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
- A precise measurement of the Z-boson double-differential transverse momentum and rapidity distributions in the full phase space of the decay leptons with the ATLAS experiment at $$\sqrt{s}=8$$ TeV [2024]
- A precise measurement of the Z-boson double-differential transverse momentum and rapidity distributions in the full phase space of the decay leptons with the ATLAS experiment at s=8 TeV [2024]
- Electron and photon energy calibration with the ATLAS detector using LHC Run 2 data [2024]
- Evidence for the Higgs boson decay to a Z boson and a photon at the LHC [2024]
- Measurement of the $$H \rightarrow \gamma \gamma $$ and $$H \rightarrow ZZ^* \rightarrow 4 \ell $$ cross-sections in pp collisions at $$\sqrt{s}=13.6$$ TeV with the ATLAS detector [2024]