LHC Physics Center

What I will be working on:

As an LPC DR, Luigi works on searches for new physics in the context of B meson decays and dark photons. This is a new research line at the Fermilab LPC. This is done in synergy with other USA institutes. He also works on the upgrade of the CMS Outer tracker at the Fermila SiDet facility and works on machine learning algorithms for particle physics.

My role in CMS past and present:

Luigi joined the CMS collaboration in 2020 after completing his DPhil at the university of Oxford working on the measurement of the Higgs boson total width with the ATLAS collaboration. In CMS, in 2020-2021 Luigi had a leading role in the ECAL Detector Control System (DCS) group, ensuring a smooth upgrade of the ECAL DCS and safety system in time for the Run 3 data-taking. In parallel, Luigi worked on the first CMS result on the violation of lepton flavour universality using semileptonic decays of Bc mesons. In 2022-2023 he was the co-leader of the CMS trigger group responsible for the development, commissioning and maintenance of triggers for BPhysics. Luigi is now the co-leader of the physics group “Violation of Fundamental Symmetries”. Luigi is also an active science communicator. Since 2021, he is the PI of two outreach projects with Disney artists, NASA/ESA and LIGO colleagues. Thanks to some Disney characters, Italian children learned about particle physics, gravitational waves and searches for life on Mars in three Disney stories published in 2022-2023.