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Curriculum Vitae

Camillo Mariani

[email protected] http://www.phys.vt.edu/people/mariani.shtml

University Address: Virginia Tech Physics Department 315A Robeson Hall Mail Code 0485 Blacksburg, VA, 24061 +1540-231-4449

Education Assistant Professor at Virginia Tech Physics Department (August 2012 – present)

Post Doctoral Research Scientist at Columbia University (January, 2008 – August

2012)

PHILOSOPHIAE DOCTORATE in Experimental High Energy Physics University of Rome “La Sapienza”, degree obtained 14th January 2008 Thesis Title: Cross Section Measurement at the

Prof. Pier Ferruccio Loverre Supervisors: Prof. Lucio Ludovici

MASTER Thesis, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, 2003 Title: Electromagnetic Calorimeter of the K2K Experiment

Advisor: Prof. Pier Ferruccio Loverre

Teaching ASSISTANT Professor (20012 Fall semester) Experience Virginia Tech, Physics Department Course Taught: PHYS4456 Introduction to quantum mechanics

TEACHING ASSISTANT (2005 - 2006) University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Faculty of Pharmacy Course Taught: Exercises for General Physics I & II

TEACHING ASSISTANT (2005) University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Physics Department Course Taught: Introduction to C Language Programming

Collaboration Membership 2003-present: K2K (KEK, ); 2004-2008: T2K(J-PARC, Japan); 2006-present: SciBooNE (FNAL, USA); Double (Chooz, France); 2009-present: MicroBooNE (FNAL, USA); LBNE (Dusel, USA);

Presentations “New K2K Result,” XLth Rencontres de Moriond “Electroweak Interactions and Unified Theories,” Mar. 3, 2004, LaThuile,

“Neutral Pion Production at K2K,” NuInt07, Fifth International Workshop on Neutrino-Nucleus Interactions in the Few-GeV Region, May 30, 2007, , Batavia, IL, USA

“New K2K Result,” NuFact07, Ninth International Workshop on Neutrino Factories, SuperBeams and Betabeams, Aug. 6, 2007, Okayama University, Okayama, Japan

“Neutral Pion Production at K2K,” HEP seminar, Nov. 2007, Imperial College, London, UK

“EC Detector at SciBooNE,” Calor08, XIII International Conference on Calorimetry in High Energy Physics, May 26, 2008, Pavia, Italy

“ Experiment,” HEP Seminar, University of Rome “La Sapienza,” May 22, 2009, Rome, Italy

“Neutral Pion Production at K2K,” Nuint09, Seventh International Workshop on Neutrino-Nucleus Interactions in the Few-GeV Region, May 18, 2009, Sitges, Barcelona,

“MicroBooNE Experiment,” INFO09, Summer Workshop: Experiments and Implications on Neutrino Flavor Oscillations, Jul. 6, 2009, Santa Fe, NM, USA

“Double Chooz Experiment Status,” NuFact09, Eleventh International Workshop on Neutrino Factories, SuperBeams and Betabeams, Jul. 20, 2009, IIT, Chicago, IL USA

“Short baseline reactor oscillation experiment,” NOW2010, Neutrino Oscillation Workshop, Sept. 4, 2010, Conca Specchiulla, Otranto, Italy

“Dusel and LBNE,” NOW2010, Neutrino Oscillation Workshop, Sept. 4, 2010, Conca Specchiulla, Otranto, Italy

“Neutrino Cross-section measurements @ SciBooNE,” NuFact2011, Aug. 1, 2011, Geneva, Switzerland

“Double Chooz new Results,” Aspen Winter Conference, Feb. 13-17, 2012, CO, USA

• Scientific Activity Research activities (2012-present) Research in experimental high energy physics conducted at Virginia Tech on the *BooNE experiment, DoubleChooz, LENS and LBNE. The Double Chooz and MicroBooNE experiment are my main research focus. These are my current responsibilities:

