Nuclear and subnuclear physics

In the Nuclear and Subnuclear physics group, we study the fundamental interactions of elementary particles and nuclei properties through experiments carried out at large national and international laboratories. Fundamental particles and force mediators are studied with large detectors at high-energy colliders like the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. Nuclear properties of matter and the formation of the quark-gluon plasma are also investigated in the same accelerator complex. Neutrinos have peculiar properties and their study requires dedicated facilities with long baselines. Another line of research uses natural particles produced in the Cosmos to study aspects of nuclear or subnuclear physics in a complementary way.

Gravitational waves produced by astrophysical sources also come from the cosmos and are searched for with extremely sensitive interferometers.

Most of the activities cover all the life stages of large experiments, with a time span of about 10-15 years: research and development of new devices for particle detection, design of experiments through feasibility studies and Monte Carlo simulations of the processes under investigation, implementation, testing and calibration of experimental tools, data taking and statistical data analysis. These research activities have the direct support of the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN, National Institute of Nuclear Physics) which, thanks to the local Bologna section and the CNAF center, provides laboratories, detectors, instrumentation, computing power, funding and technical and research staff.

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Mahmoud Abd Elhay Afifi Ali

PhD Student

keywords: High-energy physics, Future circular collider, IDEA detector concept, KEY4HEP, Simulation

Andrea Alici

Associate Professor

keywords: LHC, high-energy physics, heavy-ion collisions

Silvia Arcelli

Associate Professor

keywords: Experimental Subnuclear Physics, Quark Gluon Plasma, Quantum Chromo Dynamics, Serches beyond the Standard Model,

Giuseppe Baldazzi

Associate Professor

keywords: Multi-Energy monochromatic beams Radiology, X and gamma radiation Detectors, X-ray Linear Absorption Coefficient,

Carlo Battilana

Associate Professor

keywords: LHC, CMS, Trigger systems, Muon detection and tracking, BSM, PNRR CN HPC / ICSC, SND@LHC

Francesca Bellini

Associate Professor

keywords: Nuclear and subnuclear physics, Quantum chromodynamics, Quark-gluon plasma, High-energy heavy-ion physics, ALICE

Daniele Bonacorsi

Full Professor

keywords: High Energy Physics, CMS, LHC, Software, Computing, WLCG, Grids, Clouds, Artificial Intelligence, Machine/Deep

Giuseppe Carratta

Research fellow

Teaching tutor

keywords: CERN, ATLAS, High energy physics, Exotic Physics, Physics Beyond Standard Model, Silicon Detector

Manuel Colocci

Associate Professor

Marco Cruciani

PhD Student

keywords: CMS, Heavy Neutral Leptons, Machine Learning, Displaced muons

Marco Cuffiani

Associate Professor

keywords: p-p interactions, particle detectors, LHC, CMS

Elena Cuoco

Full Professor

keywords: gravitational waves, artificial intelligence, signal processing

Stefano De Castro

Assistant professor

keywords: Heavy flavor production, GRID computing, Search of supersimmetries, Search of Higgs boson

Tommaso Diotalevi

Junior assistant professor (fixed-term)

keywords: high energy physics, CMS, machine learning, artificial intelligence, Cloud solutions, data analysis, ICSC: Spoke 2,

Matilde Dondi

PhD Student

Teaching tutor

keywords: Nuclear Physics, Cross sections, FOOT, Nuclear fragmentation

Francesca Ercolessi

Research fellow

Teaching tutor

Laura Fabbri

Associate Professor

keywords: Large Hadron Collider - LHC, high energy phisics, phisics with accelerators, luminosity measurement, elementary

Alessandra Fanfani

Associate Professor

keywords: High Energy Physics, CMS, Muons, PNRR CentroNazionale HPC

Luca Ferragina

PhD Student

keywords: CERN, CMS, High Energy Physics, Next-gen triggering systems, Software and computing

