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Curriculum Vitae
Fernando Palombo
General Informations
Birth
Date/Place
April 13, 1945 in San Pietro in Lama (LE), Italy
Nationality
Italian
Office Address
Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche, via Celoria 16, 20133 Milan (Italy)
Phone
+39 02 503 17373
Email
[email protected]
Home Page
"http://www.mi.infn.it/∼palombo/"
Education
1965 - 1970
Degree in Physics, Department of Physics, University of Milan, Italy.
Employment
2015 - 2017
Contract Professor, Department of Physics, University of Milan, Italy.
31/10/2015
Retired.
1985 - 2015
Associate Professor, Department of Physics, University of Milan, Italy.
1978 - 1985
Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, University of Milan, Italy.
1974 - 1978
Research Contract, Department of Physics, University of Milan, Italy.
1973 - 1974
Supply Teacher, Department of Physics, University of Milan, Italy.
1971 - 1973
Grant, Department of Physics, University of Milan, Italy.
Research Activity
2013 - 2015
LHCb Experiment, CERN, 1211 Geneve, Switzerland.
Main purpose of this experiment is to study CP violation and rare decays of hadrons
containing b and c quarks. The detector is a single-arm forward spectrometer.
2011 - 2012
1994 - present
SuperB, Cabibbo Lab, Tor Vergata (Roma), Italy .
Flavor physics at an e+ e− asymmetric energy collider with extremely high targeted
luminosity. Development of the silicon vertex tracker. SuperB project has been closed
in 2012 for insufficient financial support from Italy and from the other partecipating
countries.
BaBar Experiment , SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford (CA, USA) .
Principal Investigator of the Milan group in the BaBar experiment at the PEP-II
e+ e− asymmetric energy collider of SLAC. Responsible person of the High Density
Interconnects and Tails of the Silicon Vertex Tracker.
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BaBar main scientific results: Observation of CP violation in B meson system, observation of many rare B decays, discovery of unpredicted new particles, evidence for
mixing in D meson system, discovery of the bottomonium ground state, observation
of time reversal violation in the B 0 system.
BaBar has been nominated by name in the 2008 Nobel press-release
(http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/2008/press.html).
Highlights
Observation of CP violation in B 0 → η 0 K 0 decays.
Primary editor and correspondent author of the observation of CP violation in B 0 →
η 0 K 0 decays (Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 031801 (2007)). This is the first observation of
CP violation in rare B decays dominated by loop diagrams.
Press-Releases
Highlights
There is a SLAC press-release on this important result:
"http://home.slac.stanford.edu/pressreleases/2006/20060928.htm" .
This press-release has been reported and commented by several other news
agencies and newspapers in the world.
Among those in English ;
"http://www.mi.infn.it/∼palombo/NewFormCP.pdf" and in Italian: "Il Corriere
della sera": "http://www.mi.infn.it/∼palombo/corrieredellasera.pdf", "Le Scienze:
"http://www.mi.infn.it/∼palombo/LeScienze.pdf", and the University of Milan
press-release: "http://www.mi.infn.it/∼palombo/SistemaUniversita.pdf".
Angle α of Unitary Triangle in B 0 meson decays to a1 (1260)± π ∓ .
Primary and correspondent author of the observation of B 0 meson decays to
a1 (1260)± π ∓ . First measurement of the Time-Dependent CP-Violating Asymmetries in B 0 to a1 (1260)± π ∓ decays. Novel measurement of the angle α of the unitary
triangle of the electroweak interactions.
1992–1994
LKR Experiment, Milan, CERN.
Responsible person of the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN) experiment
LKR. Study of liquid krypton calorimetry. New prototypes and tests in Milan laboratory and on a test beam at the European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN,
Geneva).
1987 -1992
VEPP-4M Experiment, Novosibirsk (Russia).
Italian responsible person of the Scientific Collaboration between the Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Siberian Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences" (Novosibirsk,
Russia) e l’INFN ( Bologna, Milano, Pavia groups) in the VEPP-4M experiment
at Novosibirsk (Russia) for the development of quasi-homogeneous liquid krypton
calorimetry. This calorimetric technique has been later used in the CERN experiment
NA48 (observation of direct CP violation in the kaon system).
