Francesco Massimo
Office: Via Antonio Scarpa 14 00161 Rome - Italy T +39 06 4976 6531 B [email protected]
Research Interests
- Accelerator Physics - Plasma Acceleration
- Beam-plasma interaction modeling and simulation - Reduced models for beam-plasma interaction simulation
Education
2012–Present PhD program in Accelerator Physics, Sapienza Universita’ di Roma, Rome, Italy, Supervisors: Prof. L. Palumbo, Prof. S. Atzeni.
Thesis project: Theoretical and numerical studies for Plasma Wakefield Acceleration of a High Brightness electron beam
2010–2012 Master of Science in Electronic Engineering, Sapienza Universita’ di Roma, Rome, Italy, Thesis Title: Study and Simulations of the Beam Break-Up Effects in the C-Band Linac in the ELI-NP Project.
2007–2010 Bachelor in Electronic Engineering, Sapienza Universita’ di Roma, Rome, Italy.
International Schools
2014 CERN Accelerator School: Plasma Wake Acceleration, CERN.
2013 SLAC Summer School on Electron and Photon Beams, SLAC.
2013 Classical Mechanics and Electromagnetism for Accelerators , United States Particle Accelerator School, Fort Collins, Colorado.
2012 Sciences and Physics of Particle Accelerators, Joint Universities Accelerator School, Archamps, France.
Publications
F. Massimo, A. Marocchino, E. Chiadroni, M. Ferrario, A. Mostacci, P. Musumeci, L. Palumbo Transformer ratio studies for single bunch plasma wakefield accel- eration, Nucl. Inst. and Meth. A (2013), vol. 740, pp. 242-245, DOI:
10.1016/j.nima.2013.10.046
M. P. Anania, E. Chiadroni, A. Cianchi, D. Di Giovenale, M. Ferrario, F. Flora, G. Gallerano, A. Ghigo, A. Marocchino, F. Massimo, A. Mostacci, L. Mezi, P.
Musumeci, M. Serio Design of a plasma discharge circuit for particle wakefield acceleration, Nucl. Inst. and Meth. A (2013), vol. 740, pp. 193-196, DOI:
10.1016/j.nima.2013.10.053
R. Pompili, A. Cianchi, D. Alesini, M. P. Anania, A. Bacci, M. Bellaveglia, M.
Castellano, E. Chiadroni, D. Di Giovenale, G. Di Pirro, G. Gatti, F. Giorgianni, M.
Ferrario, S. Lupi, F. Massimo, A. Mostacci, A.R. Rossi, C. Vaccarezza, F. Villa First single-shot and non-intercepting longitudinal bunch diagnostics for comb-like beam by means of Electro-Optic Sampling , Nucl. Inst. and Meth. A (2013), vol.
740, pp. 216-221, DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2013.10.031
Conference Talks and Posters
2014 Reduced models for Plasma Wake Field Acceleration experiments design, talk at 100th Congresso Nazionale Societa’ Italiana di Fisica, Trieste, Italy.
2014 Simulations for resonant Plasma Wake Field Acceleration experiments at SPARC-LAB, poster at 16th Advanced Accelerator Concepts Workshop, San Jose’, California.
2013 Transformer Ratio Studies for Single Bunch Plasma Wakefield Acceleration , poster at 1st European Advanced Accelerator Concepts Workshop, Isola d’Elba, Italy.
Teaching Experience
2012–2014 Teaching Assistant for Mechanics, Thermodynamics and Electromagnetism undergraduate courses,
Sapienza Universita’ di Roma.
Language Skills
Italian Mother Tongue English Fluent
Chinese Elementary
Technical Skills
OS Windows Programming
Languages
C/C++, Python, Fortran 77/90
Programs MatLab, Mathematica, LaTeX Scientific
Programs
CST, elegant
Other Interests
Drawing
Martial Arts (kung fu) Origami
