Research Area: PHYS-01/A - Fisica Sperimentale delle Interazioni Fondamentali e Applicazioni
Research activities
My main scientific interest is in the experimental study of the elementary components of matter and their interactions. Presently the best model describing the matter structure at elementary level is the Standard Model, a theory built in the last fifty years and whose last components, the Higgs Boson, has been measured in 2012. In my scientific life I have explored this model in many ways. In the last years, with the ATLAS detector, I have tested the Standard Model theory in the QCD, Electro-Weak and Higgs sector. What I find particularly interesting in ATLAS is the wide range of physics studies possible to carry out.
Being an experimental physicist I have always also worked at the development of detectors. Presently I work on new developments on hadron calorimetry and trigger. Innovation in detector concepts is the basic ingredient to help advancements in physics research and participating to designing, building and putting into operation a detector is a particularly rewarding work.
Recent publications
- Developing the Cryogenic Veto for BULLKID-DM Experiment [2026]
- Energy calibration of bulk events in the BULLKID detector [2026]
- Real-Time Readout System Design for the BULLKID-DM Experiment: Enhancing Dark Matter Search Capabilities [2026]
- Study of Higgs boson pair production in the bbgamgam final state with 308 fb-1 of data collected at sqrt(s)=13 TeV and 13.6 TeV by the ATLAS experiment [2026]
- Measurements of WH and ZH production with Higgs boson decays into bottom quarks and direct constraints on the charm Yukawa coupling in 13 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector [2025]