Table Of ContentPier Francesco Bortignon · Giuseppe Lodato
Emanuela Meroni · Matteo G. A. Paris
Laura Perini · Alessandro Vicini Editors
Toward a
Science
Campus in
Milan
A Snapshot of Current Research at the
Physics Department Aldo Pontremoli
Toward a Science Campus in Milan
Pier Francesco Bortignon
Giuseppe Lodato Emanuela Meroni
(cid:129)
Matteo G. A. Paris Laura Perini
(cid:129)
Alessandro Vicini
Editors
Toward a Science Campus
in Milan
A Snapshot of Current Research at the Physics
Department Aldo Pontremoli
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Editors
Pier Francesco Bortignon (Deceased) Matteo G.A.Paris
Milan,Italy Dipartimento di Fisica “AldoPontremoli”
Universitàdegli Studi diMilano
Giuseppe Lodato Milan,Italy
Dipartimento di Fisica “AldoPontremoli”
Universitàdegli Studi diMilano Laura Perini
Milan,Italy Dipartimento di Fisica “AldoPontremoli”
Universitàdegli Studi diMilano
Emanuela Meroni Milan,Italy
Dipartimento di Fisica “AldoPontremoli”
Universitàdegli Studi diMilano Alessandro Vicini
Milan,Italy Dipartimento di Fisica “AldoPontremoli”
Universitàdegli Studi diMilano
Milan,Italy
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This volume is dedicated to the memory of
our colleague and friend Pier Francesco
Bortignon (5/8/1948–27/8/2018), who
contributed so much to the success of this
workshop with his usual generosity and
passion for science.
Preface
APhysics Department isa complex system, more akin toa living organism than a
network of weakly interacting units. This is perhaps the reason why being the
director of the Physics Department of the University of Milan for about six years
has been such an exciting adventure.
Iinheritedahealthydepartmentfrommypredecessor,FrancescoRagusa.Since
then, we have been growing steadily. Looking at quantitative figures like the
numberoffacultymembers,staffmembers,andstudents,however,oneseesonlya
side of the story. What I mostly witnessed in the last years is an impressive
qualitative growth in terms of the synergy between the different areas of research,
the capacity of attracting funds from diverse sources, and the overall throughput
of the department’s ecosystem.
Idelivertomysuccessor,GiovanniOnida,adepartmentwhichisjustashealthy
asbeforeandwithamoreoutward-orientedattitude.Thiswillbeakeyfeatureinthe
nextfuture,whichwillseetheUniversityofMilanonthevergeofaradicallynew
era, as the scientific Departments will move to the new Campus at the EXPO2015
site.ThePhysicsDepartment,recentlynamedafteritsfounderAldoPontremoli,has
embraced this new challenge as an opportunity to expand its activities, possibly
includingthedevelopment ofnew interdisciplinary facilities for applied physics.
Withthisideaverymuchinmind,Ihavebeendelightedtoconcludemyservice
asadirectorwithaCongressoftheDepartment.I’malsoproudtopresentthisbook
of proceeding, which contains a faithful account of what we have seen and heard
during our Congress.
I would like to thank the Scientific Committee, all the speakers, and the many
participants, for ensuring the high scientific quality of the workshop and of this
volume. I warmly thank also the colleagues at the Mathematics Department, for
having hosted our workshop in their conference hall.
Finally, special thanks are due to the local organizers Vera Bernardoni and
Matteo Bina, for their help and patience in preparing and running the workshop.
Milan, Italy Laura Perini
March 2018
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Contents
1 Measuring the Universe with Galaxy Redshift Surveys. . . . . . . . . . 1
L. Guzzo, J. Bel, D. Bianchi, C. Carbone, B. R. Granett,
A. J. Hawken, F. G. Mohammad, A. Pezzotta, S. Rota
and M. Zennaro
2 Theoretical Spectroscopy Characterization of Deep Electronic
States of Defects in Silicon via Density Functional Theory
with Hybrid Potentials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Simona Achilli, Nicola Manini, Giovanni Onida and Enrico Prati
3 Gas and Dust Dynamics During Planet Formation
in HL Tau. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Giulia Ballabio, Giuseppe Lodato and Giovanni Dipierro
4 Quantum Simulation of Non-Markovian Qubit Dynamics
by an All-Optical Setup. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Claudia Benedetti, Simone Cialdi, Matteo A. C. Rossi,
Bassano Vacchini, Dario Tamascelli, Stefano Olivares
and Matteo G. A. Paris
5 Innovative Instrumentation for the Study of Atmospheric
Aerosol Optical Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Vera Bernardoni, Alice C. Forello, Federico Mariani, Bruno Paroli,
Marco A. C. Potenza, Alberto Pullia, Francesco Riccobono,
Tiziano Sanvito, Sara Valentini, Gianluigi Valli and Roberta Vecchi
6 Giotto Unveiled: New Developments in Imaging and Elemental
Analysis Techniques for Cultural Heritage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Nicola Ludwig, Letizia Bonizzoni, Michele Caccia,
Francesco Cavaliere, Marco Gargano, Daniele Viganò,
Christian Salvatore, Matteo Interlenghi, Marco Martini
and Anna Galli
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7 Quantitative Analysis of Gold Nano-aggregates by Combining
Electron and Probe Microscopy Techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Francesca Borghi, Matteo Mirigliano, Paolo Milani
and Alessandro Podestà
