Organization

Laboratory Board

Director Giovanni Fiorentini

Division Heads

Research Fabiana Gramegna

Accelerators Giovanni Bisoffi

Technical and General Services Paolo Favaron

Research Coordinators Experimental Nuclear Physics Lorenzo Corradi

Interdisciplinary Physics and Technological Developments Enrico Fagotti

Physics without accelerators Giuseppe Ruoso

Personnel Representatives

Research Staff Michele Comunian

Jose Javier Valiente Dobon

Engineering Staff Antonio Palmieri

Technical & Administrative Staff Mirco Gusella

Alberto Moni

Program Advisory Committee for Experimental Nuclear Physics (PAC)

Chairperson Santo Lunardi Physics and Astronomy Dept. "G. Galilei", University of Padua, Italy.

Dieter Ackermann GANIL Grand Accelerateur d'Ions Lourds, Caen, France.

Birger Bo Back Argonne National Laboratory, Physics Division, Argonne, USA.

Giuseppe Cardella INFN - Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, Catania, Italy.

Gianluca Colò Physics Department, University of Milano, Milano, Italy.

Claes Fahlander Lund University - Deparment of Physics Nuclear Physics (Sweden).

Olivier Sorlin GANIL Grand Accelerateur d'Ions Lourds, Caen, France.

User Selection Panel for Interdisciplinary Research (USIP)

Chairperson Renato Angelo Ricci University of Padova and INFN-LNL, Italy.

Mauro Belli National delegate at the Consultative Committee Programme.

Euratom-Fission - Technology and Health Dept. - National Institute

of Health, Rome, Italy.

Marina Berti Physics and Astronomy Dept. "G. Galilei", Padova, Italy

Piero Andrea Mandò Direttore Sezione INFN di Firenze, Sesto Fiorentino, Firenze, Italy.

Paolo Prati Sezione INFN di Genova, Genova, Italy.

LNL User Board

Chairperson Giovanna Benzoni INFN-Milano, Italy.

Dario Bisello University of Padova and INFN-Padova, Italy.

Enrico Fioretto INFN-LNL, Italy (User Service).

Gianluigi Maggioni INFN - LNL and Padova University

Tommaso Marchi IKS - KU Leuven

Daniele Mengoni Padova University and INFN

Marco Mazzocco INFN-Padova, Italy (Tandem-Alpi Coordinator).

Dimitra Pierroutsakou University and INFN of Naples

Valentino Rigato INFN-LNL, Italy (AN2000 and CN Coordinator).

Emanuele Vardaci University and INFN of Naples

Accelerator Coordinators

TANDEM – ALPI–PIAVE Marco Mazzocco INFN-Padova, Italy.

CN & AN2000 Valentino Rigato INFN-LNL, Italy.

Qualified Experts for Radiological Protection

Sarchiapone Lucia INFN-LNL, Italy.

Demetre Zafiropoulos INFN-LNL, Italy.

Environmental Management System

Appointee Paolo Favaron INFN-LNL, Italy.

Manager Patrizia Ingenito INFN-LNL, Italy.

Laboratory Staff

RESEARCH DIVISION

Division Head: F. Gramegna

Research & Engineering Staff

O. Azzolini

M. Biasotto

P. Boccaccio

D. Bortolato(*)

J.I. Bermudez Flores(+)

A. Caciolli(+)

G. Caldarola(*)

I. Callegari(+)

S. Carturan(#)

R. Cherubini

M. Cinausero

V. Conte

L. Corradi

G. de Angelis

A. Facco

S. Fantinel

E. Fioretto

G. Fortuna

F. Gramegna

G. Keppel(*)

M. Gulmini

G. Maggioni(#)

G. Maron

P.F. Mastinu

A.J. Mendez(+)

