higher theoretical performances and lower costs than their lithium-ion counterparts, but the technology...
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Emanuele Romano, Massimo Rossella, Michele Pirola
Il Laboratorio di Servizio Elettronica beneficia della collaborazione di personale afferente all’INFN Sezione di Pavia, al Dipartimento di Fisica e al Centro Grandi Strumenti dell’Università di Pavia. Si dedica allo sviluppo di circuiti analogici, digitali e di potenza e al supporto di attività di ricerca locali, nazionali ed internazionali. È infatti inserito in un contesto di collaborazione...
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LUCIO ANDREANI (University of Pavia), Lucio Andreani (Department of Physics "A. Volta", University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy)
Photonic crystal (PhC) slabs, namely 1D or 2D periodic photonic structures embedded in slab waveguides, are at the heart of research in nanophotonics. We present a guided-mode expansion (GME) approach – and the corresponding free python software named Legume – that allows calculating photonic mode dispersion and radiative losses in dielectric photonic crystal slabs. The code can be employed...
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TOMMASO BRAMBILLA (Università di Pavia)
How can genuinely nonlocal quantum measurements emerge from strictly local operations? We address this question within the framework of Quantum Cellular Automata (QCAs), introducing Operational Measurement Protocols: simple procedures that alternate local measurements with the intrinsic time evolution of the system. Remarkably, these protocols reproduce the statistics of nonlocal measurements...
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MARTINA FORESTI
Valence tautomers (VTCs) undergo a reversible charge redistribution when subject to the variation of external thermodynamic parameters (e.g. temperature). Conversely, the electronic modification acts as a switch for the magnetic state of the compound.
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Here, we report on our experimental study of a cobalt-based VTC, [Co(Me2tpa)]2(diox-S-diox)(PF6)2·MeOH [1]. By means of SQUID magnetometry we... -
Dr MARGHERITA PORRU (Università degli Studi di Pavia and INFN sezione di Pavia)
Iron oxide-based magnetic nanoparticles (MNPs) are exploited as Contrast Agents (CAs) for Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). The magnetic nature and high magnetization values induce sizable inhomogeneities in the local magnetic field, perturbing the surrounding hydrogen nuclei present in the biological tissues according to their bio-distribution. The perturbations at nuclear sites shorten the...
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MANUEL MARIANI
We present an investigation, through 1H NMR and SQUID magnetometry, of the effects on the magnetic properties of Mn12tBuAc single molecule magnet (SMM) crystals hit or not by alpha and beta particles, and gamma radiations. Measurements were performed at T=2.2K as a function of an external magnetic field applied parallel to the molecules easy axis. In NMR experiments, when the field is applied...
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Alessandro Bacchetta, LUCA POLANO (University of Pavia), MARCO RADICI (INFN - Sezione di Pavia)
The proton is the most common element of the visible universe, yet we
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don't know how to reconstruct its macroscopic properties (mass, spin,..)
from the elementary degrees of freedom of the Strong Interaction, the
quarks and gluons (collectively, partons) of QCD. Partons are not
visible, they are confined inside hadrons because at hadronic mass
scales QCD is highly nonlinear and not... -
RICCARDO ROSSINI (University of Pavia & INFN Pavia)
Muonic atoms are formed after the capture of negative muons in atomic orbitals, followed by de-excitation through the emission of characteristic X-rays. In high-Z atoms, nuclear capture can occur, producing gamma rays with energies strongly dependent on nuclear structure.
The FAMU experiment at RAL (UK) aims at measuring the ground-state hyperfine splitting in muonic hydrogen to extract the...
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Prof. Alessandro Lascialfari (Department of Physics "A. Volta", University of Pavia)
Single Molecule Magnets (SMMs), depending on the molecular ligand, experience a different interaction (exchange and spin orbit/phonon coupling, crystal-field effects, etc.). Their main drawback is the presence of multiple relaxation pathways accelerating magnetization loss and limiting the blocking temperature. We report our investigation on local spin dynamics of two isostructural...
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GIOVANNI PELLEGRINI
In the last decade neural networks were introduced in many physics workflows with great promise, but after the initial enthusiasm, their limitations started to emerge. Now that the dust is settling, we aim to demonstrate their usefulness in a few specific applications. We explore the deployment of neural networks in two distinct domains: advanced imaging and inverse photonic design. In...
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FRANCESCO PIO UCCI
The experiments under consideration for high-energy electron-positron
colliders offer a promising environment for future discoveries, by improving the current bounds on New Physics beyond the Standard Model of particle physics by several orders of magnitude.In order to carry out reliable high precision measurements, a key quantity, the collider luminosity, has to be known and...
