The Extreme Energy Events (EEE) laboratory is located on the basement level (-1), Room 403, of the historic building that serves as the headquarters for the Enrico Fermi Research Center (CREF). Inside the laboratory is one of the cosmic muon tracking telescopes belonging to the EEE network.

The telescope consists of 3 Multigap Resistive Plate Chamber (MRPC) detectors, which allow the passage point of subnuclear particles to be reconstructed with a spatial resolution of cm2 and a temporal resolution on the order of 250 ps. The laboratory is also equipped with a custom weather station (based on Arduino), two DC power supplies, two computers, and a Tektronix WaveRunner 8254M oscilloscope (2.5 GHz, 40 GS/s). This telescope is part of a network of 50 telescopes installed across Italy.

It is possible to correlate detected muon data with local environmental parameters or, through GPS synchronization, to study event correlations over large distances. Work is currently underway to adapt the tracking and coincidence algorithms for muons within the same shower to the Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization (QUBO) approach, enabling certain analyses to be performed using a photonic computer currently under development at CREF. Concurrently, the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems for network operation monitoring tools is being designed.

Researchers

Marco Garbini (Project Leader)

Fabrizio Coccetti

Silvia Pisano

Kristian Piscicchia