Ivan De Mitri

Biography

My scientific activity is developing in the field of nuclear and subnuclear physics mainly of experimental, with particular reference to astroparticle physics. I mainly deal with the study of high energy cosmic radiation (cosmic rays, gamma ray astronomy and high energy neutrons, etc.) by participating in DAMPE, ARGO-YBJ and AUGER experiments. In the past, I was also involved in the study of the physical properties of neutrinos using natural (atmospheric and artificial) neutrino sources (neutrino bundles), participating in experiments MACRO, ICARUS, NOE / ICANOE, at the Gran Sasso National Laboratories. During the various activities I have cared for both software aspects (development of simulation codes, reconstruction, or data analysis) and hardware (study and characterization of different types of particle detectors, trigger system development). I have also discussed some of the theoretical-phenomenological issues related to the experimental activities mentioned above. For some years I have also been involved in activities (MAGIC-5 experiment) concerning the development of computerized systems for assisted diagnosis in biomedical imaging analysis. The results of these research activities have been published on more than 250 articles in international scientific journals and presented at numerous conferences.

Research Interest

 Physics of high energy cosmic rays - Neutrinic Physics - Discovery Techniques for Physics of Elemental Particles - Computerized systems for assisted diagnosis of biomedical images   Currently my research activity is being developed in two different experiments, funded by the National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN): AUGER . It is an experiment conducted by an international collaboration involving around 20 countries around the world. The purpose of the activity is the study of cosmic radiation of extreme energy (above about 10 18 eV). For this reason, an apparatus has been deployed on an area of ​​about 3,000 km 2 , located in Argentina in the province of Mendoza, at an altitude of about 1400 m above sea level. DAMPE . The main purpose of the experiment, conducted by an international collaboration between Italy, China and Switzerland, is the measurement of the flow of galactic cosmic rays with energies of up to 100 TeV by means of an apparatus placed on a satellite orbit around the Earth. The satellite was launched successfully in December 2015 by the Chinese Space Agency and collaboration is currently analyzing the data so far produced