Curriculum

Education

1980-1985:

Scuola Normale Superiore and University of Pisa, Physics Dept.

1985:

Laurea (Master degree), grade 110/110 cum laude

1986-1988:

Ph.D. student, with scholarship, at University of Pisa, Physics Dept.

1989:

Ph.D title

Employment, associations, awards

1984-now:

scientific associate at INFN, sezione di Pisa

1989-1990:

post-doc at INFN, sezione di Pisa

1991-1993:

fellow at CERN

1992-now:

permanent assistant professor at Scuola Normale Superiore

2012-2023:

Associate professorship qualification in Experimental Physics of Fundamental Interactions, according to the Italian national scientific qualification procedure ("abilitazione nazionale a professore di seconda fascia - associato - per il settore concorsuale 02/A1, Fisica Sperimentale delle Interazioni Fondamentali")

2018-2027:

Full professorship qualification in Experimental Physics of Fundamental Interactions, according to the Italian national scientific qualification procedure ("abilitazione nazionale a professore di prima fascia - ordinario - per il settore concorsuale 02/A1, Fisica Sperimentale delle Interazioni Fondamentali")

Main Roles and responsibilities

1992-1993:

manager of the ALEPH TPC data acquisition at the TPP level

1995-1995:

manager of data acquisition for the BABAR SVT test beams

1998-2000:

manager of data acquisition for the BABAR Silicon Vertex Detector

2005-2009:

Tau-Physics co-coordinator in BABAR

2005-2013:

various roles in SuperB Tau Physics coordination

2008-2015:

coordinator of the BABAR Pisa group

2008-2009:

DAQ manager for SLIM5 and VIPIX (Silicon Detector R&D grants)

2010-now:

Tau and Light New Physics co-coordinator in BABAR

2011-2012:

offline and analysis manager for SLIM5 and VIPIX (Silicon Detector R&D grants)

2011-now:

Tau-Physics convener in Heavy Flavour Averaging Group (HFLAV)

2013-now:

Italian member of the BABAR Executive Board

2016-now:

Main author of the Tau Branching Fraction review for the Particle Data Group

2016-now:

Tau Lepton encoder for the Particle Data Group

2018-now:

member of the international advisory committee of the Super Charm-Tau Factory projects SCT (Russia, Novosibirsk) and SCTF/Hiepa (China)

2018:

chair of the international advisory committee of the Super Charm-Tau Factory projects SCT (Russia, Novosibirsk) and SCTF/Hiepa (China)

2020-now:

"result combination" convener of the FNAL E989 collaboration (Muon g-2)

Main Collaborations

1984-2000:

ALEPH Collaboration

1995-now:

BABAR Collaboration

2009-now:

Heavy Flavour Averaging Group (HFLAV)

2014-now:

LHCb Collaboration

2016-now:

Particle Data Group

2016-now:

Muon g-2 experiment at FNAL

Scientific production

The following table reports some scientific production indicators collected on July 2020:

all times

since 2015

publications (ResearcherID)

1240

papers (InspireHEP profile)

1082

proceedings (InspireHEP)

383

citations (Google Scholar)

104875

48176

h-index (Google Scholar)

141

84

i10-index (Google Scholar)

861

524


Teaching activity

1999-2000:

(co-teacher) "Physics Lab" (part of Physics course), 1st year Science students, Scuola Normale Superiore

2002-2008:

"Physics Lab" (part of Physics course), 1st year Science students, Scuola Normale Superiore

2005-2006:

Fisica e Laboratorio di Fisica, 1st year students, Biology, Pisa University

2007-2009:

Fisica e Laboratorio di Fisica (terzo modulo e Laboratorio), 1st year students, Environmental Sciences, Pisa University

2009-2011:

Physics, 1st year Chemistry and Biology students, Scuola Normale Superiore

2012-2015:

Physics, 1st year Biology students, Scuola Normale Superiore
(alternating as main or complementary teacher)

2015-2017:

Physics complements II, Analytical Mechanics, 2nd year Engineering students, Scuola S. Anna, Pisa

2015-2017:

Series of lessons on Tau Physics (part of "Experimental High Energy II"), Master and PHD students, Scuola Normale Superiore

