Research Area: PHYS-01/A - Fisica Sperimentale delle Interazioni Fondamentali e Applicazioni
Research activities
Researcher in the field of the Experimental Physics of Elementary Particles and Fundamental Phenomena, and in the field of Medical Physics. I worked on particle detectors with innovative design, on the construction and operation of large experimental apparatus, and on the analysis of experimental data for the study of elementary particle’s properties. Member of collaborations ALEPH (e + e- collider LEP, CERN, 1986-2000), CMS (pp collider LHC, CERN, since 1994), ROSE-RD48 and RD50 (CERN, since 1996), CALET (JAXA-ASI-NASA, since 2015), and various projects INFN-CSN1/CSN5.
Main Topics:
Design and operation of the ALEPH Hadron calorimeter, muon chambers, and vertex detector. Precise measurement of the tau lepton lifetime.
Design and operation of the CMS tracking system, rad-hard silicon micro-strips detectors. Member of projects for pixel detector Upgrade Phase I and Phase II. Collaborating to Higgs boson discovery.
Co-author of ~1500 publications, H-index is 109 (IsiWebOfScience core coll.)
Recent publications
- Bottom quark energy loss and hadronization with B+ and Bs0 nuclear modification factors using pp and PbPb collisions at √sNN=5.02 TeV [2025]
- Constraints on standard model effective field theory for a Higgs boson produced in association with W or Z bosons in the H → b(b)over-bar decay channel in proton-proton collisions at √s=13 TeV [2025]
- Constraints on the Higgs boson self-coupling from the combination of single and double Higgs boson production in proton-proton collisions at √s=13 TeV [2025]
- Development of systematic uncertainty-aware neural network trainings for binned-likelihood analyses at the LHC [2025]
- Differential cross section measurements for the production of top quark pairs and of additional jets using dilepton events from pp collisions at √s=13 TeV [2025]