Quantum noise is limiting the sensitivity of ground based gravitational wave detectors both at high frequency, in the form of shot noise, and low frequency, in the form of radiation pressure noise. In the last observing run, the injection of frequency independent squeezing improved Virgo and LIGO sensitivities at high frequency, slightly worsening the performance at low frequency. A broadband...
The Standard Model includes three types of active neutrinos. Some recent experimental results indicate a possible existence of a sterile neutrino that is beyond the Standard Model. One of the DANSS experiment goals is the search for the sterile neutrinos. DANSS is a one cubic meter highly segmented solid scintillator detector. It is placed under an industrial reactor at the Kalinin NPP...
ASTAROTH is an R&D project aiming at improving the physics reach of direct dark matter (DM) detection experiments based on NaI(Tl) scintillating crystals, like SABRE, ANAIS, COSINE. These collaborations aim at testing the dark matter interpretation of the DAMA annual modulation signal, with the same target and techniques. ASTAROTH instead proposes a technology development that lowers the...
After the Higgs boson observation, a number of measurements have been performed to quantify the properties of this particle. Even though there is strong evidence that the observed particle is the Higgs boson predicted by the Standard Model (SM), there is still space for Beyond SM candidates. Efforts to measure the properties of the Higgs boson are primarily focused on on-shell production....
A new simulation tool for the LUNA experiment
Obtaining information from experimental data on a wide number of EAS, which are currently available for studying primary cosmic radiation and the explosive effects of hadrons at energies above 1015 eV, requires multi-parameter EAS studies. For example, the study of fluctuations in the number of muons in a shower with a fixed number of electrons or fluctuations in the distribution of the depth...
