Italo Mannelli

Italo Mannelli (* 1933 in Florence ) is an Italian experimental elementary particle physicist.

Mannelli studied from 1953 at the Scuola Normale Superiore (SNS) in Pisa and received his diploma (Laurea) in physics from the University of Pisa in 1957 and his license diploma from the SNS in 1958. Since the end of 1957 he has been researching as a professor incaricato at the Italian national institute for nuclear research ( Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare , INFN) in its branch in Pisa. From 1961 to 1963 he was at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Brookhaven National Laboratory . In 1962 he became an assistant at the University of Pisa and in 1964 he completed his habilitation. In 1968 he became professor of particle physics at the University of Pisa and from 1971 to 1975 he headed the Pisa section of the INFN. In this function he was responsible for the laboratory in San Piero and was also Vice President of the INFN from 1976 to 1979. He was president of the Electronic Experiment Committee of CERN and on the scientific committee between the research institutes Serpukhov and CERN. From 1979 to 1981 he was research director at CERN and from 1980 to 1984 in its extended scientific council and from 1985 in its Scientific Policy Commission, of which he was president from 1988 to 1990. He was also on the external evaluation committee of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. Mannelli had been a professor at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa since 1987. He is now Professor Emeritus.

In the 1960s he investigated parity violation and decays in hyperons with bubble chamber techniques and at the INFN in Frascati polarization effects in the photoproduction of mesons . In Brookhaven, at CERN and in Serpukhov he examined resonances and carried out systematic studies on high-energy pion-proton reactions (also with polarization), with spark chambers and later calorimeters . At the Intersecting Storage Ring (ISR) of CERN he investigated the generation of electron-positron pairs at high energies (12 GeV), including reactions of neutral pions at high impulses and the generation of single photons in proton-proton reactions and their correlation with jets with the help of Argon calorimeters.

Mannelli is u. a. known for his involvement in the direct observation of CP violation in the Kaon system at the SPS of CERN in the 2000s.

He was President of the IUPAP Particle Physics Commission. He was also on the scientific council of DESY and the Italian space agency.

He received the Premio Enrico Fermi and in 2007 the Panofsky Prize . He is a member of the Accademia dei Lincei , whose Tartufari Prize he received in 2000.

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1. ↑ JR Batley et al. a. A precision measurement of direct CP violation in the decay of neutral kaons into two pions , Physics Letters B, Volume 544, 2002, pp. 97-112, abstract