“The Universe as a laboratory: dialogue between Cosmology and Particle Physics” is the theme of the conference which is part of the "Universe Friday" series of meetings, organized by the Department of Physics and Earth Sciences of the University of Ferrara and by the Ferrara section of the National Institute of Nuclear Physics, in collaboration with the "Columbia" Amateur Astronomers Group, Exploriamo l'Universo, APS (Associazione Promozione Sociale) and Arci Ferrara.
Appointment at 9.00 pm with Massimiliano Lattanzi, first researcher of the Ferrara section of the National Institute of Nuclear Physics.
He was part of the European Planck satellite mission and is currently a member of the LiteBIRD, LSPE, Simons Observatory and Euclid experiment collaborations.
He is the national coordinator of the INFN InDark theoretical physics project, which studies the link between cosmology and particle physics, involving more than 100 researchers.
“At the beginning of 1600, Galileo discovered, by pointing his telescope towards the Moon, that celestial bodies are made of the same substance as the Earth.
Nowadays - observes Lattanzi - research in the field of particle physics takes place by studying on the one hand the data produced in accelerators and terrestrial laboratories, and on the other by analyzing the observations collected by the powerful telescopes that scrutinize the cosmos.
The primordial phase of the Big Bang, hot and dense, acts in fact as a particle accelerator capable of reaching energies unthinkable for terrestrial experiments, opening a unique window on high energy physics.
On the other hand, current cosmological observations strongly suggest the existence of a series of 'dark' components that cannot be explained in the standard paradigm of particle physics, pointing to the need for its extension.
Over the next decade, next-generation cosmological experiments will provide increasingly accurate observations of our Universe.
That the next revolution in our understanding of the components of matter and the fundamental forces of Nature is about to come from the depths of the cosmos?”
The next appointments are scheduled for 5 and 12 April, again at 9.00 pm.
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