Dr. Domenico FrancoPhysicist Researcher

General informationPlace of birth: Rome

Citizenship: ItalianCurrent Position: Associate Researcher Scientist at Yale University

Professional address: 272 Whitney Ave, New Haven, CT 06511 (USA)T: +1 2034324623 (office)k: domenico.franco@yale.edu

Education2004 - 2007: Ph.D in Nuclear and Particle Physics, University of Rome

”Tor Vergata”, Rome.2000 - 2004: Physics Degree, University of Rome ”Tor Vergata”, Rome,

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Professional RecordNovember 2017 - Today Associate Researcher Scientist, Yale University, New Haven -

CT, USA.April 2014 - March 2016 Postdoctoral researcher, University of Zürich, Zürich,

Switzerland.November 2012 - April

2014Senior Postdoctoral researcher, University of Lyon "ClaudeBernard", Lyon, France.

2009 - 2012 Postdoctoral researcher, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.2007 - 2008 Research grant, University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Rome, Italy.2004 - 2007 PhD fellowship, University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Rome, Italy.

Fields of interestParticle detectors R&D, rare events detection. High energy particle, nuclear and astrophysics.Dark matter and neutrino physic. Neutron physics. Photoreactions on light nuclei andmeson photoproduction. Biophysics, Medical and applied physics.Finance with special interest in market behavior analysis and optimization of investmentstrategies. Macro and micro-economy.

ExperienceSpecific competences{ Development of particles, charge and light detectors.{ Development of data analysis and simulation packages.{ Development of DAQ software.{ Cryogenics, ultra-high vacuum and high voltage techniques.{ Use of noble liquids and gas.{ Electronics.{ Use of Laser.{ Use of mechanical workshop machines.Computer skill

Operative systems: UNIX, Linux, Windows, Macintosh.Languages: Python, Visual Basic, FORTRAN, C, C++, MySQL.

CAD software: Solid Works, CATIA, FreeCAD, Inventor, VARICAD.PCB design software: EAGLES.Data acquisition and

monitoring:Labview

Data analysis: ROOT, PAW.Other packages: OFFICE: Word, Power Point, Excel, Access.

LanguagesItalian Mother languageEnglish C2German A2French A2/B1

Teaching duties{ Assistant for the Experimental Astroparticle class at Zürich University.{ Assistant for the Laboratory of physics class at Zürich University.{ Assistant for the Advanced Laboratory of physics class at Zürich University.{ Assistant for the electron spin resonance activity of the Laboratory Course at Bern

University.{ Assistant for the General Physics for Biology class at University of Rome ”Tor Vergata”.{ Member of different examining boards for General Physics, Electromagnetism and Nuclear

and Particle Physics.{ Supervisor of master and PhD. students.

HobbiesSport: Karate, Volleyball (both as player and coach)

Cultural: Guitar, theater (as a actor), books.

Summary of the research activities2014- April 2016 (Zurich University, XENON Collaboration){ Design, construction and installation of the XENON1Ton feedthroughs chamber in the

framework of the XENON Collaboration for Dark Matter search.{ Development of a low noise amplifier for the Hamamatsu R11410-20 PMT.{ Design and implementation of 16 channel NIM module low noise amplifier.{ Design of the new Hamamatsu R11410-20 PMT cryostat set-up at UZH.{ Supervisor at University of Zurich for the XENON Collaboration of the Hamamatsu

R11410-20 Xenon1TON PMT bases design, production, test and installation.{ 83mKr analysis for the calibration of the XENON100 detector.{ Responsible for the XENON Collaboration of the photomultiplier test at University of

Zurich (UZH).{ Supervisor of the XENON1Ton potted feedthrough production and installation.

2012-2014 (Lyon University, LABEX-LYO, LBNO Collaboration){ Conceptual design and construction of the liquid argon (LAr) TPC for the cryogenic

amplifiers test.{ Design and construction of 30 kV high voltage feedthrough.{ Design of the liquid argon inlet feedthrough.{ Design and implementation of the slow control for the LAr TPC.{ Conceptual design and construction of an apparatus for the Paschen law’s measurement.{ Cryogenic systems monitoring and control (GRAAL Experiment, EXO collaboration).{ Conceptual design of high precision LAr lever meters.{ Design of the printed circuit board for internal connections of LAr lever meters.{ Design of the printed circuit board for the LAr lever meters readout.