D.R. Napoli

A. Ortolan

M. Pasquali(+)

V. Pastushenko(+)

V. Palmieri

R. Pengo

G. Prete

W. Raniero(*)

V. Rigato

G. Ruoso

C. Scian(#)

A.M. Stefanini

J.J. Valiente Dobón

Technical Staff

N. Argiolas(#)

L. Bacci(#)

M. Bello(#)

L. Berti

D. Carlucci

D. Ceccato(#)

P. Cocconi

M. Loriggiola

U. Pieri(#)

S. Piva

D. Rosso

F. Stivanello

N. Toniolo

ACCELERATOR DIVISION

Division Head: G. Bisoffi

Research & Engineering Staff

A. Andrighetto

L. Antoniazzi(*)

P. Antonini(*)

A. Battistella

G. Bisoffi

S. Canella

M. Cavenago

M. Comunian

A. Dainelli

J. Esposito

E. Fagotti

A. Galatà(*)

F. Grespan(*)

A. Lombardi

M. Maggiore(*)

M. Manzolaro(*)

M.F. Moisio

M. Montis(*)

A. Palmieri

A. Pisent

M. Poggi

C. Roncolato(*)

F. Scantamburlo(*)

D. Scarpa(*)

Technical Staff

A. Baldo(*)

A. Beltramin

L. Boscagli

P. Bottin(*)

A. Calore

O. Carletto

F. Chiurlotto

A. Conte(*)

M. Contran

S. Contran

D. Crivellaro(*)

G. Daniele

M. De Lazzari

A. Fasolato

V. Fasolo

A. Ferrara

F. Gelain(*)

M. Giacchini

L. La Torre

L. Maran(#)

D. Marcato(*)

D. Martini

A. Minarello

E. Munaron(#)

F. Nerva

M. Pacchiega(*)

R. Ponchia

L. Pranovi(*)

M. Sattin

Secretary

A. D’Este

TECHNICAL AND GENERAL SERVICE DIVISION

Division Head: P. Favaron

Engineering Staff

P. Favaron

Technical Staff

A. Battistello(*)

E. Bissiato

D. Carlucci

D. Conventi

S. Gambalonga

D. Giora

M. Gusella

M. Lollo

D. Maniero

A. Minarello

F. Pasquato(*)

C. Pegoraro

R. Pegoraro

M. Pianta

F. Poletto

A. Rebeccato

M. Rigato

A. Vescovo(*)

Secretary

C. Camporese

ADMINISTRATION SERVICE

Administrative Staff

G. Barbiero

S. Guerrieri

B. Lava(*)

A. Favaro(*) (Resp.)

A. Moni

A. Zanovello

CRYOPLANTS SERVICE

Engineering Staff

P. Modanese (Resp.)

Technical Staff

D. Borille(*)

A. Calore

T. Contran A. Friso(*) M. Pengo(*)

DIRECTION SERVICE

Administrative Staff

P. Carraretto(*)

F. Mazzer

L. Pegoraro

B. Tonello

S. Zanella

C. Zecchin (Resp.)

EXTERNAL FUNDS SERVICE

Administrative Staff

R. Battistella (Resp.) A. Francescon(*)

RADIATION PROTECTION SERVICE

Research & Engineering Staff

D. Zafiropoulos (Resp.) L. Sarchiapone(*)

Technical Staff

M.C. Buoso G. Scarabottolo

Secretary

D. Zane

SAFETY AND PREVENTION SERVICE

Technical Staff

S. Sartor (Resp.)

________________________________________________________________________________________________(*) Temporary contract (#) University of Padua staff (+) Coordinated and continuous collaboration

Associates and Guests

SCIENTIFIC ASSOCIATES

Marco Bazzan Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Università di Padova, Padova, Italy.

Lisa Biasetto Dipartimento di Tecnica e Gestione dei Sistemi Industriali, Università di Padova,

Padova, Italy.

Alberto Carnera Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Università di Padova, Padova, Italy.

Paolo Colautti INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, Italy.

Mario De Poli INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, Italy.

Davide De Salvador Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Università di Padova, Padova, Italy.

Gianantonio Della Mea Dipartimento di Ingegneria dei Materiali, Università di Trento, Trento, Italy.

Laura Evangelista Istituto Oncologico Veneto, Padova, Italy.

Graziano Fortuna INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, Italy.

Gino Mariotto Dipartimento di Informatica, Università di Verona, Verona, Italy.

Giovanni Mattei Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Università di Padova, Padova, Italy.

Enrico Napolitani Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Università di Padova, Padova, Italy.

Piergiorgio Nicolosi Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Informazione, Università di Padova, Padova, Italy.

Mirko Reguzzoni Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile e Ambientale, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy.

Renato Angelo Ricci Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Università di Padova, Padova, Italy.

Giulio Rosati Dipartimento di Tecnica e Gestione dei Sistemi Industriali, Università di Padova,

Padova, Italy.

