Notizie
Corso di Fisica I per Scienze Chimiche - Canale 2 (Cr - I)
Aula per le lezioni in presenza:
Aula La Ginestra, Edificio CU014
Le lezioni avranno inizio a partire da Martedì 28 Febbraio alle ore 8:00.
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Curriculum
2024 – Present — Associate Professor
Physics Department, Faculty of Sciences, Università di Roma “La Sapienza”, Italy
I am a long-standing member of the ATLAS Collaboration, with more than a decade of experience in muon reconstruction, momentum calibration, and Higgs boson physics. My work spans detector performance, precision measurements, and searches for new phenomena, contributing to several high-impact ATLAS results. I have held major coordination roles within the collaboration, leading large performance and physics groups and overseeing the validation and publication of key analyses.
My research contributions cover multiple core areas. In muon performance, I have developed and refined calibration and reconstruction techniques that are essential for precision measurements of the W, Z, and Higgs boson masses. I have also implemented dedicated strategies for highly energetic muons, enhancing the sensitivity of ATLAS to new physics at high momentum scales.
In Higgs physics, I have played leading roles in the H→ZZ and H→μμ analyses during Runs 1 and 2, contributing to Higgs mass measurements, coupling studies, and searches for rare decays. I remain a key contributor to the H→μμ analyses and am actively involved in Run 3 Higgs physics, including searches for di-Higgs production. This work involves the application of advanced techniques, including machine learning–based methods for signal extraction and background modelling.
Across my career, I have contributed to searches for heavy resonances, exotic dilepton signatures, and extensions of the Higgs sector. My ongoing work emphasizes machine-learning–based calibration strategies, robust control region design, and precision Standard Model measurements, ensuring the continued improvement of ATLAS detector performance and scientific reach.
Previous Positions:
2021 – 2024 — Tenure Track Researcher
Physics Department, Faculty of Sciences, Università di Roma “La Sapienza”, Italy
2015 – 2021 — Postdoctoral Researcher
Physics Department, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
2013 – 2015 — Postdoctoral Researcher
Physics Department, Brandeis University, USA
Selected Publications:
Higgs Physics
ATLAS Collaboration, “Measurement of the Higgs boson mass from the H→γγ and H→ZZ*→4l channels in pp collisions at center-of-mass energies of 7 and 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector,” EPJC 75, 303 (2015).
ATLAS Collaboration, “Search for the dimuon decay of the Higgs boson in pp collisions at √s=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector,” Phys. Lett. B 812, 2021.
ATLAS Collaboration, “Measurement of the Higgs boson mass in the H→ZZ*→4l decay channel using 139 fb−1 of √s=13 TeV pp collisions recorded by the ATLAS detector at the LHC,” Phys. Lett. B 843, 2023.
New Physics
ATLAS Collaboration, “Search for new phenomena in the dilepton final state using proton–proton collisions at √s=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector,” Phys. Lett. B 761, 2016.
ATLAS Collaboration, “Search for heavy resonances decaying into a pair of Z bosons in the 4l and l+l−νν̄ final states using 36 fb−1 of pp collisions at √s=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector,” Phys. Lett. B 783, 2018.
Detector and Muon Performance
ATLAS Collaboration, “Measurement of the muon reconstruction performance of the ATLAS detector using 2011 and 2012 LHC data,” EPJC (2014).
ATLAS Collaboration, “Muon reconstruction performance of the ATLAS detector in pp collisions at √s=13 TeV,” EPJC 76, 292 (2016).
ATLAS Collaboration, “Muon reconstruction and identification efficiency in ATLAS using the full Run 2 pp data set at √s=13 TeV,” EPJC 81, 578 (2021).
ATLAS Collaboration, “Studies of the muon momentum calibration and performance of the ATLAS detector with pp collisions at √s=13 TeV,” EPJC 83, 686 (2023).
Invited Seminars:
Search for H→μμ at ATLAS, CERN–LHC Seminar, 2020
The Higgs golden channel in ATLAS (Run 1 results), LPPC Seminar, Harvard University, 2013
The Higgs golden channel in ATLAS (Run 1 results), Lunchtime Seminar, MIT, 2013
Selected Conference Presentations:
Searching for additional neutral Higgs bosons at ATLAS, Higgs 2024, Uppsala, Finland
Measurement of Higgs boson mass and width using bosonic decay channels, Higgs 2022, Pisa, Italy
Combined Higgs boson measurements at ATLAS, Pheno 2019, Pittsburgh, USA
Searches for new phenomena in leptonic final states, EPS-HEP 2017, Venice, Italy
Differential distributions: ATLAS + CMS, Higgs Couplings, Turin, Italy, 2014
Standard Model Higgs searches in 4 leptons, Rencontres du Vietnam, 2012
Teaching Activities:
2024 – Present — Laboratorio di Segnali e Sistemi, Università di Roma “La Sapienza”
2021 – Present — Fisica I (Scienze Chimiche), Università di Roma “La Sapienza”
2019 – 2021 — Computational Methods in Particle Physics, University of Oxford
Institutional Responsibilities:
2025 – Present — Member, Comitato di Monitoraggio, Science Faculty
2021 – Present — Member, Gender Equality Committee, Physics Department, La Sapienza
2021 – Present — Member, Commissione Spazi, Science Faculty
2022 – Present — Member, Commissione Orientamento e Tutorato, Science Faculty
2021 – 2025 — Responsible for Lecture Scheduling, Physics Department
2021 – Present — Responsible for Entrance Tests (TOLC), Science Faculty