Speaker
Description
The INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Sud (INFN-LNS) represent a well-established international research reality of INFN.
The research activity is mainly devoted to basic nuclear physics and nuclear and particle astrophysics. Pivotal research activity is also in multidisciplinary fields such as accelerator physics, plasma physics, nuclear physics for medicine, biology, environmental and cultural heritage. In June 2020, the accelerators have been turned off to start the upgrade of the entire infrastructure, mainly aimed at the production of high intensity light ion beams (12<A<20, power up to 10 kW) accelerated with the Superconducting Cyclotron. The high intensity program, including the determination of the nuclear matrix elements (NME) of the double beta decay and the study of EOS for nuclear matter with large neutron content, is expected by 2025. New projects are under construction, such as PANDORA, BCT-iLUCE and large-scale expansion projects such as Km3NET. In this presentation, I will provide an overview of existing activities, focusing on some recent results in the field of nuclear physics, such as the one relating to the determination of the proton-proton scattering length deprived of the Coulomb interaction, functional to test the charge symmetry breaking in the nucleon-nucleon interaction.