DoubleChooz: • Analysis coordinator • Member of the executive committee • Chair of the oscillation fit group • DAQ expert on call • For the Double Chooz OV group still responsible for online, electronics, pmts and DAQ and for the installation of the near detector Outer Veto system

MicroBooNE: • Chair of the online working group • Involved in the LAr event reconstruction • New implementation of nuclear model and spectral function in Genie • Development of the offline TPC trigger system • Involved in the DAQ and Trigger development

POST DOCTORAL RESEARCH (2008-08/2012) Research in experimental high energy physics is conducted at Nevis Laboratories (Columbia University) on the *BooNE, DoubleChooz, and LBNE experiments. The DoubleChooz and SciBooNE experiments have been my main research focus. These were my major activities and achievements as postdoctoral research at Columbia University:

DoubleChooz: • Deputy convener of the online and DAQ groups of the Double Chooz collaboration (fall 2009 – spring 2010); • Convener of the Final Fit group for the US cluster of the Double Chooz experiment; • For the Double Chooz OV group (Barnard College, Columbia University, MIT and University of Chicago) I am responsible for: o Developing and testing the Outer Veto electronics o DAQ and trigger systems o Online Monitor o Offline Monitor o Event Builder o Event Merger between different DAQ subsystems o Calibration strategy and software development o The framework software development for the offline physical analysis and the MC simulation o Operation of the Outer Veto detector • Study of the fast neutron background induced by cosmogenic muons • Oscillation fitting procedure: o Sensitivity code for determining the most important systematic errors that contribute to reducing the sentivity to θ13 in the DoubleChooz experiment

o Measurement of θ13 or best limit • Muon reconstruction; • Spill IN/OUT events identification; • Anti-neutrino events (IBD) identification and background separation; • Gain calibrations and non-linearity studies for the main Double Chooz detector

SciBooNE/MiniBooNE:

• Measurement of the νe contamination in the MiniBooNE neutrino beam • Determining the K+ flux normalization used to predict the incident neutrino/anti-neutrino beam • Investigating the X factor measured by the MiniBooNE and SciBooNE collaborations and explaining the larger value for Ma measured by these two collaborations with respect to the world average • Comparison between the MC neutrino interaction NEUT and NUANCE

GRADUATE RESEARCH (2004-2008)

Research in experimental high energy physics was conducted at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory with the SciBooNE experiment--an international collaboration of over 80 physicists from more than 20 different Universities. • On-Call SYSTEM EXPERT responsible for testing, installation, and maintenance of the electromagnetic calorimeter of the SciBooNE experiment; • For the electromagnetic calorimeter of the SciBooNE experiment, I am responsible for: o the installation and developing of the HV slow monitor and control systems; o the DAQ and the trigger systems; o the online monitor; o the framework software development for the offline physical analysis and the MC simulation.

UNDERGRADUATE / GRADUATE RESEARCH (2002-2005)

Research in experimental high energy physics was conducted at the KEK National Japanese Laboratory with the K2K experiment--an international collaboration of over 150 physicists from more than 30 different Universities. • Participated in the reconstruction of the Super-Kamiokande detector in Japan, which included installing and testing the photomultipliers for the Super- Kamiokande detector. • Construction and characterization of a prototype of the N-GRID system for the at the KEK laboratory, Tsukuba, Japan. The work consisted of preparing and testing the scintillator plane, the corresponding DAQ and the cosmic trigger. • Study of the pre-calibration procedure in Rome for the electromagnetic calorimeter of the K2K experiment. • Testing of the DAQ and electronics was performed in Rome, and testing the new electronics and the final calibration of the calorimeter was performed at the KEK national laboratory in Tsukuba, Tokyo, Japan. During this period I was the expert for the testing and maintenance of the electromagnetic calorimeter.

