Feb 2011

PUBLICATIONS

Gigi Rolandi

 

Experimental Papers

 

Gigi Rolandi was co-author of  some 350 experimental papers published on refereed journals among

which

 

LHC SEARCHES for Physics Beyond the Standard Model

 

Search for Supersymmetry in pp Collisions at 7 TeV in Events with Jets and Missing Transverse Energy.
CMS Collaboration (Vardan Khachatryan (Yerevan Phys. Inst.) et al.). CMS-SUS-10-003, CERN-PH-EP-2010-084. Jan 2011.
e-Print: arXiv:1101.1628 [hep-ex]

 

Search for Heavy Stable Charged Particles in pp collisions at sqrt(s)=7 TeV.
CMS Collaboration (Vardan Khachatryan (Yerevan Phys. Inst.) et al.). CMS-EXO-10-011, CERN-PH-EP-2010-067. Jan 2011.
e-Print: arXiv:1101.1645 [hep-ex]

 

Search for a heavy gauge boson W' in the final state with an electron and large missing transverse energy in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV.
CMS Collaboration (Vardan Khachatryan (Yerevan Phys. Inst.) et al.). Dec 2010.
e-Print: arXiv:1012.5945 [hep-ex]

 

Search for Pair Production of First-Generation Scalar Leptoquarks in pp Collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV.
CMS Collaboration (Vardan Khachatryan (Yerevan Phys. Inst.) et al.). Dec 2010.
e-Print: arXiv:1012.4031 [hep-ex]

 

Search for Pair Production of Second-Generation Scalar Leptoquarks in pp Collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV.
CMS Collaboration (Vardan Khachatryan (Yerevan Phys. Inst.) et al.). CMS-EXO-10-007, CERN-PH-EP-2010-054. Dec 2010.
e-Print: arXiv:1012.4033 [hep-ex]

 

Search for Microscopic Black Hole Signatures at the Large Hadron Collider.
CMS Collaboration (Vardan Khachatryan (Yerevan Phys. Inst.) et al.). CMS-EXO-10-017, CERN-PH-EP-2010-073. Dec 2010.
e-Print: arXiv:1012.3375 [hep-ex]

 

Search for Stopped Gluinos in pp collisions at sqrt s = 7 TeV.
CMS Collaboration (Vardan Khachatryan (Yerevan Phys. Inst.) et al.). Nov 2010.
Published in Phys.Rev.Lett. 106 (2011) 011801
e-Print: arXiv:1011.5861 [hep-ex]

 

Search for Quark Compositeness with the Dijet Centrality Ratio in pp Collisions at sqrt(s)=7 TeV.
CMS Collaboration (Vardan Khachatryan (Yerevan Phys. Inst.) et al.). CMS-EXO-10-002, CERN-PH-EP-2010-038. Oct 2010.
Published in Phys.Rev.Lett. 105 (2010) 262001
e-Print: arXiv:1010.4439 [hep-ex]

 

Search for Dijet Resonances in 7 TeV pp Collisions at CMS.
CMS Collaboration (Vardan Khachatryan (Yerevan Phys. Inst.) et al.). CMS-EXO-10-010, CERN-PH-EP-2010-035. Oct 2010. 24 pp.
Published in Phys.Rev.Lett.
105 (2010) 211801
e-Print: arXiv:1010.0203 [hep-ex]

 

 

 

ELECTROWEAK Physics

 

Measurements of Inclusive W and Z Cross Sections in pp Collisions at sqrt(s)=7 TeV.
CMS Collaboration (Vardan Khachatryan (Yerevan Phys. Inst.) et al.). CMS-EWK-10-002, CERN-PH-EP-2010-050. Dec 2010.
Published in JHEP 1101 (2011) 080
e-Print: arXiv:1012.2466 [hep-ex]

 

First Measurement of the Cross Section for Top-Quark Pair Production in Proton-Proton Collisions at sqrt(s)=7 TeV.
CMS Collaboration (V. Khachatryan (Yerevan Phys. Inst.) et al.). Oct 2010.
Published in Phys.Lett. B695 (2011) 424-443
e-Print: arXiv:1010.5994 [hep-ex]

