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PH DEPARTMENT NEWSLETTER<br />

-­‐ Editorial……………………………………………………………………………p.2<br />

-­‐ The GBAR Experiment……………...……………………………………...p.4<br />

-­‐ New Arrivals (Staff and Fellows).………………………………….…..p.9<br />

Edition No.10 – <strong>January</strong> 2013


Editorial<br />

Dear colleagues<br />

2012 has clearly been a fantastic year for CERN and High Energy <strong>Physics</strong> in general. Of course, the discovery<br />

by ATLAS and CMS of a new particle, whose properties are so far in agreement with the postulated Higgs<br />

Boson at a mass of ~125 GeV/c 2 , has been the most prominent achievement of last year [1,2]. One should<br />

however not forget key milestones which have been passed by other LHC experiments, for example the<br />

first evidence of the rare Bs-­‐>µµ decay by LHCb [3] in agreement (unfortunately!?) with the Standard<br />

Model predicted rate, the measurement of the total and elastic p-­‐p cross sections at 7 and 8 TeV [4] by<br />

TOTEM, the measurement of the forward production of π 0 ’s by LHCf [5] (a key ingredient for high energy<br />

cosmic ray experiments), etc. The proton-­‐lead run has just started a few days ago, but experiments have<br />

already extracted important information and published 6 papers from a few hours test last year, among<br />

which a first measurement of the nuclear modification factor [6].<br />

The non-­‐LHC program was also very productive. The recent SPS Committee (SPSC) was an opportunity to<br />

review the achievements of most non-­‐LHC experiments and I have been truly impressed by what was<br />

presented. For example, at the Antiproton Decelerator, ALPHA has published in Nature [7] the first<br />

observation of resonant quantum transitions in trapped antihydrogen atoms, ATRAP presented at the SPSC<br />

a new measurement of the antiproton magnetic moment with nearly 3 orders of magnitude improvement<br />

[8] and all experiments have made tremendous progress towards new hardware to perform either precise<br />

spectroscopy of antihydrogen (ATRAP, ASACUSA, ALPHA-­‐2) or a measurement of the gravitational<br />

properties of antimatter (AEGIS, GBAR). In this issue, you will actually find a short paper written by the<br />

GBAR spokesperson on this new, challenging experiment, which will be performed around the ELENA<br />

decelerator starting in 2017.<br />

I could list many other examples on fixed target experiments (NA62 had its first test run, COMPASS-­‐2 made<br />

a successful test run in view of the future DVCS measurements, CLOUD commissioned its expansion system<br />

for droplets and ice formation,…). Note also that in 2012 the CNGS program has been completed, as well<br />

as the DIRAC experiment. Finally, let us not forget ISOLDE who performed a record of 50 experiments and<br />

nTOF, again with a record number of 1.9 10 19 protons on target.<br />

The Theory Unit was extremely active, with one school, four TH institutes and four workshops on site and<br />

welcomed 770 visitors !<br />

Starting mid-­‐February, all experiments and machines will enter into the long shutdown-­‐1 with important<br />

consolidation and hardware preparation activities. This is clearly very different, but not less challenging<br />

work. Data analysis will continue in parallel, using the large data sets accumulated in 2011-­‐12. In 2012,<br />

according to the database, EP produced an amazing record of 375 preprints on experimental results, just<br />

“in front” of TH with 369 preprints! More than one a day in both cases! The competition is open for 2013!<br />

I therefore wish you a happy and productive year.<br />

Philippe<br />

[1] ATLAS Collaboration, “Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson<br />

with the ATLAS detector at the LHC”, Phys. Lett. B 716 (2012) 1, doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2012.08.020,<br />

arXiv:1207.7214.<br />

[2] CMS Collaboration, “Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the<br />

LHC”, Phys. Lett. B 716 (2012) 30, doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2012.08.021, arXiv:1207.7235.<br />

[3] LHCb Collaboration, First evidence of the BS-­‐>m+m-­‐ decay arXiv:1211.2674 ; CERN-­‐PH-­‐EP-­‐2012-­‐335<br />

