EEE at the North Pole
POLA-R Detectors at the “Dirigibile Italia” Research Base in Svalbard islands
Since May 12 to May 19, a team of researchers from the EEE Collaboration – Francesco Noferini (INFN Bologna), Alessandro Corvaglia (INFN Lecce), and Corrado Cicalò (INFN Cagliari) – have conducted maintenance work on the POLA-R detectors at the CNR research station “Dirigibile Italia” in Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard.
Ny-Ålesund
The operations have been supported by station leaders Anna Baldo and Leandro Nauhel Rotondo.
The POLA-R detectors, developed through the collaboration between the Enrico Fermi Research Center (CREF) and the National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN), are part of the EEE Project (Extreme Energy Events), an experiment dedicated to the study of cosmic rays that also involves high school students from all over Italy. Since 2019 as part of the EEE@NyAlesund mission, these detectors play a key role in data collection at extreme latitudes. The long time series collected over more than five years now enable in-depth analyses of signal periodicities, offering insights into the nature of cosmic ray sources.
Researchers of Collaboration EEE: Francesco Noferini (INFN Bologna), Alessandro Corvaglia (INFN Lecce) e Corrado Cicalò (INFN Cagliari)
INFN researchers, CNR and Institute of Polar Science
Measurements under such geographical and environmental conditions are particularly rare and valuable for the scientific community.
EEE Researchers Night 2024
The European Researchers' Night will be held on 27 and 28 September 2024
The EEE Project will participate in the following activities:
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EEE Project General Meeting 2023
The general meeting of the Extreme Energy Events Project– Science in Schools has just ended at the INFN Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro dell’INFN.
Hundred students and teachers from schools across Italy participated in the event in person, together with EEE researchers, and many others followed remotely.
During the three days, from 27 to 29 November, some seminars were held on the activities of the EEE project and PolarquEEEst ("spin off" of EEE for the measurement of cosmic rays near the North Pole) and on some researches that are carried out at the Legnaro Laboratories, such as nuclear astrophysics and the production of radionuclides for medicine.
The students had the opportunity to visit the experimental areas of the laboratories and discover the activities taking place inside them. The central event of the meeting was a masterclass in which the students measured the Legnaro EEE telescope efficiency, starting form data aqusiition to analysis and report of the results. The students of the EEE project, in fact, actively participate in the study of the performance of the detectors with the new low environmental impact mixture that the EEE collaboration has identified as part of its ecological transition.
EEE at ICD 2023
More than 30 schools of the E.E.E. Project participated in the International Cosmic Day 2023. During this edition of the event, hundreds of students followed the seminar by Professor Pasquale Blasi, of the Gran Sasso Science Institute, entitled "The universe that the eye does not see: High Energy Cosmic Accelerators", an interesting journey to the origin of cosmic rays.
The day continued with the presentations of the schools focused on the analysis of data from the POLAR detectors, located at the international scientific station of Ny Alesund: the students studied the coincidences between pairs of detectors. On the occasion of the event, students and professors from high schools in Rome and Lazio followed the ICD from the Fermi Hall of Centro Fermi.
EEE Researchers Night 2023
The European Researchers' Night will be held on 29 and 30 September 2023
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EEE-meetings resume!
The Schools paticipating in the EEE Project at the 10th International Cosmic Day
Thirty high school classes from all over Italy and numerous students and professors belonging to the EEE Project participated in the International Cosmic Day 2021 - the international day dedicated to the physics of cosmic rays - taking part in the webinar that the Enrico Fermi Research Center and INFN they organized on November 10th. The meeting, moderated by Dr. Silvia Pisano, CREF researcher, was articulated through the contributions of Dr. Giuseppe Gallo (Muonic Tomography of Etna) of the University and INFN section of Catania, of Prof. Daniele De Gruttola ( Cosmic ray flow vs. direction) of the University and INFN section of Salerno, and the presentations of the four best analyzes carried out by the schools: the Liceo Scacchi of Bari, the Liceo Galvani of Bologna, the Liceo Righi of Rome and the IIS Staffa of Trinitapoli. International Cosmic Day is an international event born 10 years ago, coordinated by the Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY) of Hamburg, and aims to bring students closer to science by accompanying them in the discovery and study of cosmic rays.
