ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI FISICA NUCLEARE CVI REPORT 2020 INFN SCIENTIFIC PRODUCTIVITY AND ITS SOCIO-ECONOMIC AND INTER-DISCIPLINARY IMPACT 2 CVI Report 2019 1. INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................................................................ 4 1.1 INF STRATEGIC VISION .................................................................................................................................................. 5 2. HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEES ................................................................................................. 9 2.1 PARTICLE PHYSICS AT ACCELERATORS ............................................................................................................................... 9 2.2 ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS .............................................................................................................................................. 19 2.3 NUCLEAR PHYSICS ....................................................................................................................................................... 24 2.4 THEORETICAL PHYSICS ................................................................................................................................................. 33 2.5 TECHNOLOGICAL AND INTER-DISCIPLINARY RESEARCH ......................................................................................................... 42 3. THE CTS (COMITATO TECNICO SCIENTIFICO) ........................................................................................................ 45 4. INFN NATIONAL LABORATORIES .......................................................................................................................... 46 4.1 LNF LABORATORI NAZIONALI DI FRASCATI ....................................................................................................................... 46 4.1.1 Facilities ......................................................................................................................................................... 46 4.1.2 Organization and staff resources ................................................................................................................... 46 4.1.3 Research activity ............................................................................................................................................ 47 4.1.4 Technology transfer and outreach ................................................................................................................. 56 4.2 LNS LABORATORI NAZIONALI DEL SUD ........................................................................................................................... 59 4.2.1 Scientific Strategy, priorities and goals .......................................................................................................... 59 4.2.2 Scientific and technical progress .................................................................................................................... 61 4.2.3 Activities on External Funds ........................................................................................................................... 65 4.2.4 Technology transfer and outreach ................................................................................................................. 65 4.3 LNL LABORATORI NAZIONALI DI LEGNARO ...................................................................................................................... 67 4.3.1 Facilities ......................................................................................................................................................... 67 4.3.2 Scientific strategy, priorities and goals .......................................................................................................... 69 4.3.3 Organization and staff resources ................................................................................................................... 71 4.3.4 Scientific and technical progress .................................................................................................................... 72 4.3.5 Technological transfer and Outreach ............................................................................................................ 77 4.4 LNGS-LABORATORI NAZIONALI DEL GRAN SASSO ............................................................................................................. 81 5 SCIENTIFIC PRODUCTIVITY .................................................................................................................................... 82 5.1 OVERALL SCIENTIFIC PRODUCTION .................................................................................................................................. 82 5.2 INTERNATIONAL FRAMEWORK ....................................................................................................................................... 85 6. PERSONNEL BALANCE: INCLUSIVENESS, WELL-BEING AND DIVERSITY INSIDE INFN THROUGH A GENDER PERSPECTIVE ........................................................................................................................................................... 87 6.1 STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF THE INFN PERSONNEL UNDER A GENDER AND GENERATIONAL PERSPECTIVE .......................................... 87 6.2 INFN AFFIRMATIVE ACTION PLAN ................................................................................................................................. 91 6.3 ORGANIZATIONAL WELLBEING AND RELATED ACTIVITIES ...................................................................................................... 93 7 THIRD MISSION AND INFN .................................................................................................................................... 94 7.1 THE COMMUNICATION OFFICE ...................................................................................................................................... 95 7.2 PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT ACTIVITIES ................................................................................................................................. 101 7.2 COMMISSIONE COORDINAMENTO ATTIVITÀ TERZA MISSIONE - CC3M ................................................................................ 103 7.4 KNOWLEDGE AND TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER .................................................................................................................... 112 8 EXTERNAL COLLABORATIONS AND FUND RAISING ............................................................................................. 116 8.1 NATIONAL COMPETITIVE FUNDING PROGRAMMES ........................................................................................................... 116 8.2 THE HORIZON 2020 FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME ............................................................................................................ 118 8.3 CURRENT ORGANIZATION OF EXTERNAL FUND RAISING SUPPORT GROUP (DFE) ................................................................... 122 9. ENGAGEMENT IN HIGHER EDUCATION .............................................................................................................. 123 9.1 STUDENTS AND GRADUATE TRAINING ........................................................................................................................... 123 9.2 POST-GRADUATE TRAINING ......................................................................................................................................... 125 APPENDIX A: DETAILED LNF MAP ......................................................................................................................... 126 APPENDIX B: LNS ACCELERATORS OPERATION TIME (9MONTHS/YEAR) ............................................................... 127 3 APPENDIX C: LNL ACCELERATORS OPERATIONS IN 2019 ....................................................................................... 128 APPENDIX D: LNL ORGANIZATIONAL CHART ......................................................................................................... 129 APPENDIX E: EXPERIMENTS AT LNL IN 2019 ......................................................................................................... 130 APPENDIX F: RECOMMENDATIONS FROM THE CVI REPORT 2019 .......................................................................... 131 4 CVI Report 2019 1. Introduction In order to face the new challenges that any research organization in Europe (and outside) is facing in recent years due to changing attitudes towards applied and basic research as well as to an Italian national budget allocated to research shrinking over the last years, INFN has experienced strong changes. In this context, the evaluation process, and data collection and analysis is used as an additional tool in the attempt to measure the outcome of the research and to (in some cases) redirect resources to the best players. Something about the Covid here... INFN has always been focussed in tracking its research programmes, thanks to several bodies which perform ex-ante, in-itinere and ex-post evaluation of experiments and initiatives: the Executive Board, the Board of Directors (CD), the Scientific Committees and Scientific and Technical Committee (CTS) are the bodies in charge of these fundamental tasks. Since 1997 INFN has a CVI and a Gruppo di Lavoro sulla Valutazione (GLV), that prepares this annual Report. The members of the GLV, three for each individual INFN research