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[4] TOTEM Collaboration, A luminosity-­‐independent measurement of the proton-­‐proton total cross-­‐section<br />

at sqrt(s) = 8 TeV CERN-­‐PH-­‐EP-­‐2012-­‐354.<br />

[5] LHCf Collaboration, arXiv:1205.4578; CERN-­‐PH-­‐EP-­‐2012-­‐145<br />

[6] ALICE Collaboration Transverse Momentum Distribution and Nuclear Modification Factor of Charged<br />

Particles in p-­‐Pb Collisions at sqrt(sNN) = 5.02 TeV, arXiv:1210.4520 ; CERN-­‐PH-­‐EP-­‐2012-­‐306<br />

[7] Nature 483, 439 (2012) doi:10.1038/nature10942<br />

[8] One-­‐Particle Measurement of the p Magnetic Moment, to be published.<br />

Misc. News:<br />

******************<br />

Fellows and Associates Committee Dates for 2013:<br />

The Selection Committees will take place on 24 May 2013 and 12 November 2013<br />

For May:<br />

-­‐ deadline for applications -­‐ Fellows, 1 March 2013<br />

-­‐ deadline for applications -­‐ Associates, 15 March 2013<br />

For November:<br />

-­‐ deadline for applications -­‐ Fellows, 3 September 2013<br />

-­‐ deadline for applications -­‐ Associates, 13 September 2013<br />

Technical Students Committee Dates for 2013:<br />

The Selection Committees will take place on 23 April 2013 and 1 October 2013<br />

For April:<br />

-­‐ deadline for applications, 5 March 2013<br />

For October:<br />

-­‐ deadline for applications, 12 August 2013<br />

******************<br />

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GBAR - Gravitational Behavior of Antimatter at Rest<br />

The GBAR experiment, proposing a gravity measurement of antihydrogen at the planned ELENA<br />

facility, was approved by the Research Board in May 2012. The collaboration is formed of 14<br />

laboratories and about 40 researchers at present 1 .<br />

The goal of GBAR is to test the Einstein Weak Equivalence Principle (WEP), which states that the<br />

trajectory of a test particle is independent of its composition and internal structure when it is only<br />

submitted to gravitational forces. This fundamental principle has never been directly tested with<br />

antimatter. GBAR will measure the free-fall acceleration g of neutral antihydrogen atoms in the<br />

terrestrial gravitational field directly. [1]<br />

The main principle of GBAR is the use of antihydrogen H + ions (the antimatter equivalent of H –<br />

ions) to more easily manipulate the atoms before measurement. Once produced, the H + ions are<br />

cooled in two stages with lasers and Paul traps to µK temperatures, i.e. a 1 m/s velocity. We then<br />

neutralize them by photo-detachment and let the H atoms fall (Fig. 1). From a 20 cm height the time<br />

of flight is 200 ms, thus easily measured. This is complementary to the method used by the AEGIS<br />

experiment, already in preparation, that will produce a broad beam of Hs at a velocity of about 10 3<br />

m/s and detect tens of µm deviations due to gravity using a deflectometer. Both experiments aim at<br />

a 1% precision in the first phase.<br />

Our method opens the possibility of performing a spectroscopy of H quantum states. Indeed, an<br />

experiment performed ten years ago at ILL Grenoble with ultra cold neutrons by our collaborators<br />

showed that these neutrons, launched a few tens of µm above a plate, were reflected from this<br />

surface by the Casimir effect, and even trapped in the potential resulting from gravity. In such a<br />

potential well the energy levels accessible to the trapped particle are quantized, i.e. the distribution<br />

of the altitudes reached after bouncing on the surface by the particles is quantized. The separation<br />

between these altitude levels is proportional to the acceleration due to gravity. It was calculated that<br />

antihydrogen atoms of low vertical velocity when arriving on such a plate, i.e. launched a few tens<br />

of microns above it, would be reflected with very high probability, allowing thus to use the same<br />

technique to measure g with much higher precision.<br />

Figure 1 – Principle of free-fall measurement (left) and H + production scheme (right).<br />

1 CSNSM Orsay, ETH Zurich, ILL Grenoble, IPCMS Strasbourg, IRFU Saclay, Lebedev Moscow, LKB Paris, JGU<br />

Mainz, NCBJ Otwock-­‐Swierk, RIKEN, Swansea University, University of Tokyo Komaba, Tokyo University of<br />

