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I received my Ph.D. from University
of Torino, working on the
measurement of the B
baryon lifetime and production
rate in the DELPHI
experiment at LEP (CERN).
I joined the BaBar
experiment at SLAC as a
post-doc in 1996, just in time to enjoy all aspects of construction and
commissioning of the BaBar
drift chamber. In 2000, I moved to MIT, as a Research Scientist
first, then as a Pappalardo
Fellow, and finally as a Faculty
member. I kept working on BaBar, but I shifted my main activity
from detector responsibility to physics analysis, concentrating on the
study of CP violation in
the B system and searches of New Physics in rare B decays. My
contributions include the measurement of CP violation in the decay B->etaC K0 (for
which we also measured the BF), the development
of a new B flavor
tagging (Tag04), the measurement of |Vtd/Vts| using the radiative
penguin decay B->rhogamma and the measurement
of CP violation in B->Xsgamma. Since 2007 I work on directional detection of Dark
Matter with the DMTPC
experiment. DMTPC is a novel
detector that aims to observe the direction of the WIMPs from the
Cosmos in order to obtain an unambiguous observation of Dark Matter
even in presence of insidious backgrounds. Directionality will also
allow us to learn how Dark Matter is distributed in the Milky Way. In
the past two years the DMTPC collaboration obtained the first observation
of the head-tail effect in low-emergy nuclear recoils, improved the detector design,
and studied the scintillation
properties of CF4.
My CV and complete
publication list (May 2009)
Learn more info
about DMTPC: recent
papers and talks
Link
to my MIT Official Web Page
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MIT
26-443, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139, Phone: (781) 258-0541, E-mail: sciolla@mit.edu
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