8 The Discovery of the Higgs Boson and Most Significant
Measurements at the LHC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Marcello Fanti
9 Spectroscopy of Adsorbates and the Role of Interfacial
Interactions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Guido Fratesi, Elena Molteni and Giovanni Onida
10 The Founder of the First Institute of Physics of the Milan
University: Aldo Pontremoli, a Physicist’s Life Between
Adventure and Institutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Leonardo Gariboldi
11 The Role of Monitoring Time and Detectors Efficiencies
in Time-Continuous Quantum Magnetometry. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
Francesco Albarelli, Matteo A. C. Rossi, Matteo G. A. Paris
and Marco G. Genoni
12 Recent Developments and Perspectives in Nuclear Structure
by c and Particle Spectroscopy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
S. Leoni, A. Bracco, F. Camera, A. Guglielmetti, G. Benzoni,
B. Blasi, C. Boiano, Pier Francesco Bortignon, S. Bottoni,
S. Brambilla, S. Capra, G. Colò, F. C. L. Crespi, A. Mentana,
B. Million, A. Pullia, S. Riboldi, E. Vigezzi and O. Wieland
13 Planet Formation in the ALMA Era. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
GiuseppeLodato,BenedettaVeronesi,MariaGiulia UbeiraGabellini,
Enrico Ragusa, Alessia Franchini, Giovanni Dipierro, Hossam Aly
and Daniel J. Price
14 Generation and Active Control of Coherent Structures
in Partially-Neutralized Magnetized Plasmas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
Giancarlo Maero, Roberto Pozzoli, Massimiliano Romé,
Beatrice Achilli, Nicola Cantini, Emilio Villa, Francesco Cavaliere
and Daniele Viganò
15 Feeding Genetic Heterogeneity via a Smart Mutation Operator
in the Memetic Phase Retrieval Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
Marta Mauri, Davide Emilio Galli and Alessandro Colombo
16 Jack on a Devil’s Staircase . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
Andrea Di Gioacchino, Marco Gherardi, Luca Guido Molinari
and Pietro Rotondo
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17 A Study of the Phase Diagram of Symmetric Binary
Gaussian Mixtures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
Davide Pini
18 Tutorial: c in Dimensional Regularization in Dimensional
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Regularization. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
Mario Raciti
19 The Neutrino: Looking Through Its Experimental World . . . . . . . 235
Alessandra Carlotta Re
20 Towards a Universal Nuclear Structure Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243
X. Roca-Maza, Pier Francesco Bortignon, G. Colò, Y. F. Niu
and E. Vigezzi
21 Recent Advances in Scintillating Optical Fibre Dosimeters. . . . . . . 253
Ivan Veronese, Marie Claire Cantone, Salvatore Gallo,
Cristina De Mattia, Eduardo d’Ippolito, Nicola Ludwig,
Marco Gargano, Simone Cialdi, Stefano Latorre, Norberto Chiodini,
Mauro Fasoli, Federico Moretti, Eleonora Mones, Gianfranco Loi
and Anna Vedda
22 R&D on Electronic Devices and Circuits for the HL-LHC . . . . . . . 263
Alberto Stabile, Attilio Andreazza, Mauro Citterio, Luca Frontini,
Valentino Liberali, Chiara Meroni and Jafar Shojaii
23 Precise Perturbative QCD Predictions for Large Hadron
Collider Physics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273
Giancarlo Ferrera
24 LASA Cs Te Photocathodes: The Electron Source for XFELs . . . . 281
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Carlo Pagani, Paolo Michelato, Laura Monaco and Daniele Sertore
25 LASA Superconducting RF Cavities for Particle Accelerators . . . . 293
Carlo Pagani, Andrea Bellandi, Michele Bertucci, Andrea Bignami,
Angelo Bosotti, Jin Fang Chen, Paolo Michelato, Laura Monaco,
Rocco Paparella, Daniele Sertore, Cecilia Maiano, Paolo Pierini
and Saeid Pirani
Contributors
BeatriceAchilli DipartimentodiFisica“AldoPontremoli”,UniversitàdegliStudi
di Milano, Milan, Italy
Simona Achilli Dipartimento di Fisica “Aldo Pontremoli”, Universitá degli Studi
di Milano, Milan, Italy
Francesco Albarelli Quantum Technology Lab, Dipartimento di Fisica “Aldo
Pontremoli”, Università Degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy
Hossam Aly Dipartimento di Fisica “Aldo Pontremoli”, Università degli Studi di
Milano, Milan, Italy
Attilio Andreazza Dipartimento di Fisica “Aldo Pontremoli”, Università degli
Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy; Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Milan, Italy
GiuliaBallabio DepartmentofPhysicsandAstrophysics,UniversityofLeicester,
Leicester,UK;DipartimentodiFisica“AldoPontremoli”,UniversitàdegliStudidi
Milano, Milan, Italy
J. Bel Aix–Marseille Université, Marseille, France
Andrea Bellandi INFN - LASA, Segrate (Milano), Italy
Claudia Benedetti Quantum Technology Lab, Dipartimento di Fisica “Aldo
Pontremoli”, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy
G. Benzoni INFN, Sezione di Milano, Milan, Italy
Vera Bernardoni Department of Physics “Aldo Pontremoli”, Università degli
Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy; INFN-Milan, Milan, Italy
Michele Bertucci INFN - LASA, Segrate (Milano), Italy
D. Bianchi Institute for Cosmology and Gravitation, University of Portsmouth,
Portsmouth, UK
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