Development of a new muon detector, to be located in the North Area of the SPS, near the NA62 experiment, for a beam dump experiment dedicated to the search for weakly interacting particles. Simulation and data validation activities will be carried out by analyzing data collected from test beams at CERN.
Optimization of the muon detector for a new beam dump experiment, located in a new facility in the North Area of CERN, dedicated to the search for hidden particles at the TeV energy scale, to explain new physics phenomena, such as dark matter, neutrino masses and oscillations, etc. Development of the simulation program and experiment reconstruction.
Research activities for the development of a new detector for medical physics, to measure the dose delivered by a radiotherapy accelerator. Study of models of hadronic interactions in Monte Carlo codes and comparison with experimental data.
Simulation of the acceleration chain that, starting with 400 GeV protons produced by the CERN SPS, directed onto a target and focused by a special system of magnetic lenses, optimizes the production of a beam of muon neutrinos that strike a detector located approximately 1200 km from CERN.
Comparison of the FLUKA and Geant4 Monte Carlo codes on the behavior of some physical quantities important for medical physics at low-energy accelerators, and on the accuracy with which they reproduce experimental data.
Development of a new radiation detector for X-ray photons of several MeV, used for radiotherapy. The detector is based on the measurement of Cerenkov radiation and will allow for a continuous, real-time map of the dose delivered by the accelerator.
The muon detector of the CMS (Compact Muon Solenoid) experiment is collecting data. The research activity was primarily focused on checking the operation of the drift tubes (DT), already installed and in their final position within the CMS experiment. Specifically, I monitored the operation of the chambers and the electronic muon trigger, signal stability, and resolution studies. I also completed the software integration of the "Sector Collector" trigger board, designed and built in Bologna, into the experiment's trigger system.
