My research activity is within the
ALICE experiment.
It studies the physics of strongly interacting matter at extreme energy densities, where the formation of a new phase of matter, the
quark-gluon plasma, is expected. I am a member of the ALICE Collaboration since May 2007.
Working Experience:
- 15/04/2011 - present: Postdoctoral Fellowship at
NIKHEF, Amterdam, The Netherlands
Education:
- 21/02/2011: PhD in Physics. University of Turin, Turin
(Italy).
Title of the Thesis: Performance of the ALICE Zero Degree Calorimeters in proton-proton collisions
- 24/09/2007: Master Degree in Physics of Fundamental Interactions. Department of Physics, University of Turin,
Turin (Italy). Title of the Thesis: Messa a punto finale dei
Calorimetri a Zero Gradi per l'esperimento ALICE (.pdf). Score of 110/110 cum Laude.
Summary of my activities
Research activities during the Postdoctoral fellowship:
- I focused on the study of heavy-flavour particles. I
developed the software framework and the detection strategy. I
studied the D*+ production in nucleus-nucleus (First world
measurement of the D meson azimuthal anisotropy) and
proton-nucleus interactions(first measurement of D meson
nuclear modification factor in proton-nucleus
collisions).
- I am involved in the operation of the ALICE Inner Tracking System (ITS). I was one of the “ITS Experts” based at CERN assuring the maintenance
of the system and a prompt
intervention in case of failures. I have been the “System Run
Coordinator” for the ITS.
- I am involved in the studies for the ALICE Inner Tracking System Upgrade, a
project aiming to improve the physics performance of ALICE. I
studied the performance for D meson reconstruction with the upgraded ITS.
Research activities during the PhD:
- I have been involved in the commissioning and calibration
of the
Zero Degree Calorimeters (ZDC). The ZDCs provide the
centrality trigger of the collision through the detection of
the zero degree energy. I optimized the software for the
detector response simulation and the algorithms for the
offline analysis of the ZDC data. I participated in the
analysis of the first data collected. Between April and
December 2010 I have been based at
CERN as Expert of the ZDC subsystem assuring the maintenance
of the system and a prompt
intervention in case of failures.
- I studied the possibility of identify diffractive events in proton-proton collisions at LHC using ZDCs.
- I implemented the Detector Control System (DCS) for the ZDCs.
The full Curriculum is available here:
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This is a list of my most important publications. A full list
is available on Spires
on Spires .
Articles:
- B. Abelev, … G. Luparello et al. [ALICE Collaboration], D meson elliptic flow in non-central Pb-Pb collisions at √sNN = 2.76 TeV,
CERN-PH-EP-2013-085, e-Print: arXiv:1305.2707 [nucl-ex]
- B. Abelev, … G.Luparello et al. [ALICE Collaboration],
Azimuthal dependence of D meson production in Pb-Pb collisions at √sNN = 5.023 TeV
(in preparation)
- B. Abelev, … G. Luparello et al. [ALICE Collaboration],
D-meson production in p-Pb collisions at √sNN = 5.023 TeV (in
preparation)
Proceedings:
- G. Luparello for the ALICE Collaboration, Performance of the ALICE silicon tracker, Proceedings of Vertex 2013 (in preparation)
- G. Luparello for the ALICE Collaboration, Measurement
of D-meson production in p-Pb collisions with the ALICE
detector, Proceedings of Strangeness in Quark Matter 2013,
arXiv:1310:1714
- G. Luparello for the ALICE Collaboration, D meson
elliptic flow in Pb-Pb collisions at √sNN = 2.76 TeV measured
with ALICE, Proceedings of Hot Quarks 2012,
J.Phys.Conf.Ser. 446 (2013) 012039
- G. Luparello et al., Physics performance and status of
the ALICE Zero Degree Calorimeters, Proceedings of the XLVII
International Winter Meeting on Nuclear Physics
- Supervisor of one PhD student at the Utrecht
University (from September 2013-ongoing)
- Supervisor of one honour bachelor student at the University of Utrecht (graduated in June 2013)
- Supervisor of 6 students attending the Summer Student Programme at CERN during July and August 2011 and 2012
- 2008 - 2010: Assistant in the Electromagnetism course of the Science of the materials curricula of the Faculty of Science (University of Turin)
- 2008 – 2009: Assistant of the course of Mathematical Analysis and Geometry of the Physics curricula of the Faculty of Science (University of Turin)
- 2004 – 2007: Part-time undergraduate assistant in the courses named Laboratorio 1 and Laboratorio 2 (mechanics and thermodynamics experiments) of the Physics curricula of the Faculty of Science (University of Turin)
About my work:
- European Organization For Nuclear Research
CERN
- A Large Ion Collider Experiment ALICE
- NIKHEF
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