Alessandro Minotti

Research Interests

Neutrino oscillation and measurement of the mixing parameters; search for sterile neutrinos at the eV scale; CP violation in the leptonic sector and in hadronic decays involving the B quark; search for the neutrinoless double beta decay and the nature of neutrino mass; matter-antimatter asymmetry of the universe and physics beyond the Standard Model; detector simulation with the Geant4 software; software development for data analysis using C++ and Python

Bio

After my M.Sc. degree obtained in Rome at Sapienza University, I undertook a PhD programme at IPHC Strasbourg on data analysis and commissioning for the Double Chooz experiment, obtaining my doctorate degree in 2025. Double Chooz measured the mixing angle θ13 of the PMNS matrix, the last to be determined experimentally.

During my first post-doctorate fellowship at IRFU, Saclay, between 2015 and 2017, i collaborated to the construction, commissioning, and data analysis of the STEREO experiment, which is conceived to study the short-baseline oscillation of reactor neutrinos in order to investigate the hypothesis of extra sterile neutrino families at the eV mass scale.

In the following two and a half years, with a second post-doctoral fellowship at LAPP, in Annecy, I worked in the commissioning of the SuperNEMO experiment, an upgrade of the NEMO-3 experiment that searches for the neutrinoless double beta decay, an interaction that, if observed, would prove that neutrinos are Majorana particles.

Since 2020 I am part of the LHCb and DUNE collaborations, first as a postdoc at Ferrara University, then as tenure track fellow in Milano Bicocca. DUNE is another experiment studying neutrino physics, as it will study CP violation in the leptonic sector, the order of neutrino masses, and intrinsic symmetries of the PMNS matrix. With LHCb, on the other hand, I took the opportunity to work in hadron physics, and more specifically the physics of the B quark, for the first time.