Curriculum Vitæ. Vincenzo Laporta. PD Research Associate Department of Physics and Astronomy University College London. Post-doctoral positions

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1 Curriculum Vitæ Vincenzo Laporta PD Research Associate Department of Physics and Astronomy University College London Gower Street London WC1E 6BT UK +44 (0) Post-doctoral positions Postdoctoral Fellow Sept. 10 Sept. 11 Attaché Temporaire d Enseignement et de Recherche Sept. 09 Aug. 10 Postdoctoral Fellow Nov. 07 Aug. 09 Postdoctoral Fellow Nov. 06 Oct. 07 Istituto di Metodologie Inorganiche e dei Plasmi (IMIP) Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche Sezione di Bari (Italy) Collaboration with Prof. M. Capitelli and Prof. R. Celiberto European Union project FP7-SPACE , Phys4Entry Institut de Physique Nucléaire de Lyon Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (France) Responsable: Prof. S. Fleck Dipartimento interateneo di fisica INFN Università di Bari (Italy) Collaboration with Prof. P. Spinelli and Prof. M. Capitelli Project PS-136 Regione Puglia, Development of a diamond film detector for ultra-violet radiation Centre de Physique Théorique CNRS École Polytechnique Palaiseau Cedex (France) Collaboration with Prof. B. Pire and Dr. T.N. Pham 1

2 Education Long term visitor January to July 2005 Short term visitor May and November 2004 Ph.D. in theoretical physics Nov. 03 Oct. 06 Institut de Physique Nucléaire de Lyon Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (France) Collaboration with Prof. A. Deandrea Division Théorique du CERN Genève (Switzerland) Collaboration with Dr. A. Polosa Dipartimento interateneo di fisica INFN Università di Bari (Italy) Supervisor: Prof. G. Nardulli Diplomas January 27th, 2010 May 9th, 2007 July 23th, 2003 Qualification in maître de conférences (Section 29 - constituants élémentaires) in France. Number of qualification: Ph.D. in theoretical physics Università di Bari (Italy) Thesis: On the calculation of some two-body non-leptonic B decays Supervisor: Prof. G. Nardulli Degree in theoretical physics Università di Bari (Italy) Thesis: Studio degli accoppiamenti del mesone J/ψ a stati charmati di parità positiva [ Study of the J/ψ couplings to the positive parity charmed meson ] Supervisor: Prof. G. Nardulli Teaching experiences Courses given at University College London in English tongue: Academic year : Tutorial in Mathematical methods II (PHAS1246) Academic year : Tutorial in Thermal physics (PHAS1228) Tutorial in Mathematical methods II (PHAS1246) Courses given in the academic year at Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 in French tongue: 2

3 Stage in Mathématiques (Licence, 14h) TD and TP in Électricité et Optique (PHY1004L, 27h) TP in Thermodynamique (PHY1001L, 30h) TD in Physique general (PHY1003L, 76h) TD and TICE in Physique microscopique et Relativiste (PHY2004L, 20h) TD and TICE in Astrophysique (PHY2003L, 54h) TD = Travaux Dirigés (theoretical exercises); TP = Travaux Pratiques (laboratory); TICE = Technologies de l Information et de la Communication pour l Education (theoretical exercises with computer). Research interests Elementary processes in molecular plasmas My current research is focused on the calculation of cross sections for electron-impact resonant collisions involving vibrationally and rotationally excited diatomic molecules of interest in plasma physics and in astrophysical context. This study is being conducted in the framework of the Phys4Entry project, an European network aimed to the development of advanced chemical-physical and plasma models of hypersonic flow generated by space-crafts in re-entry conditions in planetary atmospheres. I calculated cross sections and the corresponding rate constants for vibrational-excitation, dissociative-electron-attachment and molecular dissociation for electron molecule scattering for the main components of the Earth atmosphere, papers [2, 6, 7, C2] in the list of publications, i.e. N 2,O 2 and NO, and of Jupiter and Mars atmospheres [1, 2, 8, C1], i.e. H 2, CO and CO 2. The results have been obtained in the frame of the so-called boomerang model, to study the nuclear dynamics, and by using ab-initio quantum chemistry programs MOLPRO and UK R-Matrix to treat the fixed-nuclei motion. Collisional kinetic models in molecular plasmas Papers [3, 4, 5, 9], in the list of publications, investigate theoretically thermal properties of non-equilibrium plasmas by means of the so-called state-to-state (StS) approach. StS models offer the opportunity to get detailed information about internal distributions affecting thermodynamics, transport coefficients and kinetics, accounting for the presence of molecular excited states. In collisional dynamics, Boltzmann equation is solved for electrons self-consistently coupled to the chemical species (atoms, ions, molecules) reproducing very interesting features of strongly non-equilibrium internal distributions characterizing plasmas. In particular collisional kinetics models for nitrogen-containing plasma flows for combustion simulation and for re-entry problem was been studied. Condensed matter physics 3

