Research Area: PHYS-01/A - Fisica Sperimentale delle Interazioni Fondamentali e Applicazioni
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
- Evidence for the Higgs boson decay to a Z boson and a photon at the LHC [2024]
- Higher-order moments of the elliptic flow distribution in PbPb collisions at $$ \sqrt{s_{\textrm{NN}}} $$ = 5.02 TeV [2024]
- Inclusive and differential cross section measurements of $$ \textrm{t}\overline{\textrm{t}}\textrm{b}\overline{\textrm{b}} $$ production in the lepton+jets channel at $$ \sqrt{s} $$ = 13 TeV [2024]
- Luminosity determination using Z boson production at the CMS experiment [2024]
- Measurement of the Higgs boson production via vector boson fusion and its decay into bottom quarks in proton-proton collisions at $$ \sqrt{s} $$ = 13 TeV [2024]