Riccardo Longo

Academic Positions

• Research Scientist, Unviersity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2023 - present 
• Post-doctoral Research Associate, Univeristy of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2018 - 2022

Other Professional Employment

• ATLAS-CMS Joint ZDC Upgrade Project Technical Coordinator, 2019 - present
• ATLAS ZDC Techical Coordinator, 2021 - present 
• ATLAS Heavy Ion Jet Convener, 2023 - present 
• ATLAS RPD Project Leader, 2022 - present

Research Interests

• Zero Degree Calorimetry
• Heavy Ion Physics
• Forward Physics
• Electron-Ion Collider
• Spin Structure of the Nucleon
• Supercomputing

Selected Articles in Journals

• Optical transmission characterization of fused silica materials irradiated at the CERN Large Hadron Collider
• 22Na Activation Level Measurements of Fused Silica Rods in the LHC Target Absorber for Neutrals (TAN) Compared to FLUKA Simulations, submitted to Phys. Rev. Accel. Beams
• First measurement of transverse-spin-dependent azimuthal asymmetries in the Drell-Yan process, Phys.Rev.Lett. 119 (2017) 11, 112002
• A Radiation-Hard Zero Degree Calorimeter for ATLAS in the HL-LHC era, CERN-LHCC-2021-018
• Sivers asymmetry extracted in SIDIS at the hard scales of the Drell–Yan process at COMPASS, Phys.Lett.B 770 (2017) 138-145

Articles in Conference Proceedings

• Polarized Drell-Yan measurements at COMPASS, Acta Phys.Polon.Supp. 10 (2017) 4, 1119-1124
• Highlights from COMPASS SIDIS and Drell-Yan programmes, Nuovo Cim.C 40 (2017) 2, 88
• Measurement of qT-weighted transverse-spin-dependent azimuthal asymmetries at COMPASS, PoS DIS2019 (2019) 186

Pending Articles

• Measurement of the centrality dependence of the dijet yield in p+Pb collisions at \sqrt{s_{NN}}= 8.16 TeV with the ATLAS detector, submitted to PRL

Invited Lectures

• Calorimeters for High Energy and Nuclear Particle Experiments, invited seminar at NPRE 452
• The ATLAS Forward Detector Program in the HL-LHC era, invited talk @ LHC Forward Physics Working Group Meeting
• Recent Results from COMPASS Drell-Yan Program, invited talk @ Transversity 2022
• COMPASS Drell-Yan Program, invited talk @ CPHI 2022
• A Radiation Hard Zero Degree Calorimeter for ATLAS and CMS in the HL-LHC era, invited seminar @ University of Turin, February 2022
• Highlights from COMPASS Drell-Yan program, invited talk @ CPHI 2020
• The Joint Zero Degree Calorimeter Project, invited talk @ Joint CFNS & RBRC Workshop on Physics and Detector Requirements at Zero-Degree of Colliders
• Recent COMPASS results on the measurement of spin-dependent azimuthal asymmetries in SIDIS and Drell-Yan, invited talk @ Low-x and Diffraction 2019
• Recent Polarized Drell-Yan Results from COMPASS, invited talk @ IWHSS 2018

Conferences Organized or Chaired

• International Conference of Physics Students 2017, Turin (Italy), 7 - 14 August 2017
• XIV International Workshop on Hadron Structure and Spectroscopy, Cortona (Italy), 2 - 5 April 2017
• Deep Inelastic Scattering 2019, Turin (Italy), 8 - 12 April 2019