With the observation of gravitational waves (GWs) in 2015 by the terrestial interferometer LIGO, a new era of fundamental physics begun. Since then, a network of GW ground-based interferemeters has scrutinized the band of frequencies in the Hz to kHz range, finding almost hundred mergers of binaries of black holes or neutron stars. In 2023, a signal in the nHz band was discovered using the...
The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) is one of the most ambitious neutrino oscillation projects ever conceived. Currently under construction at the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF) in South Dakota, DUNE will exploit a high-power, wide-band neutrino beam produced at Fermilab. In this talk, I will review the broad physics program of the experiment, which includes precision...
Recent IceCube observations reveal a significant excess of TeV neutrinos from the Seyfert II galaxy NGC 1068, marking the first robust association of astrophysical neutrinos with a non-jetted AGN despite the absence of gamma-ray emission. The remarkable X-ray brightness of this source suggests that dense X-ray photon fields near the supermassive black hole may act simultaneously as targets for...
The microscopic mechanism responsible for the formation of light (anti)(hyper)nuclei in hadron–hadron collisions remains one of the open questions in high-energy nuclear physics. While statistical hadronization and nucleon coalescence models both reproduce measured yields, momentum spectra, and fluctuations in pp, p–A, and A–A collisions at ultra-relativistic energies, they are based on...
We report the preliminary results from a direct cross‐section measurement of the $^{59}$Cu(p, $\alpha$) $^{56}$Ni reaction, performed in inverse kinematics using the high-efficiency MUSIC active-target detector at the ReA6 facility at FRIB. This reaction is critical in explosive astrophysical environments. In type I X-ray bursts, where rapid proton capture and $\alpha$-induced processes drive...