4 I studied the properties of an ultra-violet radiation detector based on a thin film of diamond, grown by using the technique of Chemical-Vapor-Deposition [10, 11]. My task was the development of a Monte Carlo code, written in C++, for the simulation of the electronhole cascade by photon absorption in diamond, and for the determination of the sensor s quantum-efficiency. The simulation provided the mean number of electron-hole pairs and the number of phonons as a function of the incident photon energy. Moreover, the computer code was formulated in order to obtain the output electric signal of the sensor that takes in account the drift, the diffusion and the finite size of the grains of the diamond film. High-energy physics My first scientific activity was devoted to the study of the phenomenology of particle physics and in particular to the interactions and decays of the heavy mesons. I studied, in the framework of Quantum-Cromo-Dynamics (QCD), the methods of the effective field theories how chiral-perturbation-theory (χpt) and heavy-quark-effective-theory (HQET). I also studied Regge theory. The Refs. [12, 13, 15, 17], in the list of publications, concern my research on the phenomenology of B physics. These works were inspired by the results of BaBar, Belle and Cleo experiments. In Ref. [12] I studied the rescattering effects in three-bodies barionic B decay, in particular the channel B p pπ, to understand the enhancement effect in barionantibarion system. In Ref. [13] some theoretical predictions about branching ratios of B decays into axial mesons are been performed using an effective Hamiltonian approach in the scheme of naive factorization. These estimations will be useful in the future experiments as LHCb at CERN. In the Refs. [15, 17, C3] I calculated the effects of final state interactions in B decays into two vector mesons and into two pions respectively, using the Regge theory. I have shown that some experiment branching ratio can be reproduced if the rescattering effects are take in account. In the paper in Ref. [16] the J/ψ strong coupling to vector mesons was studied in order to compute the cross sections for the processes J/ψ ρ D ( ) D ( ) and J/ψ φ D ( ) D ( ). The calculation was performed using results from HQET, χpt and constituent-quark meson model. These results proved to be useful in the problem of the J/ψ absorption by the hot hadron gas formed during high-energy collisions of heavy-ions and the problem to detect quark-gluon plasma in experiment at LHC at CERN. Astroparticle physics Another subject of my interest has been the phase diagram of QCD at finite temperature and density. In particular I considered the effect of leptonic chemical potential on color superconductivity phase of QCD using an approach of effective field theory. The results were applied to the study of neutrino trapping inside a hot pulsar assuming the existence in the star of quark matter Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov phase of QCD [14]. 4

5 Computer software skills Operating System Linux, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows Procedural Programming FORTRAN 77 Object-Oriented Programming Quantum chemistry calculation Computational software Other software Python, C++ and ROOT UK R-matrix and MOLPRO Wolfram Mathematica L A TEX, Microsoft Office, gnuplot, KaleidaGraph References Prof. Mario Capitelli Università degli studi di Bari Phone: Dipartimento di Chimica mario.capitelli@ba.imip.cnr.it Prof. Roberto Celiberto Politecnico di Bari Phone: Dip. di Ingegneria delle Acque e di Chimica r.celiberto@poliba.it Prof. Aldo Deandrea Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 Phone: +33 (0) Institut de Physique Nucléaire de Lyon a.deandrea@ipnl.in2p3.fr France Prof. Sonia Fleck Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 Phone: +33 (0) Département de Physique sonia.fleck@adm.univ-lyon1.fr France Dr. Antonio Davide Polosa Università di Roma La Sapienza Phone: Dipartimento di Fisica antonio.polosa@roma1.infn.it Prof. Jonathan Tennyson University College London Phone: +44 (0) Department of Physics and Astronomy j.tennyson@ucl.ac.uk UK 5

