Vincenzo Barone
Curriculum vitae
B
IO AND EDUCATION
Laurea in Physics, University of Torino, cum laude and honors (1987). Teaching and Research
Assistant, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1987-1988). Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics,
University of Perugia (1992).
Visiting scientist at Landau Institute, Moscow (1990), and Collège de France, Paris (1997).
I organized various conferences and international schools of high-energy physics, and founded the
workshop series “Transversity”.
I am referee for international physics journals.
I contributed to establishing the Master course in Physics of Complex Systems (University of
Torino and UPO).
In the past years I have been teaching many classes at UPO and at the Higher School for Teachers.
I am the author of research monographs, a relativity textbook and popular science books. I edited
some classics of science (Einstein, Fermi, Dirac, Poincaré).
I contribute regularly to the newspaper “Il Sole-24 Ore”. I am active in the field of science
comunication.
U
NIVERSITY CAREER
2005-
Associate Professor, Università del
Piemonte Orientale
1993-2005
Researcher, Università del Piemonte Orientale
U
NIVERSITY POSITIONS
2013-
Member of the Board of the Ph.D. Program, Università di Ferrara
S
CIENTIFIC POSITIONS
2013-
Member of
the Scientific Committee, “Asimmetrie”
2009-2015
Managing Director of “Agorà Scienza”
M
AIN FIELDS OF INTEREST
1.
Theory of elementary particles
2.
Phenomenology of strong interactions
3.
Structure of hadrons
4.
High-energy spin
physics
5.
History of XXth Century Physics
C
URRENT ISSUES OF RESEARCH
1.
Spin asymmetries in hadronic processes
Spin asymmetries in high-energy processes are related to important properties of hadrons, which
allow a better understanding of their quark structure and of the strong interactions. The aim of
the research is to study such properties, in particular the correlations between the spin and the
transverse momentum of quarks.
2. Target fragmentation in deep inelastic scattering
The target fragmentation region in deep inelastic reactions is described by fracture functions,
poorly known from a theoretical viewpoint and experimentally still unexplored. The aim of the
research is to classify these functions, study the corresponding observables and provide estimates
based on model computations.
3. Enrico Persico on foundations of physics and methodology
Among the prominent Italian physicists of XXth century, Enrico Persico has been most interested
in the foundations of physics and methodological matters. The aim of the research is to study his
contributions in this field, and to investigate his participation to the epistemological debate.
C
URRENT
F
UNDED
P
ROJECTS
P
ROGRAMME
F
UNDED
P
ROJECT
INFN – NINPHA
National Initiative on Physics of Hadrons
https://web2.infn.it/CSN4/IS/Linea3/NINPHA/index.html
DISIT 2015
The 3D structure of hadrons
T
OP
F
IVE
P
APERS
1.
V.Barone, F.Bradamante and A.Martin,`Transverse-spin and transverse-momentum effects
in high-energy processes,''
,
Prog. Part. Nucl. Phys 65, 267 (2010)
2.
M. Anselmino, V. Barone, A. Drago, N.N. Nikolaev, “Accessing transversity via J/psi
production in polarized ppbar interactions”, Phys. Lett. B594, 97 (2004).
3.
V.Barone, A.Drago and P.G.Ratcliffe,`Transverse polarisation of quarks in hadrons,'' Phys.
Rep. 359, 1 (2002).
4.
V.Barone, C.Pascaud and F.Zomer,`A New global analysis of deep inelastic scattering
data,'' Eur. Phys. J. C 12, 243 (2000).
5.
V.Barone, M.Genovese, N.N.Nikolaev, E.Predazzi and B.G.Zakharov,
`Structure functions of bound nucleons: From the EMC effect to nuclear shadowing,''
Z. Phys. C 58 541 (1993).
F
URTHER
I
NFORMATION
Recent popular science books:
L’ordine del mondo. Le simmetrie in fisica da Aristotele a Higgs, Bollati Boringhieri, 2013 (Finalist,
Premio Galileo 2014).
Albert Einstein. Il costruttore di universi, Laterza, 2016 (Finalist, Premio Letterario Merck 2016).
La matematica della natura (with G. Giorello), Il Mulino, 2016.