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GIORGIO GALANTI
Astronomical objects offer unique opportunities to probe physics beyond the Standard Model (SM) since they reach energies exceeding those attainable in laboratories. A striking example is the gamma-ray burst GRB 221009A at redshift z = 0.151, detected up to ~15 TeV by LHAASO and even up to ~300 TeV by Carpet. Within the SM, photons above ~10 TeV are mainly absorbed by the extragalactic...
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MATTEO BRUNOLDI
Colliders are essential for exploring the Standard Model, and a new generation of machines with higher center-of-mass energy and increased luminosity is required. In this context, the Muon Collider (MC) could represent a breakthrough, combining the advantages of proton colliders and electron ones. From a detector perspective, the main challenge of an MC experiment is the beam-induced...
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Dr ALESSANDRO COLOMBI (INFN - Sezione di Pavia), Dr ANDREA FONTANA (INFN - Sezione di Pavia)
The production of the theranostic radionuclide 155Tb is under the spotlight of the nuclear medicine community for its dual role in SPECT imaging and Auger electron therapy, as well as its complementarity with other terbium isotopes (149Tb, 152Tb, 161Tb). We investigated three alternative production routes, using natural targets and different beams (protons, deuterons and α particles), to...
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PAOLO MARIA MONTAGNA
We present “PER me si va ne la fisica recente”, an educational escape room on particle physics designed by the Physics4Teenagers group to introduce secondary school students to concepts rarely addressed in formal curricula. The activity combines content-driven puzzles, narrative engagement, and structured debriefing, and has become a permanent installation at UniPV and INFN.
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LUCA ZATTI
We present a team-based educational game, designed and developed in-house as part of the activities of the Physics4Teenagers group, aimed at upper secondary school classes and focused on issues related to the energy transition and environmental sustainability. We describe the educational objectives, the main physics concepts addressed, and the structure and implementation of the game,...
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MARCO GHILARDI
The anomalous magnetic moment of the muon, $a_\mu = (g - 2)_\mu / 2$, is a
sensitive probe of the Standard Model of particle physics and a possible window
to New Physics.Presently, the data-driven dispersive predictions for $a_\mu$ significantly
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disagree with the experimental world average. These calculations are
based on the optical theorem and make use of the measurements of the... -
ALICE CASALI
Hadrontherapy employs heavy charged particles to treat tumours, demanding accurate predictive models to estimate both the beam biological effectiveness on the tumour and the probability of side effects in healthy tissues, making their precise prediction essential for safe and effective treatment planning. To address this, BIANCA, a biophysical Monte Carlo model, is developed by the...
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Ms Agnese Robustelli Test (University of Pavia, INFN Pavia unit), Ms Martina Scagni (IRCCS Polyclinic San Matteo)
Medical image analysis provides a non-invasive framework to investigate disease-related imaging patterns. Our work focuses on radiomics applied to Computed Tomography (CT) and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) data, extracting quantitative features to study their association with biomarker expression and with different disease phenotypes and subtypes. These approaches aim to complement...
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ANGELA ROSY MORGILLO, EMANUELE TUMBIOLO, Mr Simone Roncallo (Universita' di Pavia)
Visual information can be manipulated in terms of images, usually captured and then processed through a sequence of computational operations. Alternatively, optical systems can perform such operations directly, reducing computational overhead at the cost of stricter design requirements. We discuss this workflow in the context of quantum technologies. First, we introduce a quantum algorithm...
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GIACOMO GUARNIERI (Università di Pavia)
Understanding and controlling microscopic quantum devices represents a major milestone. Their precision is related to the fluctuations of their measurable output, an aspect that becomes crucial at the nano-scale. Achieving a regime where the machine operates at a given precision inevitably comes at a cost in terms of thermodynamic resources, thus massively impacting the machines’...
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PIETRO GALINETTO
The need for stable, reusable, and efficient SERS chips is crucial for label-free trace detection of organic molecules in real environments. We studied the SERS properties of Gold nanostars (GNS) and Silver nanospheres (AgNS) coated with an ultra-thin layer of polydopamine (PDA). SERS responses of standard Raman reporters were investigated at different PDA thicknesses (0-10 nm). The decay of...
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Dr Giacomo Guarnieri (University of Pavia)
What is a quantum battery? Actually, it is not an ‘everyday-life battery’ that exploits some quantum features. Rather, we can call ‘quantum battery’ any quantum object capable of storing energy and delivering it when needed. However, such energy can be subjected to non-negligible fluctuations. This represents a remarkable problem: quantum computers, for instance, need a high level of precision...
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CECILIA RIANI
The IMAGEOMICS Project (co-funded by the European PIANOFORTE partnership) aims to improve the benefit/risk ratio of breast-cancer (BC) radiotherapy, focusing on immune system activation by radiation. A work-package is dedicated to the identification of molecular changes in the tumor micro-environment after radiation, using high-throughput Spatial-Omics techniques.