Science, Uppsala University.<br />

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Experimental method:<br />

The H + ion is produced through two charge-exchange processes from interactions of p and H with<br />

the same positronium (Ps) target (the positronium is an e + e - bound state):<br />

p + Ps → H + e - (1)<br />

H + Ps → H + + e - . (2)<br />

The first formation cross-section may be enhanced if positronium is slightly excited (n = 2 or 3), for<br />

incident antiproton energies between 1 and 6 keV. Preliminary calculations optimising the time<br />

delays between the antiproton, positron and laser pulses, show that 1⎺H free fall can be detected per<br />

ELENA pulse, i.e every 100 s.<br />

The Ps target itself is formed by the interaction of a positron bunch with a nanoporous SiO2 layer<br />

(Fig. 1 right). We developed a layer that converts more than 30% of the incident 3 keV e + into<br />

orthopositronium (o-Ps) that is released into the vacuum. The o-Ps areal density required to obtain<br />

of the order of 1 H + ion per ELENA pulse, is ~ 10 12 cm -2 . This cannot be accomplished with the β +<br />

emitters such as the 22 Na sources used by the other antihydrogen experiments. Instead, a compact<br />

electron linac produces positrons by pair production in a target with intensity up to 100 times<br />

higher. On the other hand, the antiprotons that are decelerated in a first step to 5 MeV in the AD,<br />

then to 100 keV in ELENA, must be further decelerated to a few keV.<br />

Figure 2 - Schematic illustration of the GBAR experiment. The<br />

MeV and keV values are mean kinetic energies, while the eV and<br />

neV values are dispersions, i.e. temperatures, or quantum levels.<br />

The steps needed to perform the gravitation experiment are sketched in figure 2:<br />

- Production of an intense flux of fast positrons (few MeV) from the interactions on a tungsten<br />

target of a 10-20 MeV electron beam produced in a small accelerator.<br />

- Selection of the positrons and suppression of the electron and gamma background with a<br />

magnetic separator.<br />

- Moderation of the positrons to create so-called “slow” positrons of a few eV.<br />

- Accumulation of the positrons inside a 5 Tesla Penning-Malmberg trap, where they cool down to a<br />

few meV and are then ejected in less than 100 ns onto a porous silica target to form a dense orthopositronium<br />

cloud.<br />

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- Excitation of the o-Ps to gain a large factor on their cross section for the production of H + .<br />

- Interaction with the very low-energy antiproton beam extracted from the Antiproton Decelerator<br />

(AD) followed by the ELENA ring at CERN and an electrostatic decelerator: this produces H<br />

atoms and H + ions.<br />

- Accumulation of the H + ions and sympathetic cooling with 9 Be + ions to 10 μK.<br />

- Photo-detachment at the threshold of the extra positron.<br />

- Measurement of the free fall of the anti-hydrogen atom.<br />

Let us note that the final step reaches energy levels of a few neV, while the original proton beam<br />

that forms the antiprotons in the PS is 26 GeV, i.e about 19 orders of magnitude reduction in<br />

energy!<br />

Ongoing R&D activities:<br />

The most advanced ongoing activities are detailed below, while the other experimental steps are<br />

being prepared at Grenoble, Mainz, Paris, Swansea, Swierk, Tokyo and Zurich. We also have a few<br />

theorists interested in improving particle trapping, studying positron and positronium interactions,<br />

and in the quantum reflection with antimatter.<br />

Figure 3 – (left) schematic and (right) photograph of the decelerator test bench in Orsay.<br />

The antiprotons that will be delivered in 2017 by the Antiproton Decelerator, followed by the<br />

ELENA ring, will have a 100 keV kinetic energy. This is still too high, so that all the present<br />

antihydrogen experiments capture the antiprotons after a degrader into a Penning trap where they<br />

are cooled. In GBAR, we propose to reduce the kinetic energy from 100 keV to 1 keV while<br />

focusing the beam onto the 1 mm diameter tube that will contain the Ps target. The technique is to<br />

rapidly pulse up a beam-tube cavity from -99 kV to 0 kV while the p bunch is inside so that the<br />

antiprotons feel no electric potential gradient when they exit. The idea of decelerating the<br />

antiprotons from 100 keV to 1 keV is to circumvent the losses that occur when using energy<br />

degraders as well as avoiding another Penning trap for accumulation. Such electrostatic<br />

decelerators are routinely used with heavy-ion beams at the CERN-ISOLDE facility. We have set<br />

up a test bench with protons at the CSNSM in Orsay to develop the necessary deceleration and<br />

focusing elements for the antiproton beam pulses. A schematic illustration and photograph are<br />

shown in Fig. 3.<br />

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Figure 4 – Layout at Saclay (left) and picture of beamline connecting the Penning trap (right).<br />

