Catalogo dei Corsi di studio

Curriculum Vitae
Sandro De Cecco

ACADEMIC CAREER:

2016 - Professore Associato at Sapienza Università di Roma, Physics Department
2014 - 2019 Junior Member of the Institut Universitaire de France , award and research grant.
2007 - 2016 Maitre de Conférence (associate professor) Uni. Paris Diderot & LPNHE IN2P3/CNRS.
2005 - 2007 Post-doc at INFN sezione di Roma 1, activity: Bs oscillations at CDF experiment .
2004 - 2006 Guest Scientist at Fermilab National Accelerator Laboratory, Particle Physics Division, CDF exp.
2003 - 2005 Post-doc at INFN sezione di Roma 1, activity: Hadronic B decays analysis at CDF experiment .
1999 - 2002, PhD fellowship Dottorato di Ricerca in Fisica (XV ciclo), University of Rome La Sapienza

EDUCATION AND TRAINING:

2003 PhD in Physics, University of Rome La Sapienza thesis subject: Measurement of relative branching fractions for D0 meson Cabibbo suppressed hadronic decays, from the CDF secondary vertex trigger sample at the Tevatron collider
1999, Laurea in Fisica, University of Rome La Sapienza thesis subject: Studio della risoluzione e del tracciamento con le camere a drift per lo spettrometro a muoni dell esperimento ATLAS
1999 Civil Service at Sovrintendenza ai Beni storici e artistici di Roma e del Lazio , MIBAC
1998 CERN Summer Student, EP ATLAS experiment, muon spectrometer.
1993 Maturità scientifica, Liceo Plinio Seniore, Roma

AWARDS, GRANTS AND CERTIFICATIONS:

2017 - 2018 Finanziamento di base attività di ricerca.
2014 - 2019 Prime d Excellence Scientifique Award, Grant and membership at Institut Universitaire de France
2013 Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale (ASN 2012) alle funzioni di professore di seconda fascia, settore scientifico disciplinare 02/A1.
2014 - 2018 PI for the project Grant Hbb+ttH@LHC: couplages du boson de Higgs aux quarks top et bottom at LPNHE-CNRS. ANR grant (Agence Nationale de la Recherche) with CEA Saclay, CPPM Marseille, LAL Orsay.
2013 Autorisation à diriger une Thèse Université Paris Diderot.
2010 - 2014 Prime d Excellence Scientifique Award, French Ministry of research.
2007 Qualification aux fonctions de Maître de Conférences, Conseil National des Universités, Section 29 - Constituants élémentaires.
2000 Abilitazione all insegnamento nelle scuole secondarie superiori, classe di concorso A038 - Fisica.

SCIENTIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES:

2020 - DarkSide-20k collaboration Project Leader (L0).
2020 - DarkSide-20k collaboration Executive board and Institutional board member.
2020 - PI of the DarkSide experiment group at Sapienza & INFN Roma1.
2020 - Member of the RUP office for the DarkSide-20k Cryostat and Cryogenic system construction contract.
2019 - 2020 DarkSide-20k collaboration deputy project leader.
2019 - 2020 Main editor of DarkSide-20k detector Technical Design Report and Project Execution Plan submitted to LNGS and NSF.
2018 - Member of gruppo di gestione progetto PON FARO2030 at LNGS.
2017 - 2018 DarkSide-20k L2 for low radioactivity TPC Vessel and construction of DarkSide prototype cryostat.
2015 - 2017 ARIS (Argon Ionization and Scintillation) experiment at Orsay ALTO tandem.
2014 - 2016 DarkSide Institutional board member.
2014 - 2016 PI of the DarkSide group at LPNHE Paris.
2014 - 2016 Scientific Board member (Comité des Résponsables Scientifiques) at LPNHE Paris IN2P3-CNRS.
2014 - 2018 PI for the Hbb+ttH@LHC: couplages du boson de Higgs aux quarks top et bottom project at LPNHE. ANR grant (Agence Nationale de la Recherche) with CEA Saclay, CPPM Marseille, LAL Orsay.
2013 - 2016 Scientific board member of FRIF (Fédération de Recherche sur les Interactions Fondamentales)
2013 member of organizing committee of Journées Collisionneur Linéaire , french workshop on ILC physics, accelerator and detector R&D, Lyon France.
2012 - 2013 Chair of organizing committee of LHC France 2013, 1st French meeting on high energy physics at the LHC , 2-6 April 2013, Annecy.
2011 Deputy-chair of local organizing committee of HCP 2011 - Hadron Collider Physics Symposium Paris, France 14-18 novembre 2011. Proceeding editor.
2010 - 2013 Chair of Physique ATLAS France national committee (IN2P3/CNRS e CEA).
2009 - 2011 Head of CDF collaboration experiment group at LPNHE Paris (IN2P3- CNRS)
2009 Scientific Rapporteur for the LPNHE-CNRS Scientific Council for Flavor physics (Babar, LHCb, CDF, SuperB).
2005 - 2007 CDF experiment conveener of Rare B Decays and CP Violation CDF collaboration physics group
2004 - 2006 project leader of the CDF experiment Time of Flight detector.