First Meeting of the EEE Project after COVID shutdown,17-19 November 2021 Erice
From 17 to 19 November 2021, eleven schools of the Extreme Energy Events (EEE) Project met in person at the Ettore Majorana Foundation and Center for Scientific Culture in Erice for the workshop "1st Meeting of the EEE Project after COVID shutdown"; the meeting, organized by CREF and INFN, brought together 50 students and teachers in person and more than 250 participants remotely connected.
The EEE Project is performing an ecological transition, so the heart of the meeting was the Masterclass: “Ecogas for EEE stations - Data analysis on ecological mixtures”. The students of the Project had the opportunity to analyze the data recently acquired by some telescopes of the EEE network, in which the standard gas mixture was replaced by different mixtures with low Global Warming Power (GWP). The students discussed the results of the tests, also presenting their original contribution: the best works were awarded at the end of the workshop.
The agenda (https://agenda.centrofermi.it/event/197/timetable/#20211117) included also three seminars dedicated to coincidences between distant detectors, the PolarquEEEst mission and Physics applied to the archaeological sector, a contribution that prepared the students for the visit to the Lilibeo Museum in Marsala, which took place during the morning of the second day of the meeting.
The great success of this initiative represents a first step towards the restart of the activities of the EEE Project.
EEE Project at ICHEP 2022
Marco Garbini presented the outreach activities of the EEE: Extreme Energy Events Project at the ICHEP 2022 conference held in Bologna from 6 to 13 July 2022.The International Conference on High Energy Physics is one of the leading conferences in the field of High Energy Physics.
More than 1000 physicists from around the world attended the conference sharing the latest advances in particle physics, astrophysics, cosmology, accelerator science and discuss future projects. It was one of the first major events in person after the Pandemic.
The status and activities of the EEE Project were presented in the Education & Outreach session of the Conference. In particular the talk was focused on the organization of the experiment and the work carried out by all participants in the experiment in the last two difficult years and the challenges of the "green transition" undertaken by the Collaboration.
Il Progetto EEE organizza un webinar sulla missione PolarquEEEst con diretta dalle Svalbard
Webinar PolarquEEEst: an expedition to the North Pole in search of cosmic rays
Event start time 19:30: https://cern.zoom.us/j/
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Il Progetto EEE partecipa alla Notte Europea dei Ricercatori con uno stand virtuale sulla missione polarquEEEst
Il Progetto EEE aderisce alla Notte Europea dei Ricercatori tramite l’iniziativa “SocietyNext” (https://notte-dei-ricercatori.sharevent.it) e parteciperà con uno stand virtuale su polarquEEEst con una diretta a partire dalle 19:30. Una volta che ci si è registrati sul portale, il nostro stand virtuale è visibile direttamente al link https://notte-dei-ricercatori.sharevent.it/it-IT/sponsors/6346
Siete tutti invitati a partecipare!
PolarquEEEst: misura dei raggi cosmici al Polo Nord. Cosa può affascinare di più di un viaggio fra i ghiacci del Polo Nord alla scoperta di paesaggi unici e una natura spettacolare? E se il viaggio fosse anche l’occasione per uno studio sui raggi cosmici in regioni sino a ora avare di misure? E se in questa avventura fossero coinvolti anche i ragazzi delle scuole medie superiori in Europa? Tutto questo è stato l’esperimento PolarquEEEst che continua a prendere dati nella base scientifica di Ny Alesund (Svalbard) da oltre un anno.
