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    <> costruzione di possibili profili di sostenibilità applicati a scala di quartiere.
    (2013-11-29) Manfredi, Emilia; Pantano, Pietro; Rossi, Francesco
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    Nano materials and innovative laser-based accelerators for cultural heritage
    (2017-07-12) Veltri, Simona; Pantano, Pietro; Bonanno, Assunta; Antici, Patrizio
    Università della Calabria, Dipartimento di Fisica
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    Nano materials and innovative laser-based accelerators for cultural heritage
    (2017-07-12) Veltri, Simona; Pantano, Pietro; Bonanno, Assunta; Antici, Patrizio
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    Charged-particle distributions and material measurements in ps = 13 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS Inner Detector
    (2017-07-14) Cairo, Valentina Maria Martina; Pantano, Pietro; Dell'Acqua, Andrea; Schioppa, Marco
    The Run 2 of the Large Hadron Collider, which began in Spring 2015, offers new challenges to the Experiments with its unprecedented energy scale and high luminosity regime. To cope with the new experimental conditions, the ATLAS Experiment was upgraded during the first long shutdown of the collider, in the period 2013-2014. The most relevant change which occurred in the ATLAS Inner Detector was the installation of a fourth pixel layer, the Insertable B-Layer, at a radius of 33 mm together with a new thinner beam pipe. The Pixel Services, located between the Pixel and SCT detectors, were also modified. Owing to the radically modified ID layout, many aspects of the track reconstruction programs had to be re-optimized. In this thesis, the improvements to the tracking algorithms and the studies of the material distribution in the Inner Detector are described in detail, together with the improvements introduced in the geometry model description in simulation as well as the re-evaluation and the reduction of the systematic uncertainty on the estimate of the track reconstruction efficiency. The results of these studies were applied to the measurement of Charged-Particle Multiplicity in proton–proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV. The chargedparticle multiplicity, its dependence on transverse momentum and pseudorapidity and the dependence of the mean transverse momentum on the charged-particle multiplicity are presented for various fiducial phase spaces. The measurements are corrected for detector effects, presented as particle-level distributions and are compared to the predictions of different Monte Carlo event generators. New sets of recommended performance figures along with the related systematic uncertainties were also derived for several aspects of the ATLAS tracking, such as track reconstruction efficiency, fake rate and impact parameter resolution. These recommendations provide information on appropriate working points, i.e. track selection criteria with wellunderstood performance. They apply to physics analyses using Inner Detector tracks in Run 2 data and are important inputs for other objects based on tracks, such as jets. A simulation-based method which uses the tracking recommendations to calibrate light-jets mis-tagged as b-jets it is also presented in the context of the measurement of the crosssection of the W-boson produced in association with b-jets at 13 TeV, together with an overview of the inclusiveW-boson cross-section analysis.
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    Charged-particle distributions and material measurements in ps = 13 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS Inner Detector
    (2017-07-14) Cairo, Valentina Maria Martina; Pantano, Pietro; Dell'Acqua, Andrea; Schioppa, Marco
    The Run 2 of the Large Hadron Collider, which began in Spring 2015, offers new challenges to the Experiments with its unprecedented energy scale and high luminosity regime. To cope with the new experimental conditions, the ATLAS Experiment was upgraded during the first long shutdown of the collider, in the period 2013-2014. The most relevant change which occurred in the ATLAS Inner Detector was the installation of a fourth pixel layer, the Insertable B-Layer, at a radius of 33 mm together with a new thinner beam pipe. The Pixel Services, located between the Pixel and SCT detectors, were also modified. Owing to the radically modified ID layout, many aspects of the track reconstruction programs had to be re-optimized. In this thesis, the improvements to the tracking algorithms and the studies of the material distribution in the Inner Detector are described in detail, together with the improvements introduced in the geometry model description in simulation as well as the re-evaluation and the reduction of the systematic uncertainty on the estimate of the track reconstruction efficiency. The results of these studies were applied to the measurement of Charged-Particle Multiplicity in proton–proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV. The chargedparticle multiplicity, its dependence on transverse momentum and pseudorapidity and the dependence of the mean transverse momentum on the charged-particle multiplicity are presented for various fiducial phase spaces. The measurements are corrected for detector effects, presented as particle-level distributions and are compared to the predictions of different Monte Carlo event generators. New sets of recommended performance figures along with the related systematic uncertainties were also derived for several aspects of the ATLAS tracking, such as track reconstruction efficiency, fake rate and impact parameter resolution. These recommendations provide information on appropriate working points, i.e. track selection criteria with wellunderstood performance. They apply to physics analyses using Inner Detector tracks in Run 2 data and are important inputs for other objects based on tracks, such as jets. A simulation-based method which uses the tracking recommendations to calibrate light-jets mis-tagged as b-jets it is also presented in the context of the measurement of the crosssection of the W-boson produced in association with b-jets at 13 TeV, together with an overview of the inclusiveW-boson cross-section analysis.