RESEARCH INTERESTS AND ACTIVITIES:

My research activity is in the field of fundamental interactions and experimental high energy physics. After a contribution to the R&D and test beam of ATLAS monitored drift tubes (MDT) detectors for the Atlas muon spectrometer, I joined the CDF collaboration at Fermilab before the start of Tevatron collider Run 2 in 2000. My research in CDF was focused on flavor physics and CP violation in charm and beauty hadrons. I gave a strong contribution to the observation of Bs meson flavor oscillations and served as convener of the Rare B decays and CP violation CDF physics group. In 2008 I re-joined the ATLAS experiment at LHC with the LPNHE Paris group and contributed significantly to the Higgs boson discovery in the di-photon decay channel, particularly to the evidence of Higgs vector boson fusion production mechanism, to ATLAS photon trigger and reconstruction performances and to ATLAS detector operations during LHC Run 1. Since 2013, I worked on the search for the Higgs boson decay to b quarks in the production in association with gauge bosons, on the missing energy significance reconstruction, and on the search for dark matter production at LHC in the mono-Higgs signature with Higgs decaying to b quark pairs with missing energy. At the end of 2014 I joined the DARKSIDE collaboration for the dark matter direct search with liquid argon double phase TPC at LNGS. Within the DARKSIDE collaboration I am involved in both the physics analysis of the current DarkSide-50 experiment and in the design, R&D and construction of the future DarkSide-20k 20-ton fiducial liquid argon detector of which I was recently appointed as Project Leader (L0).

MAIN SCIENTIFIC ACHIEVEMENTS:

1998 - 1999 Detector R&D and test beams of gaseous drift chambers: SPS test beams and calibration algorithm for muon drift tubes of Atlas, non linear Argon-CO2 mixture successfully tested.
2000 - 2003 Charm physics and CP violation at CDF : initiating charm physics program with the Silicon Vertex Trigger data in CDF collaboration (2000-03, PhD thesis), CPV in charm sector and charm cross section.
2003 - 2007 B physics : rare B decays, Bs flavor mixing, direct CP violation, search for FCNC decays at CDF.
2004 Hadronic Bs decays : new mode discovered (Bs to PhiPhi) and many rare decays analysis.
2004 - 2006 CP Violation convener for CDF collaboration (2004-06)
2006 Bs mixing oscillation frequency precise measurement and observation in 2006
2006 2007 b-jet tagging advanced techniques for Z+bjets and H to bbar at CDF : development of novel Neural Network continuous b-tagging at CDF.
2008 - 2011 Photon reconstruction and trigger in the Atlas experiment at LHC : LAr ECAL, photon trigger performances data driven methods in Atlas and first prompt photon LHC results.
2012 Higgs boson discovery, Higgs search into di-photon decay channel strong contribution to evidence (2011) and discovery (2012)
2013 Higgs production modes and couplings : evidence for Vector Boson Fusion Higgs production
2014 - 2016 Search for the Higgs boson decaying to b quark pairs in Atlas.
2015 - 2018 Search for Dark matter production at LHC in the mono-Higgs signature with H boson decaying to b quark pairs in Atlas.
2015 First direct dark matter search limit with low radioactivity argon target with the DarkSide-50 detector at LNGS
2015 - 2017 ARIS (Argon Ionization and Scintillation) experiment at Orsay ALTO tandem.
2016 Submission of the Technical Proposal for DarkSide-20K, a zero instrumental background multi-ton liquid argon argon TPC detector for dark matter direct search at LNGS.
2016 - DarkSide-20k L2 for Copper vessel and construction of DS-proto SS cryostat
2018 Low-mass Dark Matter Search with the DarkSide-50 Experiment
2018 Construction of DarkSide-20k Prototype high radio-purity stainless steel cryostat delivered at CERN.
2020 DarkSide-20k Submission of DarkSide-20k TDR to NSF.

