Graduate School in Physics and Astrophysics ------------------------------------------- ANNUAL REPORT ------------------------------------------- Fill with a text editor (without TAB or formatting) Repeat fields for each course as necessary. ------------------------------------------- name: Gabriele Gaetano Fronzé email: gfronze@cern.ch ciclo: XXXI year completed (1,2 or 3): 2 supervisor: Martino Gagliardi ------------------------------------------- GRADUATE SCHOOL COURSES (only completed courses, with examination passed in the year) code: 10 title: Advanced laboratory (old 8 CFU version) teacher: Riccardo Bellan, Nicola Amapane hours: 32 code: 11 title: Data analysis techniques teacher: Luciano Ramello hours: 24 ------------------------------------------- COURSES FROM OTHER GRADUATE SCHOOLS (only completed courses, with examination passed in the year) school: ESC17 title: Ninth INFN International School on Architectures, tool and methodologies for developing efficient large scale scientific computing applications teacher: Vincenzo Innocente, Francesco Giacomini, Tim Mattson hours: 28 ------------------------------------------- UNDERGRADUATE COURSES (Laurea Magistrale) (only completed courses, with examination passed in the year) title: teacher: hours: ------------------------------------------- SUMMER SCHOOLS, INTERNATIONAL SCHOOLS (only those attended in the current year) title: XXXVII Giornate di Studio sui Rivelatori place: Cogne (IT) webpage: http://gsr.to.infn.it days: 5 talk or poster (Y/N): Y title: tCSC - Thematic CERN School of Computing place: Spalato (CR) webpage: https://indico.cern.ch/event/591480/ days: 6 talk or poster (Y/N): N title: ESC17 - Ninth INFN International School on Architectures, tool and methodologies for developing efficient large scale scientific computing applications place: Bertinoro (IT) webpage: https://web.infn.it/esc17/index.php?lang=it days: 6 talk or poster (Y/N): Y ------------------------------------------- CONFERENCES, WORKSHOP (only those attended in the current year) title: Journée de L'École Doctorale place: Angers (FR) webpage: http://3mpl.univ-angers.fr/index.php/jed-journees-de-l-e-d/edition-de-l-annee.html days: 1 talk or poster (Y/N): Y title: IFAE2017 - XVI Incontri di Fisica delle Alte Energie place: Trieste (IT) webpage: https://agenda.infn.it/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=12289 days: 3 talk or poster (Y/N): Y title: ALICE Muon Meeting 2017 place: Grotta Giusti (IT) webpage: https://agenda.infn.it/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=12817 days: 5 talk or poster (Y/N): Y title: Rencontres QGP France place: Etretat (FR) webpage: https://indico.cern.ch/event/639092/ days: 2 talk or poster (Y/N): Y(2) ------------------------------------------- VISITS AND STAGES (only those done in the current year) institution: IMT-Atlantique - Subatech place: Nantes (FR) starting date: April 5th, 2017 days: 93 (ending July 7th, 2017) institution: CERN place: Geneve (CH) starting date: February 23rd, 2017 days: 12 (various periods) --------------------------------------------------- Research activity/Publications in the current year (max characters 2500) My research activity was based on 3 topics: * Measurement of Upsilon 1S and 2S production in Pb-Pb collisions with ALICE at forward rapidity. I am part of the paper commitee and we are undergoing the last steps of finalization of the analysis before the publication of the paper. I have focused my activity on the extimation of the systematic uncertainties introduced by the Muon Trigger System and on the interpolation of the pp reference cross section used for the computation of the R_AA. * Developement of the O2-MUON (Online Offline Muon) framework in view of LHC RUN3 running conditions. During RUN3 collision rate for the ALICE experiment will be upgraded from the current 8kHz (triggered acquisition at 1kHz) to 50kHz trigger-less. A heavy upgrade of the whole acquisition and reconstruction chain has to be planned and realized. This project is the so called O2-MUON project and I am active part of it. The new paradigm stands on the execution of asynchronous devices, namely pieces of software connected via a message passing protocol. Each device should perform one and only one task. This grants a necessary granularity and, combined with the design possibility of spawning additional devices where needed, allows for a dynamic scheduling and addition of devices in order to dynamically cope with the required processing power. * Developement, with the help of a undegraduate student (Filippo Valle) of which I have been co-tutor, of a DCS analysis framework for the Muon Trigger System of ALICE. The Detector Control System data are published in two channels: OCDB and AMANDA. The OCDB channel is always synchronized with the data taking, hence no data is recorded while the experiment is not acquiring collision or cosmic data but all the recorded data contains beam-type information and run number. The AMANDA channel is instead read and saved continuously, but has no information of the acquisition state and beam condition. By combining data from the two channels, with a mutual propagation of additional information, the DCS analysis has been greatly improved. As a reference https://github.com/gabrielefronze/alice-MTR-utils/tree/filippo-dev-tree . During the current year a conference proceedings have been published: * https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405601417302912 BE AWARE: research activity and Pubs are not evaluated as didactic credits, but are requested to trace the PhD students' career