Prof Antonella De Santo

Biography

Employment

• 2013 -          : Professor of Physics, University of Sussex, UK
  
• 2009 - 2013  : Reader in Experimental Particle Physics, University of Sussex, UK
  
• 2003 - 2009  : Lecturer in Physics, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK
  
• 2000 - 2003  : Post-doctoral Research Associate, University of Oxford, UK
  
• 1998 - 1999  : Research Fellow, Experimental Physics Division, CERN, Switzerland
  
• 1997 - 1998  : Research Associate at the University of Pisa, Italy & LAPP, France, and CERN, Switzerland
  

Education

• 1993 - 1997  : PhD, University of Pisa, Italy
  
• 1987 - 1993  : Laurea in Fisica (summa cum laude), University of Pisa, Italy
  
• 1982 - 1987  : Maturita` Scientifica, 60/60, Liceo Scientifico P.S.Mancini, Avellino, Italy

Role

• Head of Sussex Experimental Particle Physics
• Sussex ATLAS Team Leader 
• Departmental Director of Graduate Studies, Sussex Physics and Astronomy
• Member of the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) Particle Physics Grants Panel (PPGP)

Community and Business

Outreach

I enjoy sharing my passion for physics and research with members of the general public, occasionally giving talks in schools and, where possible, organizing or taking part in outreach events for students and teachers with a keen interest in particle physics.

My research interest is in Experimental Particle Physics, and I am currently working on the ATLAS experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (or LHC). I am interested in the search for "new physics" beyond the Standard Model of particle physics, and in particular in the quest for  Supersymmetry at ATLAS.

The LHC is a circular accelerator, 27 km long, located about 100 meters underground across the French-Swiss border near Geneva, Switzerland. By colliding protons onto protons at energies never reached before at an accelerator, the LHC will recreate conditions thought to have existed in our Universe shortly after the Big Bang. The gigantic ATLAS experiment will allow us to probe deeper into the heart of matter and further back in time than it has ever been possible before, helping us  shed light on fundamental questions such as the origin of mass or the nature of Dark Matter in our Universe, and even to explore the existence of yet undiscovered additional dimensions of space.

Prior to joining ATLAS, following my great interest in neutrino oscillations, for about a decade I have worked on neutrino physics experiments (NOMAD, MINOS, HARP), at CERN and in the US.

In 2012-13

• Particle Physics (Yr3 & PG, Spring)
• Classical Physics (Yr1, Spring)

Previously:

• States of Matter in Physics (Yr1, Summer)
• Nuclear and Particle Physics 2 (Yr3 & PG, Spring)
• Collider Physics (Yr4 and PG, Spring)
• Skills in Physics 4 , Tutor (Yr4, Spring)
• From Quark to Cosmos (special lecture on LHC Physics, Spring)

Student Consultation

I have an "open-door" policy and, when I am on campus, students are very welcome to come and see me in my office to discuss their academic needs -- immediately if possible, or otherwise at the nearest mutually convenient time to be arranged. I am also usually readily contactable by email.

De Santo, Antonella and The ATLAS Collaboration, (2013) Search for direct production of charginos and neutralinos in events with three leptons and missing transverse momentum in √s = 7 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector. Physics Letters B, 718 (3). pp. 841-859. ISSN 0370-2693

De Santo, Antonella and The ATLAS Collaboration, (2012) Search for R-parity-violating supersymmetry in events with four or more leptons in sqrt(s) =7 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2012 (12). p. 124. ISSN 1029-8479

Salvatore, Fabrizio, De Santo, Antonella and The ATLAS Collaboration, (2012) Search for Events with large missing transverse momentum, jets and at least two tau leptons in 7 TeV proton-proton collision data with the ATLAS detector. Physics Letters B, 714 (2-5). pp. 180-196. ISSN 0370-2693

De Santo, Antonella and The ATLAS Collaboration, (2012) Search for Supersymmetry in Events with Three Leptons and Missing Transverse Momentum in sqrt(s)= 7 TeV pp Collisions with the ATLAS Detector. Physical Review Letters, 108 (26 ). pp. 261804-261822. ISSN 0031-9007

