Toward a Science Campus in Milan : A Snapshot of Current Research at the Physics Department Aldo Pontremoli

This book is a collection of multidisciplinary papers presented at the Department of Physics of Milan University's congress on 28 and 29 June 2017, which was also intended as a kick-off meeting for the design of a novel science campus at the Expo site in Milan. The congress presented a snapshot of the department's research to the academic community, the media, policymakers and authorities as well as the public at large, and also provided an opportunity to strengthen interdisciplinary collaborations between the members of the department and other communities. This book is a valuable resource for scientists looking for synergetic projects, policymakers wanting to grasp scientists' points of view and for prospective graduate students seeking expanding areas of research. Front Matter ....Pages i-xxii Measuring the Universe with Galaxy Redshift Surveys (L. Guzzo, J. Bel, D. Bianchi, C. Carbone, B. R. Granett, A. J. Hawken et al.)....Pages 1-16 Theoretical Spectroscopy Characterization of Deep Electronic States of Defects in Silicon via Density Functional Theory with Hybrid Potentials (Simona Achilli, Nicola Manini, Giovanni Onida, Enrico Prati)....Pages 17-24 Gas and Dust Dynamics During Planet Formation in HL Tau (Giulia Ballabio, Giuseppe Lodato, Giovanni Dipierro)....Pages 25-36 Quantum Simulation of Non-Markovian Qubit Dynamics by an All-Optical Setup (Claudia Benedetti, Simone Cialdi, Matteo A. C. Rossi, Bassano Vacchini, Dario Tamascelli, Stefano Olivares et al.)....Pages 37-46 Innovative Instrumentation for the Study of Atmospheric Aerosol Optical Properties (Vera Bernardoni, Alice C. Forello, Federico Mariani, Bruno Paroli, Marco A. C. Potenza, Alberto Pullia et al.)....Pages 47-56 Giotto Unveiled: New Developments in Imaging and Elemental Analysis Techniques for Cultural Heritage (Nicola Ludwig, Letizia Bonizzoni, Michele Caccia, Francesco Cavaliere, Marco Gargano, Daniele Viganò et al.)....Pages 57-66 Quantitative Analysis of Gold Nano-aggregates by Combining Electron and Probe Microscopy Techniques (Francesca Borghi, Matteo Mirigliano, Paolo Milani, Alessandro Podestà)....Pages 67-80 The Discovery of the Higgs Boson and Most Significant Measurements at the LHC (Marcello Fanti)....Pages 81-90 Spectroscopy of Adsorbates and the Role of Interfacial Interactions (Guido Fratesi, Elena Molteni, Giovanni Onida)....Pages 91-104 The Founder of the First Institute of Physics of the Milan University: Aldo Pontremoli, a Physicist’s Life Between Adventure and Institutions (Leonardo Gariboldi)....Pages 105-125 The Role of Monitoring Time and Detectors Efficiencies in Time-Continuous Quantum Magnetometry (Francesco Albarelli, Matteo A. C. Rossi, Matteo G. A. Paris, Marco G. Genoni)....Pages 127-139 Recent Developments and Perspectives in Nuclear Structure by γ and Particle Spectroscopy (S. Leoni, A. Bracco, F. Camera, A. Guglielmetti, G. Benzoni, B. Blasi et al.)....Pages 141-153 Planet Formation in the ALMA Era (Giuseppe Lodato, Benedetta Veronesi, Maria Giulia Ubeira Gabellini, Enrico Ragusa, Alessia Franchini, Giovanni Dipierro et al.)....Pages 155-167 Generation and Active Control of Coherent Structures in Partially-Neutralized Magnetized Plasmas (Giancarlo Maero, Roberto Pozzoli, Massimiliano Romé, Beatrice Achilli, Nicola Cantini, Emilio Villa et al.)....Pages 169-179 Feeding Genetic Heterogeneity via a Smart Mutation Operator in the Memetic Phase Retrieval Approach (Marta Mauri, Davide Emilio Galli, Alessandro Colombo)....Pages 181-192 Jack on a Devil’s Staircase (Andrea Di Gioacchino, Marco Gherardi, Luca Guido Molinari, Pietro Rotondo)....Pages 193-207 A Study of the Phase Diagram of Symmetric Binary Gaussian Mixtures (Davide Pini)....Pages 209-219 Tutorial: \(\gamma _5\) in Dimensional Regularization in Dimensional Regularization (Mario Raciti)....Pages 221-233 The Neutrino: Looking Through Its Experimental World (Alessandra Carlotta Re)....Pages 235-241 Towards a Universal Nuclear Structure Model (X. Roca-Maza, Pier Francesco Bortignon, G. Colò, Y. F. Niu, E. Vigezzi)....Pages 243-252 Recent Advances in Scintillating Optical Fibre Dosimeters (Ivan Veronese, Marie Claire Cantone, Salvatore Gallo, Cristina De Mattia, Eduardo d’Ippolito, Nicola Ludwig et al.)....Pages 253-262 R&D on Electronic Devices and Circuits for the HL-LHC (Alberto Stabile, Attilio Andreazza, Mauro Citterio, Luca Frontini, Valentino Liberali, Chiara Meroni et al.)....Pages 263-271 Precise Perturbative QCD Predictions for Large Hadron Collider Physics (Giancarlo Ferrera)....Pages 273-279 LASA Cs2Te Photocathodes: The Electron Source for XFELs (Carlo Pagani, Paolo Michelato, Laura Monaco, Daniele Sertore)....Pages 281-292 LASA Superconducting RF Cavities for Particle Accelerators (Carlo Pagani, Andrea Bellandi, Michele Bertucci, Andrea Bignami, Angelo Bosotti, Jin Fang Chen et al.)....Pages 293-305