1982 -1987
MIDU Experiment, Protvino (Russia).
Responsible person of the Italian INFN groups (Bologna, Milan, Pavia) in the collaboration with the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR ) (Dubna, Russia)
and the Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP) (Protvino, Russia). Study with the
SIGMA-AIAKS spectrometer of exclusive resonance production in rare decay modes.
Measurement of the γ → 3π coupling constant.
Highlights
Investigation of the chiral anomaly γ → 3π in the pion pair production by
pion in the Coulomb field.
First experimental measurement of the γ → 3π coupling constant. Confirmation of
the hypothesis of chiral anomalies.
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1974 -1982
MIS-5 Experiment, Dubna (Russia).
Collaboration with JINR (Dubna, Russia). Coherent production of 3π system induced
on nuclei by incident pions of 40 GeV/c at Protvino (Moscow Region).
Highlights
Radial excitations of the pion.
Evidence for new 0− S resonances in the π + π − π − systems (in quark model interpreted as radial excitations of the pion). First public presentation at the "IV
Warsaw Symp. on Elementary Particle Physics, Kazimierz, Poland". See also:
"http://cdsweb.cern.ch/record/130837/files/198109042.pdf".
1972 -1984
Coherent Production on Nuclei, CERN.
Partial wave analysis of 3π systems coherently produced on nuclei.
Teaching Activity
2013 - 2015
Laboratory of Optics and Modern Physics, Department of Physics, University of
Milan.
2009 - 2015
Laboratory of Numerical Treatment of Experimental Data, Department of Physics,
University of Milan.
2000 - pesent
Course of Methodologies of Data Analysis, Department of Physics, University of
Milan.
Course of General Physics II, Department of Informatics, University of Milan.
1981 - 2012
1977 - 1980
Teaching assistant, General Physics Exercise Classes, Department of Physics, University of Milan.
1978 - 1979
Substitute teacher, Course of General Physics, Department of Biology, University of
Milan.
Evening Course of Structure of Matter, Department of Physics, University of Milan.
1975 - 1977
Supervision of Students
Tutor of 26 master theses in BaBar, 3 theses in LHCb experiment and 12 theses in
previous experimental activities.
PhD
Tutor of six PhD students: dr Lanni Francesco (1992-1995, now at Brookhaven
National Labortory), dr Barbara Maggi, (1992-1995), dr Alfio Lazzaro (2003-2006),
dr Vincenzo Lombardo (2003-2006), dr Simone Stracka (2007-2011), now at Scuola
Normale Superiore, Pisa), and dr Pietro Biassoni (2008-2012).
Post-doc
Tutor of three BaBar post-docs: dr Francesco Lanni, dr Alfio Lazzaro, and dr Vincenzo
Lombardo.
Departmental and Professional Service
2005 - present
Reviewer for Physical Review Letters and Physical Review D.
2011 - 2015
Member of the board of the Doctorate School in Physics, Astrophysics and Applied
Physics at the Physics Department of Universita’ degli Studi, Milan.
2012 - present
Registered member, as external expert, of the Participant Portal (Research & Innovation) of the European Commission.
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2009 - present
Member of BaBar publication board.
1995 - 2000
Responsible person of the Scientific and Technological Collaboration between the
Department of Physics and the AUREL firm (Modigliana, FO) for the development
of hybrid thick film circuits with new materials.
1978 - 1984
Coordinator of the INFN group I in Milan and member of the INFN National Scientific
Commission I.
Main Invited Talks in International Conferences
ClermontFerrand
1981
Kazimierz 1981
PRIMAKOFF EFFECT AND 2γ → π + π − π 0 , Proc. on Seminar on Gamma Gamma
Physics, Clermont-Ferrand 5,6 Mars 1981, pag. 181, LPC RI 81/02.
Frascati 1987
FUTURE AT NOVOSIBIRSK,Physics Possibilities of a High Luminosity e+ e− Facility
up to 12 GeV, Frascati, 22-23 April 1987. Proceedings edited by L. Invidia 1 May
1981, pag. 187.
