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Personal
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Name: |
Fabio
Garufi |
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Birth
date and Place: |
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Residence: |
Via Val di Lanzo 107, 00141 ROMA |
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Tel. |
+39 06
8100861 +39 347
4042742 |
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Marital
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Not
married |
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Citizenship: |
Italian |
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Education: |
Scientific
Lyceum diploma c/o VI Liceo scientifico
Statale "Leon Battista Alberti",
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“Laurea” degree in Physics 28/05/1992 c/o Università degli studi di Roma "La Sapienza", score: 110/110 |
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Ph.D. in
Physics,1996 c/o Università degli
Studi di Napoli “Federico II” |
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Laurea degree dissertation: |
Design
and construction of a Sci-Fi electromagnetic Calorimeter and measurement of
its performance |
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Tutor:G.
Diambrini-Palazzi |
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Ph.D.
dissertation: |
New
particle detectors based on liquid scintillator
filled capillaries in calorimetry and high
resolution tracking. |
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Tutors:
A. Ereditato, P. Strolin |
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Foreign
languages: |
English, French,
Spanish. |
In the
framework of graduation work, I participated in the final part of the LEP-5
Experiment: a fat luminometer for the Large
Electron-positron Collider (LEP) at CERN and to tests
on an EM calorimeter derived from the LEP-5 calorimeter, at the Proto
Synchrotron (PS). The realization and tests of the latter are described in the
graduation thesis. Successively, in the framework of a R&D IFN project on
Sci-Fi electromagnetic calorimetry (project FIB), I
participated to the realization and tests at the CERN SPS of a new Sci-Fi
highly segmented calorimeter with a semi-projective geometry. I have been
responsible for the studies of radiation damage of the scintillation light and
transmission of plastic scintillating fibres radiated with thermal neutrons at
the TRIGA reactor at the ENEA-Casaccia laboratories.
In the KLOE
experiment at DAPHNE, I performed tests of photomultipliers in a magnetic field
and tests on various light guides. I participated to the beam tests at CERN and
at Paul Sherrer Intitut of
the first modules of KLOE EM calorimeter.
In 1994-95
I moved to
The choice
of such a calorimeter is dictated by the fast response of organic scintillators with respect to other types, by the
possibility of a continuous scintillator replacement
so to avoid radiation damage in the experimental regions and by the advantage
to work at room temperature differently from the other proposed options. I
participated to the organization realization of beam tests with electron and pion beams at the SPS of a small-scale prototype
calorimeter and, in
A R&D
CERN project (RD46) on active targets consisting of quartz capillaries filled
with organic liquid scintillator was the scope of the
ACTAR Experiment. These targets are read by CCDs
placed after image intensifiers or by a new type of CCD: the electron-Bombarded
CCD (EBCCD), that summarizes the advantages of image
intensifiers and CCDs.
The new
kind of detector, could have a wide range of applications in high energy
physics (e.g. as vertex detector in b-Quark experiments at LHC or active target
in neutrino oscillation experiments), or in Medical Physics (e.g. as a
replacement of wire chambers).
In 1995-96
I worked in the installation on the CERN neutrino beam upstream the CHORUS
experiment of two of these multi-capillary targets, the second read by an
EBCCD.
I have been
the responsible of the data analysis for these tests, the 1994 tests and of the
software development for the data acquisition of the EBCCD.
The CHORUS
Experiment searched for nm-nt
oscillation at the CERN SPS.
This
experiment studied the interaction of a pure nm into an photographic emulsion
target followed by a tracking device, a calorimeter and a spectrometer. The
High Resolution calorimeter has a modular structure and is composed by an EM
part and a hadronic part. The EM part is a
lead-Sci-Fi calorimeter, while the hadronic part is
composed by a first lead-Sci-Fi calorimeter and a following lead-scintillator sandwich Calorimeter.
Between the
calorimeter modules streamer chambers have been inserted to track the particles
interacting into the calorimeter.
