Università degli Studi di Torino - Dipartimento di Fisica

Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nuclare

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who: Andrea Beraudo position: Researcher at Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare PhD advisors: Prof. W.M.Alberico Prof. A.Molinari where: Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare - Sezione di Torino Istituto di Fisica Via Pietro Giuria 1, 10125 Torino, ITALY e-mail: beraudo@to.infn.it phone: +39 011 670 7212 fax: +39 011 670 7214

Research interests:

• Quark Gluon Plasma Physics
• The Quark Gluon Plasma as a "many-body" system : various aspects of the Hard-Thermal-Loop approximation.
• Phenomenology of heavy-ion collisions and signatures of deconfinement, in particular study of the "hard probes" of the medium produced in relativistic nucleus-nucleus collisions. Recently also the hydrodynamic modeling of the medium for the study of soft observables.
• Heavy-quarks: microscopic evaluation of their transport coefficients and study of their stochastic dynamics in the Quark Gluon Plasma at RHIC and LHC conditions. Predictions for the final momentum-spectra of heavy-flavour hadrons and their decay-electrons. Current activity is focused on the modeling of the heavy-quark hadronization in the presence of a medium (and on its effect on the final observables) and on the interaction of D mesons in the hadronic phase.
• Quarkonia:
  • Euclidean correlators, spectral functions and free-energies of heavy-quarks and quarkonia in the Quark Gluon Plasma;
  • First-principle evaluation of an effective quark-antiquark interaction in the plasma accounting for the effects of screening and collisions.
  Comparison with what found in lattice-QCD simulations and in the experiment (charmonium suppression in nucleus-nucleus collisions).
• High-pT particles: gluon radiation due to the interaction of high-energy partons, produced in hard events in the initial stage of the nuclear collisions, with the surrounding medium. In particular, study of coherence effects and of the color flow. Facing the present and forthcoming experimental data of jets in heavy-ion collisions.
• Viscous relativistic hydrodynamics: I'm part of the ECHO-QGP project, which has led to the first viscous relativistic hydrodynamic code for the italian heavy-ion community. My role so far was mainly focused on the implementation of the EOS, on the modelling of the initial conditions in A-A, p-A and d-A collisions -- accounting in particular for the event-by-event fluctuations within a Glauber-MC setup -- and on the validation of the code through the comparison with special analytic results.
• Theoretical Nuclear Physics
• Many-Body Physics

Talks:

• "Perturbative vs non-perturbative aspects of jet quenching: the role of color flow": invited plenary talk at the conference "Hard Probes 2012" (Cagliari, 27 May - 1 June 2012)
• "Heavy flavour transport calculations in nucleus-nucleus collisions": invited talk at the 8th Physics week of the ALICE Collaboration (Padova, 19-24 May 2013)
• "Heavy flavour spectra in nucleus-nucleus collisions within a Langevin approach ": invited talk at the international conference INPC 2013 (Firenze, 2-7 June 2013)
• "How (non-)linear is the hydrodynamics of heavy-ion collisions?": talk given at the University of Santiago de Compostela (16 January 2014)
• "Dynamics of heavy flavor quarks in high energy nuclear collisions": invited plenary talk at the international conference Quark Matter 2014 (Darmstadt, 19-24 May 2014)
• "Heavy-flavor transport": invited plenary talk at the international conference Strangeness in Quark Matter 2015 (Dubna, 6-11 July 2015)
• "Medium effects on heavy-flavour observables in high-energy nuclear collisions": invited talk at the conference QCD@Work 2016 (Martina Franca, 27-30 June 2016)
• "Open charm physics with Heavy Ions: theoretical overview": invited talk at the conference CHARM 2016 (Bologna, 5-9 September 2016)
• "Relativistis heavy-ion collisions: recent developments": invited talk at the SIF conference Società Italiana di Fisica conference (Padova, 26-30 September 2016)

Teaching activity (and material):

• "Collective Dynamics of the QGP": lecture given at the international school "Quark-Gluon Plasma and heavy-ion collisions: past present and future" (Torino, 7-12 March 2011)
• "Heavy-ion collisions: theory review": lecture given at the international workshop "QCD at cosmic energies - V"
• "MC modeling for Heavy Ions": lecture given at the "MCnet-LPCC Summer School on Monte Carlo Event Generators for LHC"
• "Hard Probes in A-A collisions: jet-quenching" and "Hard Probes in A-A collisions: heavy-flavor" : lectures given at the international school "Quark-Gluon Plasma and Heavy Ion Collisions: past, present, future" (Siena, 9-13 July 2013)
• QGP lectures: a set of lectures for the PhD students from the University of Torino

Outreach activity:

• "AggiornaMenti": national project on a "learning-by-doing" teaching of science conceived and directed by myself and devoted to primary and junior high-school teachers. Have a look also at our Facebook page
• "Aperiscienza in Barriera": a series of scientific happy-our, with informal presentations by a scientist followed by a discussion with the public, drinking beer/wine and eating some good food
• "Clima ed energia": a discussion on climate changes and energetic choices at the PD section of Via Cervino 0 (8th April 2016)
• Simple lectures and experiments on fluid-mechanics, thermodynamics and optics given at the junior high-school "Antonio Vivaldi" (fluids1, fluids2, light)
• "Dalle equazioni di Maxwell al modello standard delle particelle elementari": lecture given at Liceo Scientifico "Albert Einstein"
• "Il più grande spettacolo dopo il Big Bang", un viaggio nell'infinitamente piccolo alla scoperta dell'Universo primordiale: seminar on particle physics, Quantum Chromodynamics and their link with the history of our Universe given in several high-school within the national ASL project "Art & Science"
• "Nulla è come sembra, nemmeno i colori": laboratory on color vision realized in collaboration with MAO (Museo d'Arte Orientale) within the Next-Land project

Other activities:

• In charge, until 2017, of the organization of the Theory Colloquia
• Convener of the workshop on the upgrade of the ALICE detector (CERN, 12-13 July 2011)
• Referee activity for several journals: PRD, PRL, JHEP, PLB, NPA, EPJC

Publications:

• A list of publications (courtesy of SLAC's HEP-Spires service). 
• My Diploma Thesis
  
• My PhD Thesis