Simone Ragoni

Simone Ragoni

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

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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.

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.

Interview

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A couple days ago, an interview I had done earlier in the month appeared on two websites. This is very flattering, and was extremely happy about reading it like I were not involved at all. It is in Italian, but Google should be able to translate it well enough.

Parton density function: the role of UPC

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Essentially, a UPC event, shown here, probes the gluons inside the target. The whole thing is very complicated to explain, but basically, more or less just “counting” the vector mesons coming out of the interaction allows for a measurement of the required gluon pdf… Or at least, that is the aim actually. Huge advancements have been made in recent times. It really can be said that we are exploring the energy frontier of photon colliders! Good times to be alive.

Ultraperipheral Collisions: Intro

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Hello. This is my first serious post. At the very beginning of my website, I promised to talk more about the type of physics I am involved with.

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C++ Journey Chapter Intro

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This C++ Jouney is actually dedicated to a professor of mine from University days, who actually passed to better life a couple months ago. I owe to him all the start of my career. He taught me everything I needed to start coding, and to enjoy it too…! Thanks, professor.

C++ Journey Chapter 1

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Coding is an art. It must be cultivated over time. It requires dedication, passion, discipline. However, it is highly rewarding. The joy of seeing your piece od code actually running… Is overwhelming.

CppComedy

C++ Journey Chapter Intro

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This C++ Jouney is actually dedicated to a professor of mine from University days, who actually passed to better life a couple months ago. I owe to him all the start of my career. He taught me everything I needed to start coding, and to enjoy it too…! Thanks, professor.

C++ Journey Chapter 1

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Coding is an art. It must be cultivated over time. It requires dedication, passion, discipline. However, it is highly rewarding. The joy of seeing your piece od code actually running… Is overwhelming.

portfolio

publications

talks

Poster on recent results with Pb-Pb UPC with the ALICE detector at 5.02 TeV

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Poster at INPC 2019 (International Nuclear Physics Conference), the biggest conference of its kind. The venue was Glasgow, which led to the tasty haggis opportunity… The poster described the most recent results on Ultraperipheral Collisions, which included all of the ALICE Run 2 dataset. This increased the precision of our results a lot compared to the Run 1 experience!

Outreach with High School Students

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Outreach session with high school students. An undefeatable team of three people joined forces to help these students getting acclimated with the CERN environment! Sabino Zagaria, Evelina Durastanti and I, made a fool out of ourselves showing the engineering, administrative and physics sides of CERN. But what a great time. Shame that the Covid outbreak started the following day in Italy…

J/Psi photoproduction analysis in ALICE

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Talk at the ALICE Juniors Day, during the March 2020 ALICE Week. Overview of ALICE results about J/Psi photoproduction in Ultraperipheral Collisions, along with the activities currently going on.

UPC : a powerful tool for J/Psi photoproduction analysis in ALICE

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Poster at LHCP 2020 (Large Hadron Collider Physics). The venue should have been Paris, but Covid was of another opinion… The poster described the most recent results on Ultraperipheral Collisions, which included all of the ALICE Run 2 dataset, both pPb and Pb–Pb. Here is a picture with all the available participants!

J/Psi photoproduction analysis in ALICE

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Talk at the ALICE Physics Week about my main results. I will update this section with more details as soon as the paper gets to ArXiv…

J/Psi photoproduction analysis in ALICE

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Talk at the Joint IOP 2021 for Nuclear, Subnuclear and Astrophysics. The topic was an overview of the main ALICE results for J/Psi photoproduction in UPC. Great talk to be honest.

teaching

Particles and Nuclei

Undergraduate course, University of Birmingham, School of Physics and Astronomy, 2018

Helped in marking the students’ fortnightly assignments in the Particles and Nuclei course.

Particles and Neutrinos

Undergraduate course, University of Birmingham, School of Physics and Astronomy, 2019

Helped in marking the students’ fortnightly assignments in the Particles and Neutrinos course.