In order to test positron production and accumulation, we have set up a demonstration apparatus in<br />

Saclay that is based on a small electron linac of 4.3 MeV and 0.14 mA average current running at<br />

200 Hz repetition rate with effective bunch length of 2.5 µs. A primary target is followed with a<br />

tungsten mesh moderator producing 3 × 10 6 slow e + /s. These positrons of a few eV are transported<br />

to a switch where they can be directed either towards a Penning-Malmberg trap for accumulation or<br />

towards a positron annihilation spectrometer (see Fig. 4). In this spectrometer, the e + to Ps<br />

conversion process can be studied in detail.<br />

The trap was transported from the Atomic <strong>Physics</strong> Laboratory of RIKEN (Japan) and connected to<br />

the slow positron beam line in June 2012. The setup is now ready for systematic tests of the<br />

trapping mechanism that involves cooling the positrons with a preloaded electron plasma.<br />

Once the accumulation of positrons is finished, they are ejected from the trap and dumped onto the<br />

porous silica to be converted into positronium. A laser system is being prepared by LKB in Paris to<br />

excite this Ps cloud. Note that the lifetime of o-Ps being 142 ns, the dump must be performed<br />

quickly and the p, e + and laser beams must be synchronised accordingly.<br />

In the secondary beam line, the slow positrons can be made to interact with material samples that<br />

we want to study for improving the conversion into positronium. BGO crystals detect the gamma<br />

rays emitted in the decay of positronium. The trigger is provided by the secondary electrons emitted<br />

when the incident positron hits the sample to be studied. This scheme was already successfully used<br />

in an ETHZ beam.<br />

GBAR at CERN:<br />

A preliminary layout in the AD Hall is shown in Fig. 5, where the ELENA beam exits the ring to<br />

the left and is transported through two quadrupole doublets to the electrostatic decelerator. The<br />

low-energy antiprotons are then deflected left into the reaction chamber. The linac, shown on the<br />

lower left (surrounded by shielding) is used to create positrons that are sent to the Penning trap<br />

(center) and the accumulated pulse is deflected to the right, into the reaction chamber to form the<br />

positronium cloud. The cylinder on the left houses both the antihydrogen capture and cooling traps,<br />

with the free-fall detector located around. Also visible are two mezzanines that will house the laser<br />

systems for positronium excitation (right) and cooling and photo-detachment (left).<br />

We aim at preparing the elements of the experiments in order to be ready for the first proton or H -<br />

beams that will be used for the commissioning of ELENA in 2016, and take the first antiproton data<br />

in 2017.<br />

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References:<br />

Figure 5 – Present view of the future layout of the experiment in the CERN AD hall.<br />

[1] G. Chardin et al, Proposal to measure the Gravitational Behaviour of Antihydrogen at Rest GBAR,<br />

CERN-SPSC-P-342, September 2011;<br />

http://cdsweb.cern.ch/record/1386684/files/SPSC-P-342.pdf<br />

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New Arrivals: (September – December 2012)<br />

Staff:<br />

• Jerome Daguin (PH-­‐DT-­‐DI):<br />

I've been working within the PH/DT cooling project during the last three years as a<br />

cooling engineer. I will continue in the same team under the supervision of Paola<br />

Tropea and my work will be focused on the development, commissioning and<br />

installation of CO2 cooling systems for the future detector upgrades.<br />

• Audrey Deidda (PH-­‐AGS-­‐SE):<br />

I am very glad and enthusiastic to join the AGS secretariat section in order to<br />

provide, together with my colleagues, an efficient administrative support to the<br />

