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

The student is expected to acquire the capability :

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 :

CDF detector

at Fermilab FNAL

TOTEM experiment

at CERN

CMS experiment

at CERN


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

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

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

Digital Mammography



ACCESS TO INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH FACILITIES

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

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

in particular with :

and in close contact with :


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.