The team in Bari is involved both in the physics studies about the Higgs boson, and in the design and construction of innovative detectors for the experiments at new future accelerators.
After the discovery of the Higgs boson at the LHC in 2012, it is fundamental to measure its properties and confirm the reality of the Higgs mechanism to give mass to all the particles. The new accelerators will allow to reach energies higher than the actual ones and collect enough data both to make precise measurements in the Higgs sector, but also to give answers to open questions such as about the nature of the dark matter.
For this purpose the team in Bari focuses on the development of gas detectors and, in particular, of a new generation of “Ultra-light drift chambers” for the reconstruction and identification of particles for the experiments at new future colliders. The activity of the group is well integrated in international collaborations involved in the design of detectors for the next circular colliders.