Full Member | Selection Procedure Winner
2022 – 2026
The International PhD (I-PhD) College is an institution of excellence offering an interdisciplinary education to selected PhD students enrolled at the University of Bologna.
An overview of the active projects at the I-PhD College can be found here.
PhD Student | Scholarship Winner
2022 – 2025
Research line: Nuclear and Subnuclear Physics.
Ph.D. Thesis: High-energy neutrinos from blazars: flux predictions with LeHa-Paris code and stacking analysis with KM3NeT/ARCA data
Supervisor: Prof. Annarita Margiotta | Co-supervisors: Dr. Giulia Illuminati, Prof. Matteo Cerruti
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Master’s Degree in Physics, Università degli Studi di Roma, La Sapienza, Italy
2020 – 2022
Particle and Astroparticle Physics Curriculum
Master Thesis: On the sensitivity of KM3NeT/ARCA towards high-energy neutrinos from Gamma-Ray Bursts
Supervisors: Prof. Silvia Celli, Dr. Angela Zegarelli
KM3NeT/ARCA neutrino telescope is located in the Mediterranean sea, 100 km off-shore Portopalo di Capo Passero in Sicily. It consists of several vertical string-like structures equipped with optical sensors, namely each string is made of eighteen Digital Optical Modules (DOMs), with in turn 31 photomultipliers (PMTs) each. Those PMTs measure Cherenkov radiation emitted by charged particles produced by neutrino passage in seawater and their subsequent interactions. Muons produced by charged current interactions travel through the volume of the detector and leave a track-like signature. KM3NeT reconstruction algorithms are able to infer the energy and direction of the incoming neutrino, starting from PMT information. In this context, the identification of neutrinos from Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) would provide new insights into the physics of processes happening inside those sources, which are still poorly understood. The goal of this thesis project is to perform a statistical analysis, to determine which are the ideal parameters that optimize the discovery capability of ARCA to GRBs neutrinos. The analysis, conducted on track-like events, exploits Monte Carlo neutrino simulations performed for a transient point source, like a GRB, for ARCA in a 115-lines configuration, i.e. one instrumented Building Block (BB). Then, the detector response functions, as the effective area and the point spread function, are studied, in order to know how many signal and background events we may expect, given a certain flux, and with which angular resolution. As a final goal, the sensitivity of the ARCA detector, with 1 BB, to a point-like cosmic neutrino flux from GRBs is investigated in the muonic flavor.
2017 – 2020
Bachelor Thesis: The mass-metallicity relation in galaxies and its interpretation
Supervisor: Prof. Maria Francesca Matteucci | Co-supervisor: Dr. Emanuele Spitoni
The aim of this thesis poject is to study the mass-metallicity relation in galaxies. This relation relates the mass of stars in galaxies to the relative abundance of oxygen in the interstellar medium, called metallicity, and has been studied taking into account the observational relation found by Curti et al. (2020). I’ve done a computational work, in which I studied different galactic evolution models and put constrains on them in order to reproduce the observational data. The results can be summarized as follows: it is necessary to assume that galaxies undergo phenomena of infalls and outflows of gas from the galactic system and that the parameters describing them change with stellar mass in galaxies; the comparison between these data and our theoretical models suggests that galactic winds must be more intense compared to what has been previously predicted in other studies; this new difference can be due to the more robust calibration method used in the observation of metallicity in galaxies by Curti et al. (2020). Then, has been confirmed that models which include galactic flows can put constrains on the parameters, like infall and galactic winds, provided that the hypothesis of instantaneous recycling is still a valid approximation.