Gaetano Barone completed his Ph.D. in top quark physics at the University of Geneva (Switzerland) and, consequently, he held appointments at Brandeis Univerisity and Brookhaven National Laboratories. After a long tenure with the ATLAS Collaboration, he joined the CMS Collaboration with his appointment at Brown University.
Throughout his research, he made an important contribution to the success of the wider particle physics research program in the sectors related to the Higgs boson, electroweak interactions, and Top quark. He focuses specifically on the electroweak properties in the Higgs sector in the massive diboson decay channels. Besides guiding and coordinating several analysis efforts from start to publication in the Higgs and electroweak sectors, Gaetano Barone held high-level coordinator positions within the international collaborations whose responsibility involved setting and executing the directions of the Collaboration’s physics program.
| Karlberg, Alexander, Malcles, Julie, Mistlberger, Bernhard, Di Nardo, Roberto, Abidi, Syed Haider, Hayes, Robin, Huss, Alexander, Jones, Stephen, Barone, Gaetano, Chen, Jiayi, Cooperstein, Stephane, Ravasio, Silvia Ferrario, Pellen, Mathieu, Arnold, Hannah, Calandri, Alessandro, Chatterjee, Suman, Ferrera, Giancarlo, Williams, Ciaran, Worek, Malgorzata, Zaro, Marco, Asawatangtrakuldee, Chayanit, Barklow, Tim, Spira, Michael, Wiesemann, Marius. "Ad interim recommendations for the Higgs boson production cross sections at 13.6 TeV." 2024. |
| ATLAS Collaboration. "Characterising the Higgs boson with ATLAS data from Run 2 of the LHC." 2024. |
| Andersen, J., Assi, B., Asteriadis, K., Azzurri, P., Barone, G., Behring, A., Benecke, A., Bhattacharya, S., Bothmann, E., Caletti, S., Chen, X., Chiesa, M., Cooper-Sarkar, A., Cridge, T., Gomez, A. Cueto, Datta, S., Dhani, P. K., Donega, M., Engel, T., Ravasio, S. Ferrario, Forte, S., Francavilla, P., Garzelli, M. V., Ghira, A., Ghosh, A., Giuli, F., Gouskos, L., Gras, P., Gütschow, C., Haddad, Y., Harland-Lang, L., Hekhorn, F., Helenius, I., Hinzmann, A., Höche, S., Holguin, J., Huss, A., Huston, J., Ježo, T., Jones, S., Kiebacher, S., Knobbe, M., Kogler, R., Köneke, K., Kunz, L., LeBlanc, M., Loch, P., Centeno, G. Loeschcke, Löschner, M., Maas, A., Magni, G., Maier, A., Marcoli, M., Marzani, S., McFayden, J., Meinzinger, P., Mikuni, V., Moch, S., Nadolsky, P., Napoletano, D., Pellen, M., Plätzer, S., Poncelet, R., Preuss, C., Qu, H., Rabbertz, K., Reichelt, D., Rescia, A., Roloff, J., Röntsch, R., Cruz, S. Sanchez, Sarkar, T., Scyboz, L., Sforza, F., Siódmok, A., Stagnitto, G., Tarek, A., Thorne, R. S., Valassi, A., Whitehead, J., Winter, J., Delaunay, C., Herrmann, B., Re, E. "Les Houches 2023: Physics at TeV Colliders: Standard Model Working Group Report." 2024. |
| ATLAS Collaboration. "Combined measurement of the Higgs boson mass from the H→γγ and H→ZZ∗→4ℓ decay channels with the ATLAS detector using √s = 7, 8 and 13 TeV pp collision data." 2023. |
| ATLAS Collaboration. "Evidence of off-shell Higgs boson production from ZZ leptonic decay channels and constraints on its total width with the ATLAS detector." arXiv, 2023. |
| ATLAS Collaboration. "Fiducial and differential cross-section measurements for the vector-boson-fusion production of the Higgs boson in the H→WW∗→eνμν decay channel at 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector." Phys Rev D, vol. 108, no. 7, 2023, pp. 072003. |
| ATLAS Collaboration. "Measurement of the H to γγ and H to ZZ* to 4l cross-sections in pp collisions at 13.6 TeV with the ATLAS detector." Eur Phys J C, 2023. |
| ATLAS Collaboration. "Measurements of differential cross sections of Higgs boson production through gluon fusion in the H→WW*→eνμν final state at √s=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector." Eur. Phys. J C, vol. 83, no. 774, 2023. |
| ATLAS Collaboration. "Measurements of Higgs boson production by gluon-gluon fusion and vector-boson fusion using H → WW* → eνμν decays in pp collisions at 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector." Phys Rev D, vol. 108, no. 3, 2023, pp. 032005. |
| Mondal, Spandan, Barone, Gaetano, Schmidt, Alexander. "PAIReD jet: A multi-pronged resonance tagging strategy across all Lorentz boosts." 2023. |
| ATLAS Collaboration. "Studies of the muon momentum calibration and performance of the ATLAS detector with pp collisions at √s=13 TeV." Eur Phy J C, vol. 83, no. 686, 2023. |
| ATLAS Collaboration. "A detailed map of Higgs boson interactions by the ATLAS experiment ten years after the discovery." Nature, vol. 607, no. 7917, 2022, pp. 52-59. |
