Fundamental physics and emerging technologies: Italy and the United States renew their …

On September 2 and 3, the Embassy of Italy in Washington hosted a meeting between Italy and the United States aimed at strengthening and renewing the long-standing scientific cooperation between the two countries and taking stock of joint initiatives in the fields of fundamental physics and emerging technologies. This annual two-day event brought together a delegation from the National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN) and U.S. delegations from the Department of Energy (DOE) and the National Science Foundation (NSF), the primary federal agencies funding scientific research in the United States. Discussions covered numerous topics of interest to the physics community, starting with large-scale accelerators for particle physics research. In particular, participants examined ongoing activities at CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) and potential future collaborations on the Future Circular Collider project, as well as the progress of the Electron-Ion Collider, currently under construction at the Brookhaven National Laboratory, designed to study the properties of nuclear matter. Significant attention was also given to neutrino physics, with updates on the DUNE (Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment) project in the United States and the future LEGEND experiment, which will search for neutrino-less double-beta decay and be hosted at INFN’s Gran Sasso National Laboratories.
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