The Pisa group in LHCb

The LHCb-Pisa group has been founded in June 2012. Its members however have many years of previous experience in the field of hadronic flavor physics, from having participated to CDF, BABAR, and other experiments holding important responsibilities, including convenership of physics groups, leadership of crucial measurements (e.g. discovery of Bs mixing), and important components of detector and trigger, and even being esperiment spokespersons. We choose to join the LHCb collaboration because we consider it the current most promising experiment in the field, and our goal as a group is to contribute to its greatest success.

The Pisa group includes staff from the local Dipartimento di Fisica, Scuola Normale Superiore, and Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, and is part of the larger italian participation to the experiment, sponsored by the INFN, and represents more than 15% of the whole collaboration, currently holding important detector responsibilities, and has expressed the former collaboration spokesperson (P. Campana).

We are interested in many aspects of flavor physics, but particularly in CP violation, rare decays, precision measurements at high statistics, CKM angles, tracking, and the trigger - see here for the list of our current activities in LHCb. A few of us are also involved in R&D activities for ultra-fast track reconstruction for future experiment (see the INFN-RETINA project).

The current members of our group are listed here.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Group Leader: Prof. Giovanni Punzi

• PISA: Polo Fibonacci, Ed. C, Office 236 - Tel. +39 050 2214 428
  
• CERN: Meyrin site, Office 13-2-044 - Tel. +41 22 76 76418