Report on the activities carried out during the PhD studies Name:

Report on the activities carried out during the PhD

studies

Name: Giulia Di Gregorio Date of Birth: 24/05/1993

Place of Birth: Macerata (MC), Italy PhD course: Physics

PhD academic years: 2017-2020 (XXXIII ciclo) Supervisors: Dr. Fabrizio Scuri, Dr. Paolo Francavilla

Educational activities:

First year:

● Course “Experimental high energy physics II”, held by Luigi Rolandi and Michael Joseph Morello at Università di Pisa and Scuola Normale Superiore (40 hours); ● Course “Quantum information”, held by Vittorio Giovannetti at Scuola Normale

Superiore (40 hours);

● Course “Academic English”, held by Joanne Spataro at Centro Linguistico Interdipartimentale (30 hours).

● Seminar “Quantum cryptography: BB84 protocol”, Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Pisa and INFN, 28/06/2018.

Second year:

● Pre-thesis seminar “Search of the Higgs boson produced in association with a vector boson and decaying to a pair of b-quarks using large-R jets with the ATLAS

detector”, Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Pisa and INFN, 16/09/2019.

Research activities

Conferences:

● 4-6/04/2018, Milano (Italy): presentation of a poster at XVII Edition of “Incontri di Fisica delle Alte Energie”

● 27/05/2018-02/06/2018, La Biodola (Italy): presentation of a poster at 14th_Pisa

Meeting on Advanced Detector.

● 23-27/09/2019, L’Aquila (Italy): speaker at 1050_{Congresso Nazionale della Società}

Italiana di Fisica.

● 30/09/2019-04/10/2019, Oxford (England): speaker at Higgs Couplings 2019. ● 08/06/2020-12/06/2020, online conference: speaker at 18th_{Conference on Flavour}

Physics and CP violation 2020.

Physics Schools:

● 20-31/08/2018, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Batavia, USA): participation to Hadron Collider Physics Summer School.

● 17-23/09/2018, Pisa (Italy): participation to Pisa School on Future Colliders. ● 02-07/06/2019, Paestum (Italy): participation to INFN School of Statistics 2019.

Research papers:

● Article: The ATLAS Collaboration, “Observation of H→ bb decays and VH production with the ATLAS detector”, Phys. Lett. B786 (2018) 59-86.

● Article: The ATLAS Collaboration, “Measurement of VH, H→ bb production as a function of the vector boson transverse momentum in 13 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector”, JHEP 05 (2019)141.

● Proceedings: Di Gregorio, G. “Measurement of the associated production of the Higgs boson with a vector boson in 13 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector, Il Nuovo Cimento 43 C (2020) 106.

● Proceedings: Di Gregorio, G. “Calibration and performance of the ATLAS Tile Calorimeter during the LHC Run 2”, Il Nuovo Cimento 42 C (2019) 204.

● Proceedings: Di Gregorio, G. “ Robustness studies of the photomultipliers reading out TileCal, the central hadron calorimeter of the ATLAS experiment, NIM-A 936 (2019) 146-147.

● Article accepted by Physics Letters, section B: The ATLAS Collaboration,

“Measurement of the associated production of a Higgs boson decaying into b-quarks with a vector boson at high transverse momentum in pp collisions at √s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector”, arXiv:2008.02508.

Other activities:

● February-March 2018: Supplementary teaching activities for Laboratorio 2 course during 2018/2019 a.a. at the University of Pisa.

● 1/07/2019-30/06/2020: Research experience at CERN (Switzerland).