TEACHING:

2019 - titolare del corso Nuclear Physics (6 ECTS) Laurea Magistrale in Fisica, Sapienza Uni. di Roma.
2016 - 2020 titolare del corso Laboratorio di meccanica (12 ECTS) Laurea in Fisica, Sapienza Uni. di Roma.
2011 - 2016 Physique Subatomique avancée Master in Physics, Paris Diderot university.
2011 - 2013 Physique , Master in Logique, Philosophie et Histoire des Sciences , Ecole Normale Supérieure and Paris Diderot university.
2011 - 2013 Electromagnetisme Licence in Physics, Paris Diderot university.
2011 - 2013 Introduction à la Physique Subatomique: noyaux et particules Licence in Physics, Paris Diderot
2009 - 2016 member of Master in Physics degree jury, Paris Diderot university.
2009 al 2012 co-head of the Ingénierie Physique des Energies Master in nuclear energy at Paris Diderot and INSTN-CEA (Institut National de Sciences et Techniques Nucléaires - Commissariat à l Energie Atomique)
2007 - 2012 Physique Subatomique Master in Physics, Paris Diderot university.
2007 - 2010 Physique Subatomique avancée Master in Physics, Paris Diderot university.
2007 - 2010 Travaux pratiques en laboratoire de Mécanique" Licence in Physics, Paris Diderot university.
2001 - 2002 Esperimentazioni di fisica generale I , laurea in Fisica, Rome La Sapienza university.
2000 - 2001 Fisica Generale II , laurea in Chimica, Rome La Sapienza university.

STUDENTS ADVISED:

2020 Tesi di Laurea Triennale: Disegno del rivelatore Dark-Side 20k per ricerca diretta di materia oscura a fondo strumentale nullo studente: P. Salomone.
2020 Tesi di Laurea Triennale: Ricerca diretta di materia oscura di bassa massa con la TPC ad argon liquido dell esperimento DarkSide-50 a LNGS, risultati recenti e prospettive studente: M.A. Sabia.
2019 Tesi di Laurea Magistrale: Development and tests of neutron diagnostics at the Swiss TCV Tokamak studente: L. Saccoccio.
2018 Tesi di Laurea Magistrale: Realizzazione di un sistema di acquisizione basato su digitalizzatori veloci per la fotoelettronica di lettura dei SiPM dell'esperimento DarkSide-20k per la ricerca di materia oscura studente: M. Ipri.
2015 - 2018 PhD Thesis supervisor for D. Portillo, PhD fellowship from LabEx Institut Lagrange de Paris, Ecole doctorale StepUp Paris 7 and 6, LPNHE Paris. Subject Search for Dark Matter in the mono-Higgs signature with Higgs decay to b quark pairs in the Altas experiment at LHC .
2016 Master 2 stage supervisor for A. Navrer-Agasson, Université Paris Diderot, LPNHE Paris. Subject Direct Dark Matter search with the Dark- Side experiment, full simulation of the liquid argon time projection chamber .
2014 Master 2 stage supervisor for I. Kucher, Ecole Polytechnique Palaiseau. Subject Search for Higgs boson decaying in b quarks pairs, preparation of LHC Run 2 analysis at 13 TeV .
2010 - 2013 PhD Thesis supervisor for O. Davignon, Ecole doctorale 517 Particules, Noyaux et Cosmos Paris 6, 7, 11 and Ecole Normale Supérieure. Subject Search of the Standard Model Higgs boson produced in the Vector Boson Fusion process and decaying to two photons in the Altas experiment at LHC .
2013 Licence L3 stage supervisor for N. Lombard, Magistère de Physique de Paris 7. Subject Multivariate analysis of the Higgs to di-photon inclusive sample with the Atlas experiment
2010 Master 2 stage supervisor for O. Davignon, Master NPAC (Noyaux Particules Astrophysique et Cosmologie) P6, P7, P11, Ecole Normale. Subject Performances of the photon reconstruction with the first LHC data collected by the Atlas detector
2009 CERN Summer Student Supervisor for N. Meric. Subject Study of the gamma-Jet events for Jet energy scale calibration with the Atlas detector .
2009 Master 2 stage supervisor for S. Akar and O. Davignon, Master en physique fondamentale de l université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris 6. Subject Leading order generation of Vector Boson Fusion Higgs Boson production with CompHep .
2008 - 2009 Master thesis supervisor for A. Sanchez, HELEN fellowship and Universitad de Los Andes, Merida Venezuela. Subject Reconstruction and calibration of hadronic Jets with novel Jet algorithms and preparation to early QCD measurements with the ATLAS detector at the LHC .
2006 Fermilab Summer Student supervisor. Subject CDF SVT trigger selection optimization after upgrade .
2005 Fermilab Summer Student supervisor. Subject Feasibility study for Opposite Side b Flavour Tagging .

