EDUCATION
2015 – 2019 PhD in Physics, University of Bologna, Evaluation: excellent cum laude.
Thesis: "CP violation in D0 → K+ K− and D0 → π+ π− decays and leptonflavour universality test with the decay B0 → D∗− τ+ ντ"
2012 – 2015 Master’s Degree in Physics, University of Ferrara, Full marks and honours (110/110 cum laude).
Thesis: A study of B 0 → D ∗− τ + ν τ with Three-Prong τ Decays at LHCb.
2009 – 2012 Bachelor’s Degree in Physics, University of Ferrara, Full marks and honours (110/110 cum laude).
Thesis: Realization and Study of a Prototype for the Muon Detector of LHCb.
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
since 2019 Research Fellow at University of Bologna, LHCb group
2018 CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) associated member of the personnel as an INFN long-term attachment in the CERN LHCb group.
2015 Internship at LAL (Laboratoire de l’Accélérateur Linéaire), Orsay, France
2013 Summer student at SLAC (National Accelerator Laboratory), Menlo Park, CA, U.S.A.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2019–2020 Teaching Tutor for the General Physics T-A course of the Bachelor's Degree in Energy Engineering of the University of Bologna
2018 Co-supervisor of two bachelor's theses and two master's theses
2014 – 2015 Teaching Tutor for the General Physics I course of the Bachelor's Degree in Electronic and Computer Engineering of the University of Ferrara
CONTRIBUTIONS TO CONFERENCES, WORKSHOPS AND SEMINARS
2019 Invited seminar: "The discovery of CP violation in charm" -- Experimental Particle Physics Seminars at University of Oxford – Department of Physics, Oxford, UK.
2019 Plenary talk" “Ricerca di violazione diretta di CP nei decadimenti dei mesoni D0 a LHCb”, Incontri di Fisica delle Alte Energie 2019, Naples, Italy
2019 Plenary talk: “Observation of CP violation in charm decays at LHCb”, 54th Rencontres de Moriond EW 2019, La Thuile, Italy
2018 Plenary talk: "Time-integrated CP violation in charm", Implications of LHCb measurements and future prospects, CERN, Switzerland
2018 Parallel talk: “Measurement of direct CPV in charm decays at LHCb”, 10th International Workshop on the CKM Unitarity Triangle, Heidelberg, Germany
2018 Parallel talk: “Misure di Universalità Leptonica a LHCb”, Incontri di Fisica delle Alte Energie 2018, Milan, Italy
2017 Parallel talk: “Lepton Universality tests in semitauonic B decays at LHCb”, 103° National Meeting of the Italian Physics Society, Trento, Italy
2017 Parallel talk: “Tests of Lepton Flavour Universality with semileptonic decays at LHCb”, The Fifth Annual Conference on Large Hadron Collider Physics, Shanghai, China
2017 Plenary talk (Young Student Forum): “Measurement of R(D*) with three-prong tau decays at LHCb”, 52nd Rencontres de Moriond EW 2017, La Thuile, Italy
2016 Parallel talk: “Measurement of R(D*) and other semitauonic decays at LHCb”, 102° National Meeting of the Italian Physics Society, Padova, Italy
2016 Plenary talk: “EWK results in LHCb”, LHC Days in Split, Split, Croatia
2016 Parallel talk: “Tests of Lepton Flavour Universality with b-hadron decays at LHCb”, Phenomenology 2016 Symposium, Pittsburgh, U.S.A.
RESEARCH ACTIVITY
The research activity of Dr. Federico Betti is focussed on the High Energy Physics, in particular flavour physics. Dr. Betti works, within the LHCb collaboration at CERN, on the realization of precision tests of the Standard Model of the particle physics, searching for effects due to the presence of possible new fundamental particles.
Dr. Betti is currently working on very-high precision measurements of CP violation, in particular the measurement of direct CP violation in the decays of the D0 meson in the KK and ππ final states, violation observed for the first time at LHCb, with a measurement whose Dr. Betti is lead author and of which the result has been published on the journal Physical Review Letters.
Furthermore, Dr. Betti is one of the main authors of the measurement of the branching fractions ratio R(D*), which represents a test of the so-called Lepton Universality, published on the journals Physical Review Letters and Physical Review D.
Dr. Betti is co-author of more than 200 paper and 6 conference proceedings.