 

 

Determination Of The Number Of Light Neutrino Species.
By ALEPH Collaboration (D. Decamp et al.). CERN EP 89-132, Oct 1989. 15pp.
Published in Phys.Lett.B231:519,1989  TOPCITE = 250+

 

A Precise Determination Of The Number Of Families With Light Neutrinos And Of The Z Boson Partial Widths.
By ALEPH Collaboration (D. Decamp et al.). CERN-EP/89-169, Dec 1989. 26pp.
Published in Phys.Lett.B235:399,1990 TOPCITE=100+

 

Measurement of electroweak parameters from Z decays into Fermion pairs.
By ALEPH Collaboration (D. Decamp et al.). CERN-PPE-90-104, Jul 1990. 51pp.
Published in Z.Phys.C48:365-392,1990 TOPCITE=50+

 

Measurement of the polarization of tau leptons produced in Z decays.
By ALEPH Collaboration (D. Decamp et al.). CERN-PPE-91-94, Jun 1991. 28pp.
Published in Phys.Lett.B265:430-444,1991 TOPCITE=50+

 

Improved measurements of electroweak parameters from Z decays into fermion pairs.
By ALEPH Collaboration (D. Decamp et al.). CERN-PPE-91-105, Jul 1991. 40pp.
Published in Z.Phys.C53:1-20,1992 TOPCITE=100+

 

Update of electroweak parameters from Z decays.
By ALEPH Collaboration (D. Buskulic et al.). CERN-PPE-93-40,  Mar 1993. 24pp.
Published in Z.Phys.C60:71-82,1993  TOPCITE = 50+

 

Z production cross-sections and lepton pair forward - backward asymmetries.
By ALEPH Collaboration (D. Buskulic et al.). CERN-PPE-94-030, Feb 1994. 21pp.
Published in Z.Phys.C62:539-550,1994 TOPCITE = 50+

 

The Energy calibration of LEP in the 1993 scan.
By Working Group on LEP Energy (R. Assmann et al.). CERN-PPE-95-10,  Jan 1995. 28pp.
Published in Z.Phys.C66:567-582,1995

 

Precision tests of the electroweak interaction at the Z pole.
M. Martinez (Barcelona, Autonoma U.) , R. Miquel (Barcelona, Autonoma U. & Barcelona U.) ,

Gigi Rolandi (CERN) , R. Tenchini (INFN, Pisa) . CERN-EP-98-027, CERN-EP-98-27, Feb 1998. 117pp.
Published in Rev.Mod.Phys.71:575-629,1999

 

Measurement of the Z resonance parameters at LEP.
By ALEPH Collaboration (R. Barate et al.). CERN-EP-99-104, Jul 1999. 95pp.
Published in Eur.Phys.J.C14:1-50,2000

 

Measurement of the tau polarization at LEP.
By ALEPH Collaboration (A. Heister et al.). CERN-EP-2001-027, Mar 2001. 52pp.
Published in Eur.Phys.J.C20:401-430,2001

 

 

TAU Physics

Measurement of tau branching ratios.
By ALEPH Collaboration (D. Decamp et al.). CERN-PPE-91-186, Nov 1991. 40pp.
Published in Z.Phys.C54:211-228,1992  TOPCITE= 50+

 

An Upper limit for the tau-neutrino mass from tau --> 5 pi (pi0) tau-neutrino decays.
By ALEPH Collaboration (D. Buskulic et al.). CERN-PPE-95-03  Jan 1995. 17pp.
Published in Phys.Lett.B349:585-596,1995  TOPCITE = 100+

 

Tau hadronic branching ratios.
By ALEPH Collaboration (D. Buskulic et al.). CERN-PPE-95-140, Sep 1995. 67pp.
Published in Z.Phys.C70:579-608,1996 TOPCITE = 50+

 