PRESENTATIONS AT CONFERENCES AND SEMINARS:

2019 Low Mass Wimp Result with DarkSide-50 and Prospects for Future Experiments using LAr 20k TAUP 2019 conference, Toyama, Japan.
2018 seminar New result on low mass dark matter direct search from DarkSide INFN Sezione di Roma
2016 seminar The DarkSide project for direct dark matter search with liquid argon University of Roma La Sapienza , Dipartimento di Fisica
2015 seminar First results on dark matter search with the DarkSide experiment and future plans for depleted LAr multi-tons detectors invited at Laboratoire Univers et Particules Montpellier, France.
2013 Standard Model at LHC conference SM@LHC2013 Freiburg, Germany. Talk: Higgs to di-photon channel in Atlas and CMS
2013 Rencontres de physique de Moriond ElectroWeak La Thuile, Italy. Talk Heavy Flavor physics at Tevatron
2011 Lomonosov 15th Conference on Elementary Particle Physics, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia. Talk: B physics at Tevatron
2010 seminar Photon identification at LHC: first results and prospects for SM Higgs search in two photon final state Università di Roma La Sapienza , Dipartimento di Fisica
2010 seminar Tagging b-Jets at collider, a tool for discoveries invited at LIP and Politecnico, Lisboa Portugal.
2010 First ReteQuarkonii Workshop RQW2010 Nantes, France. Talk: Quarkonium at Tevatron
2010 XXV QCD Workshop 2010 Montpellier, France. Talk: B spectroscopy at the Tevatron
2010 BEACH 2010 Perugia, Italia. Talk: Heavy Flavor Properties at CDF .
2009 seminar The Large Hadron Collider project invited at Universidad Central de Caracas and Universidad de Los Andes in Merida Venezuela, HELEN exchange program.
2008 - 2009 Organizer of Joint Experimental and Theoretical Meetings at LPNHE & LPTHE Paris.
2008 IFAE 2008, Incontri di fisica delle Alte Energie Bologna, Italia talk: Oscillazioni e Violazione di CP del Bs
2007 European Physics Society meeting EPS 07 Manchester, UK, talk: b-jet production at the Tevatron
2007 CDF collaboration meeting Jussieu, Paris, France, talk: High PT b-tagging at CDF
2007, Workshop IV Incontro sulla fisica del B Accademia delle Scienze, Bologna, Italy; two talks: Time dependent CP asymmetries at Tevatron and Rare decays at Tevatron
2007 seminar CDF studies of W, Z + Heavy Flavor Jets invited at ATLAS Standard Model meeting, CERN
2006 seminar Bs mixing measurement in CDF invited at ATLAS Trigger & Physics week, CERN,
2006 Flavour in the LHC Era, Workshop CERN, Geneve; talk: Measurement of Bs Oscillations at CDF ;
2006 DIF06 - International Workshop on Discoveries in Flavor Physics at e+e- Colliders Frascati, Italy; talk: Perspectives for Charm Physics at Hadron Machines
2005 BEAUTY 2005, 10th International Conference on B-Physics at Hadron Machines Assisi, Italy; talk: CDF Hot Topics
2005, IFAE 2005 Incontri di fisica delle Alte Energie Catania talk: Ricerca di oscillazioni del mesone Bs a CDF
2005 seminars Search for Bs oscillations at CDF and CDF experience with the B flavour tagging algorithms invited at LHC-B General Meeting, CERN
2005 seminar Ricerca delle oscillazioni di Flavour del mesone Bs con l esperimento CDF invited at University of Roma Tre
2005 seminar Ricerca delle oscillazioni di Flavour del mesone Bs con l esperimento CDF University of Roma La Sapienza , Dipartimento di Fisica
2004, V Rencontres de Physique du Vietnam, New views on Particle Physics, Hanoi, Vietnam; talk: Charm Production Cross Section and Charm Physics at the Tevatron
2004 seminar Physics of the neutral Bs mesons at CDF, recent results and perspectives University of Roma La Sapienza , Dipartimento di Fisica
2003 IFAE 2003, Incontri di fisica delle Alte Energie, Lecce, Italy; talk: Fisica del Charm a CDF .
2002 HCP02, Hadron Collider Physics, Karlsruhe, Germany; talk: B masses, lifetimes, prospects for B-oscillations and CP-violation at CDF including new charm results
2002 XXX SLAC Summer Institute of Physics, The secrets of the B meson , Stanford, CA, USA; Charm Physics at CDF poster session.

