The Minister of University and Research, Anna Maria Bernini, has signed the provision to officially establish the group of experts who will have to scientifically promote the Italian candidacy for the Einstein Telescope , the gravitational wave observatory that is expected to be built in the Sardinian site of Sos Enattos, in Lula.
The Scientific Committee will be led by the Nobel Prize in Physics Giorgio Parisi . Also involved were Ambassador Ettore Sequi, Secretary General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Marica Branchesi and Fernando Ferroni, of the Gran Sasso Science Institute, and Antonio Zoccoli, President of the National Institute of Nuclear Physics (Infn).
“The Einstein Telescope is a project of extraordinary importance. A large international infrastructure which for Italy represents a strategic opportunity not only for scientific research but also for national industry and the country's economy», explained Bernini.
«The Einstein Telescope - added the minister - would allow the country to strengthen its scientific leadership. We want to take Italian research ever higher and the involvement of Nobel Parisi, whom I thank for agreeing to chair this Committee, is proof of this". Einstein Telescope will be an evolution of the current large gravitational wave detectors, Virgo and Ligo, and plans suggest that it will be able to enter service in at least ten years. There are currently two candidates for hosting the large infrastructure: the Sos Enattos mine, in Lula, in the province of Nuoro and the Meuse-Rhin site, between Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany. A final decision should arrive by 2024.
(Unioneonline/lf)
