Research Area: FIS/01 - Fisica Sperimentale
Attività di ricerca
Research activities:
I have carried out my scientific research in:
– High Energy Physics Experiments: CERN-NA1, CERN-ALEPH, FNAL-CDF, CERN-CMS
– Astroparticle experiments: IAC-CLUE
– Medical Physics: Digital Mammography
Research topics: Standard Model and Beyond, Techniques for Particles Identification and Reconstruction, Multivariate Analysis
Research interests:
Charm & B Physics, tau lepton properties, SM processes: Diboson production. BSM: resonant and non-resonant double Higgs production.
Projects and Awards:
• EU, International Training Network, Project FP7-PEOPLE-2012-ITN, INFIERI, INtelligent Fast Interconnected and Efficient Devices for Frontier Exploitation in Research and Industry. (Member, Executive Committee member, and Coordinator of the WP8 dedicated to the Dissemination & Outreach)
• PRIN 2012, H-TEAM: Trigger, Elettronica Avanzata e Metodi innovativi per misure di precisione nel settore dell’ Higgs ad LHC. (Member and local PI for the Siena University Unit)
• PRIN 2008, Implementazione di nuove strategie di selezione mediante il Silicon Vertex Trigger (SVT) per la fisica del bosone di Higgs e misure della violazione di CP nei decadimenti rari del mesone B a CDF (Member and Project Deputy Head)
Member of the following projects:
• MAE, Joint Research Projects Within The Executive Programme Of Scientific And Technological cooperation Between The Republic Of India And The Italian Republic for the years 2017-2019
• PRIN 2005, Gigafitter: un processore per la ricostruzione superveloce di eventi complessi nei rivelatori della Fisica Sperimentale
• PRIN 2003, Riconoscimento automatico di pattern per la fisica sperimentale
• PRIN 2002: Programma di ricerca per la creazione di una rete di laboratori universitari per lo sviluppo di strumentazione e tecniche di rivelazione avanzate per la fisica fondamentale e delle astro-particelle nello spazio
• Prin 1998 “Tecniche avanzate di imaging per applicazioni medicali, ambientali e dei beni culturali”
Member of the following “Progetti di Ricerca di Ateneo”, of the University of Pisa:
• 2017-2018 – Fisica del bosone di Higgs ai collisionatori del futuro
• 2020-2021 – Heterogeneous computing with FPGAs
Member of the project “Art & Science across Italy” (European project of the network CREATIONS (H2020) organized by INFN and CERN)
Pubblicazioni recenti
- Measurements of azimuthal anisotropy of nonprompt D⁰ mesons in PbPb collisions at √sNN= 5.02 TeV [2024]
- Muon identification using multivariate techniques in the CMS experiment in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 13 TeV [2024]
- Search for Inelastic Dark Matter in Events with Two Displaced Muons and Missing Transverse Momentum in Proton-Proton Collisions at √s = 13 TeV [2024]
- Search for new Higgs bosons via same-sign top quark pair production in association with a jet in proton-proton collisions at √s=13TeV [2024]
- Search for Scalar Leptoquarks Produced via τ-Lepton–Quark Scattering in pp Collisions at √s=13 TeV [2024]