● Performing physics studies for the search of new particles that could be dark matter candidates, i.e. the 90% of the matter in the Universe. The signals from these particles can be very unusual and difficult to see, and they require the development of new techniques and algorithms to be identified;

● Research and development of Silicon pixel sensor at extremely high time resolution (TIMESPOT) to realize tracking detectors with 4D information (3 spatial dimensions and 1 temporal dimension) for future high-energy physics experiments. It is important to note that this technology has also medical application (iMPACT) and it is used in the realization of a scanner for proton tomography in hadron therapy applications;

● The Padua group is involved, as well, in the study for a new machine to accelerate muons, that can provide collisions at energies never reached before, the “Muon Collider”.

      In particular:

• We collaborate with accelerator experts to understand how to bring the muons to collide before they decay, and the effect that the products of the muon decays can have on the detector itself;
• We optimize the detectors needed to reconstruct the products of the collision between two muons at very high energy. The energies considered have never been studied before in this context and they open a new chapter in detector design and data analysis tools;
• We study the precision that can be obtained in the measurement of the property of the Higgs boson. In particular, we focus on the determination of the Higgs field potential.
  This will tell us if this machine will be able to probe with sufficient precision the origin of symmetry breaking and the origin of matter-antimatter symmetry in the Universe.