| ATLAS Collaboration. "Measurement of the Higgs boson mass in the H → ZZ∗ → 4l decay channel using 139 fb−1 of √s = 13 TeV pp collisions recorded by the ATLAS detector at the LHC." Phys Letters B, vol. 843, no. 137880, 2022. |
| ATLAS Collaboration. "A search for the dimuon decay of the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector." Physics Letters B, vol. 812, 2021, pp. 135980. |
| Xiao, S., Alderweireldt, S., Ali, S., Allaire, C., Agapopoulou, C., Atanov, N., Ayoub, M.K., Barone, G., Benchekroun, D., Buzatu, A., Caforio, D., García, L. Castillo, Chan, Y., Chen, H., Cindro, V., Ciucu, L., da Costa, J. Barreiro Guimarães, Cui, H., Miralles, F. Davó, Davydov, Y., d’Amen, G., de la Taille, C., Kiuchi, R., Fan, Y., Falou, A., Ferreira, A.S.C., Garau, M., Ge, J., Ghosh, A., Giacomini, G., Gkougkousis, E.L., Grieco, C., Guindon, S., Han, D., Han, S., Holmberg, M., Howard, A., Huang, Y., Huang, Y., Jing, M., Khoulaki, Y., Kramberger, G., Kuwertz, E., Lefebvre, H., Leite, M., Leopold, A., Li, C., Li, Q., Liang, H., Liang, Z., Liu, B., Liu, J., Luthfi, A., Lyu, F., Malyukov, S., Mandić, I., Masetti, L., Mikuž, M., Nikolic, I., Polidori, L., Polifka, R., Posopkina, O., Qi, B., Ran, K., Reynolds, B.J.G., Rizzi, C., Manzano, M. Robles, Rossi, E., Rummler, A., Sacerdoti, S., Saito, G.T., Seguin-Moreau, N., Serin, L., Shan, L., Shi, L., Shi, X., Sjostrom, N.F., Ferreira, A. Soares Canas, Soengen, J., Stenzel, H., Szadaj, A.J., Tan, Y., Terzo, S., Thomas, J.O., Tolley, E., Tricoli, A., Trincaz-Duvoid, S., Wang, R., Wang, S.M., Wang, W., Wang, W., Wu, K., Yang, T., Yang, Y., Yu, C., Zhang, X., Zhao, L., Zhao, M., Zhao, Z., Zheng, X., Zhuang, X. "Beam test results of NDL Low Gain Avalanche Detectors (LGAD)." Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, vol. 989, 2021, pp. 164956. |
| ATLAS Collaboration. "Higgs boson production cross-section measurements and their EFT interpretation in the 4ℓ decay channel at √s=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector." Eur Phys J C, vol. 80, no. 957, 2020. |
| ATLAS Collaboration. "Measurements of the Higgs boson inclusive and differential fiducial cross sections in the 4ℓ decay channel at √s = 13 TeV." Eur Phys J C, vol. 80, no. 942, 2020. |
| ATLAS Collaboration. "Search for the Higgs boson decays H → ee and H → eμ in pp collisions at 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector." Physics Letters B, vol. 801, 2020, pp. 135148. |
| Cepeda, Editors: M., Gori, S., Ilten, P, Kado, M., Riva, F. "Higgs physics at the HL-LHC and HE-LHC." CERN Yellow Reports: Monographs, vol. Vol. 7, no. 2019, 2019, pp. and perspectives at the HE-LHC. |
| ATLAS Collaboration. "Measurement of the Higgs boson coupling properties in the H → ZZ∗ → 4ℓ decay channel at √s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector." Journal of High Energy Physics, vol. 2018, no. 3, 2018. |
| ATLAS Collaboration. "Measurement of the Higgs boson mass in the H → ZZ⁎ → 4ℓ and H → γγ channels with 13 TeV pp collisions using the ATLAS detector." Physics Letters B, vol. 784, 2018, pp. 345-366. |
| ATLAS Collaboration. "Measurement of inclusive and differential cross sections in the H → ZZ*→ 4ℓ decay channel in pp collisions at 13 TeV TeV with the ATLAS detector." Journal of High Energy Physics, vol. 2017, no. 10, 2017. |
| ATLAS Collaboration. "Measurement of the $$ toverline{t}gamma $$ production cross section in proton-proton collisions at $$ sqrt{s}=8 $$ TeV with the ATLAS detector." Journal of High Energy Physics, vol. 2017, no. 11, 2017. |
| ATLAS Collaboration. "Muon reconstruction performance of the ATLAS detector in proton--proton collision data at √s=13 TeV." Eur Phys J C, vol. 292, no. 76, 2016. |
| ATLAS Collaboration. "Observation of top-quark pair production in association with a photon and measurement of the ttγ production cross section in pp collisions at √s = 7 TeV using the ATLAS detector." Phys Rev D, vol. 91, no. 072007, 2015. |
| Casella, C., Barczyk, A., Barone, G., Berdugo, J., Casaus, J., Deiters, K., De Laere, S., Kirkby, J., Malgeri, L., Mañá, C., Marín, J., Martínez, G., Pohl, M., Petitjean, C., Sánchez, E., Willmott, C. "Design and performance of the FAST detector." Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, vol. 700, 2013, pp. 1-9. |
Higgs and electroweak physics and properties: Precision measurements of the electroweak Higgs properties in the ZZ, WW, bb, and cc channels. New phenomena affecting simultaneously Vector Boson Fusion, Vector Boson Scattering, and Higgs production.
