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Activity Report 2020 5 ACTIVITY REPORT TIFPA - INFN c/o Dipartimento di Fisica Università di Trento Via Sommarive, 14 38123 Povo (Trento), Italy tel.: +39 0461 281500 fax: +39 0461 282000 email: [email protected] www.tifpa.infn.it 20 20 TIFPA - ACTIVITY REPORT 2020 5 TIFPA Activity Report 2020 TIFPA Activity Report 2020 Trento Institute for Fundamental Physics and Applications Typeset in the Bitstream Charter typeface using the LATEX 2" document formatting system and markup language Editor: Piero Spinnato (TIFPA) Cover and overall graphics design: Francesca Cuicchio (Ufficio Comunicazione INFN, Rome) Cover image: Intermediate folding state of the ACE2 protein, the cellular receptor of SARS-COV2, simulated by Sibylla Biotech using computing power provided by INFN (15 million CPU-hours), in the context of a screening research aimed at identifying drugs able to prevent the ACE2 folding. The bonding pockets used in the screening campaign are highlighted in red. See p. 48 for further details. Image courtesy of Sibylla Biotech. First print, June 2021 Printed and bound at Rotooffset Paganella, Trento www.rotooffset.it Contents Foreword 1 PANDORA_Gr3 41 INFN Experiments 5 Theoretical Physics 43 BELL 45 Particle Physics 7 BIOPHYS 47 ATLAS 9 FBS 50 FASE2_ATLAS 11 FLAG 51 Astroparticle Physics 13 MANYBODY 53 ADHD 15 NEMESYS 55 AMS 17 Teongrav 57 DarkSide 19 Activities starting in 2021 59 NUCSYS 59 FISH 21 HUMOR 23 Technological Research 61 Limadou 25 3D SIAM 63 LISA Pathfinder e LISA 27 ARCADIA 65 Quax 29 ASAP 67 Virgo 31 DRAGoN 69 Activities starting in 2021 33 ET_ITALIA 33 FIRE 71 XRO 33 GLARE-X 72 Nuclear Physics 35 Isolpharm_EIRA 74 AEgIS 37 MADAM 76 FOOT 39 MoVe IT 78 Activities starting in 2021 41 NEPTUNE 80 v Simp 82 FOOT-ECC 97 THEEOM-RD 84 GSM2 99 TIMESPOT 86 MoVe IT-TLD 101 Activities starting in 2021 88 GSI-O_DEPL 103 DART WARS 88 MICROBE_IT 88 SIRMIO 105 NanoEnHanCeMent 89 XpCalib 90 SPYRO 107 BOLAS_NEXT 91 SUN_MEYER 109 Proton Beam-based R&D 93 TIFPA Publications 113 FBK-SiPM 95 Seminars 141 vi Foreword Giuseppe Battistoni Direttore, TIFPA The 2020 Annual Report of the Trento Institute for Fundamental Physics and Applications (TIFPA) has indeed an importance which goes beyond the mere scientific interest. It testifies the capability of our research center to achieve many important goals for all the planned projects, notwithstanding the very difficult situation and the unavoidable limitations caused by the COVID-19 pandemics. Therefore, we are proud to present the summary review of all the scientific and technological activity that has been carried out at TIFPA in the last year. All the partners of TIFPA, the Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN), Trento Uni- versity (UniTn), Bruno Kessler Foundation (FBK) and the Health-care Agency of Trento (APSS), have contributed to these achievements, together with all our external collaborators and users. As usual, this has been made possible thanks to the efforts of all staff and associates. Beyond the the strong commitment of TIFPA partners, the fundamental support from the government of Trento Province has to be recognized. This is also my last contribute, since at the end of this year I will complete my mandate and another Director will be appointed for TIFPA. It is therefore an opportunity for me to express my gratitude for the beautiful and significant experience of serving as TIFPA Director. My work was made possible by the strong support of my direct collaborators of the administrative and technical services, to whom I wish to express again my sincere gratitude. I wish to recognize to Dr. Piero Spinnato the merit for editing this document. 1 TIFPA is a National Centre of INFN (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare), which carries out scientific and technological research in the areas of Particle and Astroparticle Physics, Nuclear Physics, Theo- retical Physics, Applications of Particle Physics in Medicine and Biological Sciences, development of sensors and detectors for Particle Physics. TIFPA was founded in 2013, building on a large variety of scientific activities in Trento: – the presence at the Department of Physics of the University of Trento of a large community of researchers in Particle Physics-related topics, active at the time within the "Gruppo Collegato" to the INFN section of Padua, – the consolidated collaboration of INFN with FBK (Fondazione Bruno Kessler) for the develop- ment and production of sensors for Particle Physics detectors, – the realisation in Trento of the APSS (Azienda Provinciale per i Servizi Sanitari) Centre for Protontherapy, with a beamline dedicated to research. INFN, University of Trento, FBK and APSS formalised an agreement to collaborate within TIFPA for carrying out common research projects. A committee chaired by the