Marco Delmastro
Selected publications
- G. Aad, M. Delmastro et al. (The ATLAS Collaboration). Measurement of the inclusive isolated prompt photon cross section in pp collisions at √s= 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector. Submitted for publication by Phys. Rev. D, 2010. arXiv:1012.4389.
- G. Aad, M. Delmastro et al. (The ATLAS Collaboration). Prospects for the Discovery of the Standard Model Higgs Boson Using the H → γγ Decay. ATLAS Note, (ATL-PHYS-PUB-2009-053), 2009.
- G. Aad, M. Delmastro et al. (The ATLAS Collaboration). Readiness of the ATLAS liquid argon calorimeter for LHC collisions. The European Physical Journal C - Particles and Fields, pages 1�31, 2010. 10.1140/epjc/s10052-010-1354-y.
- M. Delmastro. Quality factor analysis and optimization of digital filtering signal reconstruction for liquid ionization calorimeters. Nucl. Instrum. Meth., A600(3):545�554, 2009.
- M. Aharrouche, M. Delmastro et al. Measurement of the response of the ATLAS liquid argon Barrel Calorimeter to Electrons at the 2004 Combined Test-Beam. Nucl. Instrum. Meth., A614(3):400�432, 2010.
- D. Banfi, M. Delmastro and M. Fanti. Cell response equalization of the ATLAS electromagnetic calorimeter without the direct knowledge of the ionization signals. Journal of Instrumentation, 1:P08001, 2006.
My research activities are focused on the search for the Higgs boson at the LHC, and on QCD studies related to production of direct photons in hadron-hadron collisions. I presently serve the ATLAS collaboration as the convener of the Standard Model Direct Photons working group. In the past five years I was the responsible of the electronic calibration of the ATLAS liquid Argon calorimeters, for which I am part of the pool of experts committed to the detector operation and calibration during the LHC data taking and reprocessing. I earned my Ph.D. at the University of Milano, Italy, where I developed the calibration strategies currently used to reconstruct the ATLAS electromagnetic calorimeter cell energies, and to calibrate their response to electrons and photons.
I am also interested in the issues related to modern publishing of scientific results, in particular to the Open Access literature and movement, and to data sharing and preservation. I believe a commitment to science outreach should naturally complement the set of of skills of a successful researcher, and I am involved in a few outreach and communication projects related to science communication. I host a blog in Italian, mainly devoted to particle physics popularization.