Aldo Rossi Dipartimento di Tecnica e Gestione dei Sistemi Industriali, Università di Padova,

Padova, Italy.

Carlo Rossi Alvarez INFN, Sezione di Padova, Italy.

Bahadir Saygi The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey, Turkey.

Paola Spolaore INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, Italy.

Nikolay Uzunov University of Shumen, Shumen, Bulgaria.

Gaolong Zhang Beihang University, P.R. China.

TECHNICAL ASSOCIATES TO INFN, LABORATORI NAZIONALI DI LEGNARO

Giorgio Bassato, Ettore Brezzi, Luciano Costa, Selvino Marigo, Fabio Scarpa

SCIENTIFIC GUESTS

Vladimir Andreev Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow, Russia.

Boris Chalykh Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow, Russia.

Petra Colovic Ruder Boskovic Institute, Zagreb, Croatia.

Meltem Degerlier Nevsehir University, Nevsehir, Turkey.

Youcef Djerboua Université de Setif-1, Setif, Algeria.

Andres Gadea Raga Instituto de Física Corpuscolar, Valencia, Spain.

Alain Goasduff Centre de Sciences Nucléaires et de Sciences de la Matière, Orsay, France.

Grzegorz Jaworski University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland.

Ekaterina Khabibullina Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow, Russia.

Timur Kulevoy Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow, Russia.

Davoine Loic CERN, Geneva, Switzerland.

Dmitry Lyakin Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow, Russia.

Guido Martin Hernandez Centro de Aplicaciones Tecnológicas y Desarrollo Nuclear, La Habana, Cuba.

Victor Modamio University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.

Sergey Petrenko Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow, Russia.

Thomas Powers Jefferson Laboratory, Newport News, United States.

Abu Zayed Rahman University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Eda Sahin University of Oslo, Norway.

Clive C. Speake University of Birmingham, United Kingdom.

Daniel W. Stracener Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, United States.

Suzana Szilner Ruder Boskovic Institute, Zagreb, Croatia.

Albina Ziiatdinova Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow, Russia.

Fellowships, Research Grants, Students

INFN - LNL Fellows and Research Grants

Daniele Aprile

Daniela Benini

Marco Betti

Enrico Boratto

Michele Calderolla

Ivan Callegari

Daniela Campo

Nicoletta Ciatara

Sara Cisternino

Stefano Corradetti

Fabio D’Agostini

Michela De Muri

Viviana De Nadal

Pasquale Luca De Ruvo

Luigi Ferrari

Annalisa Forin

Daniel Adrien Franco Lespinasse

Pietro Giacomazzi

Matteo Gobbo

Andrea Gozzelino

Grzegorz Jaworski

Davide Marcato

Luca Martin

Giorgio Sebastiano Mauro

Liliana Mou

Aldo Mozzi

Giovanni Prete

Gaia Pupillo

Kassandra Giulia Cristina Raptis

Anna Selva

Roberto Silingardi

Virginia Strati

Pierluigi Veltri

Alessio Vescovo

Alice Zanovello

University Fellows and Research Grants

Laura Melendez-Alafort – Padova Univ. Gabrio Valotto – Venezia Univ.

Edoardo Visentin – Consorzio INSTM

Post-Doctoral Positions

Alfio Battiato, University of Torino, Italy.

Jacopo Forneris, University of Torino, Italy.

Simone Ceruti, KU Leuven, Belgium.

Alain Goasduff, INFN LNL, Italy.

Katarzyna Hadynska-Klek, INFN LNL, Italy.

Grzegorz Jaworski, INFN LNL, Italy.

Justin Mabiala, INFN LNL, Italy.

Sviatoslav Ditalia Tchernij, University of Torino, Italy.

Emanuele Strano, University of Padova and INFN, Italy.

Andrea Tengattini, University of Torino, Italy.

Gaolong Zhang, INFN-LNL, Italy.

STUDENTS

PhD Students

Mohamed Osman Abozeid, University of Padova, Italy.

Michele Ballan, University of Ferrara, Italy.

Luca Bellan University of Padova, Italy.

Cecilia Bennati, Politecnico di Torino, Italy.

Virginia Boldrini, University of Padova, Italy.

Francesca Borgna, University of Padova, Italy.

Matteo Campostrini, University of Trento, Italy.

