The first prototype, at a scale of ten meters, of one of the arms of the third-generation gravitational wave detector, the Einstein Telescope, will be built in Perugia, at the future International Laboratory CAOS (Center for Applications on Gravitational Waves and Seismology), for which the groundbreaking ceremony was held yesterday. The new laboratory at the University of Perugia will be established through collaboration between the Department of Physics and Geology and the Perugia Section of the INFN (National Institute for Nuclear Physics), thanks to an investment totaling over 6 million euros, with 5.7 million from the PNRR funds of the ETIC (Einstein Telescope Infrastructure Consortium) project financed within Mission 4 coordinated by the Ministry of University and Research (MUR), and approximately 500,000 euros from MUR's Departments of Excellence at the University of Perugia and funds from the University itself.
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