Accelerator and reactor neutrino experiments

Neutrino experiments at reactors and accelerators have provided a wealth of physics results and will continue to do so in the future. Over the next decade, these experiments will focus on oscillation studies. They will verify that the atmospheric neutrino results are indeed associated with oscillations and will provide more precise measurements of the oscillation parameters. They will also verify the large mixing angle MSW solution of the solar neutrino problem and provide information on the existence (or non-existence) of the fourth, sterile neutrino which is required if three independent Delta M/sup 2/ values are needed to explain all the observed oscillation signals. (34 refs)

Correlations in high transverse momentum final states

The author reviews experiments and results in the study of particle correlations in high energy collisions leading to high transverse momentum secondaries. Most of the effects observed in opposite direction with respect to that of a high p/sub perpendicular to / hadron, can be largely explained in terms of kinematic effects. These effects have made any search for jets of hadrons opposite to a high p /sub perpendicular to / hadron inconclusive-on the other hand, the positive momentum correlations observed between two high p/sub perpendicular to / hadrons in the same azimuthal region, are certainly of dynamical origin and must be studied further. (9 refs)

The birth of lepton universality and the second neutrino

Bruno Pontecorvo has given many important contributions to particle physics, two of which were closely related to my work at the beginning of my career. I will discuss them here and I will also describe my first meeting with Bruno in 1973, on the occasion of a visit to Dubna

Personal Health Assistant, an Intelligent User interface for Healthcare Services Users

This work introduces the road map of a wide project that is aimed to inform and assist healthcare system users of the local healthcare area ASUR Zona Territoriale 7 of Ancona. The system offers several services which are designed to improve the information capabilities of the actual healthcare portal. An intelligent user interface simplifies the interactions between the citizens and the applications offered by the system. The developed information service offers personalized contents and a management system of electronic clinical folders and healthcare processes

The Winckelmann300 Project: Dissemination of Culture with Virtual Reality at the Capitoline Museum in Rome

The best way to disseminate culture is, nowadays, the creation of scenarios with virtual and augmented reality that supply the visitors of museums with a powerful, interactive tool that allows to learn sometimes difficult concepts in an easy, entertaining way. 3D models derived from reality-based techniques are nowadays used to preserve, document and restore historical artefacts. These digital contents are also powerful instrument to interactively communicate their significance to non-specialist, making easier to understand concepts sometimes complicated or not clear. Virtual and Augmented Reality are surely a valid tool to interact with 3D models and a fundamental help in making culture more accessible to the wide public. These technologies can help the museum curators to adapt the cultural proposal and the information about the artefacts based on the different type of visitor’s categories. These technologies allow visitors to travel through space and time and have a great educative function permitting to explain in an easy and attractive way information and concepts that could prove to be complicated. The aim of this paper is to create a virtual scenario and an augmented reality app to recreate specific spaces in the Capitoline Museum in Rome as they were during Winckelmann’s time, placing specific statues in their original position in the 18th century