2019-2020:

Quantum Mechanichs complementary teacher, Scuola Normale Superiore

Mentoring activity

Supervisor of 1 master thesis and 1 PHD thesis at the Pisa University

Co-supervisor of 1 master thesis at the Pisa University

Auxiliary external supervisor of 1 PHD thesis at the Henryk Niewodniczański Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Cracow, Poland

Administrative activities

6 years:

member of the board of the Data Computing center of Scuola Normale Superiore

9 years:

member of the Science Department "consiglio di classe" of Scuola Normale Superiore

12 years:

member of the enlarged "consiglio direttivo" and later "collegio accademico" of Scuola Normale Superiore

6 years:

member of the "consiglio direttivo" (top board) of Scuola Normale Superiore

Recent talks, posters, reviews, lectures

  • “Measurement of the Tau Lepton Lifetime with BABAR”, 8th International Workshop on Tau-Lepton Physics (Tau 2004), Nara, Japan, September 14-17, 2004.

  • “Tau physics with BaBar”, INFN Pisa seminar, Pisa, Italy, April 5, 2005.

  • “Rare Tau Decays Results from BABAR and Belle”, 3rd International Conference on Flavor Physics, National Central University, Chung-li, Taiwan, October 3-8, 2005.

  • “Feasibility study for a fixed target mu -> tau conversion experiment”, Flavour in the era of the LHC, CERN, February 6-8, 2006.

  • “Experimental Review on Lepton Universality Tests and Lepton Flavour Violation Searches at the B-Factories”, Kaon International Conference (KAON 2007), Frascati, May 21-25, 2007.

  • “Tau Results from BABAR”, BES, Belle, CLEO, BABAR 2007 Joint Workshop on Charm Physics, IHEP Beijing, China, November 26-27, 2007.

  • “Tau Decays at the B-Factories”, Heavy Quarks and Leptons (HQL 2008), School of Physics, University of Melbourne, Australia, June 5-9, 2008.

  • “Tests of \(T\) and \(CPT\) symmetries at the B-Factories”, Symposium on Prospects in the Physics of Discrete Symmetries (Discrete 2008), IFIC, Valencia, Spain, December 11-16, 2008.

  • “BABAR Tau Physics Results”, Fifth International Conference on Flavor Physics, Hanoi, Vietnam, September 24-30, 2009.

  • “Measurements of \(|V_{us}|\) and Searches for Violation of Lepton Universality and for \(CPT\) Violation in Tau Decays at BABAR”, 35th International Conference On High Energy Physics (ICHEP 2010), Paris, France, July 21-28, 2010.

  • “Tau physics at SuperB”, 11th International Workshop Tau Lepton Physics (Tau 2010), Manchester, UK, 13-17 September 2010.

  • “Search for Lepton-Flavor-Violating Tau Decays at the B-factories”, Heavy Quarks and Leptons (HQL 2010), INFN Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, 10-15 October, 2010.

  • “The SuperB project”, Flavor Physics in the LHC Era, NEC, Singapore, 8-12 November 2010.

  • “The SuperB project”, SuperB: Flavour Physics, Benasque, Spain, 18-21 January 2011.

  • “Searches for Light New Physics with BABAR”, International Europhysics Conference on High-Energy Physics (EPS-HEP 2011), Grenoble, July 21-27 2011.

  • “The SuperB Physics Programme”, International Europhysics Conference on High-Energy Physics (EPS-HEP 2011), Grenoble, July 21-27 2011.

  • “The SuperB detector and its Physics reach”, Epiphany Conference, Cracow, 9-12 January 2012.

  • “Physics at SuperB”, Second Workshop on Flavor Physics in the LHC era, IFIC, Valencia, 16-18 January 2012.

  • “HFAG tau lepton averages”, 12th International Workshop on Tau Lepton Physics (Tau 2012), Nagoya, Japan, 17-21 September, 2012.

  • “Search for \(D^0 \to \ell^+ \ell^-\) and \(D^0 \to \gamma\gamma\) at BABAR and BES III”, 7th International Workshop on the CKM Unitarity Triangle (CKM 2012), Cincinnati, Ohio, USA, 1 October 2012.

