Crystal Lab Ferrara

Exploring the coherent interaction between particles, such as electrons or protons, and crystalline structures offers intriguing insights at the intersection of high-energy particle and solid state phyics, with significant applications.

Crystals can be exploit to guide particle beams at the the Large Hadron Collider at CERN; create innovative gamma-ray and antimatter sources for application in particle accelerators and applied science; develop ultra-compact detectors for high-energy physics and astrophysics, and explore new approaches for direct Dark Matter detection at the Gran Sasso Laboratory. 

• Experimental activities in several fully equipped laboratories, including a 130 m² cleanroom.

• Frequent beamline testing at international facilities, including CERN (Geneve), DESY (Hamburg), and MAMI (Mainz).

• Simulation with the Geant4 simulation toolkit in which we implementated the crystal physics, enhancing its capabilities for particle-matter interaction studies.

• Hardware development of cutting-edge particle detectors.

• Software development for data analysis of beamtest experiment and international collaboration experiment as NA62 @ CERN.