I
participated the tuning off the streamer chambers before the neutrino runs and
to a research to enhance the EM calorimeter chamber read-out by reading 2 or 4
wires with a single read-out card thus increasing the space resolution.
I have been
the responsible for the new power supply for the 1250 photomultiplier tubes,
taking care of the installation and tune up, and, co-responsible of the tuning
and maintenance of the calorimeter.
From April
1st 1996 to January 15th
2001 I worked with a research contract (Art. 36) at the INFN Napoli section laboratories for the VIRGO Experiment. This
experiment searches for gravitational waves with a laser Michelson interferometer
with an arm-length of 3km near
From
January 18th 2005 I am assistant professor at the Physics department
of the “Federico II” University in
In the
framework of the VIRGO experiment I take part in the following activities:
Because of the high sensitivity of the VIRGO
Interferometer, all environmental parameters (temperature, pressure, humidity,
acoustic, seismic and EM noises), must be monitored and placed in correlation
with the data in real-time. To this task I participated to the design and
realization of a data acquisition, on-line storage and analysis of such
parameters, with frequencies ranging from mHz
to tens of kHz.
The system is installed and operative on the
experiment.
I participated to the setting-up of the first VIRGO data archiving, based on a
series of 6 VME CPUs, each with its disks. The data are received by the first
CPU and transferred via VMEbus to the other CPUs that
take care of archiving
them to disk while the first is left free to receive more data. This system was
the fastest archiving system at the time.
Data coming from the interferometer
must be labelled with a quality flag correlated to the environmental data and
data cleanliness. Also for this scope I collaborated with the Computer Science
dept. of the
I have been involved in the development of
networked parallel computing systems and in the development of programs for
on-line data filtering and monitoring.
In particular I participated to the realization
of a Beowulf parallel machine composed of a cluster of PC interconnected through
a dedicated Ethernet network, to be used for the extraction of the signal of
coalescing binary stars from VIRGO data.
In the same period I have been responsible for
the
I am working on the development of an hybrid control system with an external computing part. It
is a board containing 2 ADCs and 2 DACs capable of
receiving and sending data to a PC through an external link. The data acquired
by the ADC are sent to the external computer through the link, received back
from the computer after an elaboration on the same link and converted back by
the DAC. In this way we want to replace the DSP boards in small experiments
where fr3equencies up to some kHz are involved.
From the second half of 2005 I am the responsible of the data analysis
activity of the
The experiment should cover the lower frequency band, precluded to
round-based experiments due to seismic noise and the limited
arm-length.
I
collaborated to the supervision of graduation and PhD theses both for the
FORWARD experiment and the VIRGO Experiment.
I have been
member of the examination commission of General Physics at the Pharmacy faculty
at the
From
January 2001 I am assistant professor at the Università
degli Studi di Napoli “FedericoII”
A.A. 2004-2005:
exercitations of Computer science and English language for the tri-annual
graduation course in Physics
A.A. 2005/2006:
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I Semester: exercitation of Laboratori
of Physics 3 for the tri-annual graduation course in Physics
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II semester: course of Data Acquisition techniques in Physics
for the tri-annual graduation course in Physics and environmental sciences
A.A. 2006/2007:
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I Semester:
exercitation of Laboratori of Physics 3 for the
tri-annual graduation course in Physics
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II semester:
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Laboratory of
computer Science for the tri-annual graduation course in General and Applied
Biology
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Course of Laboratory of Data Acquisition and Controls
for the inter-University school for the specialization to teaching
From
January 2001 to January 2005 I worked at Ele.Si.A. S.p.A., a system integration
company, as software manager and then as R&D manager and field support
engineer. In the first role I managed the programmer manpower and developed systems
and programs for real-time and embedded applications in military and civil
research.
As R&D
manager I searched and designed solutions for customers in the rail, missile,
and navy fields.
I also
selected new personnel for the software dept. and collaborated to the conformity
of software procedures to UNI-ISO 9000/3.