Fermilab 1990
DEVELOPMENT OF THE LIQUID KRYPTON CALORIMETER OF THE KEDR
DETECTOR, Proc. Int. Conf. on Calorimetry in High Energy Physics, FNAL
(Batavia), 29 Oct. - 1 Nov. 1990, World Scientific, pag. 233.
Mumbai 2003
CP-VIOLATING ASYMMETRIES IN η 0 K and DIRECT CP VIOLATION SEARCHES
WITH BaBar IN CHARMLESS HADRONIC B MESON DECAYS, 9th Int. Symp.
on Particles, Strings and Cosmology, Mumbai (India), 3-8 Jan 2003. Published in
Pramana 62, 591 (2004).
Beijing 2004
CHARMLESS QUASI-TWO BODY AT BaBar, Proc. 32nd Inter. Conf. on High
Energy Physics (ICHEP 04), Beijing, China, 16-22 Aug 2004, World Scientific, pag.
1137.
MEASUREMENT OF CP-VIOLATING ASYMMETRIES IN B 0 TO a1 (1260)± π ∓ ,
4th Inter. Workshop on the CKM Unitary Triangle, 12-16 dec 2006, Nagoya (Japan)
(http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ex/0703005).
Nagoya 2006
A NEW 0− S MESON AND NEW RESULTS ON THE 1+ S STATE IN THE 3π SYSTEM COHERENTLY PRODUCED ON NUCLEI; 5π COHERENT PRODUCTION
ON NUCLEI, Proc. IV Warsaw Symp. on Elementary Particle Physics, Kazimierz,
Poland, 24-31 May, 1981, pag. 187.
Eilat 2008
RARE B DECAYS AT BaBar, Proc.
18th Inter.
Conf.
on Particles.
and Nuclei (PANIC08), Eilat (Israel), 9-14 Nov. 2008, Elsevier, pag. 687
(http://arxiv.org/abs/0901.1263 ).
Valparaiso 2010
B DECAYS AND CP VIOLATION FROM BaBar, 8th Latin American Symposium on High Energy Physics, 6/12/2010 - 12/12/2010, Valparaiso (Chile)
(http://arxiv.org/abs/1104.1420).
Antananarivo
2011
RECENT CKM AND CP RESULTS from BaBar, Fifth High-Energy Physics Inter.
Conf., Antananarivo (Madagascar), August 25-31,2011
(http://www.slac.stanford.edu/econf/C110825/proceedings11.htm).
Yaroslavl 2012
SEARCHES FOR NEW PHYSICS IN CP VIOLATION FROM BaBar , Proceedings
of QUARKS-2012, the 17th International Seminar on High Energy Physics, Yaroslavl
(Russia), 4-10 June, 2012. arXiv: 1210.1756 [hep-ex].
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Singapore 2014
NEW PHYSICS SEARCHES IN RARE B DECAYS AT BaBar , Invited talk at the
Intern. Conf. on " Flavor Physics and Mass Generation",Singapore, 10-14 February,
2014.
URL: http://www.ntu.edu.sg/ias/upcomingevents/FPHY14/Pages/default.aspx
Publications
Articles
Co-author of 786 articles in refereed journals. The list of publications (including
also Proposals, Letters of Intents, Design Reports, Textbooks, and Contributions to
Proceedings) is here: http:// www.mi.infn.it/∼palombo/AllPub.pdf
A shortlist of articles is here: http://www.mi.infn.it/∼palombo/ShortlList.pdf
Correspondent and/or primary author of the following 23 BaBar articles:
http://www.mi.infn.it/∼palombo/CorrespAuthBaBar.pdf
Here is my Publication Profile (inSPIRE): http://inspirehep.net/author/F.Palombo.1/
Books
F. Palombo, Lezioni di Fisica II. Elettricita’ e Magnetismo nella Materia, Ed. CLUED,
Milano, 1985.
F. Palombo, Fisica II, Elettricita’ e Magnetismo , Ed. CLUP Milano, 1989.
F. Palombo, Esercizi di Fisica Generale: elettricita’ e magnetismo, struttura della
materia, Ed. Citta‘Studi, Milano, 1990.
Milan, June 30, 2016
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