PH <strong>Department</strong>.<br />

• Jennifer Dembski (PH-­‐AGS-­‐SE):<br />

I joined CERN as an Administrative Student in the Planning & Support Section<br />

which allowed me to gain a good insight into the activities of the organization.<br />

Since October I`ve been working in the CMS Secretariat Team that supports the<br />

CMS Collaboration in all organisational tasks such as preparing meetings &<br />

events, travel, invitation letters and many other tasks. It`s a pleasure to get in<br />

touch with people coming from all over the world and to support the<br />

collaborators in their daily challenges.<br />

• Massimiliano Fiorini (PH-­‐TOT):<br />

I joined the TOTEM Experiment in November, and started working on the<br />

operation and maintenance of the Roman Pot Silicon Detector system. I will also<br />

be active part of the upgrade program, that foresees the development of high<br />

performance silicon sensors for improved space resolution and radiation<br />

hardness combined with state of the art timing detectors.<br />

• Vyacheslav Rychkov (PH-­‐TH)<br />

My current research is devoted to developing new analytical and numerical<br />

approaches to strongly coupled QFT dynamics, in particular the conformal<br />

bootstrap.<br />

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• Fernando Duarte Ramos (PH-­‐LCD)<br />

• Luis Granado Cardoso (PH-­‐LBC)<br />

• Sylvain Mico (PH-­‐ESE-­‐BE)<br />

• Julien Migne (PH-­‐DT-­‐EO)<br />

• Brian Petersen (PH-­‐ADT-­‐TR)<br />

• Andreas Salzburger (PH-­‐ADP-­‐OS)<br />

• Leonardo Senatore (PH-­‐TH)<br />

• Markus Stoye (PH-­‐CMG-­‐PS<br />

• Lukasz Zwalinski (PH-­‐DT-­‐DI)<br />

Fellows:<br />

• Ricardo Abreu (PH-­‐ADT-­‐TR)<br />

I just rejoined the ATLAS Trigger and Data Acquisition group, where I had already<br />

spent two years in the past. The main focus of my work is on software engineering<br />

within the High Level Trigger and DataFlow projects, which will undergo major<br />

upgrades during the upcoming long shutdown.<br />

• Farah Ben Mimoun Bel Hadj (PH-­‐CMX-­‐DS)<br />

I am an engineer in medical imaging; I worked as a Marie Curie Fellow on the project endoTOFPET-­‐<br />

US with Etiennette Auffray and Paul Lecoq. I am responsible for the assembly and the optimization<br />

of the two detector modules (internal probe and external plate) of the endoscopic PET prototype.<br />

• Monika Blanke (PH-­‐TH)<br />

I recently joined the Theory Group. My research is focused on the theoretical<br />

description of particle physics beyond the Standard Model, including studies of its<br />

signatures at both high-­‐energy and high-­‐precision experiments and in particular<br />

their interplay. Specifically I am interested in models of electroweak symmetry<br />

breaking and their connection to flavor and CP violation.<br />

• Simon de Visscher (PH-­‐CMG-­‐PS)<br />

I'm a physicist, working in the CMS collaboration. A part of my time is dedicated to<br />

experimental studies of particular SM processes and on the improvement of their<br />

modeling with MontCarlo techniques. Besides, I also take part to a Higgs search<br />

and work on algorithms to tag the jets initiated from b-­‐quark production,<br />

potentially from Higgs boson decay.<br />

• Simon Feigl (PH-­‐DT-­‐DI)<br />

I am an Austrian technical physicist and have started as Marie-­‐Curie fellow in the<br />

TALENT network. The work focuses on high-­‐radiation environment technologies.<br />

I am involved in the upcoming ATLAS upgrade (definition and safe execution of<br />

the IBL system integration) as well as in R&D for future high-­‐luminosity systems<br />

(exploring planar HV-­‐CMOS sensors as a promising technology for future tracker<br />

detectors).<br />

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• Sonia Fernández Pérez (PH-­‐ADE-­‐ID)<br />

