Astrophysics with low and high energy neutrinos

Giorno 16 giugno 2026, con inizio alle ore 15:00, presso la Sala Conferenze del DFA e online a questo link, il Prof. Maurizio Spurio (Università di Bologna & INFN) terrà un seminario dal titolo Astrophysics with low and high energy neutrinos.

Modera la Dott.ssa Clara Saia (Dottoranda in Fisica, 41° ciclo).

Il seminario appartiene al ciclo degli Highlights in Frontier Physics, nell'ambito delle attività del Dottorato di ricerca in Fisica.

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Abstract. Neutrinos are ideal probes to test the most remote, dense and energetic regions of cosmic objects because they are neutral particles and are low interacting. This latter aspect is a drawback, because huge detectors are necessary to observe few interactions. However, neutrino experiments were able to measure the energy produced in the Sun core, to verify models of core-collapse of massive stars, and open a new window in the observation of the most energetic phenomena in the Universe. The presentation highlights the most recent and significative results of neutrino astrophysics.

Bio. M. Spurio is professor at University of Bologna, with a research activity on astroparticle physics. He was (from 2014 to 2024) deputy-spokesman of the ANTARES neutrino telescope, and among founders the KM3NeT experiment. He was member of the MACRO experiment at Gran Sasso, contributing to the evidence of atmospheric neutrino oscillations. He is author of the book "Probes of Multimessenger Astrophysics", for Springer and other didactic texts, and more than 280 papers published on referred journals. He teaches Mechanics, Nuclear and Subnuclear Physics, and Particle Astrophysics. From 2008-2012, he was member of the UniBo Academic Senate.