Symmetry in Experimental Physics of Fundamental Interactions

Dear Colleagues, 

the concept of Symmetry in Physics, with related conservation laws, represents a key ingredient of the field, from formal inputs in the development of a given theoretical framework, to baseline assumptions in driving the development of experiments and of analysis methods and approaches in the related measurements.

This special issue aims at collecting contributions dealing with every aspect of the experimental investigation of the fundamental interactions, which can be considered to be broadly connected to physics properties related to intrinsic characteristics of symmetry or asymmetry. In particular, the aim is to put together an overview of the often unsung experimental strategies, clever detector designs, smart analysis techniques that boost the advancements up in our understanding of fundamental interactions.  

For this purpose, based a priori also on a multi-disciplinary ground, we would like to gather papers dealing with the state-of-the-art research in: the development of detector materials that are, or can be in the future, exploited for new detection techniques; the design of new frontier experiments related to fundamental interaction studies, and particularly to the direct or indirect search for dark matter; the implementation of new data analysis, event reconstruction and detector calibration strategies. 

Prof. Giuseppe Latino
Prof. Piergiulio Lenzi
Dr. Giuseppe Barbagli
Guest Editors

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• experimental particle physics
• physics beyond the Standard Model
• new detection techniques
• detector design and implementation
• detector performance optimization
• data analysis strategies
• reconstruction algorithms
• detector calibration