I am a physicist. On the 1st September I joined the PH-­‐ADE group under the<br />

supervision of Heinz Pernegger. My research is focusing on the development and<br />

application of the silicon pixel detectors for the ATLAS IBL upgrade.<br />

• Jean-­‐François Fortin (PH-­‐TH)<br />

I work at the boundary between formal quantum field theory and phenomenology<br />

of beyond the Standard Model physics, using concepts from the former to study<br />

the latter. My interests include conformal field theory, supersymmetry breaking,<br />

dark matter detection and model building.<br />

• Rikkert Frederix (PH-­‐TH)<br />

I'm a collider phenomenologist working on Monte Carlo event generation. In particular, I'm<br />

involved in the aMC@NLO project which is a code build within the madgraph framework and allows<br />

for event generation at NLO accuracy.<br />

• Benjamin Fuks (PH-­‐TH)<br />

I work on the computation of QCD corrections for new physics processes and on<br />

the application of resummation techniques to the same processes, the aim being<br />

to reach a higher precision level for the theoretical predictions. I am also involved<br />

in the development of tools dedicated to high-­‐energy physics (FeynRules,<br />

MadAnalysis 5) and am interested in beyond the Standard Model phenomenology<br />

at the LHC.<br />

• Josef Hammer (PH-­‐CMG-­‐CO)<br />

After working as a computer scientist for the CMS L1-­‐Trigger for several years, I<br />

joined CMG-­‐CO in September. My task is to take over all the iCMS tools from Dirk<br />

Samyn (who is about to retire), under supervision of Andreas Pfeiffer. These tools<br />

include the CMS Analysis DB (CADI), the CMS Notes DB, the ESP tools, and plenty<br />

of other tools for the CMS management and secretariat.<br />

• Tim Head (PH-­‐LBD)<br />

I have joined the LHCb experiment. I will be working on searches for processes<br />

which violate lepton flavour conservation and contribute to the studies being<br />

performed for the upgrade of the Velo detector.<br />

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• Stefan Hohenegger (PH-­‐TH)<br />

I am a fellow in the TH unit working on mathematical aspects of string theory and<br />

quantum field theory.<br />

• Zdenek Hubacek (PH-­‐ADP)<br />

I work on the ATLAS Experiment as a fellow. I will be splitting my working time on<br />

improving the calorimeter simulation (potentially both the precision and the<br />

speed) and on analyzing the 2012 inclusive jets data. I would like to measure the<br />

jet-­‐radius dependence of the inclusive jet cross section.<br />

• Krisztian Krajczar (PH-­‐CMG-­‐PS)<br />

I'm a member of the CMS Collaboration since 2007. After years of working<br />

on soft QCD physics, I moved to learn more about heavy ions around 2010<br />

and was involved in the analysis of particle multiplicity and nuclear<br />

modification factor. As of now I'm working on the new p-­‐Pb data.<br />

• Jochen Meyer (PH-­‐ADE-­‐MU)<br />

In November 2012 I joined the <strong>Cern</strong> ATLAS Muon group as an applied fellow to<br />

work on muon simulation issues and contribute to performance studies regarding<br />

the ATLAS Muon Spectrometer. Concerning physics analysis my focus is on<br />

(Standard Model) processes including electroweak gauge bosons and in particular<br />

on signatures with muons in the final state.<br />

• Sebastian Neubert (PH-­‐LBD)<br />

I have recently joined the LHCb group at CERN as a research fellow. I'll be studying<br />

the spectroscopy of B and D mesons and search for CP violation in the decays of<br />

these particles. In addition I will work on the high level trigger of LHCb.<br />

• Francois-­‐Xavier Nuiry (PH-­‐DT-­‐EO)<br />

I'm a mechanical engineer and I've already worked for two years in PH-­‐DT-­‐EO<br />

under the VIA fellow program. I'm now CERN fellow and I will continue to<br />

contribute to two detector projects: ATLAS IBL System integration, and LCD<br />

project, testbeam measurements of very forward calorimeter prototypes, as<br />

leading engineer. A part of my activity will also cover general engineering support<br />

for the EO section, particularly for finite element calculations.<br />

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• Giuliano Panico (PH-­‐TH)<br />

I am a fellow in the theory division. My research efforts are focused on the study<br />

of beyond the Standard Model theories, with the primary aim of understanding<br />

the physics involved in the mechanism of electroweak symmetry breaking. I am<br />

mainly interested theoretical and phenomenological aspects of theories with new<br />

strongly coupled dynamics and theories with extra space-­‐time dimensions.<br />

• Subodh Patil (PH-­‐TH)<br />

I am a theoretical cosmologist working in the Theory Division, having arrived at<br />