Papers, Review K2K experiment: • “Search for Coherent Charged Pion Production in Neutrino Carbon Interaction” By M. Hasegawa et al. 2004 Phys. Rev. Lett. 95:252301. • “Evidence for Muon Neutrino Oscillation in an Accelerator Based Experiment” By M.H. Ahn et al. 2004. Phys.Rev.Lett.94:081802. • “Search for Electron Neutrino Appearance in a 250 km Long-Baseline Experiment” (M.H. Ahn et al.). 2004. Phys. Rev. Lett 93 051801 • “Measurement of Neutrino Oscillation by the K2K Experiment” By K2K Collaboration (M.H. Ahn et al.). Jun 2006. 40pp., published in Phys. Rev. D 74, 072003. • “Measurement of the Quasi-Elastic Axial Vector Mass in Neutrino Oxygen Interactions”. By the K2K collaboration (R. Gran et al.), Mar 2006. 14pp. Published in Phys.Rev.D74:052002. • “An Improved Search for nu(mu) to nu(e) Oscillation in a Long-Baseline Accelerator Experiment”. By K2K Collaboration (S. Yamamoto et al.). 2006. Published in Phys.Rev.Lett.96:181801. • “Evidence for Muon Neutrino Oscillation in an Accelerator-Based Experiment”. By K2K Collaboration (E. Aliu et al.). 2004. Published in Phys.Rev.Lett.94:081802. • “Experimental Study of the Atmospheric Neutrino Backgrounds for p ---> e+ pi0 Searches in Water Cherenkov Detectors”. By K2K Collaboration (S. Mine et al.). 2008. Published in Phys.Rev.D77:032003. • “Measurement of Single Charged Pion Production in the Charged-Current Interactions of Neutrinos in a 1.3-GeV Wide Band Beam” By K2K Collaboration (A. Rodriguez et al.). 2008. Published in Phys.Rev.D78:032003. • “Measurement of Neutral Pion Production in the Charged-Current Interactions of Neutrinos in a 1.3-GeV Wide Band Beam” By K2K Collaboration (C. Mariani et al.). Feb. 2011. Published in Phys.Rev.D83:054023.

SciBooNE experiment: • “Bringing the SciBar Detector to the Booster Neutrino Beam”. By SciBooNE Collaboration (A.A. Aguilar-Arevalo et al.). FERMILAB- PROPOSAL-0954, 2006. hep-ex/0601022. • “Search for Charged Current Coherent Pion Production on Carbon in a Few- GeV Neutrino Beam” By SciBooNE Collaboration (K. Hiraide et al.). 2008. Published in Phys.Rev.D78:112004. • “Measurement of Inclusive Neutral Current Neutral Pion Production on Carbon in a Few-GeV Neutrino Beam” By SciBooNE Collaboration (Y. Kurimoto et al.). 2009. Published in Phys.Rev.D81:033004. • “Improved measurement of neutral current coherent production on carbon in a few-GeV neutrino beam” By SciBooNE Collaboration (Y. Kurimoto et al.).. Jun. 2010. Published in Phys.Rev.D81:111102. • “Measurement of Inclusive Charged Current Interaction on Carbon in a Few- GeV Neutrino Beam”, By SciBooNE Collaboration (Y. Nakajima et al.). Jan. 2011, Published in Phys.Rev.D83:054023. • “Measurement of K+ production Cross Section by 8 GeV protons using high energy neutrino interactions in the SciBooNE detector”, By SciBooNE Collaboration (G. Cheng and C. Mariani et al.). May 2011. Published in Phys.Rev.D84:012009. • “Dual baseline Search for muon neutrino disappearance at 0.5 eV^2 < Dm^2 < 40 eV^2,” By MiniBooNE and SciBooNE Collaborations. Published in Phys. Rev. D 85, 032007 (2012)

DoubleChooz experiment: • “Indication for the disappearance of reactor electron antineutrino in the Double Chooz experiment,” By Double Chooz Collaboration. Published in Phys. Rev. Lett. 108.131801 (2012) • “Reactor antineutrino disappearance in Double Chooz experiment,” by Double Chooz Collaboration. Published in Phys. Rev. D 86, 052008 (2012) • “Direct Measurement of Backgrounds using Reactor-Off Data in Double Chooz,” by SciBooNE Collaboration. Published in Phys. Rev. D87.011102 • “First Measurement of θ_13 from Delayed Neutron Capture on Hydrogen in the Double Chooz Experiment,” by Double Chooz Collaboration. Submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett.