  • “Charged Higgs search with SuperB”, Prospects for Charged Higgs Discovery at Colliders, Uppsala University, Sweden, 8-11 October 2012.

  • “Search for dark-sector Higgs and gauge bosons at BABAR”, Third Symposium on Prospects in the Physics of Discrete Symmetries (Discrete 2012), Lisbon, 3-7 December 2012.

  • “Recent \(\tau\) lepton results from BABAR”, International Workshop on \(e^+e^-\) collisions from phi to psi (PhiPsi 2013), Rome, Italy, September 9-12, 2013.

  • “Tau Charm flavor factory”, International Workshop on \(e^+e^-\) collisions from phi to psi, (PhiPsi 2013), Rome, Italy, September 9-12, 2013.

  • “Inclusive hadron production at \(B\) factories”, Rencontres de Moriond, QCD and High Energy Interactions, La Thuile, Italy, March 9-16, 2013.

  • “Risultati recenti della collaborazione BABAR”, XCIX Congresso Nazionale della Societa’ Italiana di Fisica, Trieste, September 23-27 2013.

  • “Dark Matter searches at BABAR”, 49th Rencontres de Moriond - Cosmology, La Thuile, Italy, March 22-29, 2014.

  • “Searches for \(b \to s, d\; \nu \bar{\nu}\)”, 8th International Workshop on the CKM Unitarity Triangle (CKM 2014), Vienna, Austria, 8-12 September 2014.

  • “|Vus| from tau decays”, 8th International Workshop on the CKM Unitarity Triangle (CKM 2014), Vienna, Austria, 8-12 September 2014.

  • “HFAG-Tau Report with Theory Introduction for |Vus|”, 13th International Workshop on Tau Lepton Physics (Tau 2014), Aachen, Germany, 15-19 September, 2014.

  • “Light New Physics Searches with BABAR”, Les Rencontres de Physique de la Vallée d’Aoste, La Thuile, Italy, March 1-7, 2015.

  • “Search for new \(\pi^0\)-like particles produced in association with a tau-lepton pair in BABAR”, European Physical Society Conference on High Energy Physics (EPS-HEP 2015), Vienna, 22-29 July 2015.

  • “Dark forces search at BABAR”, International workshop on Light Dark Matter searches at Accelerators (LDMA 2015), Camogli, June 2015.

  • “Lepton Universality and Lepton Flavour Violation tests at the B-factories”, Workshop on Flavour changing and conserving processes (FCCP 2015), Anacapri, Italy, September 10-12, 2015.

  • “Search for dark photon and long-lived particles at Babar”, 10th International Workshop on \(e^+e^-\) Collisions from phi to psi (PhiPsi 2015), University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, AnHui, China, September 23-26, 2015.

  • “Tau Decay Measurements”, New Vistas in Low-Energy Precision Physics (LEPP 2016), Mainz, Germany, April 2016.

  • “Measurement of the \(B^0 \to D^{*-}\pi^+\pi^-\pi^+\) branching fraction by BaBaR”, ICHEP 2016, Chicago, USA, August 2016.

  • “\(B_c^+\) meson production, decays and properties at LHCb”, (poster), ICHEP 2016, Chicago, USA, August 2016.

  • “HFAG and PDG tau branching fractions averages and |Vus| determination from tau data”, Tau 2016, Beijing, China, September 2016.

  • “Dark sector and Light New Physics searches in BABAR”, Tau 2016, Beijing, China, September 2016.

  • “Tau 2016 Summary”, Tau 2016, Beijing, China, September 2016.

  • “Muon g-2 experiments”, Puzzles 2016, Frascati, Italy, December 2016.

  • “Invisible decays of the dark photon at BABAR”, LDMA 2017, La Biodola, Italy, May 2017.

  • “Status and progress of the HFLAV-Tau group activities”, PhiPsi 2017, Mainz, Germany, June 2017.

  • “Search for long-lived particles at LHCb”, EPS-HEP 2017, Venice, Italy, July 2017.

  • “Measurement of the hadronic cross sections for \(e^+e^-\) to final states with neutral kaons with the BaBaR detector” (poster), EPS-HEP 2017, Venice, Italy, July 2017.

