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AEgIS transforms smartphone sensors into an unprecedented resolution antimatter camera

Apr 3, 2025/ Comments Off / in Announcement / by

The collaboration AEḡIS (Antimatter Experiment: Gravity Interferometry and Spectroscopy) has developed Ophanim (Optical Photon and Antimatter Imager), a detector consisting of 60 optical CMOS sensors for a total of 3850 megapixels, obtained from modified mobile camera sensors, to achieve the highest ever resolution in detecting matter-antimatter annihilation. INFN press release CERN press release Paper published…

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Lorenzo Castelli received the Best Oral Award at CCP5 School of CECAM

Sep 4, 2024/ Comments Off / in Announcement / by

Lorenzo Castelli, PhD student at UniTN and collaborator of the Bimer group at TIFPA, received on 23rd July 2024 the Best Oral Award at CCP5 School of CECAM, presenting work on molecular dynamics simulations of radiobiological effects with reactive force field and combination with Monte Carlo simulation. Lorenzo’s research involves developing a multiscale modeling framework to…

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Cloud of Positronium, an Exotic Matter-Antimatter System, Laser-Cooled for the First Time

Feb 23, 2024/ Comments Off / in Announcement / by

Positronium (Ps), an exotic atom consisting only of an electron and its antimatter particle, the positron, is the lightest known atomic system. The AEgIS collaboration at CERN experimentally demonstrated, for the first time, Ps laser cooling using a particular laser system (alexandrite-based), specifically developed to meet the requirements of cooling: high intensity, large bandwidth and…

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