OUTREACH:

2017 presentation of the movie Il senso della bellezza Ancona, Italy.
2016 lecture La quête de la matière noire, the dark side of the universe , festival des deux infinis, Association Française d Astronomie, Cité des Sciences de La Villette, Paris, France.
2014 presentation of the movie Particle Fever MK2 Grand Palais, Paris, France
2014 lecture Le LHC et le boson de Higgs THALES GROUP, Elancour France.
2013 lecture La découverte du boson de Higgs Festival des deux Infinis, Association Française d Astronomie, Paris France.
2013 interview for the swiss newspaper Le Temps de Genève: ILC l accélérateur de particules du Futur with Lynn Evans.
2013 organizer of the exhibition Le tunnel LHC interactif Espace d expositions La Turbine , Annecy, France.
2012 interview on the Higgs Boson discovery at the radio program Autour de la question , RFI Radio France International.
2012 lecture Boson de Higgs, fin de la traque? Musée des arts et métiers CNAM Paris, France.
2012 member of the jury Prix de La Recherche 2012 organized by the french scientific magazine La Recherche
2012 article Ou se cache le boson de Higgs? for the french scientific magazine La Recherche july 2012.
2007 - 2010 organizing committee for Fête de la Science LPNHE, Jussieu Paris.
1997 guided tours at the exhibition Quark 2000 - La fisica fondamentale italiana e le sfide del nuovo millennio , Palazzo delle esposizioni di Roma, Comune di Roma and INFN.

PUBLICATIONS SUMMARY:

1266 articles published on peer reviewed journals on physics results and detector performances mainly for the CDF, ATLAS and DARKSIDE collaborations. More than 40 internal notes in the CDF collaboration on: charm and beauty physics, Bs mixing, rare B decays, b-jet tagging, Z+jets, time-of-flight. More than 30 internal notes in the ATLAS collaboration on: MDT chambers, photon trigger, e-gamma performances, Higgs boson search in di-photon and b quark pairs, Higgs physics, Dark matter search in mono-Higgs signature. More than 10 conference proceedings.