CERN on the 1st of September 2012. My research is focused on various aspects of<br />

Cosmology, Gravity and related aspects of String Theory and Beyond the Standard<br />

Model physics.<br />

• Elisa Rapisarda (PH-­‐SME-­‐IS)<br />

I work at ISOLDE, the radioactive beam facility in CERN. My research focuses on<br />

the study of the evolution of the nuclear properties when going far from<br />

stability. I mainly collaborate with the MINIBALL setup, an array of highly<br />

segmented Hyper-­‐Pure Germanium detectors used to study Coulomb excitation<br />

reaction as well as transfer reactions induced by the post-­‐accelerated beam<br />

delivered at ISOLDE.<br />

• Cedric Serfon (PH-­‐ADP-­‐CO)<br />

I joined recently the PH-­‐ADP-­‐CO group (in ATLAS) as applied fellow. I'm working<br />

now on the development of the new version of ATLAS Distributed Data<br />

Management software called Rucio that is supposed to replace the current one<br />

(DQ2) before the end of LS1. I will also be involved in the migration procedure<br />

between DQ2 and Rucio.<br />

• Eva Sicking (PH-­‐LCD)<br />

In November 2012, I have joined the Linear Collider Detector (LCD) group. I<br />

participate in the development of detector concepts for a future electron-­‐<br />

positron collider at the TeV-­‐scale such as the compact linear collider (CLIC). So<br />

far, I am focusing on the analysis of test beam data of a calorimeter prototype<br />

as well as on physics benchmark studies.<br />

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• Carlos Solans Sanchez (PH-­‐ADE-­‐CA)<br />

I recently joined the ATLAS calorimeter group as Data Preparation coordinator<br />

for the Tile Calorimeter after many years of contributing to the operations as<br />

DAQ expert and Run Coordinator. I devote part of my time to Higgs searches,<br />

initially in the di-­‐tau channel and statistics and more recently in the b-­‐decay<br />

channel.<br />

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• Giacomo Volpe (PH-­‐AID-­‐DT)<br />

I have started the CERN fellowship on the 1st September 2012 in the PH/AID<br />

Group. I am a member of the ALICE experiment. Currently, I contribute to<br />

ALICE-­‐HMPID detector offline code development and maintenance, data quality<br />

assurance and detector calibration and participate in the HMPID related data<br />

analysis. I pursue physics analysis focusing on hadrons spectra measurements. I<br />

also serve as a Subsystem Run Coordinator for HMPID, organizing the daily<br />

activities & planning for data taking.<br />

• Roberto Auzzi (PH-­‐TH)<br />

• Samir Arfaoui (PH-­‐LCD)<br />

• Luca Barze (PH-­‐TH)<br />

• Joshua Bendavid (PH-­‐CMG-­‐PS)<br />

• Andrea De Simone (PH-­‐TH)<br />

• Juerg Eugster (PH-­‐CMG-­‐PS)<br />

• Dag Gillberg (ADE-­‐CA)<br />

• Alina Grigoras (PH-­‐AIP-­‐SDS)<br />

• Jan Hamann (PH-­‐TH)<br />

• Arno Knapitsch (PH-­‐CMX-­‐DS)<br />

• Mark Kovacs (PH-­‐ESE-­‐FE)<br />

• Adam Martin (PH-­‐TH)<br />

• Thomas Melia (PH-­‐TH)<br />

• Pawel Modrzynski (PH-­‐CMX-­‐DS)<br />

• Mytha Nemallapudi (PH-­‐CMX-­‐DS)<br />

• Lauri Olantera (PH-­‐ESE-­‐BE)<br />

• Vito Palladino (PH-­‐ESE-­‐FE<br />

• Filippo Passerini (PH-­‐TH)<br />

• Kai Schmidt-­‐Hoberg (PH-­‐TH)<br />

• Kristof Schmieden (PH-­‐ADT-­‐TR)<br />

• David Vegh (PH-­‐TH)<br />

• Stefano Venditti (PH-­‐ESE-­‐FE)<br />

• Korinna Zapp (PH-­‐TH)<br />

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