  • “Muon g-2, Current experimental status and future prospects”, XXIV Cracow Epiphany Conference on Advances in Heavy Flavour Physics, Cracow, Poland, January 2018.

  • “B-factory searches for forbidden decays, dark photons and rare tau decays”, Beauty 2018, La Biodola, Italy, May 2018.

  • “Hadronic decays of the tau lepton”, Charm 2018, Novosibirsk, Russia, May 2018.

  • “|Vus| from taus (Experiment)”, 10th International Workshop on the CKM Unitarity Triangle (CKM 2018), Heidelberg, Germany, September 2018.

  • “Report from the HFLAV group”, 15th International Workshop on Tau Lepton Physics (Tau 2018), Vondelkerk, Amsterdam, Netherlands, September 2018.

  • “Recent results on tau lepton from BaBar”, 12th International Workshop on e+e- Collisions from Phi to Psi (PhiPsi 2019), Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics, and Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, Russia, 25 February - 1 March, 2019.

  • “Precision tests of the Standard Model with the Tau Lepton”, seminar at Indiana University Bloomington, 22 April 2019.

  • “Physics prospects with taus”, CERN Council Open Symposium on the Update of the European Strategy for Particle Physics, Granada, Spain, 13-16 May 2019.

  • “Status of the Muon g-2 experiment at Fermilab”, 15th Patras Workshop on Axions, WIMPs and WISPs, Freiburg, Germany, 3-7 June 2019.

  • “Improved determination of Vus with tau decays”, European Physical Society Conference on High Energy Physics (EPS-HEP), Ghent, Belgium, 10-17 July 2019.

  • “Measurement of the branching fractions \(B(\tau \to K\; n\pi^0\; \nu)\), \(n=0,1,2,3\), and \(B(\tau \to \pi\; n\pi^0\; \nu)\), \(n=3,4\)”, European Physical Society Conference on High Energy Physics (EPS-HEP), Ghent, Belgium, 10-17 July 2019.

  • “Tau Lepton Physics at FCC-ee”, 3rd FCC Physics and Experiments Workshop, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland, 13-17 January 2020.

  • “Improved determination of |Vus| from tau decays”, ICHEP 2020, Prague, Czech Republic, 28 July - 6 August 2020.

  • “Search for rare and forbidden decays of the \(D^0\) meson by BABAR”, 19th International Conference on B-Physics at Frontier Machines, BEAUTY 2020, Kavli IPMU The University of Tokyo, 21-24 September 2020.

  • “Muon magnetic anomaly measurement to 0.46 ppm at FNAL”, Berkeley Lab Research Progress Meeting Seminar, LBNL, USA, 20 April 2021, PDF slides.

  • “First measurement of the muon magnetic anomaly at Fermilab”, Colloquium, Max Planck Institut für Kernphysik, Heidelberg, Germany, 9 June 2021, PDF slides.

  • “Tau Physics at Super Charm-Tau Factories (experimental perspective)”, 10th International Workshop on Charm Physics, Mexico City, Mexico, 31 May - 4 June 2021.

  • "Measurement of the muon precession frequency in magnetic field at Fermilab", European Physical Society conference on high energy physics 2021, EPS-HEP 2021, DESY, Hamburg, Germany, 26-30 July 2021.

  • "Tau Physics experimental status and prospects", Anomalies and Precision in the Belle II Era - Workshop, Vienna, Austria, 6-8 September 2021.

  • "Rassegna delle evidenze sperimentali sul g-2 del muone", Giornata di approfondimento sul problema di g-2, Laboratori Nazionali INFN del Gran Sasso, 9 September 2021.

  • ”Updated determinations of |Vus| with tau decays using the HFLAV fit”, 16th International Workshop on Tau Lepton Physics (TAU2021), Bloomington, Indiana, USA, 27 September 2021 - 1 October 2021.

  • ”Dark Matter Searches at the \(B\)-factories”, Rencontres de Moriond, Very High Energy Phenomena in the Universe, La Thuile, 19-26 March 2022.

  • ”Search for an Axion-Like Particle in \(B \to K a\), with \(a \to \gamma\gamma\) at BABAR”, ICHEP 2022, Bologna, Italy, 6-13 July 2022.

