INFN Udine / ICTP ATLAS Group

25/09/2025

🌟 Ready for Trieste Next 2025? We'll be there this weekend!
Find us at the INAF-INFN stand in Piazza Unità d'Italia, where we'll be exploring the wonders of particle physics with you!

📅 What's happening:
- Friday morning: special session for high school students - dive into the first 20 minutes of our Universe's life!
- Friday afternoon - Sunday: come to find out the wonders of particle physics and ask us any questions❓

Whether you're curious about cosmic mysteries or just love science, we'd love to meet you!

👉 Full program details: https://www.triestenext.it/

29/05/2025

Our research group is getting ready to host the annual ATLAS Italy workshop in Università degli Studi di Udine from the 1st to the 3rd of July!

☀️ Il workshop annuale della comunità ATLAS Italia si avvicina! ☀️

🗓 Dall’1 al 3 luglio, ci ritroveremo ad Udine per confrontarci sulle ultime novità della fisica di ATLAS, discutere delle attività in corso e guardare insieme al futuro con l’upgrade del rivelatore. Un’occasione per scambiare idee, rafforzare collaborazioni e condividere il nostro lavoro all’interno della collaborazione.

🔗 Le iscrizioni sono ancora aperte per tutti i membri ATLAS!
👉 Tutti i dettagli e il link per registrarsi li trovate al link:
https://indico.cern.ch/event/1518424/

📍Non mancate, vi aspettiamo numerosi a Udine! 🤩

INFN Udine / ICTP ATLAS Group INFN - Sezione di Trieste

19/03/2025

**Premi per nuovi talenti in Fisica dopo il maggio 2018**

La SIF bandisce un concorso ad almeno un premio di Euro 2.000,00 per giovani cultori e cultrici della ricerca fisica che abbiano conseguito la laurea magistrale in fisica dopo il maggio 2018.
Si segnala che quest'anno, in occasione dell'International Year of Quantum Science and Technology (IYQ), almeno uno dei premi verrà assegnato per tesi di ricerca basate sulla meccanica quantistica.

Scadenza: 8 maggio 2025
https://www.sif.it/attivita/altri_premi/giovani_laureati
Tutti i bandi dei premi 2025 sono disponibili online https://www.sif.it/attivita/altri_premi/

23/10/2024

Flavour Tagging Workshop, 9-13 September 2024, Genoa

The ATLAS and CMS collaborations organised a joint Flavour Tagging workshop for the first time ever!

In the beautiful setting of the Grand Hotel Savoia, located in the historic centre of Genova, experts from both experiments gathered to discuss the performance of b-tagging algorithms—mostly driven by machine learning techniques—the results of their calibrations, and new perspectives for improving b-jet identification.

Our group is strongly active in flavour tagging efforts in ATLAS. In particular, our PhD student Leonardo gave a report on light-jet tagging efficiency calibration with the state-of-the-art graph neural network-based b-tagging algorithm.

After all, precision is everything in physics! 🚀🔍
https://indico.cern.ch/event/1387465/

14/09/2024

Laura Bassi’s prize for women in physics to our group leader Marina Cobal.

During the 110 Società Italiana di Fisica congress in Bologna, Marina Cobal received this prestigious prize for her contributions to the top quark and Higgs boson discovery within the CDF and ATLAS experiments respectively. Marina Cobal is full professor at the University of Udine DPIA UNIUD - Dipartimento Politecnico di Ingegneria e Architettura , and she is currently involved in future collider activities as a member of the European Committee for Future Accelerators (ECFA) committee and member of the Steering group for the Future Circular Collider (FCC FCCItalia ).

INFN - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare INFN - Sezione di Trieste

30/07/2024

ATLAS/FCC Udine/ICTP Mini-Workshop 23-24/07/2024

Last week we spent two days sharing our work with each other in the wonderful frame of the ICTP Adriatico Guest House. The whole group met together (in person or on Zoom) for four different sessions: Future Collider studies, ATLAS Operations and Performance, Inner Tracker (ITk) for High Luminosity LHC activities and ATLAS Data Analysis.

It was the perfect situation to get everyone together, have interesting discussions, and prepare for the next challenges!

09/05/2024

INFN and the European Strategy for Particle Physics, 6-7 May 2024, Rome

Looking to the future, INFN - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare organized in Rome a two-day event to discuss the European Strategy for Particle Physics: priorities, goals and investments required to advance in the research for the fundamental particles.
Our research group is heavily involved in the feasibility study for the Future Circular Collider (FCC), likely the first priority as a future machine to be realized at CERN focusing both on detector concepts and physics analyses. Marina Cobal, our group leader, was one of the organizers of this interesting workshop. Nitika and Leonardo (PostDoc and PhD student in our group) joined the event and discussed the future of particle physics.


https://agenda.infn.it/event/39747/

06/05/2024

ATLAS Top Workshop, 28/04/24 - 03/05/24 Benasque

The annual ATLAS Top workshop was held in Benasque last week. As usual, our group was there (in person and online), to share and discuss with our colleagues the ongoing physics analyses and technical aspects of top quark physics. Our researcher Claudia Merlassino talked about searches for new physics related to the top quark, and our PhD student Laura Pintucci reported on technical aspects from other ATLAS groups that are used in top physics. We are now ready to go back to our work in top physics with new ideas and methods to obtain great physics results!

08/04/2024

Last Friday at ATLAS first stable collisions at 13.6 TeV in 2024!

Our group is playing a crucial role in this effort, with our Trigger Operation Coordinator Claudia Merlassino on the front row of data taking operation!

05/04/2024

IFAE, Florence 3-5/04/2024

The 20th edition of the Italian conference “Incontri di Fisica delle Alte Energie” (IFAE) has been held at Istituto degli Innocenti , located in the Centre of Florence, Italy.

Our group is strongly participating in this event with a talk by Bernardo on dark photon searches and a poster by Leonardo on light-jet calibration at the ATLAS Experiment.

It has been a very nice occasion to stay tuned on the most recent updates by the Italian community on Particle and Astroparticle Physics!

https://agenda.infn.it/event/38127/

21/03/2024

Giovanni’s PhD defense in Università degli studi di Trieste 19/03/2024

Last Tuesday our PhD student Giovanni successfully defended his thesis on “Measurement of the top quark pair and Z boson cross-sections and their ratio in pp collisions at 13.6 TeV with the ATLAS detector”.
Giovanni not only worked on the first physics results from the ATLAS collaboration with Run3 data, but also contributed to other ATLAS physics analyses, to the ATLAS Open Data project and FCC studies.

We are extremely happy to have worked with such an amazing student and we wish all the best for his future! Congratulations Giovanni!