University of Siena - PhD in Physics

The principal aim of the 3 years Graduate School in Physics is the formation of young researchers with :

a broad cultural background in Physics;
a solid preparation in Experimental Physics.

The student is expected to acquire the capability :

to master traditional and state-of-the-art experimental techniques;
to get familiar with new experimental methodologies;
to perform a critical analysis of the data;
to get a specific know-how in the utilization of advanced instrumentation;
to design and implement innovative instruments and experiments.

The Physics Research Groups operating at the Department of Physical Sciences, Earth and Environment are well integrated in international (as well as national) research collaborations. This allows our graduate students to access the experimental facilities provided by national and international laboratories, universities and research institutions.

RESEARCH ACTIVITY

The research activity of the Physics Department covers the following broad classes :

High Energy Physics: study of the Structure of Matter at the level of the Fundamental Interactions;




CDF detector at Fermilab FNAL	*TOTEM* experiment at CERN	*CMS* experiment at CERN

High Energy Astroparticle Physics : study of charged and neutral radiation from space;



	CREAM NASA Balloon experiment (with launches from Antarctica)		MAGIC Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescope Cosmic Ray Observatory of Istituto de Astrofisica de Canarias


	CALET Calorimetric Electron Telescope on the International Space Station Exposure Facility JEM-EF

Atomic and Molecolar Physics : Study of the Structure of Matter;


FR-MOT Francium Magneto-Optical Trap	CPT Atomic Magnetometer	PLS Pulsed laser deposition of fluorides thin films for microlaser applications


	LIAD Light Induced Atomic Desorption			Coherent Control of Laser Pulse Propagation

Instrumentation for physics experiments in space or balloon-borne;


MATRIX R&D for a pixelated silicon array to identify cosmic nuclei	SPIDER R&D for sensors with Silicon-PMT readout	Silicon strip sensors for Silicon-Tungsten calorimetry

Advanced Instrumentation in Medical Physics;


	Digital Mammography

Physics of Complex Systems

ACCESS TO INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH FACILITIES

The research groups operating in the Department have access to the experimental facilities provided by :

International Laboratories and foreign research sites, as :
- European Laboratory for Particle Physics (Geneva) CERN
- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Batavia - USA) FERMILAB
- Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory ( Stanford - USA ) SLAC
- Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias IAC
- Max Planck Institut für Kernphysik - TSR facility Heidelberg
- Institut für Angewandte Physik - Bonn IAP
- Institute of Physical Science and Technology - University of Maryland IPST
- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center GSFC
- University of Chicago - Fermi Institute
- California Institute of Technology - CALTECH
- Waseda University (Tokio)
- Naval Research Laboratory - Washington
- Institute for Automation and Electrometry - Novosibirsk
- Institute for Physical Research - Ashtarak - Armenia

National Laboratories :
- Laboratorio Nazionale del Gran Sasso LNGS
- Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati LNF
- Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro LNL

The research groups of the Department operate in the framework of National Research Institutions like :

Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare INFN
Istituto Nazionale di Fisica della Materia INFM
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche CNR

in particular with :

INFN - Sezione di Pisa
INFN - Sezioni di Firenze, Ferrara, Trieste, Napoli, Padova, Bari, Lecce
Istituto di Fisica Atomica e Molecolare del CNR Pisa IFAM
Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica - INAF
Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri

and in close contact with :

Foreign and Italian Universities:
- Université Paris-Nord (XIII)
- École Normale Superiéure
- Dipartimento di Fisica Universita' di Varsavia
- Dept. of Chemistry Pennsylvania State University
- Dipartimento di Fisica dell' Universita' di Pisa
- Dipartimento di Fisica delle Universita' di : Ferrara, Bologna, Padova, Pavia, Sassari, Cagliari, Bari, Lecce, Napoli
- Dipartimento di Ingegneria Aerospaziale dell'Universita' di Pisa
- Dipartimento di Ingegneria Aerospaziale dell'Universita' di Padova

GRADUATE STUDIES: INTERNATIONAL PARTNERSHIP

In view of an integrated European newtwork for Graduate Studies, a Partnership Agreement has been signed between the Ph.D. School in Physics of Siena and the following Universities:

Université Paris-Nord (XIII)
Institute of Electronics - Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (Sofia)

A research agreement for gravitational waves research is active between the PhD School of Physics on Siena and:

California Institute of Technology

GRADUATE STUDIES: EUROPEAN NETWORK

The Ph.D School in Experimental Physics of the University of Siena is member of the International Doctorate Network for Particle, Astrophysics and Cosmology (IDPASC) an European Network of Universities.

In this framework, in October 2013, the Ph.D. School of Siena hosted the IDPASC School on Frontier Detectors for High Energy and Astroparticle Physics.