  • "Charged Leptons Measurements", XX LNF Summer School “Bruno Touschek” in Nuclear, Subnuclear and Astroparticle Physics, 11-15 July 2022, INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Rome, Italy

  • "Lepton universality tests and Vus calculation with the new radiative corrections for tau hadronic decays", The 13th International Workshop on e+e- Collisions From Phi to Psi (PhiPsi 2022), 15-19 Aug 2022, ShangHai, China

  • "The Strong2020 and Radio MonteCarLow activities", 108° Congresso Nazionale - Società Italiana di Fisica, 12-16 settembre 2022, Milano, Italy

  • "Muon and Tau g-2 and EDM results and perspectives", 2nd Workshop on electromagnetic dipole moments of unstable particles, 25-28 Sep 2022, Gargnano del Garda (Brescia), Italy

Conference organization roles

2006:

Tau 2006 local organizing committee chair and proceedings editor

2008:

Tau 2008 International Advisory Committee member
PhiPsi 2008 Tau Physics convener

2009:

Pisa Meeting on Advanced Detectors 2009, local organizing committee member

2010:

Tau 2010 International Advisory Committee member

2011:

PhiPsi 2011 International Advisory Committee member

2012:

Tau 2012 International Advisory Committee member
Pisa Meeting on Advanced Detectors 2012, local organizing committee member

2013:

PhiPsi 2013 International Advisory Committee member

2014:

Tau 2014 International Advisory Committee member

2015:

PhiPsi 2015 International Advisory Committee member
Pisa Meeting on Advanced Detectors 2015, local organizing committee member
Italian Physical Society (SIF) congress 2015, local organizing committee member

2016:

Tau 2016 International Advisory Committee member

2017:

PhiPsi 2017 International Advisory Committee member

2018:

Pisa Meeting on Advanced Detectors 2018, local organizing committee member
Tau 2018 International Advisory Committee member

2020:

Tau 2020 International Advisory Committee member
PhiPsi 2021 co-chair of Organizing Committee

Scientific Activity Summary

ALEPH collaboration

1984-1993:

I have studied the measurement of z coordinate and dE/dx measurement with the ALEPH Time Projection Chamber (TPC), I have collaborated to the project of the ALEPH TPC readout Fastbus module (TPP) and have collaborated to and later managed the ALEPH TPC data acquisition at the level of the TPP.

1994-1996:

I have been the principal author of the ALEPH tau lifetime measurement with the sum of the impact parameters method.

NAxx

1986-1988:

I was the simulation manager for NAxx, a proposed experiment to study b production on fixed-target with an associative memory trigger. I have done my PHD thesis on this proposal, which was not eventually funded.

BABAR (SLAC)

1995-now:

I have managed the BABAR Silicon Vertec Tracker (SVT) data acquisition in the teast beams preceeding data-taking, in the preparation and at the beginning of the data taking.
I have been the principal author of the BABAR tau lifetime analysis (a preliminary result was presented in 2004).
I have co-lead the Tau Physics BABAR analyses since 2005, and the BABAR Light New Physics analyses since 2010. The results include Tau Lepton Flavour Violation searches, precision measurements of Tau branching fractions and spectral functions, searches for CP violation in tau production and decay, searches for rare suppressed tau decays, searches for light New Physics particles.

Silicon Detectors R&D

I have been involved since 1991 in several grants on Silicon Detectors R&D. In 2008-2009 I have managed the DAQ for SLIM5 and VIPIX, in 2011-2012 I have managed the reconstruction and data analysis for SLIM5 and VIPIX. The SLIM5 collaboration has been aimed at developing CMOS MAPS with an unique design approach to improve the readout speed and at the same time to increase the sensitive element area, esploiting the triple well option of CMOS commercial processes for the collecting electrode. SLIM5 project included a full signal processing chain at the pixel level, with a sparsified readout architecture. The VIPIX collaboration has done research and development on a vertically integrated Silicon detector for future high luminosity detectors, composed by a high resistivity sensor layer interconnected to a CMOS readout integrated circuit.