Il progetto PolarquEEEst è nato all’interno del progetto “Extreme Energy Events – la scienza nel cuore dei giovani” in occasione della spedizione PolarQuest 2018 verso il Polo Nord a 90 anni dall’impresa di Umberto Nobile.
Inizio diretta Zoom ore 19.30.
La diretta si svolgerà alternando una sessione (30 minuti) in cui ricercatori e studenti parleranno del loro lavoro nell’ambito di polarquEEEst (con possibilità di porre domande attraverso la chat) e una sessione libera di domande/video sulla spedizione (30 minuti).
19.30-20.00 presentazione attività di PolarquEEEst da parte di ricercatori e studenti
20.00-20.30 domande ai ricercatori/video sulla spedizione
20.30-21.00 presentazione attività di PolarquEEEst da parte dei ricercatori e studenti
21.00-21.30 domande ai ricercatori/video sulla spedizione
Interverranno studenti delle scuole:
Liceo A. Volta – Reggio Calabria
Liceo Scorza – Cosenza
presentando la loro esperienza nell’analisi dei dati di PolarquEEEst durante l’International Cosmic Day 2020.
PolarquEEEst: the measurement of cosmic rays at the North Pole. What can be more fascinating than a journey through the ice of the North Pole to discover unique landscapes and spectacular nature? What if the trip is also an opportunity for a study on cosmic rays in regions were few measurements have been performed? What if european high school students are involved in this adventure? This is the PolarquEEEst experiment which is taking data at Ny Alesund (Svalbard) scientific base since more than one year.
The PolarquEEEst project was born within the "Extreme Energy Events - science in the hearts of young people” Project, on the occasion of the PolarQuest 2018 expedition to the North Pole 90 years after Umberto Nobile's undertaking.
Live broadcast on Zoom at 19.30 alternating a session (30 minutes) in which researchers and students will talk about their work within polarquEEEst (with the possibility of asking questions through the chat) and a free session of questions / videos on the expedition (30 minutes).
19.30-20.00 presentation of PolarquEEEst activities by researchers and students
20.00-20.30 questions to researchers / video about the expedition
20.30-21.00 presentation of PolarquEEEst activities by researchers and students
21.00-21.30 questions to researchers / video on the expedition
Report form the schools:
Liceo A. Volta - Reggio Calabria
Liceo Scorza - Cosenza
presenting their experience in PolarquEEEst data analysis during the International Cosmic Day 2020.
Grande partecipazione al Run Meeting EEE per ICD 2020
Il Run Meeting del Progetto EEE, organizzato in occasione dell’International Cosmic Day 2020, ha visto la partecipazione di circa 380 tra studenti e professori delle scuole del progetto. L'evento è stato caratterizzato da una presentazione dell'esperimento KM3 per la ricerca di neutrini nel Mare di Sicilia e da alcune presentazioni degli studenti e dei ricercatori dei risultati delle analisi dei dati presi alle isole Svalbard sulla variazione con le stagioni del flusso dei raggi cosmici.
Un evento che ha visto molta partecipazione ed entusiasmo tra gli studenti ed i professori, come sempre protagonisti di questi incontri.
Le scuole del Progetto EEE partecipano all’International Cosmic Day 2020
Anche quest’anno le scuole del Progetto EEE partecipano all’International Cosmic Day- ICD attraverso un Run Meeting dedicato a questa iniziativa, in programma il 4 novembre 2020 (ore 15:00).
Le scuole sono invitate ad effettuare delle analisi dati riguardanti lo studio dei rivelatori della Missione PolarquEEEst: le tre migliori verranno selezionate e presentate dagli studenti nel corso del meeting.
In agenda, inoltre, la presentazione a cura del Dott. Carmelo Pellegrino riguardante l’esperimento KM3Net, un network di rivelatori sottomarini a caccia di neutrini, e un intervento del Dott. Francesco Noferini, relativo all’osservazione con i rivelatori Polar dell’effetto stagionale nel flusso dei raggi cosmici.
