Simone Ragoni

Simone Ragoni

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

Blog posts

2022

2021

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.

2019

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.