Morfometria di forme carsiche in un possibile "landing site" marziano

Starting from some satellite photos, we try to understand if someone of the many negatives roundish shapes recognized into a complex of two impacts craters could verify the karst phenomenon on Mars. This fact if confirmed could be extremely important to find microbiological life living underground in an area of contact between water and sulfates, shielded from cosmic radiation. In order to verify if these negatives shapes have a karst origin or an impact one, we made several morphometric measurements with particular attention to the length of the axes and to the depth of these depressions. We also studied some other forms (such jagged ridges) as another possible witness of the karst.

Neutrino interactions in the SAND LAr volume at the DUNE Near Detector site

The neutrino mass ordering and the leptonic CP violation phase are key parameters of the three-neutrino flavour mixing still to be determined. Measuring these parameters is the main goal of DUNE, a next generation Long Baseline neutrino experiment under construction in the United States. DUNE will feature a Near and a Far Detector site. An important component of the Near detector complex is the SAND apparatus, which will include GRAIN, a novel liquid Argon detector that aims at imaging neutrino interactions using scintillation light. For this purpose, an innovative optical readout system based on Coded Aperture Masks is under study. This thesis work is aimed at a first quantitative assessment of a 3D neutrino event reconstruction algorithm for GRAIN. The processing procedure is optimized and the reconstruction performance is evaluated. Promising results are obtained.