2009-2012 (Bern University, EXO Collaboration){ Measurements of the 2νββ half-life of the 136Xe with the EXO-200 detector.{ Measurements of the limit on the 0νββ half-life of the 136Xe) with the EXO-200 detector.{ R&D of a high pressure gas Time Projection Chamber (TPC) for the EXO experiment.{ UV-light detection with wavelength shifter doped scintillators and solid state photomulti-

pliers.{ Design and construction of a prototype UV-light detector.{ Conceptual design and construction of a prototype xenon gas TPC with integrated

UV-light detector.{ Conceptual design of the UV-light detector front-end electronics.{ Study of the response of Micromegas charge readout detector in high pressure gas

environment.{ Measurements of Argon and Xenon muons ionization tracks in the high pressure TPC up

to 5 bars.{ R&D on the cryogenic charge readout for large size liquid argon TPCs.

2003-2009 (Rome-2 University, GRAAL Collaboration){ Production of high energy γ-rays beams with the Compton Back-scattering technique in

the framework of the GRAAL experiment.{ Study of photoreactions on Hydrogen and Deuterium liquid target.{ Measurements of the deuteron photodisintegration Σ beam asymmetry in the range of γ

energy of 600-1500 MeV.{ Measurements of polarization observables in different reactions of mesons photoproduction.{ Measurements of the limits on light-speed anisotropies from Compton scattering of

high-energy electrons.{ Calibration and maintenance of the BGO calorimeter and of dE/dx plastic barrel detector.{ Production and maintenance of liquid cryogenic H2 and D2 targets.

Dr. Franco Publications

With the XENON-collaboration:Search for Two-Neutrino Double Electron Capture of 124X e with XENON100E.APRILE ET AL. (XENON COLLABORATION)Phys. Rev. C 95, 024605 (2017)

Qualification Tests of the R11410-21 Photomultiplier Tubes for the XENON1T DetectorP.BARROW, L.BAUDIS, D.CICHON, M.DANISCH, D.FRANCO, F.KAETHER, A.KISH, M.LINDNER,T.MARRODAN, D. MAYANI, L.RAUCH, Y.WEI, J.WULF

JINST 12, P01024 (2017)

A low-mass dark matter search using ionization signals in XENON100E. APRILE et al. [XENON COLLABORATION]Phys. Rev. D 94, 092001 (2016).

XENON100 Dark Matter Results from a Combination of 477 Live DaysE.APRILE ET AL. (XENON COLLABORATION)Phys. Rev. D 94, 122001 (2016)

Search for Electronic Recoil Event Rate Modulation with 4 Years of XENON100 DataE.APRILE ET AL. (XENON COLLABORATION)arXiv:1701.00769 (2017)

Physics reach of the XENON1T dark matter experimentTHE XENON COLLABORATION: E. APRILE et al.JCAP 1604 04, 027 (2016).

Removing Krypton from Xenon by Cryogenic Distillation to the ppq LevelE.APRILE ET AL. (XENON COLLABORATION)arXiv:1612.04284 (2016)

Results from a Calibration of XENON100 Using a Source of Dissolved Radon-220E.APRILE ET AL. (XENON COLLABORATION)arXiv:1611.03585 (2016)

With the EXO-collaboration:A light readout system for gas TPCs.G. GIROUX, M. AUGER, D. FRANCO et al. JINST 9 P01005 (2014).

An improved measurement of the 2νββ half-life of 136Xe with EXO-200J.B. ALBERT, M. AUGER, D.J. AUTY et al. Phys. Rev. C 89 (2014) 015502

Search for Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay in 136Xe with EXO-200.M. AUGER et al., [EXO-200 Collaboration], Phys. Rev. Lett. 109 032505 (2012).

Observation of Two-Neutrino Double-Beta Decay in 136X e with EXO-200.N. ACKERMAN et al., [EXO-200 Collaboration], Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 212501 (2011)

R&D for high pressure gas TPC readout with segmented Micromegas.D. FRANCO, [EXO-Bern Collaboration], J. Phys. Conf. Ser. 309, 012004 (2011).

The EXO-200 detector, part I: Detector design and construction.M. AUGER, D. J. AUTY, P. S. BARBEAU, L. BARTOSZEK, E. BAUSSAN, E. BEAUCHAMP, et al.JINST 7 P05010 (2012)

Xenon purity analysis for EXO-200 via mass spectrometry.A. DOBI, C. HALL, S. SLUTSKY, Y. -R. YEN, et al., Nucl. Inst. Meth. A 675, 40-46 (2012).

A Magnetically-driven piston pump for ultra-clean applications.F. LEPORT, R. NEILSON, P. S. BARBEAU, K. BARRY, et al., Review of Scientific Instruments82/10, 056110RSI (2011).

