Between 2007-2020, I was active on
the
T2K experiment in Japan
where I performed electron (anti-)neutrino appearance searches and
precision measurements of muon (anti-)neutrino disappearance.
I was founder, coordinator and one of the main authors of the
VALOR fitting group.
From 2010 to 2020, VALOR produced over 20 reviewed oscillation physics analyses
and it contributed to 12 published T2K papers, culminating in the
2020 Nature paper.
Details of the T2K outputs of the VALOR group (codes, technical notes, papers)
can be found
here.
Some of my T2K research outputs can be found below:
While I was active on T2K,
I co-authored the following VALOR/T2K oscillation analyses and technical notes for various T2K datasets [*].
(VALOR contributions to published papers are also indicated):
Our codes to reproduce all analyses listed above can be found online
in the
official VALOR GitHub organization.
(Special permissions are required for the products listed with a
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The experiment-agnostic VALOR analysis framework can be found in the
VALOR-SDK
() repository
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T2K-specific configurations and scripts can be found in the
VALOR-T2K
() repository.
During my time on T2K, I supervised a number of excellent T2K doctoral theses:
[*]
T2K collected data in several periods with different conditions and proton-on-target (POT) exposures,
both in neutrino-enhanced Forward Horn Current (FHC) and antineutrino-enhanced Reversed Horn Current (RHC) modes:
Run 1 (01-06/2010, FHC: 0.323x1020 POT),
Run 2 (10/2010-03/2011, FHC: 1.108x1020 POT),
Run 3 (03-06/2012, FHC: 1.579x1020 POT),
Run 4 (10/2012-05/2013, FHC: 3.560x1020 POT),
Run 5 (05-06/2014, FHC: 0.242x1020 POT and RHC: 0.506x1020 POT),
Run 6 (10/2014-06/2015, FHC: 0.190x1020 POT and RHC: 3.505x1020 POT),
Run 7 (02-05/2016, FHC: 0.480x1020 POT and RHC: 3.460x1020 POT),
Run 8 (10/2016-04/2017, FHC: 7.170x1020 POT),
Run 9 (10/2017-05/2018, FHC: 0.204x1020 POT and RHC: 8.788x1020 POT), and
Run 10 ().
I am founder and co-spokesperson of the
international GENIE collaboration,
and one of the main authors of the
GENIE project.
GENIE performs influential phenomenology research
in the boundary between nuclear and particle physics,
and it provides a crucial bridge between theory and measurement.
As such, it plays a central role throughout the lifecycle of every neutrino experiment.
I am a member of
the
Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO).
This is a state-of-the-art multi-purpose neutrino experiment
with a 20-kiloton liquid scintillator (LS) detector, the largest ever built,
located 700 m underground 53 km away from the Taishan and Yangjiang
nuclear power plants in south China.
I am centrally involved in preparations for the physics exploitation of the
Fermilab Short-Baseline Neutrino (SBN) Programme,
in particular in the
SBN Near Detector (SBND).
This is an experimental programme aiming to achieve the sensitivity to perform a
definitive 5σ test of the light-sterile
neutrino hypothesis associated with several long-standing experimental anomalies.
MINOS Experiment (1999-2010)
DONUT Experiment (1997-2003)
COSMOS Experiment (1997-1998)
I am a member of the DUNE experiment in US since 2014.
I am one of the founders, main authors and coordinator of the
VALOR fitting group.
The group plays a central role both in the physics exploitation and design optimisation several experiments,
both by maintaining and developing the VALOR Software Development Kit (SDK),
and by implementing and performing numerous trusted data analyses and sensitivity studies on top of that SDK.
Currently, I am entering into the field of Quantum Information Science.
I work with scientists from the
Fermilab Quantum Institute, and Liverpool PhD students,
on a project to
use quantum processors for neutrino interaction simulations.
