Umberto De Sanctis
Associate Professor in Experimental Particle Physics
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Prof. Umberto De Sanctis is an experimental particle physicist working on the ATLAS Experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN (Geneva, Switzerland) since 2005. His main areas of interest are: the physics of the top quark and the flavour physics. He is currently working on the measruement of the top quark mass and on the study of rare processes in the flavour sector, namely the decay of the B0 and Bs mesons in two muons.
Prof. De Sanctis worked also in several areas of high-energy physics, namely: the searches for supersymmetric particles, the performance of the Pixel Silicon Detector, the mechanisms of electro-weak symmetry breaking, the charge asymmetry of the W and the top quark production, the performance of the Level-1 topological trigger for flavour physics and the performance of the track trigger for the upgrade of the ATLAS detector for the High-Luminosity phase of LHC.
Prof. De Sanctis has been appointed, within the ATLAS Experiment, to be:
- Analysis Contact for the top quark charge asymmetry measurement (2012-2014)
- Responsible for the W/Z+jets background estimation in top analyses (2011-2014)
- Convener of the sub-group "Rare B- decays" (2015-2017)
- Convener of the Physics Group "B-physics and Light States" (2017-2019)
- Convener of the LHC Flavour WG (2020-2024)
In addition he was Deputy Physics Coordinator of ATLAS Italy in 2020 and Physics Coordinator of ATLAS Italy in 2021.
Prof. De Sanctis graduated in 2005 at the University of Milano and got his PhD diploma in the same institution in 2008. He then moved as research fellow at the International School of Advanced Studies (SISSA) in Trieste from 2009-2012 and then as Fellow at CERN in 2012 and 2013. Finally he got a Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship at the University of Sussex in Brighton, UK before moving to University of Rome-Tor Vergata as INFN researcher. He is currently Associate Professor at the University of Rome-Tor Vergata. He is also very active in the outreach sector since he was involved in the organisation of the Science Festival in Brighton, of several editions of the CERN ATLAS Masterclasses and also of stages for high-school students.
He was awarded by the Italian Physics Society (SIF) in 2006 of the prize for the "Best Communication in the 92nd SIF Congress".
I am author of about 950 papers published in peer-review journals.
Below a list of selected publications:
The ATLAS Collaboration, "Study of the rare decays of B0 and B-0 mesons into muon pairs using data collected during 2015 and 2016 with the ATLAS detector" JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS, ISSN: 1029-8479, doi: 10.1007/JHEP04(2019)098
The ATLAS Collaboration, “Measurement of the charge asymmetry in top-quark pair production in the lepton-plus-jets final state in pp collision data at √=8TeV with the ATLAS detector” EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL. C, PARTICLES AND FIELDS, ISSN: 1434-6052, doi: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-016-3910-6
The ATLAS Collaboration “Study of the rare decays of B-s(0) and B-0 into muon pairs from data collected during the LHC Run 1 with the ATLAS detector. THE EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL. C, PARTICLES AND FIELDS, vol. 76, ISSN: 1434-6044, doi: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-016-4338-8”
The ATLAS Collaboration “Measurement of the charge asymmetry in dileptonic decay of top quark pairs in pp collisions at √s = 7 TeV using the ATLAS detector” Journal of High energy Physics, JHEP05(2015)061, 2015
The ATLAS Collaboration, “Measurement of the top quark mass in the t(t)over-bar -> lepton plus jets and t(t)over-bar -> dilepton channels using root s=7 TeV ATLAS data. THE EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL. C, PARTICLES AND FIELDS, vol. 75, ISSN: 1434-6044, doi: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-015-3544-0”
The ATLAS Collaboration. “Measurement of the top quark pair production charge asymmetry in proton-proton collisions at √s = 7 TeV using the ATLAS detector” JHEP02(2014)107, DOI: 10.1007/JHEP02(2014)107, 2014
The ATLAS Collaboration “Measurement of the charge asymmetry in top quark pair production in pp collisions at √s = 7 TeV using the ATLAS detector” Eur. Phys. Journal C72 (2012) 2039, CERN-PH-EP-2012-015, CERN, Geneva, Mar 2012.
Bazzocchi, U. De Sanctis, Fabbrichesi M, Tonero A (2012). “Quark contact interactions at the LHC” PHYSICAL REVIEW D, PARTICLES, FIELDS, GRAVITATION, AND COSMOLOGY, vol. 85, 114001, ISSN: 1550-7998, doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.85.114001
The ATLAS Collaboration, “Measurement of the top quark pair production cross-section with ATLAS in the single lepton channel” Phys. Lett. B 711 (2012) 244–263
De Sanctis M. Fabbrichesi and A. Tonero. “Telling the spin of the "Higgs boson" at the LHC. Phys.Rev.D84:015013, 2011
The ATLAS Collaboration “Measurement of the top quark-pair production cross section with ATLAS in pp collisions at √s = 7 TeV” Eur. Phys. J C 71 (2011) 1577, 2011
The ATLAS Collaboration “ATLAS pixel detector electronics and sensors”, Journal of Instrumentation,JINST-3-P07007, DOI: 10.1088/1748-0221/3/07/P07007, 2008
De Sanctis, T.Lari, S.Montesano, and C.Troncon. “Perspectives for the detection and measurement of Supersymmetry in the Focuspoint region of mSUGRA models with the ATLAS detector at LHC” European Physics Journal C 52 3 (2007) 743-758, DOI:10.1140/epjc/s10052-007-0415-3, 2007
Teaching in the Physics Department
| ID | Course Name | Semester | Length | CFU |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Statistical Data Analysis | Second | 14 Weeks | 6 |
