Associate Professor of Physics
Ph.D., University of Turin, Italy, 1996
Atlas Group at CERN
The goal of Professor Gabriella Sciolla's research in experimental particle physics is to uncover physics beyond the Standard Model through many complementary approaches. As a member of the BABAR Collaboration at SLAC, she used B mesons produced in electron-positron interactions to look for effects of New Physics in CP violation and rare B meson decays. As a member of the DMTPC Collaboration, she searched for nuclear recoils induced by interactions of yet-to-be-discovered Dark Matter particles, which may, for example, be the Lightest Supersymmetric Particles. At the LHC, she studies high-energy p-p collisions to search for new particles and new physics.
Sample of Recent Publications
Search for dilepton resonances in pp collisions at √s = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 272002 (2011)
Dark Matter, G. Sciolla, Mod. Phys. Lett. A, Vol. 24, No. 23, 1793-1809 (2009), e-Print: arXiv:0811.2764 [astro-ph].
Recent measurements of CP violation at the B factories, G. Sciolla, Mod. Phys. Lett. A, Vol. 18, No. 30, 2083–2098 (2003), [hep-ex/0307045].
Branching fraction measurements of B+ → ρ+γ , B0 → ρ0 γ , and B0 → ωγ, B. Aubert et al. [BABAR Collaboration], Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 151802 (2007), hep-ex/0612017
A measurement of CP asymmetry in b → sγ using a sum of exclusive Þnal states, B. Aubert et al. [BABAR Collaboration], Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 171804 (2008), e-Print: arXiv:0805.4796 [hep-ex].
Improved Measurement of Time-Dependent CP Violation in B0→ccK Decays, B. Aubert et al. [BABAR Collaboration], Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 161803 (2005), hep-ex/0408127
Measurement of the CP-violating amplitude sin 2β, B. Aubert et al. [BABAR Collaboration], Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 201802 (2002), e-Print: hep-ex/0207042.