Magda Cicerchia, University of Padova, Italy.

Giulia Colucci, University of Padova and INFN, Italy.

Nicolo’ Crescini, University of Padova, Italy.

Matteo Dalla Palma, University of Trento, Italy.

Franco Galtarossa, University of Ferrara, Italy.

Martina Giraudo, Politecnico di Torino, Italy.

Marco Guarise, University of Ferrara, Italy.

Petra Martini, University of Ferrara, Italy.

Valentina Mattarello, University of Padova, Italy.

Alice Mentana, University of Milano and INFN, Italy.

Alberto Monetti, University of Padova, Italy.

Stefano Pavinato, University of Padova, Italy.

Davide Pedretti, University of Padova, Italy.

Denise Piatti, University of Padova, Italy.

Cristian Pira, University of Padova, Italy.

Massimo Rossignoli, University of Padova, Italy.

Anna Selva, University of Padova, Italy. (till 30.06.2016)

Francesco Sgarbossa, University of Padova, Italy.

Marco Siciliano, University of Padova, Italy.

Hanna Skliarova, University of Ferrara, Italy.

Daniele Torsello, Politecnico di Torino, Italy.

Elisa Vettorato, University of Padova, Italy

Gianluca Vivian, University of Padova, Italy.

“Master in Surface Treatments for Industrial Applications” Students

Maria Teresa Barrera Rojas

Giovanni Caldarola

Simone Cameli

Lorenzo Cerasti

Carlo Dalla Val

Lorenzo Giuliani

Andrea Giusto

Marco Zordan

Nicoletta Ciatara

Master’s Degree students - 2nd level degree

Mattia Agostini, University of Padova, Italy.

Davide Amatuzio, University of Padova, Italy.

Valentina Bortoli, University of Padova, Italy.

Claudia Durighello, University of Padova, Italy.

Daen Jannis, KU Leuven, Belgium.

Alberto Raccanello, University of Padova, Italy.

Alberto Sandrin, University of Padova, Italy.

Chiara Todesco, University of Padova, Italy.

Paolo Todesco, University of Padova, Italy.

Davide Turcato, University of Padova, Italy.

Bachelor’s Degree students – 1st level degree

Matteo De Rosa, University of Padova, Italy.

Annachiara Filippini, University of Milano, Italy.

Bianca Giacomelli, University of Padova, Italy.

Seminars

Jan. 21st, 2016 Ferid Haddad, GIP Arronax

Managing a high intensity high energy cyclotron for medical applications.

Jan. 22nd, 2016 Fabio Visentin, LNL-INFN

Sviluppo e caratterizzazione della sorgente di ionizzazione al plasma del

progetto SPES.

Feb. 23rd, 2016 Jean Pierre Zendri, Gabriele Vedovato, INFN-Padova

Direct detection of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger.

Mar. 4th, 2016 Thomas Birke, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie GmbH

Archiver Appliance to EPICS control systems.

Mar. 4th, 2016 Enrico Chiaveri, CERN

n_TOF (Neutron Time of Flight) at CERN: a bright future for neutrons.

Apr. 5th, 2016 Stefano Fanti, Università Bologna Medicina Nucleare - Centro PET Policlinico

S.Orsola-Malpighi

Stato e prospettive della medicina nucleare.

Apr. 8th, 2016 Asli Kusoglu, Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Istanbul University

g-factor measurements and nuclear spin orientation in different types of

reactions.

Apr. 11th, 2016 Nicola Sattin

L’Unità di diagnostica SPES: architettura hardware e la programmazione del

micro-controllore.

Apr. 15th, 2016 Jesus Vasquez, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

LCLS-II: High Performance System.

Apr. 27th, 2016 Naïma Amrani, Physics Department, Faculty of Sciences, Sétif-1 University, Algeria

Evaluated nuclear data for nuclear sciences and astrophysics.

May 2nd, 2016 Nicola Sattin

Il sistema di supervisione in ambiente CSS del Front-End SPES.

May 10th, 2016 Michael Bernhard Loewenhaupt, TU Dresden, IFP

Magnetic phase diagram of CeCu2Ge2 up to 15 T - on the route to understand

field induced phase transitions.

May 17th, 2016 Guillaume Scamps, Department of Physics, Tohoku University Sendai, Japan

Effect of the pairing correlations on transfer reactions at energies below the

Coulomb barrier.