Measurement of the spectral functions of vector current hadronic tau decays.
By ALEPH Collaboration (R. Barate et al.). CERN-PPE-97-013, Jan 1997. 34pp.
Published in Z.Phys.C76:15-33,1997 TOPCITE=100+

 

Measurement of the spectral functions of axial - vector hadronic tau decays and determination of alpha(S)(M**2(tau)).
By ALEPH Collaboration (R. Barate et al.). CERN-EP-98-012, CERN-EP-98-12, Jan 1998. 44pp.
Published in Eur.Phys.J.C4:409-431,1998  TOPCITE=100+

 

An Upper limit on the tau-neutrino mass from three-prong and five-prong tau decays.
By ALEPH Collaboration (R. Barate et al.). CERN-PPE-97-138, Oct 1997. 27pp.
Published in Eur.Phys.J.C2:395-406,1998 TOPCITE=50+

 

Study of tau decays involving kaons, spectral functions and determination of the strange quark mass.
By ALEPH Collaboration (R. Barate et al.). CERN-EP-99-026, Feb 1999. 38pp.
Published in Eur.Phys.J.C11:599-618,1999 TOPCITE = 50+

 

Branching ratios and spectral functions of tau decays: Final ALEPH measurements and physics implications.
By ALEPH Collaboration (S. Schael et al.). Jun 2005. 139pp.
Published in Phys.Rept.421:191-284,2005

 

NA1:

Electronic Measurement Of The Lifetime Of D+- Mesons.
E. Albini et al. Print-82-0040 (CERN), CERN-EP/82-12, (Received Jan 1982). 15pp.
Published in Phys.Lett.B110:339,1982  TOPCITE = 50+

 

NA7:

MEASUREMENT OF THE PION FORM-FACTOR IN THE TIMELIKE REGION FOR q**2 VALUES BETWEEN .1-GeV/c**2 AND .18-GeV/c**2.
S.R. Amendolia et al. CERN-EP/83-202, Dec 1983. 12pp.
Published in Phys.Lett.B138:454,1984  TOPCITE = 50+

 

 

Instrumentation papers

 

Gigi Rolandi was co-author of  46 papers on Instrumentation among which:

 

CMS:

 

CMS Tracking Performance Results from early LHC Operation.
CMS Collaboration (Vardan Khachatryan (Yerevan Phys. Inst.) et al.). 2010. 44 pp.
Published in Eur.Phys.J. C70 (2010) 1165-1192

 

Commissioning and Performance of the CMS Silicon Strip Tracker with Cosmic Ray Muons.
CMS Collaboration (Serguei Chatrchyan (Yerevan Phys. Inst.) et al.). CMS-CFT-09-002, FERMILAB-PUB-10-147-CMS. Nov 2009. 45 pp.
Published in JINST 5 (2010) T03008

 

Performance of CMS Muon Reconstruction in Cosmic-Ray Events.
CMS Collaboration (Serguei Chatrchyan (Yerevan Phys. Inst.) et al.). CMS-CFT-09-014, FERMILAB-PUB-10-148-CMS. Nov 2009. 47 pp.
Published in JINST 5 (2010) T03022

 

Alignment of the CMS Silicon Tracker during Commissioning with Cosmic Rays.
CMS Collaboration (Serguei Chatrchyan (Yerevan Phys. Inst.) et al.). CMS-CFT-09-003, FERMILAB-PUB-10-166-CMS. Oct 2009. 39 pp.
Published in JINST 5 (2010) T03009

 

The CMS experiment at the CERN LHC.

By CMS Collaboration (R. Adolphi et al.). 2008. 361pp.

Published in JINST 0803:S08004,2008, JINST 3:S08004,2008.

 

Tracking at LHC.

F. Ragusa (Milan U. & INFN, Milan) , L. Rolandi (CERN).

Published in New J.Phys.9:336,2007.

