Nuclear and High Energy Experimental Physics

Specific mission

The main research is focused to the experimental verification of the existence, at very high energy as foreseen by QCD, of the quark gluon plasma during the expansion and cooling phase, with the following production of hadronic matter, strongly interacting, that constitute the matter of our universe. High energies are achieved with heavy ion collisions at ultra-relativistic energies. To the main research is added a specific study about the light hypernuclei formation and about the strong interaction of hadrons. 

Main research topics

• Study of the Quark-Gluon plasma
• Study of light hypernuclei and strong interaction of hadrons
• Study and development of new algorithms for fast and efficient tracking and vertexing of particles in ALICE inner detector
• Study and development of new very thin and low electrical power consumption CMOS silicon pixel detectors for the ALICE inner detector

Main partnerships

• European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
• Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie, Université Grenoble-Alpes, CNRS-IN2P3, Grenoble, France,
• LNF, INFN Frascati, Italy,
• LNS, INFN Catania, Italy,
• Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
• Sezione INFN, Cagliari, Italy
• Sezione INFN, Rome, Italy
• Sezione INFN, Bari, Italy
• Sezione INFN, Bologna, Italy
• Dipartimento di Fisica dell’Universitá, Torino, Italy
• Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell’Universitá, Bologna, Italy
• Dipartimento di Fisica dell’Universitá and Sezione INFN, Trieste, Italy
• Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell’Universitá and Sezione INFN, Catania, Italy
• Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California, USA
• Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
• Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA
• Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow, Russia
• Russian Research Centre, Kurchatov Institute, Moscow, Russia
• Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), Dubna, Russia
• Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
• Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt, Germany
• Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien (IPHC), Université de Strasbourg, CNRS-IN2P3, Strasbourg, France
• Nikhef, National Institute for Subatomic Physics, Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
• Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information, Daejeon, South Korea

Projects and publications

• Selected recent publications
  2016

  1. Measurement of D-meson production versus multiplicity in p-Pb collisions at √sNN=5.02 TeV
     Article
     

     Adam, J.; Adamova, D. Aggarwal; Rinella, G.; Agnello, Michelangelo; Agrawal, N; Ahammed, Z.; Ahn, S. u.; Aiola, S.; Bufalino, Stefania
     JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
     Springer Verlag
     Vol.2016 pp.43 (pp.1-43) ISSN:1029-8479 DOI:10.1007/JHEP08(2016)078

  2. Centrality Dependence of the Charged-Particle Multiplicity Density at Midrapidity in Pb-Pb Collisions at sNN =5.02 TeV
     Article
     

     Adam, J.; Adamova, D. Aggarwal; Rinella, G.; Agnello, Michelangelo; Agrawal, N; Ahammed, Z.; Ahn, S. u.; Aiola, S.; Bufalino, Stefania
     PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
     American Physical Society
     Vol.116 pp.12 (pp.1-12) ISSN:0031-9007 DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.222302

  2015

  1. Precision measurement of the mass difference between light nuclei and anti-nuclei
     Article
     

     Adam, J.; Adamova, D.; Aggarwal, M. M.; Aglieri Rinella, G.; Agnello, Michelangelo; Agostinelli, A.; Agrawal, N.; Ahammed, Z.; Ahmed, I.; Ahn, S. U.; Aiola, S.; Ajaz, M.; Akindinov, A.; Alam, S. N.; Aleksandrov, D.; Bedda, Cristina; Bufalino, Stefania
     NATURE PHYSICS
     NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP, MACMILLAN BUILDING, 4 CRINAN ST, LONDON N1 9XW, ENGLAND
     Vol.11 pp.7 (pp.811-817) ISSN:1745-2473 DOI:10.1038/NPHYS3432

  2014

  1. Measurement of Prompt D-Meson Production in p-Pb Collisions at root s(NN)=5.02 TeV
     Article
     

     Abelev, B.; Adam, J.; Adamova, D.; Aggarwal, M. M.; Agnello, Michelangelo; Agostinelli, A.; Agrawal, N.; Ahammed, Z.; Ahmad, N.; Ahmed, I.; Ahn, S. A.; Ahn, S. U.; Aimo, Ilaria; Bedda, Cristina; Aiola, S.; Bufalino, Stefania
     PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
     AMER PHYSICAL SOC, ONE PHYSICS ELLIPSE, COLLEGE PK, MD 20740-3844 USA
     Vol.113 pp.11 (pp.1-11) ISSN:0031-9007 DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.113.232301

  2013

  1. Search for Pentaquark I similar to (+) in Hadronic Reaction at J-PARC
     Article
     

     Naruki, M.; Adachi, S.; Agnello, Michelangelo; Ajimura, S.; Aoki, K.; Bang, H.; Bassalleck, B.; Botta, E.; Bufalino, Stefania; Chiga, N.; Ekawa, H.; Evtoukhovitch, P.; Feliciello, A.; Fujioka, H.; Hayakawa, S.
     FEW-BODY SYSTEMS
     SPRINGER WIEN, SACHSENPLATZ 4-6, PO BOX 89, A-1201 WIEN, AUSTRIA
     Vol.54 pp.6 (pp.955-960) ISSN:0177-7963 DOI:10.1007/s00601-013-0685-2

Reference laboratories

• ALICE (CMOS sensors) Laboratory

Web site

Leader

• AGNELLO MICHELANGELO

Permanent staff

• BUFALINO STEFANIA

PhD, Post-docs and Grant researchers

• CONCAS MATTEO
• GROSA FABRIZIO
• RAVASENGA IVAN