Alessandro Bacchetta
Research Interests
Open positions

Since July 2015, I lead the "3DSPIN" ERC Consolidator Grant .

Two post-doc positions are open to work with us on this project:

  • A 3+2 years post-doc position (deadline 10 Aug).
  • A 2+1 years post-doc position (deadline 3 Sep).

    Below you can find relevant information (last update 11 Aug 2015).

    3+2 years post-doc (Ricercatore a Tempo Determinato di Tipo A)

    Deadline for application: 10 Aug 2015
    Salary: around 1900 €/month after taxes.
    Expected start: Jan 2016
    Web page of the call: here and here (bottom of the page)
    Official call: here (no English version availabe, please see below).
    Application form: here, with Annex B and Annex C.
    Partial translations: Application Form, Annex B, Annex C
    Contact for further information: Alessandro Bacchetta.

    Notes:

  • the application must be submitted by regular registered mail (or by Italian certified e-mail)
  • reference letters must be submitted to the mail address ufficio-concorsi-professori-ricercatori@unipv.it , specifying the following position details:
        Selection procedure for "Ricercatore a Tempo Determinato"
        Settore Concorsuale 02/A2, PROFILO: SSD FIS/02
        Dipartimento di Fisica
        D.R. n. 1510-2015 del 02/07/2015
  • look here for a partial unofficial translation of the official call with information on the application procedure
  • a limited amount of teaching is requested in the contract.


    2+1 years post-doc (Assegno di Ricerca)

    Deadline for application: 3 Sep 2015
    Salary: around 2000 €/month after taxes.
    Expected start: Jan 2016
    Web page of the call: here.
    Official call: here (English version in the last pages).
    Application form: here.
    Contact for further information: Alessandro Bacchetta.

    Notes:

  • the application must be submitted by regular registered mail (or by Italian certified e-mail)
  • reference letters must be either included with the rest of documentation sent by regular mail, or should be submitted before the deadline to prof. Alessandro Bacchetta, together with the following statement MS Word version or PDF version and a copy of your ID card.
  • The application should contain also a copy of your publications (either in pdf format on a CD or paper copies) using this statement to declare that they are true and faithful copies of the original


    My work

    I work within the "Hadronic Structure and QCD" (HaS_QCD) research group in Pavia, Italy.

    From inspirehep.net you can retriew all my public published and unpublished works.

    For a list of talks I gave at international conferences and workshops, look here.

    Here is a copy of my Ph.D. dissertation. If you wish to have a hard copy, contact me.

    TMD Lectures

    These are the links to the JLab lectures "Transverse thinking: an introduction to TMDs"
    1. Lecture 1 - Feb 11, 2009
    2. Lecture 2 - Mar 4, 2009
    3. Lecture 3 - Mar 18, 2009
    4. Lecture 4 - Apr 15, 2009
    5. Lecture 5 - May 14, 2009
    6. Lecture 6 - May 29, 2009

    General information

    My field of research is Hadronic Physics, i.e., the physics of protons, neutrons, and the like. In particular, the topic of my research work is the spin structure of hadrons.
    We know that protons and neutrons are made of quarks and gluons but we are far from understanding their inner structure in a satisfactory way. One of the fundamental problems to be answered is: where does the spin of the hadrons come from? Answering this and similar questions is the ultimate goal of my research field.
    1. An overview of Hadronic Physics can be found in this e-print.
    2. An overview of Hadronic Spin Physics can be found in this review article.
    3. Nice and recent books about my field of research are "Spin in Particle Physics" by E. Leader, and "Transverse Spin Physics" by V. Barone and P. Ratcliffe for the specific case of transversity.
    4. A lot of information about spin physics has been gathered by the RIKEN BNL Spin Physics collaboration
    5. Experimental collaborations investigating hadronic spin are: HERMES at DESY, PHENIX and STAR at RHIC, COMPASS at CERN, CLAS at JLab.

    Fun and multimedia

    1. The beautiful site "The Particle Adventure" offers a popular overview of particle physics for the general public.
    2. Other interesting sites for laymen can be found at this URL.
    3. Watch the movie "The mistery of quarks" (RealMedia, 9.5 Mb) and a movie of a quark smash-up (RealMedia, 111 Kb). These movies are done by Jefferson Lab.