MiniBooNE experiment: • “A Combined $\nu_\mu$ to $\nu_e$ and \bar{nu_mu} to \bar{$\nu_e$} Oscillation analysis of the MiniBooNE Excesses,” By the MiniBooNE Collaboration. Submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett.. • “First Measurement of the Muon Anti-Neutrino Double-Differential Charged Current Quasi-Elastic Cross Section,” by MiniBooNE Collaboration. Submitted to Phys. Rev. D.

Others: • “Review of short baseline reactor neutrino experiment”, By C. Mariani Published in Modern Physics Letters A Vol.27, No. 8 (2012) 1230010 • “ Improved Parameterization of K+ Production at Low Energy Using Feynman Scaling”, By C. Mariani et al. Oct. 2011. Published in Phys. Rev. D84:114021 • “Light Sterile Neutrinos: A White Paper”, arXiv: 1204.5379

Conference Proceeding K2K experiment: • “Recent Results from K2K experiment”. By C. Mariani (for the K2K collaboration). Contributed to XL Rencontres de Moriond Conference Series 2005, hep-ex/0505019 • “Neutral Pion Cross measurement at K2K”. By C. Mariani (for the K2K Collaboration). 2007. Contributed to NuInt07,AIP Conf.Proc. 967. • “K2K Recent Results”, C. Mariani (for the K2K collaboration). 2007. Contributed to NuFact07. Published in AIP Conf.Proc.981:247-249. • “Charged current neutral pion cross section measurement at K2K”. By C. Mariani (for the K2K collaboration). 2009. Contributed to NuInt09. Published in AIP Conf.Proc.1189:339-342.

SciBooNE experiment: • “EC detector at SciBooNE”. By C. Mariani, (for the SciBooNE Collaboration). 2008. Contributed to CALOR08. Published in J.Phys.Conf.Ser.160:012035.

Double Chooz experiment: • “Double Chooz: Experiment Status”, By C. Mariani (for the Double Chooz Collaboration). 2009. Contributed to NuFact09. Published in AIP Conf.Proc.1222:475-478. • “Short-Baseline reactor neutrino oscillation”, By C. Mariani (for the Double Chooz Collaboration) 2011. Contributed to NOW2010. Nucl.Phys.Proc.Supply 217:83-88.

LBNE experiment: • “LBNE”, By C. Mariani (for the LBNE Collaboration) 2011. Contributed to NOW2010. Nucl.Phys.Proc.Supply 217:344-346.

References Prof. Michael Shaevitz, Columbia University [email protected]; +1.914.591.2806, +1.212.854.3305

Prof. Edward Blucher, University of Chicago [email protected]; +1.773.702.7486

Dr. Lucio Ludovici, INFN Roma [email protected]; +39.06.4991.4531

Dr. Morgan Wascko, Imperial College London [email protected]; +44.(0)20.7594.1607

Dr. Leslie Camilleri, Columbia University [email protected]; +1.914.591.2829

Prof. Omar Benhar, INFN Roma [email protected]; +39.06.4991.4298

Prof. Reshmi Mukherjee, Barnard College/Columbia University [email protected], +1.212.854.4097

Dr. William Louis, Los Alamos National Laboratory [email protected]; +1.505.667.6723, +1.505.665.7920

Dr. Michel Sorel, IFIC Valencia [email protected], +34.963543722