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Number 113 (Story #4), February 3, 1993 by Phillip F. Schewe and Ben Stein

THE INSTITUTO NAZIONALE DI FISICA NUCLEARE in Italy operates four national labs. At the Frascati lab a new electron-positron machine, called Daphne, will be finished by 1995. Daphne will be dedicated to the production of phi mesons for the purpose of studying the CP-violation phenomenon. The Gran Sasso National Lab is the world's largest underground physics lab. It houses the GALLEX solar-neutrino detector, a magnetic monopole detector, a high-energy muon detector (in coincidence with a cosmic-ray air shower detector on top of the mountain overhead), and detectors for double beta decay and for supernova neutrino bursts. At the two other labs, heavy-ion facilities are being built: a superconducting linear accelerator, ALPI, at Legnaro and a cyclotron at Catania. ("Physics in Italy" special issue, Physics World, Jan. 1993.)