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To this aim, we will collect... -
GIULIA GIANNANDREA (Pavia University and INFN (IT))
Resistive Plate Chamber (RPC) detectors are widely used in major CERN experiments as muon triggers due to their excellent time resolution. However, the gas mixtures employed in RPCs contain greenhouse gases (R134a - SF₆), contributing significantly to environmental emissions; during Run 2, about 85% of particle detector emissions were due to RPC gas leaks. Therefore, environmentally friendly...
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PAOLO WALTER CATTANEO (INFN)
In the last years the experiment MEGII at PSI (Paul-Scherrer-Institut) in Switzerland has improved of two orders of magnitude the limit on the
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Lepton Flavor Violating decay mu->e gamma.
This decay is very sensitive to BSM (Beyond the Standard Model) physics.
In 2026 MEGII will complete the data taking reaching
a sensitivity down to BR(mu -> e gamma)<6 10^-14.
Because this decay remains... -
ANDREA CIVARDI
Triple Gas Electron Multipliers (Triple-GEMs) are gas detectors used in the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment at CERN, for muon reconstruction and measurement. During operation, GEM detectors are subject to electrical discharges, for example due to the presence of dust particles near amplification regions. Such discharges may lead to “shorts”, i.e. short circuits between the electrodes of...
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SUSANNA COSTANZA
Transverse-momentum dependent parton distributions (TMDs) are a key tool to explore the three-dimensional structure of hadrons in momentum space. Recent extractions of unpolarized quark TMDs in the nucleon have reached a theoretical accuracy comparable to that of collinear parton distribution functions, although their uncertainties remain significantly larger due to the limited size of the...
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GERALDINE GONON
In space, astronauts are exposed to a complex radiation field with charged particles and secondary neutrons causing detrimental biological effects through heterogeneous energy deposition.
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Within the ASI-funded n-SPACE project, neutron effects are investigated through in-vitro cell culture irradiations at CNAO, where high-energy protons striking an aluminum block, representative of... -
MADDALENA PATRINI
Thin films of polymers and their hybrid compounds are advancing rapidly due to their technological applications in electronics, photonics, and multidisciplinary nanotechnology. Characterization methods must be refined appropriately to obtain information and data useful in the design and analysis of devices. With this aim, the material-science approach has improved; therein, optical...
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SUSHANT KUMAR BEHERA (University of Pavia)
The Chirality-Induced Spin Selectivity effect, the ability of chiral systems to spin-polarise the currents they are crossed by, has been widely reported since its discovery in 1999. However a general and comprehensive explanation is still missing. Focusing on carbon-based molecules whose chirality can be tuned by torsion, we investigate spin filtering effects on the transport properties by...
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ORESTE NICROSINI, SIMONE RODINI
A number of interpretations/extensions of quantum mechanics have been proposed to attempt to solve the quantum measurement problem. Among these there are dynamical models for the collapse of the wave function. Stochastic processes for the spontaneous collapse of a quantum state were first proposed in PRD34(1986)470, marking Pavia as one of the birth places of such models.
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Subsequently many... -
Sonia Carrà
This work extends previous ATLAS Run-2 analyses to improve the search for new physics through the decay of a beyond-Standard-Model Higgs boson, 𝐻→𝑍𝐴. The theoretical framework is the Two-Higgs-Doublet Model, in which the Higgs sector is extended by an additional scalar doublet. The particle 𝐴 is a light (0.5–3.0 GeV) CP-odd scalar predicted in minimal extensions of the Standard Model and...
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DANIELA REBUZZI (Università di Pavia e INFN, Sezione di Pavia), Tommaso Cresta
The production of a $W$ boson in association with a $c$-quark is a key process to probe the $s$-quark content of the proton. Dominated by strange–gluon scattering, its cross section provides direct sensitivity to the strange parton distribution function. Previous ATLAS and CMS measurements were consistent with theoretical predictions, but higher-statistics studies are required to improve...
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RICCARDO SCAGLIONI (UniPV & INFN Pavia)
LHC entrerà nella sua fase ad Alta Luminosità (High-Luminosity LHC) nel 2030, con l’obiettivo di aumentare i dati raccolti di un intero ordine di grandezza. L’esperimento ATLAS ha in programma un significativo upgrade del sistema di Trigger e Acquisizione Dati (TDAQ) per far fronte alle nuove condizioni di lavoro. In questo contesto, il gruppo ATLAS di Pavia si occupa dell’upgrade di uno dei...
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LEONARDO LONATI
L-Asparaginase (L-ASNase) is a chemotherapy agent depriving cancer cells of asparagine/glutamine as essential amino acids, commonly used in acute lymphoblastic leukemia, but underexplored in solid tumors.