LAGUNA-LBNO collaboration:The mass-hierarchy and CP-violation discovery reach of the LBNO long-baseline neutrinoexperimentLAGUNA-LBNO COLLABORATION Dec 23, 2013. 38 pp. JHEP 1405 (2014) 094

Optimised sensitivity to leptonic CP violation from spectral information: the LBNO caseat 2300 km baselineLAGUNA-LBNO COLLABORATION Dec 1, 2014 - 25 pages e-Print: arXiv:1412.0593

The LBNO long-baseline oscillation sensitivities with two conventional neutrino beamsat different baselinesLAGUNA-LBNO COLLABORATION Dec 2, 2014 - 21 pages e-Print: arXiv:1412.0804

LBNO-DEMO: Large-scale neutrino detector demonstrators for phased performance as-sessment in view of a long-baseline oscillation experimentL. AGOSTINO, B. ANDRIEU, R. ASFANDIYAROV, D. AUTIERO, O. BÉSIDA, F. BAY, R. BAYES, A.M.BLEBEA-APOSTU, A. BLONDEL, M. BOGOMILOVÌ et al. Sep 14, 2014 - 217 pages CERN-SPSC-2014-013, SPSC-TDR-004 e-Print: arXiv:1409.4405

With the GRAAL Collaboration:Measurement of the Beam asymmetry in deuteron photodisintegration at GRAALD. FRANCO, Ph.D. Thesys, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”,(2008).http://hdl.handle.net/2108/805

First Measurement of the Σ Beam Asymmetry in η′ Photoproduction off the Proton nearThresholdP. L. SANDRI, G. MANDAGLIO, O. BARTALINI, V. BELLINI, J. P. BOCQUET, M. CAPOGNI, F. CUR-CIARELLO AND A. D’ANGELO, et al. Eur.Phys.J. A51 (2015) 77.

Measurement of the Σ beam asymmetry for theω photo-production off the proton and theneutron at GRAALV. VEGNA, A. D’ANGELO, O. BARTALINI et al. [Graal Collaboration], Phys.Rev. C91 (2015)065207

Beam asymmetry Σmeasurements on the π− photoproduction off neutrons.G. MANDAGLIO, et al. [Graal Collaboration], Phys. Rev. C 82, 045209 (2010)

Preliminary results on eta-prime photoproduction at GRAAL.M. MANGANARO, V. BELLINI, J. P. BOCQUET, L. CASANO, A. D’ANGELO, R. DI SALVO, A. FAN-TINI AND D. FRANCO et al., Int. J. Mod. Phys. E 19, 1177 (2010).

Disintegration of 12 C nuclei by 700–1500 MeV photonsV. Nedorezov, A. D’Angelo, O. Bartalini, V. Bellini, M. Capogni, L. E. Casano, M. Castoldi,F. Curciarello, V. De Leo, J. P. Didelez R. Di Salvo, A. Fantini, D. Franco, et al. Nucl.Phys.A940 (2015) 264-278.

Photoproduction of π0 π+ on the proton and deuteron at Eg amma = 0.7-GeV - 1.5-GeV.A. MUSHKARENKOV, V. BELLINI, J. P. BOCQUET, L. CASANO, A. D’ANGELO, R. DI SALVO,A. FANTINI AND D. FRANCO et al., Int. J. Mod. Phys. E 19, 1197 (2010).

Omega photoproduction at GRAAL.V. VEGNA, V. BELLINI, J. P. BOCQUET, L. CASANO, A. D’ANGELO, R. DI SALVO, A. FANTINI

AND D. FRANCO et al., Int. J. Mod. Phys. E 19, 1241 (2010).

Limits on light-speed anisotropies from Compton scattering of high-energy electrons.J. -P. BOCQUET, D. MORICCIANI, V. BELLINI, M. BERETTA, L. CASANO, A. D’ANGELO, R. DI

SALVO AND A. FANTINI et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 241601 (2010)

Measurement of the Σ beam asymmetry in π0 photoproduction off the neutron in the se-cond and third resonances region.R. DI SALVO, A. FANTINI, G. MANDAGLIO, F. MAMMOLITI, O. BARTALINI, V. BELLINI, J. P. BOC-QUET et al., Eur. Phys. J. A 42, 151 (2009).

Measurement of beam-recoil observables Ox , Oz and target asymmetry T for the reacti-on γp → K +Λ .A. LLERES et al. [GRAAL Collaboration], Eur.Phys.J.A39:149-161 (2009)

First measurement of the Σ beam asymmetry in η photoproduction on the neutron.A. FANTINI, R. DI SALVO, O. BARTALINI, V. BELLINI, J. P. BOCQUET, L. CASANO, M. CASTOLDI

AND A. D’ANGELO et al., Phys. Rev. C 78, 015203 (2008).

Meson Photoproduction on the nucleon with polarized photon.A. D’ANGELO et al., [GRAAL Collaboration], Eur. Phys. J. A 31, 441-445 (2007).

Measurement of η photoproduction on the proton from threshold to 1500MeV.O. BARTALINI et al., [GRAAL Collaboration], Eur. Phys. J. A 33, 169-184 (2007)