Fabio Ferrari

Senior assistant professor (fixed-term)

keywords: High energy physics, LHCb, Flavor physics, Beauty and charm quarks, Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa (CKM) matrix, CERN

Paolo Finelli

Associate Professor

keywords: Hypernuclei, Nuclear parity violation, In-medium chiral dynamics, Exotic nuclei structure, Nuclear mean field model,

Matteo Franchini

Associate Professor

keywords: Higgs, top quark, BSM, Kalman Filter, hadrontherapy, FOOT, space radioprotection, Quantum Computing, Quantum Annealing,

Alessandro Gabrielli

Full Professor

keywords: Firmware Design, Trigger ans Data Acquisition (ATLAS TDAQ), Networking, High Energy Physics Exeperiments HEPE,

Domenico Galli

Associate Professor

keywords: Distriduted computing, Experimental trigger, Control systems, Unitarity triangle, Computational grid, CP symmetry

Simone Gasperini

PhD Student

keywords: quantum optimization, quantum simulation, quantum software developement

Luigi Guiducci

Associate Professor

keywords: higgs, lhc, cms, trigger, muons

Samuele Lanzi

PhD Student

Teaching tutor

keywords: Nuclear Physics, Radiation detectors, Software development, Deep Learning

Giuseppe Levi

Assistant professor

keywords: Silicon Photomultiplier, Astroparticle physics, SiPM, ZEUS, AMS-02, Neutrino

Giacomo Levrini

PhD Student

Teaching tutor

keywords: Data Science and Computation, Networking, ATLAS experiment, TDAQ

Giovanni Malfattore

Research fellow

Teaching tutor

keywords: (anti)nuclei, helium, ALICE, coalescence, dark matter, pp, high-energy physics, quark-gluon plasma

Cristian Massimi

Associate Professor

keywords: Nuclear Astrophysics, s process, Neutron physics, Cross section measurements, Emerging nuclear technology

Nicoletta Mauri

Associate Professor

keywords: Neutrino physics, neutrino oscillations, DUNE, Astroparticle Physics and Cosmology, Euclid

Giulia Paggi

PhD Student

keywords: neutrino physics at LHC, SND@LHC, CMS drift tubes

Claudia Patrignani

Associate Professor

keywords: Particle Physics

Nicholas Pieretti

PhD Student

Teaching tutor

Riccardo Ridolfi

Research fellow

keywords: hadrontherapy, nuclear physics, radiobiology, data analysis, data acquisition, FOOT, radioprotection

Lorenzo Rinaldi

Associate Professor

keywords: Particle Physics

Simone Rossi Tisbeni

PhD Student

keywords: Computing, CMS, Data analysis, CERN, Parameter tuning, Machine learning

Tiziano Rovelli

Associate Professor

keywords: particle detector, muons, metabolic radiotherapy, imaging, neutrino, scintillator, hyperthermia, Moodle, E-Learning,

Bianca Sabiu

PhD Student

keywords: Silicon detectors, High Energy Physics detectors, Timing performance, Nuclear Physics, ALICE

Gilda Scioli

Associate Professor

Nicola Semprini Cesari

Full Professor

keywords: particle physics, meson spectroscopy, quantum mechanics, standard model

Maximiliano Sioli

Full Professor

keywords: High Energy Physics, Beyond Standard Model Physics, Collider Physics, Neutrino mass models

Gian Piero Siroli

Assistant professor

keywords: Computing in High Energy Physics, CMS, LHC, High Energy Physics, Particle detectors, Computer and network security,

Maurizio Spurio

Full Professor

keywords: Multimessenger aspects of neutrino astrophysics, Particle physics

Sofia Strazzi

Research fellow

keywords: Nuclear and Subnuclear Physics, Quark-Gluon Plasma, ALICE Experiment, Silicon sensors, Particle detectors,

Giacomo Ubaldi

PhD Student

Teaching tutor

keywords: FOOT, nuclear fragmentation, data analysis, tracking reconstruction, MC simulations

Nuclear and subnuclear physics

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