Luciano Ristori

Luciano Ristori (born December 13, 1948 in Prato ) is an Italian experimental particle physicist. He is known as the pioneer of silicon vertex detectors (Silicon Vertex Detectors, SVX, later SVT) with Aldo Menzione .

Ristori studied from 1967 at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa with his doctorate in 1971. His dissertation was on the measurement of the total cross-section of proton-proton scattering at the ISR of CERN . From 1973 he was in the NA1 collaboration at the SPS of CERN, which carried out the first measurement of the lifetime of mesons with charm quarks with silicon vertex detectors ( active silicon target ) they had developed .

In 1977 he became a permanent member of the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN) and in 1991 professor at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa. From 1998 he was research director of the INFN in Pisa.

In 1990 he and Menzione developed the SVT detector at the CDF detector in the Fermilab, a further development of the SVX detector there. It was put into operation in 2001 and allowed precise measurement of the properties of hadronic decays of particles with heavy quarks, for example the properties of the top quark and oscillation frequencies of B mesons. From 2003 to 2005 he was co-speaker of the CDF collaboration and from 2005 head of the Italian contingent in the CDF.

In 2009 he received the Panofsky Prize with Aldo Menzione.

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• Panofsky Prize for Ristori