Simone Ragoni

Simone Ragoni

Postdoctoral researcher at Creighton University, researching Ultraperipheral Collisions (UPC). Writer, science communicator, and your friendly neighbourhood particle physicist.

SIR & Covid: a Python trial by fire

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Dear Readers, it has been a while. A contribution of mine on a possible way of modeling the trend of the pandemic appeared online roughly a month ago.

It is available here and here.

It is basically using a simple SIR model to predict and describe the trend in a time-dependent way. The Python notebook which I had prepared for the public is also available on my GitHub, have a look here. Enjoy.

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New measurements on diffractive vector mesons

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I wanted to share with everyone my talk at LHCP 2021. The title was “New measurements on diffractive vector mesons”. It was a joint ALICE and LHCb presentation.

ALICE, the Italian contribution

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Quite recently, a new article I had written about ALICE and the Italian contribution to the overall success of the experiment, appeared on the usual two websites. It is available here, and here.