TIFPA Director and com- posed by a delegate for each partner, called CPR (Comitato Permanente di Raccordo), has the mandate of coordinating the activities of the TIFPA partners for the fulfilment of the common research goals. The TIFPA Director is elected by the INFN Board (Consiglio Direttivo) and is appointed for four years. Research activities within TIFPA are organised according to the INFN structure, which consists of five research lines, each one supervised by a CSN (Commissione Scientifica Nazionale). TIFPA is active in all INFN research lines, as illustrated in the research reports presented in this publication, yet it is officially present with its representatives in CSN2 (Astroparticle Physics), CSN4 (Theoretical Physics), and CSN5 (Applied and Technological Research); for CSN1 (Partice Physics) and CSN3 (Nuclear Physics) FTEs are currently not sufficient, according to INFN rules, for the election of a coordinator to represent the group within the CSN. In order to pursue specific goals for the transfer of knowledge in particular areas of interest, three Virtual Labs (Settori Tecnologici) have been defined, in the topics of Medical Technologies, Sensors and Detectors, and Space Research. Support for research activities is organised in two services, SIGEA (Servizio Integrato di GEstione ed Amministrazione), which is in charge of all the administrative tasks of the Centre, and STAR (Servizio di supporto Tecnico-logistico alle Attività di Ricerca), which is in charge of all technical support activities. As of June 2021, TIFPA personnel includes: Research SIGEA STAR Elettra Bellinzona Marta Perucci (head) Piero Spinnato (head) Ruggero Caravita Isabella Martire Alberto Franzoi Constantinos Constantinou Giuliana Pellizzari (on borrowed Christian Manea Francesco Dimiccoli agreement from PAT) Enrico Verroi Oleksii Gryniuk Irene Sartini (on long-term Alessandro Lovato (on long-term leave) leave) Coralie Neubüser Francesco Nozzoli Edna Carolina Pinilla Beltran Irina Rashevskaya Emanuele Scifoni Sushil Sharma 3 TIFPA Activity Report 2020 TIFPA research associates, grouped according to their area of activity, are listed in the following table. Senior associates (Incaricati di Ricerca) are marked as (IR). CSN coordinators are senior associates who locally coordinate the activities of the group and represent TIFPA at the meetings of the National Committee: CSN1 Andrea Miani Alessandro Casalino Massimo Cazzanelli Gian-Franco Dalla Betta (IR) Martina Muratore Francesco Giovanni Celiberto Riccardo Checchetto Roberto Iuppa (IR) Giovanni Paternoster Adolfo Renè Cisterna Roa Alessandro Cian Marco Cristoforetti Alessio Perinelli Elena Filandri Thomas Corradino Andrea Di Luca Alessio Recati Giovanni Garberoglio Pablo De Vera Gomis David Macii Ester Ricci Danial Ghamari Emanuele Enrico Daniela Mascione Giuliana Russano Riccardo Ghiloni Paolo Farace Arif Abdulla Md Samy Francesco Salemi Samuel Andrea Giuliani Matteo Favaro Giovanni Verzellesi Sandro Stringari Marco Giulini Lorenza Ferrario CSN2 Paolo Tosi Piero Luchi Andrea Ficorella Rita Dolesi (coord.) Michele Valentini Giovanni Mattiotti Francesco Ficorella Roberto Battiston (IR) Daniele Vetrugno Sonia Mazzucchi Francesco Fracchiolla Antonio Perreca (IR) Louise Wolswijk Valter Moretti Damiano Giubertoni Giovanni Andrea Prodi (IR) Alessandro Zenesini Davide Pastorello Stefano Lorentini Stefano Vitale (IR) CSN3 Alessandro Perotti Devid Maniglio William Weber (IR) Roberto Sennen Brusa (IR) Lorenzo Petrolli Benno Margesin Paolo Zuccon (IR) Sebastiano Mariazzi (IR) Raffaello Potestio Renato Mezzena Fabio Acerbi Francesco Tommasino (IR) Marta Rigoli Marta Missiaggia Anna Rita Altamura Giorgio Cartechini Samuele Marco Silveravalle Antonella Motta Damiano Avi Maurizio Dapor Luca Tubiana Carlotta Mozzi Sophie Bini Luca Penasa Michele Turelli Viviana Mulloni Michele Bonaldi Luca Povolo Francesco Turro Luca Oberto Giacomo Borghi Simone Taioli Christiaan J. Farielda van de Ven Lucio Pancheri Antonio Lorenzo Borrielli Paolo Emilio Trevisanutto Silvia Vicentini Giancarlo Pepponi Daniele Bortoluzzi Marco Volponi Luigi Zanovello Matteo Perenzoni William Jerome Burger CSN4 CSN5 Antonino Picciotto Iacopo Carusotto Francesco Pederiva (coord.) Alberto Quaranta (coord.) Enrico Pierobon Davide Dal Bosco Pietro Faccioli (IR) Paolo Falferi (IR) Leonardo Ricci Abhinandan Dass Gianluca Lattanzi (IR) Chiara La Tessa (IR) Roberto Righetto Arturo Farolfi Winfried Leidemann (IR) Lucio Pancheri (IR) Sabina Ronchin Gabriele Ferrari Giuseppe Nardelli (IR) Marco Schwarz (IR) Marina Scarpa Valerio Ferroni Giuseppina Orlandini (IR) Artem Arkhangelskiy Enrico Serra Francesco Maria Follega Albino Perego (IR) Giacomo Baldi Alberto Taffelli Giuseppe Gebbia Massimiliano Rinaldi (IR) Pietro Battocchio Jacopo Terragni Alberto Giacomo Gola Luciano
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