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This study investigates combined L-ASNase and ionizing radiation (IR) effects across in vitro solid tumor models, quantifying synergy through proliferation and colony formation assays.... -
Enrico Giulotto (Department of Physics A. Volta, University of Pavia, via Bassi 6 27100 Pavia, Italy), Massimo Bertocchi (Department of Physics A. Volta, University of Pavia, via Bassi 6 27100 Pavia, Italy), Massimiliano Malgieri (Department of Physics A. Volta, University of Pavia, via Bassi 6 27100 Pavia, Italy)
We propose a low-cost experiment to test the transient water flow from a pipe connected to a tank, in the time interval between the opening of a valve and the onset of steady state, as predicted by the unsteady Bernoulli's equation. Data are collected with the help of the open-source video analysis software Tracker, and the experiment is suitable for an undergraduate laboratory project. It is...
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NICOLÒ VALLE
The ALICE Inner Tracking System 2 (ITS2) is the largest Monolithic Active Pixel Sensor (MAPS) tracking detector ever built, comprising 12.5 billion pixels covering a sensitive area of $10\, \mathrm{m}^2$. Installed in 2021, it has been fully operational throughout LHC Run 3, recording pp, Pb–Pb, and light-ion collisions.
This contribution provides an overview of the ITS2 detector concept,...
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SIMONE CALZAFERRI, Shimaa Abuzeid (Università degli studi di Pavia - INFN Pavia)
During the High Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC) program, the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) muon spectrometer will face challenging conditions. The instantaneous luminosity will increase up to approximately ten times the value expected when CMS was originally designed. To ensure redundancy in the region closest to the beam line and to extend the detector coverage, three new stations...
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LUCIO FREGONESE
The research examines the strategies followed by Alessandro Volta to define and measure the "force" of electricity around the late 1780s, when both aspects—conceptual definition and quantitative experimental measurement—had not yet found (and will not for various decades find) a clear and coherent formulation. Not dissimilar to what happens in similar situations today, Volta very ably...
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Filippo Belloni (INFN sezione di Pavia)
Precision measurements of Standard Model parameters like the W-boson mass and the weak mixing angle rely on high-precision Monte Carlo (MC) tools to generate event samples for Drell-Yan production that should accurately describe cross-sections, decay product kinematics, and the W/Z transverse momentum (pT) spectrum.
The current frontier in MC generators for Drell-Yan is NNLO QCD with Parton...
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ISABELLA GUARDAMAGNA
Ionizing radiation (IR) is an excellent probe to elicit a biological response and study the molecular mechanisms of DNA damage and repair in human cells, with implications in radiation protection and optimization of its medical use. This work focuses on γH2AX, a widely-used DNA damage marker, analyzing its induction, kinetics, and persistence in three cell lines with different...
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RICCARDO SCAGLIONI, ROBERTO MASTROFRANCESCO
The vast disparity between the LHC collision rate (∼40 MHz) and data storage capacity (∼1 kHz) forces the ATLAS Trigger to implement stringent cuts on high transverse momentum. These restrictions, such as the prescale on single-jet triggers severely limit physics sensitivity and discard many low-mass events (e.g., dijet below 1 TeV).
To recover these signatures, ATLAS implemented the...
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ALESSIO CARMELO ALVARO, BARBARA PASQUINI (Dipartimento di Fisica), SIMONE RODINI
Electromagnetic interactions provide one of the cleanest probes of the proton’s internal structure. A particularly rich class of processes involves two photons, such as Compton scattering $\gamma^{(*)} p \to\gamma^{(*)} p$, where either photon may be real or virtual. By varying the photon energy and virtuality, different pictures of the proton emerge.
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At low virtuality, the proton responds... -
Dr Cristina Pezzi (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Università di Pavia)
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is increasingly integrated into medical physics, offering powerful tools for enhancing treatment planning. In Boron Neutron Capture Therapy (BNCT), a promising radiotherapy that selectively targets tumors using boron-containing drugs and neutron irradiation, AI can support precise treatment. My work presents a novel Treatment Planning System (TPS), IT_STARTS,...
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ALESSANDRO TAMIGIO (Universita di Pavia - INFN)
At the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), Vector Boson Scattering (VBS) occurs when quarks from colliding protons radiate vector bosons (𝑉 = 𝑊, 𝑍), which then interact to produce various final states. My project focuses on the ZZ final state in its fully leptonic decay (𝑝𝑝 → 𝑍𝑍𝑗𝑗 → 𝑙𝑙𝑙′𝑙′𝑗𝑗), where both 𝑍 bosons decay into electrons or muons. Starting from the significance measured in the 2021 CMS...
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