6 Dr. Pietro Santorelli Università di Napoli Federico II Phone: Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche Prof. Paolo Spinelli Università degli studi di Bari Phone: Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica INFN Prof. Jogindra M. Wadehra Wayne State University Phone: (313) Department of Physics and Astronomy USA 6

7 List of publications International reviews with referee [1] R. Celiberto, R.K. Janev, V. Laporta, J. Tennyson and J.M. Wadehra, Phys. Rev. A, submitted (2013). [2] R. Celiberto, V. Laporta et al., The Open Plasma Physics Journal, accepted (2013). [3] M. Capitelli, V. Laporta et al., combustion, submitted. [4] M. Capitelli, V. Laporta et al., Phys. Plasmas 20, (2013). [5] V. Laporta and D. Bruno, J. Chem. Phys. 138, (2013). [6] V. Laporta, R. Celiberto and J. Tennyson, Plasma Sources Sci. Technol. 22, (2013). [7] V. Laporta, R. Celiberto and J.M. Wadehra, Plasma Sources Sci. Technol. 21, (2012). [8] V. Laporta, C.M. Cassidy, J. Tennyson and R. Celiberto, Plasma Sources Sci. Technol. 21, (2012). [9] M. Capitelli, V. Laporta et al., Plasma Chem. Plasma Process. 32, (2012). [10] V. Laporta, L.D. Pietanza and G. Colonna, Nucl. Instr. and Meth. A636, 67(2011). [11] P. Acquafredda, V. Laporta et al., Nucl. Instr. and Meth. A617, 405(2010). [12] V. Laporta, Int. J. Mod. Phys. A22, 5401(2007). [13] V. Laporta, G. Nardulli and T. N. Pham, Phys. Rev. D74, (2006);Erratum-ibid.D76, (2007). [14] V. Laporta and M. Ruggieri, Phys. Lett. B633, 734(2006);Erratum-ibid.B637, 374(2006). [15] A. Deandrea, V. Laporta et al., Int. J. Mod. Phys. A21, 4425(2006). [16] V. Laporta, A. D. Polosa, F. Piccinini and V. Riquer, Eur. Phys. J. C48, 545(2006). [17] M. Ladisa, V. Laporta, G. Nardulli and P. Santorelli, Phys. Rev. D70, (2004). International conference proceedings [C1] R. Celiberto and V. Laporta, EPJ conference, submitted (2013). [C2] V. Laporta and R. Celiberto, J. Phys.: Conf. Ser (2012). [C3] V. Laporta et al., AIP Conf. Proc. 806, 197(2006). 7

8 Scientific meetings, conferences and seminars July 2013 July 2013 June 2013 Nov Sept Aug July 2012 April 2012 July 2011 May 2010 May 2009 Feb Nov June 2005 May 2005 Aug May 2004 Invited talk, Ames research center - NASA, Moffett Field (CA), USA. Posters presentation, conference XXXI ICPIG, Granada, Spain. Poster presentation, conference ECAMP11, Aarhus, Denmark. Talk, 2012 Young Astrochemists Meeting, UCL, London, UK. Invited seminar, International School of QE on Molecular Physics and Hypersonic, Ettore Majorana Foundation, Erice, Italy. Invited seminar, workshop CECAM Theoretical and Computational Astrochemistry, SNS, Pisa, Italy. Poster presentation, conference XXI ESCAMPIG, Viana do Castelo, Portugal. Seminar, Department of Physics & Astronomy, UCL, London, UK. Poster presentation, conference XXVII ICPEAC, Belfast, UK. Seminar, Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie, Université Joseph Fourier Grenoble 1, France. Seminar, Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Bari, Italy. Seminar, Centre de Physique Théorique, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France. Seminar, Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Bari, Italy. Participant, workshop QCD@Work 2005, Conversano, Italy. Participant, Convegno informale di Fisica Teorica, Cortona, Italy. Participant, XIII Seminario Nazionale di Fisica Teorica, INFN, Parma, Italy. Participant, Italo-Hellenic School of Physics on The Physics of LHC, Martignano (Lecce), Italy. 8