Antonino Pullia

Antonino Pullia ( May 1, 1935 - April 2020 ) was an Italian experimental particle physicist .

Pullia studied at the University of Milan with Giuseppe Occhialini with the Laurea degree in 1959. He was at the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), at the University of Milan and professor at the University of Milan-Bicocca , where he was instrumental in the founding of physics Department was involved. Before that he taught in Bari and the University of Milan. From 2003 to 2006 he headed the physics faculty at the University of Milan Bicocca and from 2006 was head of the local INFN agency.

He was involved in neutrino experiments in the Gran Sasso laboratory and in a leading position in the Delphi experiment of the Large Electron-Positron Collider (LEP) at CERN. He was also in the Compact Muon Solenoid Collaboration (CMS) at CERN's Large Hadron Collider . His research topics included proton decay, double beta decay and, from 2012, the search for dark matter, for which he used a bubble chamber (geyser) developed fifty years earlier and founded the MOSCAB collaboration.

In 2011 he and Dieter Haidt received the Premio Enrico Fermi for the discovery of neutral currents ( Z boson ) at the Gargamelle detector at CERN 1973. This required a complex data analysis to exclude the neutron background. The Gargamelle collaboration received the 2009 prize for high energy and particle physics from the European Physical Society.

In 2008 he received the Tartufari Prize from the Accademia dei Lincei.

Publications (selection)

• Antonino Pullia, Jean-Pierre Vialle: Weak neutral currents discovery: a giant step for particle physics. In: Europhysics News. European Physical Society, Vol. 41, No. 1, 2010, pp. 23–26 ( online ; PDF; 1.6 MB).

Web links

• Homepage in Milan
• CERN Courier to receive the Fermi Prize
• Bulletin of the Italian Physical Society 2011, pdf
• Publications

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Antonino Pullia prabook.com
2. ↑ Cern Courier 2020 July-August. Retrieved July 22, 2020 .