Top quark physics and properties: Precision measurements of the vector boson couplings of the top quark. Measurements of the top–photon vertex and constraints to new physics from its differential spectra.
Low and medium energy physics: Precision extraction of the Fermi constant. Precision measurement of the pion lifetime, fundamental for lattice QCD and chiral symmetry breaking studies.
Detector development: Silicon R&D on timing detectors and 4D detectors. Silicon tracker CMS upgrades. Tracker operations. Track reconstruction and tracking performance. Flavor Tagging and Flavor identification. Muon and lepton reconstruction and muon and lepton reconstruction performance.
I measure the properties of the fundamental electroweak interactions with precision and depth. The lack of evidence for new resonant phenomena at the energy scales probed by the current center-of-mass-energies of the Large Hadron Collider’s collisions suggests that the unknown hides beyond the direct reach of the experiment, that is, either at larger energy scales or in uncovered corners of the phase-space. Therefore, I am broadening our understanding of the Higgs boson potential and the electroweak sectors of the Standard Model (SM). By executing precision-level measurements and by measuring rare processes in unexplored corners of the phase space involving additional hadronic activity, I relate the effects between the resonant Higgs production and the electroweak vector boson scattering. I use these measurements as a smart toolkit to shed light on physics beyond the SM. The simultaneous analysis reduces the uncertainty originating from systematic components and enhances the sensitivity of new physics as a function of each process’s energy scale.
Understanding how to improve future particle detection technologies is fundamental for increasing the resolution with which we measure our fundamental quantities and the precision with which we reject background activity in our detectors. This is why I develop and test the next generation of position-sensitive and picosecond-capable silicon devices for applications in HEP and beyond.
I foster long-term innovation in the broader electroweak sectors in current and future collider experiments by developing cutting-edge experimental techniques in detector improvement, detector calibration, and analysis techniques.
2024 Research Seed Award
| Year | Degree | Institution |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | PhD | Université de Geneve |
| 2009 | MA | Université de Geneve |
| 2007 | BA | Université de Geneve |
| Research Associate | Brookhaven National Laboratory, Physics | 2018-2023 | Upton, NY, USA |
| Postdoctoral Research Fellow | Brandeis Univeristy, Physics | 2015-2018 | Waltham, MA, USA |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Benelli, Gabriele | Senior Research Associate in Physics |
| Gouskos, Loukas | Assistant Professor of Physics |
| Heintz, Ulrich | Professor of Physics |
| Landsberg, Greg | Thomas J. Watson, Sr. Professor of Physics |
| LeBlanc, Matt | Assistant Professor of Physics (Research) |
| Roloff, Jennifer | Assistant Professor of Physics |
CERN, CMS, DRD3, Comprehensive Multiboson Experiment-Theory Action (COMETA)
| Convener of the Vector Boson Fusion LHC Working Group 1 sub-group . European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), 2023-Present |
| Convener Vector Boson Fusion LHC Working Group 1 sub-group. European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), 2022-2023 |
| Convener of the Muon Combined Performance Working Group. European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), 2021-2023 |
| Convener of the Higgs to ZZ(*) and Dimuon Sub-Group of the Higgs Working Group. European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), 2018-2020 |
| Research Associate. Brookhaven National Laboratory, 2018-2023 |
| Convener of the Momentum Scale and Resolution Sub-Group of the Muon Comined Performance Working Group. European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), 2017-2018 |
| Convener of the Momentum Scale and Resolution Sub-Group of the Muon Comined Performance Working Group. European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), 2016-2017 |
| Postdoctoral Research Fellow. Brandeis University, 2015-2018 |
| Research and Teaching Assistant . University of Geneva, 2010-2015 |
