Manlio Di Stefano, Undersecretary of State at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, visited today CERN in Geneva and met with CERN Director General, Dr. Fabiola Gianotti.
The meeting provided with an opportunity for touching upon present and future projects of the Laboratory and to highlight the important contribution of Italian scientists to the success of the research at CERN, which has now become the biggest particle physics Laboratory in the world.
Undersecretary of State also had a chance to visit the Atlas experiment at LHC. In 2012, the Atlas experiment, together with the CMS experiment, discovered the Higgs Boson.