Born in 1960; PhD in Physics; researcher at the
University of Bologna (1990-2002); associate professor since
2002. Scientific work in the field of experimental high
energy physics. I am co-author of more than 350 papers,
published in international journals.
Member of the ABCDHW collaboration since 1983. The
experiment collected data of proton-proton, antiproton-proton,
deuteron-deuteron and alpha-alpha collisions at the Split Field
Magnet spectrometer at the CERN Intersecting Storage Rings. Both
minimum bias events and events with high transverse momentum
particles were studied. Among the published
results, inclusive distributions in rapidity, momentum and
transverse momentum, short-range and Bose-Einstein
correlations. The structure of events
created after very high energy collisions between light nuclei (d-d
and alpha-alpha) were analysed for the first time.
Inclusive differential cross sections in the whole phase space at
three different energies, between 31 and 63 GeV, were measured with
high statistics data samples. My contribution was based,
in particular, in the analysis of minimum bias events.
Member of the OPAL collaboration since 1987. The
experiment collected data of electron-positron annihilations at the
CERN Large Electron Positron collider between 1989 and
2000. The main goals of the experiment ranged
from precise measurements of the electroweak parameters (in
particular, the Z0 boson lineshape) to new particles
searches. Since 1996, in the LEP2 phase, the
collision energy was increased from 91 GeV to about 161 GeV (i.e.
the threshold for the creation of W+W- pairs) and
beyond. I was involved in
two physics working groups: (1) New particle searches:
I analysed data searching for the Higgs boson and for scalar and
vector Leptoquarks. No signal was found so
that lower mass limits could be improved for these
particles. (2) QCD and fragmentation studies: several
kinds of correlations among particles produced in the collisions
were studied. These correlations give
informations concerning the hadronizations
mechanism and the dimension, shape and time evolution of the
particle source created after the collision.
Since 2002 an additional field of interst is the application of
some nanotechnologies. The I.N.F.N. (Istituto
Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare) R&D project NANOCHANT tested
the possibility to use templates of porous alumina, whose
pores have been filled with nanoconductors (either carbon nanotubes
or metal nanowires) as radiation detectors with sub-micrometer
spatial resolution. Presently, the CANTES project
is analysing the applications of the field emission of electrons by
films of carbon nanotubes, both free-standing and confined in
templates.