SuperB project

2005-2013:

I have coordinated in several roles and collaborated to investigations and reports production on the Tau Physics reach of the SuperB project, in the two main areas of Lepton Flavour Violation searches and precision probing of the tau EDM, anomalous magnetic moment and possible CP violating production and decay. I co-authored several Physics and Detector reports including the Conceptual Design Report and the Technical Design Report.

LHCb (CERN)

2014-now:

I have reviewed LHCb analyses and publication before submission and collaborated to data-taking performing shifts.

FNAL muon g-2 experiment (E989)

2016-now:

I am the "result combination" convener, responsible for the combination of the different analyses of the muon precession frequency, the combination of the measurements the muon precession, magnetic field, all corrections, and the required external inputs to assemble the muon magnetic anomaly measurement. I am the computing coordinator for the Italian group in the collaboration. I worked on the laser calibration system for the calorimeter gain by participating to test beams, by writing and maintaining online and hardware-related software, by collaborating to the commissioning of the apparatus in 2017 and 2018, and by doing shifts for data taking since 2018.

Heavy Flavour Averaging Group

2009-now:

Since 2009 I am member of the HFLAV-Tau sub-group. Since 2011 I am the convener. The HFLAV-Tau sub-group produces the Tau lepton world averages and their elaboration to test the Standard Model lepton universality and to determine the CKM coefficient |Vus| from the tau lepton measurements. Since 2016, it provides the tau lepton branching fractions fit for the Particle Data Group "Review of Particle Physics".

Particle Data Group

2016-now:

Since 2016 I am co-author of the review on Tau Branching Fractions, encoder for the tau lepton measurements, collaborator in charge of doing the Tau Branching Fraction Fit for the Review of Particle Physics. The published fit is a version of the HFLAV-Tau fit.

Tau Physics

1990-now:

I have worked on several aspects of Tau Physics, from precision measurements, to searches for Lepton Flavour Violation in tau decay, to evalutation of tau Physics reach with the SuperB project. I have organized the 2006 edition of the bi-yearly International Tau Workshop, in Pisa. Since several years, I am member of the International Advisory Committees of two conferences where Tau Physics topics are presented, the Tau and the PhiPsi bi-yearly International Workshops. In 2016 I have been designated as the summary talk speaker at the 2016 International Tau Workshop in Beijing. In 2016, I have been awarded funds by Scuola Normale, with a competitive procedure, to do research on Tau spectral functions. In May 2018, I have been appointed as member of the international advisory committee of the BINP (Novosibirsk) Super c-tau Factory. In December 2018 I have served as chair of the International Advisory Committee for the evaluation of the Super Charm-Tau Factories projects SCT (Russia) e SCTF/Hiepa (Cina). In 2019 I have presented the Tau Physics prospects and I have been the author of the Tau Physics section of the "Physics Briefing Book" for the 2020 update of the European Strategy for Particle Physics. In 2020 I have presented the Tau Physics case at the 3rd FCC Physics and Experiments Workshop.

Outreach

2021:

Alberto Lusiani, Il metodo scientifico applicato allo studio dell'epidemia Covid-19, La Normale a scuola 2021, remote lessons for high school students (29/01, 05/02, 09/02, 16/02, 02/03, 16/04, 23/04, 07/05).

08/04/2021:

Interview about the Muon magnetic anomalous measurement announced at FNAL on 7 April 2020 on the Italian radio (Zapping, mp4).

07/04/2021:

Interview about the Muon magnetic anomalous measurement announced at FNAL on the Italian newspaper Repubblica (web).

2016-2020:

co-coordinator of the work package "Outreach and Dissemination" of the MUSE project (European Union Horizon 2020 Grant Agreement n. 690835, associated to the muon $g{-}2$ experiment at FNAL and Mu2e).

18/09/2018:

organizer of Enrico Fermi photo exhibit at Sala Azzurra of Scuola Normale Superiore, for the Pisa School on Future Colliders, 17-21 September 2018.

02/11/2013:

seminar at Associazione Astrofili Prato, "La freccia del tempo nella fisica delle particelle elementari".

30/03/2012:

seminar at Liceo Ulisse Dini (Pisa), "Le Frontiere della Fisica delle Particelle Elementari"