ABOUT

I am an experimental particle physicist working as a Researcher for the Universita` degli Studi di Padova, and a member of the CMS experiment at CERN since 2008, and a founder member of the MODE Collaboration since 2020. My research interests lie in the development and operation of silicon tracking detectors and the corresponding software development for tracking algorithms, in the development and automatic monitoring tools of the online event selection, in the physics data analysis, in the machine learning and the frontier of fundamental physics. In summary: - in Particle Physics : spanning from the Higgs boson physics to the precision measuremnts, as well as to searches for new phenomena extending our current understanding of the subnuclear world; - in Computer Science : targeting machine end-to-end optimization of physics measurements with machine learning, on differentiable programming. A list of over 1000 scientific publications I authored can be found here .

HIGHLIGHTS

• 2022 - present   Chair of the Tracker Conference Committee for the CMS Collaboration
• 2022 - present   Trigger Officer (L1.5) for the CMS Physics Coordination group
• 2022 - present   Physics Coordinator for the CMS Italia Collaboration
• 2016 – 2021     Convener (L2) of the Tracking Physics Object Group for the CMS Physics Coordination group
• 2016 – 2018     Convener (L2) of the Strategy for Trigger Evolution And Monitoring (STEAM) group for the CMS Trigger Coordination group
• 2015 – 2018     Contact person between the CMS Tracking Physics Object Group and the CMS B2G physics group
• 2014 – 2018     Contact person between the CMS Tracker DPG group and the CMS Trigger Coordination group
• 2014 – 2016     Convener (L3) of the CMS Tracking at High Level Trigger group
• 2012 – 2013     Convener (L3) of the CMS Tracker and Tracking Data Quality Monitoring group

• Author of over 1000 scientific publications (>145,000 citations, Hirsch index 172 - google scholar )

PARTICLE PHYSICS

• CMS Collaboration, Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC, PLB 716 (2012) 30-61, doi: 10.1016/j.physletb.2012.08.021;
• CMS Collaboration, Evidence for Higgs boson decay to a pair of muons, JHEP 01 (2021) 148, doi: 10.1007/JHEP01(2021)148;
• CMS Collaboration, Search for nonresonant Higgs boson pair production in the bbbb final state at sqrt(s)=13 TeV, JHEP 04 (2019) 112, doi: 10.1007/JHEP04(2019)112;
• CMS Collaboration, Combination of searches for Higgs boson pair production in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s)=13 TeV, Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 121803 (2019), doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.121803;
• A. Carvhalo et al, Higgs pair production: choosing benchmarks with cluster analysis,JHEP 04 (2016) 126, doi: 10.1007/JHEP04(2016)126;
• CMS Collaboration, Search for a new scalar resonance decaying to a pair of Z bosons in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s)=13 TeV, JHEP 03 (2019) 128, doi: 10.1007/JHEP06(2018)127;
• CMS Collaboration, Search for a Higgs boson decaying into a b-quark pair and produced in association with b quarks in proton-proton collisions at 7 TeV, Phys. Lett. B722 (2013) 207.
• CMS Collaboration, Search for dark matter produced in association with a single top quark or a top quark pair in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s)= 13 TeV, JHEP 03 (2019) 141, doi: 10.1007/JHEP03(2019)141;
• CMS Collaboration, Search for dark matter produced in association with heavy-flavor quark pairs in proton- proton collisions at s√= 13 TeV, EPJC 77 (2017) 845, 10.1140/epjc/s10052-017-5317-4;
• CMS Collaboration, Search for long-lived particles using displaced jets in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s)= 13 TeV, submitted to PRD, arXiv:2012.01581;
• CMS Collaboration, Measurement of the B0s→μ+μ− branching fraction and search for B0→μ+μ− with the CMS Experiment, PRL 111 (2013) 101804, doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.101804;
• CMS Collaboration, Performance of the CMS Level-1 trigger in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 13 TeV, JINST 15 (2020) P10017, doi: 10.1088/1748-0221/15/10/P10017;
• CMS Collaboration, The CMS trigger system, JINST 12 (2017) P01020, doi: 10.1088/1748-0221/12/01/P01020;
• CMS Collaboration, Particle-flow reconstruction and global event description with the CMS detector, JINST 12 (2017) P10003, doi: 10.1088/1748-0221/12/10/P10003;
• CMS Collaboration, Missing transverse energy performance of the CMS detector, JINST 6 (2011) P09001, doi: 10.1088/1748-0221/6/09/P09001;
• CMS Collaboration, Description and performance of track and primary-vertex reconstruction with the CMS tracker, JINST 9 (2010) P10009, doi: 10.1088/1748-0221/9/10/P10009;