1975- 1980
Nucleon-nucleon diffractive and inelastic
interactions with the
"Split Field Magnet Detector" (SFMD) at the CERN ISR.
Main results: sistematic study of nucleon double diffraction
dissociation in pp, nn and np reactions, observation of cross section rise
over the whole range of ISR energy.
Personal involvement: data taking, Monte Carlo simulations and experimental data analysis, with emphasis on proton double - diffraction dissociation.
I worked on the analysis of the experimental data: in my thesis time the experiment was in its first phase of data taking so I focused my work on the Monte Carlo Simulation of the apparatus, then on the analysis of the experimental data mainly for what concerned the data filtering for the construction of a DST. I then analyzed the experimental data giving an important contribution to the publication of the whole set of related papers (Refs. 1 to 7) and I presented the main experimental results at the National Conference of the Italian Physical Society in Trento.
1981 - 1993
pbar p interactions at the CERN collider in the UA2 experiment (and later UA2').
I participated in all phases of this experiment and in its upgrade.
. My group in Pavia was first committed to the construction of a system of forward/backward drift chambers, and in the second phase of the experiment (UA2' with an upgraded detector) to the construction of a system of MWPC in the forward/backward region for the measurement of W-decay asymmetry.
I was involved with my group in the chamber prototype construction and then in the production of the global chamber system. I tested individually the produced chambers with cosmics or radiative sources implementing an on-line test system. After the installation period at CERN, I participated actively in all data taking periods at CERN, I also took part in the work of the software analysis groups, with emphasis in the Physics analyses related to multijet and tau production. For the whole duration of the experiment I was responsible for the event production and filtering outside CERN. I took care of the Monte Carlo event production and experimental data filtering in Pavia and Milan (CILEA). The compatibility of the general software programs on the different platforms was extensively tested.
I presented the results concerning Jet and Photon Physics in Poland (Kazimierz) in an invited talk at the local international conference and I summarized the main results obtained at the CERN Collider in Pavia at the INFN Conference. I was co-author of 36 papers published in international reviews.
(Refs. 8 to 29, 31, 32, 35 to 43, 45, 47, 48)
1991 - 1994
R&D at CERN on Scintillating Fiber Calorimetry (SPACAL and RD1)
for the realization of Lead-Scintillating fiber calorimeters.
I was an active member in my group participating to the design, optimization, construction and test in Pavia of different prototypes of electromagnetic and hadronic calorimeters. We developed the scintillating fiber technology in the calorimeter construction in view of the challenge at LHC. I was involved in the hardware development, as well as in the on line and in the analysis of test beam data collected at CERN. I analyzed data for e pi separation studies, e/had separation to evaluate the response of the calorimeter to electrons and hadrons. I studied the characteristics of the prototypes designed and built in Pavia focusing on the energy resolution for optimization purposes. I also developed an analysis of "jet" data obtained with pion beams on a paraffin target in order to simulate jet events. I presented the results at two international conferences, one of which was the final summary of four years of this activity. I published 8 papers, in one of them being the only author.
(Refs. 30, 33, 34, 44, 46, 49, 50, 51)
1992 - 1997
Neutrino oscillations with the experiment WA96-NOMAD
for a study of nu_mu-nu_tau oscillations.
I took part in all phases of design optimization of this
experiment, in particular in the
design and construction of the electromagnetic calorimeter in Pavia.
I tested on different beams at CERN all the calorimeter cells
produced and I dedicated a large part of my activity in the
design and realization of an $event$ $display$ for the on/off line
visualization of the tracks in the calorimeter.
In relation to this activity, I co-authered 2 articles
in international reviews.
(Refs. 53,59)
from 1994
Interactions with ATLAS at LHC.
activity for LHC, my group joined the newly formed muon community in ATLAS. In this framework we faced the challenge of designing and developing a new technology for the construction of a muon spectrometer being able to handle high-momentum final-state muons at LHC. I took part in the optimization of the muon detector design in the barrel region working on the construction of prototypes and on early tests of a full scale prototype for a barrel inner muon chamber of the ATLAS muon spectrometer. I worked on the simulation and performance of the prototypes as an inside activity in my group. Starting from the very beginning, I also developed the software for the level 1 muon trigger simulation studies. Since 1995 I evaluated the muon precision chamber system acceptance through a detailed simulation for the optimization of the layout. Following the first encouraging results, I extended these studies to the trigger system, obtaining a complete description of the muon spectrometer. With this tool I studied the impact of possible future acceptance losses, due to non - uniformities in the layout and to the presence of unavoidable geometrical constraints in the chambers. Starting from July 1998 I worked on the LHC potential for GMSB models with emphasis on reconstruction of quasi stable sleptons in ATLAS. In connection with this activity I was editor of sections of the ATLAS Physics Technical Design Report.
(Refs. 70 to 74)
I was appointed as Coordinator of the ATLAS Muon Spectrometer Simulation and
from 1 April, 1999 to 31 May,2000 I was appointed as Scientific Associate at CERN. From March 2003
I was appointed as Coordinator of the ATLAS Simulation. In connection with these activities I wrote notes
reporting on the status of the activities in the fields and relative Coordination status.
(Refs. 65 75 76)
In the years from 2000 to 2003 I continued my activity in the Simulation of the Muon Spectrometer with Geant4 and I actively studied the MDT detector response to particles comparing data and simulation in different configurations (testbeam mode for the different setups of 2002 and 2003. Emphasis in my activity was put both in the general ATLAS software development and support, and muon-specific software development focusing my efforts on detector simulation with GEANT4, detector description, and track reconstruction being also tutor for Student and Phd Students in the last Years.
.
(Refs. 64,66 to 68,77 to 82)
My participation in the Simulation core activities and in an extensive
validation phase in the last years for performances optimizations was then
reported in oral or poster presentations at the main Computing Conferences in
HEP (Ref 1-21 in section Seminars and Invited talk @ National/International Conferences)
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