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    Charged-particle distributions and material measurements in ps = 13 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS Inner Detector
    (2017-07-14) Cairo, Valentina Maria Martina; Pantano, Pietro; Schioppa, Marco; Dell'Acqua, Andrea
    The Run 2 of the Large Hadron Collider, which began in Spring 2015, offers new challenges to the Experiments with its unprecedented energy scale and high luminosity regime. To cope with the new experimental conditions, the ATLAS Experiment was upgraded during the first long shutdown of the collider, in the period 2013-2014. The most relevant change which occurred in the ATLAS Inner Detector was the installation of a fourth pixel layer, the Insertable B-Layer, at a radius of 33 mm together with a new thinner beam pipe. The Pixel Services, located between the Pixel and SCT detectors, were also modified. Owing to the radically modified ID layout, many aspects of the track reconstruction programs had to be re-optimized. In this thesis, the improvements to the tracking algorithms and the studies of the material distribution in the Inner Detector are described in detail, together with the improvements introduced in the geometry model description in simulation as well as the re-evaluation and the reduction of the systematic uncertainty on the estimate of the track reconstruction efficiency. The results of these studies were applied to the measurement of Charged-Particle Multiplicity in proton–proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV. The chargedparticle multiplicity, its dependence on transverse momentum and pseudorapidity and the dependence of the mean transverse momentum on the charged-particle multiplicity are presented for various fiducial phase spaces. The measurements are corrected for detector effects, presented as particle-level distributions and are compared to the predictions of different Monte Carlo event generators. New sets of recommended performance figures along with the related systematic uncertainties were also derived for several aspects of the ATLAS tracking, such as track reconstruction efficiency, fake rate and impact parameter resolution. These recommendations provide information on appropriate working points, i.e. track selection criteria with wellunderstood performance. They apply to physics analyses using Inner Detector tracks in Run 2 data and are important inputs for other objects based on tracks, such as jets. A simulation-based method which uses the tracking recommendations to calibrate light-jets mis-tagged as b-jets it is also presented in the context of the measurement of the crosssection of the W-boson produced in association with b-jets at 13 TeV, together with an overview of the inclusiveW-boson cross-section analysis
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    Modellazione di linguaggi naturali e artificiali attraverso la scienza delle reti
    (2012-12-17) Bertacchini, Francesca; Bilotta, Eleonora; Pantano, Pietro
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    Experimental and theoretical study of polyhedral carbon Nano-Onions
    (2018-02-23) Basantes Valverde, Marlon Danilo; Pantano, Pietro; Caputi, Lorenzo; De Luca, Giorgio
    Carbon nano-onions (CNOs), in their spherical or polyhedral forms, represent an important class of nanomaterials due to their peculiar physical and electrochemical properties. Among the different methods of production, arc discharge between graphite electrodes sustained by deionized water is one of the most promising to obtain good quality CNOs. The arc discharge method is applied to optimize the production of CNOs, and the synthesized nanomaterials by TEM was studied. An innovative experimental arrangement is used to obtain CNOs dispersed in water together with other carbon nanomaterials, and a black hard cathodic deposit. A simple mechanical grinding of the deposit it allowed to obtain turbostratic polyhedral CNOs with different aspect ratios, which exhibited higher stability towards burning in air, compared to CNOs found in water. A mechanism for the formation of the CNOs contained in the deposit, different from the generally accepted mechanism responsible for the synthesis of CNOs dispersed in water, is hypothesized. These spherical or polyhedral multi-shell fullerenes are widely studied owing to their interesting electronic and mechanical proprieties; nevertheless, comparative studies on these nanoparticles remain scarce. Herein, some key electronic proprieties of single and double walled icosahedral fullerenes as function of their sizes were calculated in the frame of the Density Functional Theory. In particular, structures of icosahedral polyhedral fullerenes, previously validated, were used to get the gap between the Highest Occupied Molecular Orbital and the Lowest Unoccupied Molecular Orbital levels (H-L gap), electron affinity, first ionization potential, electronegativity as well as the Density of the electronic States. This work shows that the H-L gap of the single-wall fullerenes decreases as the nanoparticles size increases, whereas an opposite trend was obtained for the double walled fullerenes. Going from single to double wall nanoparticles; a systematic and marked decrease of the H-L gap was found although, this difference reduces increasing the size of the double walled up obtaining an inversion. The DOS structures of SW nanoparticles changes radically adding a second shell, and the extent of these changes depends on the sizes of the analyzed fullerenes