 

The effect of highly ionising particles on the CMS silicon strip tracker.
By CMS Tracker Collaboration (W. Adam et al.). 2005. 20pp.
Published in Nucl.Instrum.Meth.A543:463-482,2005

 

ALEPH:

Influence Of The Magnetic Field On The Gating Of A Time Projection Chamber.
S.R. Amendolia et al. 1985.
Published in Nucl.Instrum.Meth.A234:47-53,1985

 

E X B And Angular Effects In The Avalanche Localization Along The Wire With Cathode Pad Readout.
S.R. Amendolia et al. 1984.
Published in Nucl.Instrum.Meth.217:317-321,1983

 

NA1:

Construction And Performance Of Two Multicell Cherenkov Counters Used In Framm - Na1 Spectrometer.
S.R. Amendolia et al. 1983.
Published in Nucl.Instrum.Meth.206:367-371,1983

 

A Set Of Drift Chambers Built For The Framm - Na1 Spectrometer.
S.R. Amendolia et al. PISA 80-3, May 1980. 22pp.
Published in Nucl.Instrum.Meth.176:461,1980

Since 2000 Gigi Rolandi contributes to the "Particle Detectors" section of the Review of Particle Physics

Review of particle physics. Particle Data Group.

By Particle Data Group (W.-M. Yao et al.). 2006.

Published in J.Phys.G33:1-1232,2006.

 

Review of particle physics. Particle Data Group.
By Particle Data Group (S. Eidelman et al.). 2004.
Published in Phys.Lett.B592:1,2004

Review of particle physics. Particle Data Group.
By Particle Data Group (K. Hagiwara et al.). 2002.
Published in Phys.Rev.D66:010001,2002

Review of particle physics. Particle Data Group.
By Particle Data Group (D.E. Groom et al.). 2000.
Published in Eur.Phys.J.C15:1-878,2000

 

Book on TPC

Particle detection with drift chambers.

Walter Blum (Munich, Max Planck Inst.) , Luigi Rolandi, Werner Riegler (CERN) . 2008. 448pp.

Berlin, Germany: Springer (2008) 448 p.

Particle detection with drift chambers.
W. Blum (Munich, Max Planck Inst.) , Gigi Rolandi (CERN) . 1993.
Berlin, Germany: Springer (1993) 348 p.

 

Other papers

Gigi Rolandi was author or co-author of other 47 papers recorded in the SPIRES database, among which

The weak bosons W and Z.
K. Einsweiler (LBL, Berkeley) , Gigi Rolandi (CERN) . 2000.
Published in Camb.Monogr.Part.Phys.Nucl.Phys.Cosmol.14:381-398,2000

Options for Future Colliders at CERN.
John R. Ellis, E. Keil, Gigi Rolandi (CERN) . CERN-EP-98-03, CERN-SL-98-4-AP, CERN-TH-98-33, Jan 1998. 25pp. 

TAU 94. Proceedings, 3rd Workshop on Tau Lepton Physics, Montreux, Switzerland, September 19-22, 1994.
Gigi Rolandi, (ed.) (CERN) . 1995.
Amsterdam, Netherlands: North-Holland (1995) 587 p. (Nucl. Phys. B, Proc. Suppl. 40 (1995)).

Precision tests of the electroweak interaction.
Luigi Rolandi (CERN) . CERN-PPE-92-175, Oct 1992. 24pp.
Talk given at 26th International Conference on High Energy Physics (ICHEP 92), Dallas, TX, 6-12 Aug 1992.
Published in Dallas HEP 1992:56-80 (QCD161:H51:1992)

Compilation of results on electroweak parameters from SLC and LEP.
Gigi Rolandi (Trieste U. & INFN, Trieste & CERN) . CERN-EP-90-64, May 1990. 11pp.
Talk given at 25th Rencontre de Moriond: Electroweak Interactions and Unified Theories, Les Arcs, France, Mar 4-11, 1990.
Published in Moriond 1990: Electroweak:0247-256 (QCD161:R4:1990:V.1)

The Aleph Time Projection Chamber.
Gigi Rolandi (Trieste U.) . 1986.
In *Vancouver 1983, Proceedings, The Time Projection Chamber*, 110-122.