Bibliometric indexes at April 8th 2021 :
Total publications : 1365 (Web of Science)
Total citations : 63059 (Web of Science)
H-index : 114 (Web of Science)

Main publications :

- 1. Measurement of prompt charm meson production cross sections in p(p)over-bar collisions at root s=1.96 TeV. Physical Review Letters 91, (Dec, 2003).
- 2. A Time-of-Flight detector in CDF-II. Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research Section a-Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment 518, 605 (Feb, 2004).
- 3. Observation of the narrow state X(3872) -> J/psi pi(+)pi(-) in (p)over-barp collisions at root s=1.96 TeV. Physical Review Letters 93, (Aug, 2004).
- 4. Evidence for B(s)(0)->phi phi decay and measurements of branching ratio and A(CP) for B(+)->phi K(+). Physical Review Letters 95, (Jul, 2005).
- 5. Measurement of partial widths and search for direct CP violation in D(0) meson decays to K(-)K(+) and pi(-)pi(+). Physical Review Letters 94, (Apr, 2005).
- 6. Measurement of the J/psi meson and b-hadron production cross sections in p(p)over-bar collisions at root s=1960 GeV. Physical Review D 71, (Feb, 2005).
- 7. Measurement of bottom-quark hadron masses in exclusive J/psi decays with the CDF detector. Physical Review Letters 96, (May, 2006).
- 8. Observation of B(s)(0)B(s)(0) oscillations. Physical Review Letters 97, (Dec, 2006).
- 9. Search for a neutral Higgs boson decaying to a W boson pair in p(p)over-bar collisions at
root s=1.96 TeV. Physical Review Letters 97, (Aug, 2006).
- 10. Measurements of inclusive W and Z cross sections in p(p)over-bar collisions at root s=1.96 TeV. Journal of Physics G-Nuclear and Particle Physics 34, 2457 (Dec, 2007).
- 11. First flavor-tagged determination of bounds on mixing-induced CP violation in B(s)(0)-> J/psi phi decays. Physical Review Letters 100, (Apr, 2008).
- 12. Search for B(s)(0)->mu(+)mu(-) and B(0)->mu(+)mu(-) Decays with 2 fb(-1) of p(p)over- bar Collisions. Physical Review Letters 100, (Mar, 2008).
- 13. Evidence for a Narrow Near-Threshold Structure in the J/psi phi Mass Spectrum in B(+) -> J/psi phi K(+) Decays. Physical Review Letters 102, (Jun, 2009).
- 14. Charged-particle multiplicities in pp interactions at root s=900 GeV measured with the ATLAS detector at the LHC ATLAS Collaboration. Physics Letters B 688, 21 (Apr, 2010).
- 15. Combination of Tevatron Searches for the Standard Model Higgs Boson in the W(+)W(-) Decay Mode. Physical Review Letters 104, (Feb, 2010).
- 16. Performance of the ATLAS detector using first collision data. Journal of High Energy Physics, (Sep, 2010).
- 17. Measurement of the inclusive isolated prompt photon cross-section in pp collisions at root s=7 TeV using 35 pb(-1) of ATLAS data. Physics Letters B 706, 150 (Dec, 2011).
- 18. Search for the Standard Model Higgs boson in the two photon decay channel with the ATLAS detector at the LHC. Physics Letters B 705, 452 (Nov, 2011).
- 19. Measurement of the isolated di-photon cross section in pp collisions at root s=7 TeV with the ATLAS detector. Physical Review D 85, (Jan, 2012).
- 20. Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC . Phys. Letters B, 716 (Sep, 2012).
- 21. Measurements of Higgs boson production and couplings in diboson final states with the ATLAS detector at the LHC . Phys. Letters B, 726 (7 Oct, 2013).
- 22. Results from the first use of low radioactivity argon in a dark matter search . Physical Review D, 93 (Apr, 2016)
- 23. DarkSide-20k: A 20 tonne two-phase LAr TPC for direct dark matter detection at LNGS European Physical Journal Plus, 133 (Mar, 2018)
- 24. Low mass Dark Matter search with the DarkSide-50 experiment Physics Review Letters, 121 (Aug, 2018)
- 25. DarkSide-50 532-day dark matter search with low-radioactivity argon . Physical Review D, 98 (Nov, 2018)