Il programma e tutti i dettagli dell’evento sono disponibili al seguente link.
L’ICD, giunto alla sua 9° edizione, è un evento internazionale organizzato da Desy in collaborazione con Netzwerk Teilchenwelt, IPPOG, QuarkNet e Fermilab.Also this year the schools involved in the EEE Project participate to the International Cosmic Day-ICD; an EEE Run Meeting dedicated to the ICD has been scheduled for November the 4th, 2020 (3:00 pm).
Also this year the schools involved in the EEE Project participate to the International Cosmic Day-ICD; an EEE Run Meeting dedicated to the ICD has been scheduled for November the 4th, 2020 (3:00 pm).
This year the students are asked to analyse the data of the PolarquEEEst Mission detectors: the three best analysis reports will be selected and presented by the students during the meeting.
The agenda foresees the presentation regarding the KM3Net, a network of submarine detectors hunting for neutrinos, experiment by Dr. Carmelo Pellegrino and and another one concerning the observation of the seasonal effect on the flux of cosmic rays as measured by the Polar detectors, by Dr. Francesco Noferini,
The agenda of the event and other details are available at the following link.
The ICD, now in its 9th edition, is an international event organized by Desy research center in collaboration with Netzwerk Teilchenwelt, IPPOG, QuarkNet and Fermilab.
Gli studenti del Progetto EEE al Festival Scienza di Cagliari
Il Centro Fermi riconferma il suo supporto al Festival Scienza di Cagliari 2019. La dodicesima edizione del festival nel capoluogo sardo ha visto protagonisti i ragazzi del liceo scientifico Pacinotti, dell’istituto Levi di Quartu S.E. e i neo iscritti all’università di Cagliari in Fisica partecipanti al progetto EEE, che si sono avvicendati per 5 giorni nelle spiegazioni in materia di raggi cosmici ad un pubblico variegato. Sul banco dedicato alla fisica dei muoni, facevano mostra di sé una Cosmic Box e le attrezzature della sezione di Cagliari dell’INFN, che hanno reso possibile l’illustrazione del flusso di particelle sia a studenti di scuole medie e superiori in visite organizzate che al pubblico di curiosi della scienza che rendono il festival un successo divulgativo che conferma la sua importanza dal 2007.Novità dell’edizione 2019 è anche la mostra multimediale dedicata alla missione Polar Queeest. Nella sede istituzionale della Fondazione di Sardegna, sotto il titolo 82°07’-sulle tracce del dirigibile Italia, un percorso fotografico guida il visitatore nella bellezza delle Svalbard per portarlo con pannelli illustrativi ad apprezzare il valore fisico e storico della missione che culmina con un video montaggio dell’esperienza. La mostra, curata dal CRS4 (centro di ricerca, sviluppo e studi superiori in Sardegna), in collaborazione con il Centro Fermi ha già ricevuto il privilegio di un’esposizione prolungata.
Centro Fermi confirms its support to the annual “Festival Scienza” held in Cagliari in 2019. This twelfth edition of the science fair held in the main city of Sardinia had the participation of students from liceo scientifico Pacinotti, istituto Levi and new University students from the project EEE who made shifts for five days to explain the physics of cosmic rays to a miscellaneous audience. The instrumentation used to show the muon flux was courtesy of the INFN Cagliari and one of the famous cosmic box. It was possible to illustrate the project EEE’s work to students from middle to high school and to a large number of curious people interested in science who make this festival an annual success since 2007. In this 2019 edition there was a special opportunity of visibility for the Polar Queeest project: a multimedia exposition under the title “82°07’-sulle tracce del dirigibile Italia” was set in the building of the “fondazione di Sardegna”. The visual tour guides the visitor through the beauty of artic landscapes to the physics and story behind the project. The exposition culminates with a video of the experience. The success of this show, made with the collaboration of the crs4, makes it possible to extend its exposition over the length of the science fair.
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