Aad, G, De Santo, Antonella and The ATLAS Collaboration, (2011) Search for an excess of events with an identical flavour lepton pair and significant missing transverse momentum in √s=7 TeV proton-proton collisions with the ATLAS detector. The European Physical Journal C - Particles and Fields, 71 (7). p. 1647. ISSN 1434-6044

Aad, G, De Santo, Antonella and ATLAS Collaboration, (2011) Search for supersymmetry using final states with one lepton, jets, and missing transverse momentum with the ATLAS detector in √s = 7 TeV pp collisions. Physical Review Letters, 106 (13). p. 131802. ISSN 0031-9007

De Santo, Antonella, Peeters, Simon, Potter, Tina, Salvatore, Fabrizio and ATLAS Collaboration, (2011) Search for quark contact interactions in dijet angular distributions in pp collisions at s=7 TeV measured with the ATLAS detector. Physics Letters B, 694 (4-5). pp. 327-345. ISSN 0370-2693

De Santo, Antonella and ATLAS Collaboration, (2011) Search for squarks and gluinos using final states with jets and missing transverse momentum with the ATLAS detector in √s = 7 TeV proton-proton collisions. Physics Letters B, 701 (2). pp. 186-203. ISSN 0370-2693

De Santo, Antonella (2011) Search for supersymmetric particles in events with lepton pairs and large missing transverse momentum in √s=7 TeV proton-proton collisions with the ATLAS experiment. The European Physical Journal C - Particles and Fields, 71 (7). p. 1682. ISSN 1434-6044

De Santo, A, Peeters, S, Potter, T, Salvatore, F and ATLAS Collaboration, (2010) Search for New Particles in Two-Jet Final States in 7 TeV Proton-Proton Collisions with the ATLAS Detector at the LHC. Physical Review Letters, 105 (16). p. 161801.

De Santo, Antonella, Peeters, Simon, Potter, Tina, Salvatore, Fabrizio and The ATLAS Collaboration, (2010) Performance of the ATLAS Detector using First Collision Data. Journal of High Energy Physics (9). ISSN 11266708

De Santo, Antonella, Salvatore, Fabrizio and ATLAS Collaboration, (2010) Charged-particle multiplicities in pp interactions at sqrt(s) = 900 GeV measured with the ATLAS detector at the LHC. Physics Letters B, 688 (1). pp. 21-42. ISSN 0370-2693

Aad, G, De Santo, A, Salvatore, F and ATLAS Collaboration, (2010) Observation of a centrality-dependent dijet asymmetry in lead-lead collisions at vsNN=2.76 Tev with the ATLASO detector at the LHC. Physical Review Letters, 105 (25). ISSN 0031-9007

Kullenberg, C T, Mishra, S R, Seaton, M B, Kim, J J, Tian, X C, Scott, A M, Kirsanov, M, Petti, R, De Santo, A and et al, (2009) A measurement of coherent neutral pion production in neutrino neutral current interactions in the NOMAD experiment. Physics Letters B, 682 (2). pp. 177-184. ISSN 0370-2693

Lyubushkin, V, Popov, B, Kim, J J, Camilleri, L, Levy, J-M, Mezzetto, M, Naumov, D, Alekhin, S, Astier, P, Autiero, D, De Santo, A and et al, (2009) A study of quasi-elastic muon neutrino and antineutrino scattering in the NOMAD experiment. European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields, 63 (3). pp. 355-381. ISSN 1434-6044

De Santo, A, Salvatore, F and ATLAS Collaboration, (2009) Expected Performance of the ATLAS Experiment: Detector, Trigger and Physics. CERN Document Service, http://cdsweb.cern.ch/collection. ISBN 978-92-9083-321-5

De Santo, Antonella, Peeters, Simon and The ATLAS Collaboration, (2008) The ATLAS Experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. Journal of Instrumentation, 3. S08003. ISSN 1748-0221

De Santo, Antonella and et al. NOMAD Collaboration, (2008) A precise measurement of the muon neutrino-nucleon inclusive charged current cross section off an isoscalar target in the energy range 2.5 < E-v < 40 GeV by NOMAD. Physics Letters B, 660 (1-2). pp. 19-25. ISSN 0370-2693