Belloni, Alberto

Alberto Belloni received his B.S. in 2002 from the University of Pisa and Scuola Normale Superiore and his Ph.D. in 2007 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He joined the CMS Collaboration at the beginning of 2013 and is involved in the upgrade of the Hadronic Calorimeter (HCAL).

Research Area:

• High Energy

Notable Publications:

• Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC”, The ATLAS Collaboration, Phys.Lett. B716 (2012) 1-29
  http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S037026931200857X
• Measurement of the W->lnu and Z/gamma*->ll production cross sections in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 7TeV with the ATLAS detector”, The ATLAS Collaboration, JHEP 1012 (2010) 060
  http://www.springerlink.com/content/r83113r63t658p78/

• Physics 273: Introductory Physics: Waves
• Physics 275: Experimental Physics I
• Physics 276: Experimental Physics II
• Physics 371: Modern Physics
• Physics 402: Quantum Physics II
• Physics 405: Advanced Experiments
• Physics 420: Principles of Modern Physics

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• UMD Physicists Contribute to New B Meson Finding
• Plotting the Future of Particle Physics Research
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