June 28th, 2016 Abu Zayed Rahman, University of Malaya, Malaysia

Irradiation Effects in High Melting Oxides and Synthesis of New Luminescent

Composite Materials.

July 5th, 2016 Maninder Kaur, SGTB Khalsa College, Sri Anandpur Sahib, India

Investigating the dynamics of heavy-ion induced fusion reactions.

July 11th, 2016 Gabriele Vedovato, INFN Sezione di Padova

La rivelazione delle onde gravitazionali 100 anni dopo la predizione di Einstein.

July 13th, 2016 Ruggero Vaglio, Università di Napoli Federico II

Surface impedance of superconductors in magnetic fields.

Sept. 8th, 2016 Gurpreet KAUR, Dept. of Physics, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India

Quasi-elastic scattering studies at IUAC to understand the fusion dynamics.

Sept. 29th, 2016

Marco Pezzetti, CERN

The Control System of the new CERN HI-LUMI Cryogenic Test Facility.

Sept. 30th, 2016

Jose Manuel Deltoro, Universita di Valencia

Pulsed power system and temperature acquisition system for future silicon

sensors.

Oct. 3rd, 2016

Mathieu Babo (Grand Accelerateur National d’Ions Lourds, GANIL

B-delayed charged particle decays of neutron-deficient nuclei 20Mg and 22,23Si.

Oct. 4th, 2016

Renata Mikolajczak, National Centre for Nuclear Research Radioisotope Centre

POLATOM

Research and development activities at POLATOM.

Nov. 2nd, 2016

Mattia Agostini, INFN-LNL

Il sistema di controllo del deposito temporaneo del progetto SPES.

Nov. 3rd, 2016

Guido Martin Hernandez, CEADEN Cuba

Beam Line for Nuclear Astrophysics at LNL.

Nov. 11th, 2016

Serge Franchoo, IPNO

The Alto photofission facility at IPN Orsay.

Nov. 17th, 2016

Arunabha Saha, VECC

Study of nuclear structure around N = 90.

Dec. 1st, 2016

Magda Zielinska, CEA Saclay, France

Exploring the southern border of the N=60 shape transition.

Dec. 5th, 2016

Alain Goasduff, Université de Strasbourg

Electromagnetic decay of molecular state: 12C+16O sub-barrier radiative

capture measurement.

Dec. 12th, 2016

Tom Powers, Jefferson Lab

RF Measurements of a Superconducting cavity.

Meetings and Events

CONFERENCES, WORKSHOPS AND MEETINGS

Program Advisory Committee meeting, Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, February 18th – 19th, 2016

User Selection Panel for Interdisciplinary Research meeting, Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, February 23rd, 2016

IPAB2016 (Intense and Powerful Accelerator Beams for industrial and energy application), Laboratori Nazionali di

Legnaro, March 14th – 16th, 2016

Riunione Nazionale CSN3, Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, June 20th – 22nd, 2016

Fourth Meeting of the SPES Technical Advisory Committee (TAC4), Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, June 30th –

July 1st, 2016

Program Advisory Committee meeting, Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, July 18th – 19th, 2016

Third International SPES Workshop, Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, October 10th – 12th, 2016

LNL Users' Meeting, Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, October 13th, 2016

The Fifth National Seminar on Innovative detectors (SNRI-V), Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, October 24th – 28th,

2016

3rd COULEX School, Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, November 28th – 30th, 2016

Giornate di Studio sul Piano Triennale INFN 2017-2019, Campus di Agripolis – Legnaro, December 2nd – 3rd, 2016.

OTHER EVENTS

Guided tours at LNL-INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, January – December 2016.

81 tours with a total of 3248 visitors.

Master in: “Trattamenti di superficie per l’industria” ("Surface Treatments for Industrial Applications") Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, January – December, 2016.

4 students.

Sperimentando 2016 - Mostra scientifica interattiva per imparare divertendosi - Interactive scientific exhibition for

students and public, Padova, April 9th – May 22nd, 2016.

9335 visitors.

Stage for Under-Graduate Students, Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, June 2016.

48 students.

Inaugurazione centro di benvenuto “Welcome@LNL”, Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, July 27th, 2016.

80 visitors.

Notte Europea della Ricerca, Palazzo del Bò – Università degli Studi di Padova, September 30th, 2016.

4000 visitors.