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Dr Luca Pizzimento is a Research Assistant Professor in HKU. He got the Ph.D degree in physics in Rome where he studied and got expertise on the physics of the gaseous detector with the developers of one of the technology currently in use in the ATLAS experiment (Resistive Plate Chamber detector). During the postdocs, Dr Pizzimento focused on developing a new Front-End electronics for the new generation of RPC detector to be installed in the ATLAS experiment during the high luminosity phase of LHC. 

Dr Pizzimento's main research interest is the development of new detection technologies aimed at future experiments. At the moment He is developing new kind of detectors trying to exploit physical effects never used before. In parallel he also developing cutting-edge front-end electronics which could bring a complete break-through in the field of gaseous detectors opening new detection regions and allowing to use materials and gas mixtures not usable with the current technology.

1. “Performance of the BIS78 RPC detectors: a new concept of electronics and detector integration for high-rate and fast timing large size RPCs,” L. Pizzimento [ATLAS], JINST 15 (2020) no.11, C11010 doi:10.1088/1748-0221/15/11/C11010 [arXiv:2006.09722 [physics.ins-det]]

2. “Development of a new Front End electronics in Silicon and Silicon-Germanium technology for the Resistive Plate Chamber detector for high rate experiments”, L. Pizzimento, R. Cardarelli, G. Aielli, A. Camelia, S. Bruno, A. Caltabiano, P. Camarri, A. D. Ciaccio, B. Liberti and L. Massa, 14 (2019) no.10, C10010 doi:10.1088/1748-0221/14/10/C10010

3. “BIS78, a pilot project for Phase-2 ATLAS RPC and beyond,” L. Pizzimento, Nuovo Cim. C 43 (2020)no.2-3, 92 doi:10.1393/ncc/i2020-20092-5
4. “On a new environment-friendly gas mixture for Resistive Plate Cahmbers”, G. Proto, B. Liberti,R. Santonico, G. Aielli, L. Pizzimento et al. JINST 17 (2022), P05005 doi:10.1088/1748-0221/17/05/P05005
5. “RPC performance versus front-end electronics and detector parameters,” R. Cardarelli, G. Aielli, E. Alunno Camelia, S. Bruno, A. Caltabiano, P. Camarri, A. Di Ciaccio, B. Liberti, L. Massa and L. Pizzimento, et al. JINST 14 (2019) no.09, C09023 doi:10.1088/1748-0221/14/09/C09023 [arXiv:1809.10497 [physics.insdet]].
6. “Optimization of RPCs read-out panel with electromagnetic simulation”, E. Alunno Camelia, R. Cardarelli, A. Di Ciaccio, S. Bruno, A. Caltabiano, R. Camarri, B. Liberti, L. Massa, L. Pizzimento and A. Rocchi, JINST 14 (2019) no.06, C06020 doi:10.1088/1748-0221/14/06/C06020 [arXiv:1806.04026 [physics.ins-det]].
7. “Design and test of a 20ps TDC for different applications”, S. Bruno, R. Cardarelli, A. Di Ciaccio, A. Caltabiano, L. Pizzimento and A. Rocchi, Nuovo Cim. C 41 (2018) no.1-2, 72 doi:10.1393/ncc/i2018-18072-1
8. “Performance of the ATLAS muon triggers in Run 2,”G. Aad et al. [ATLAS],JINST 15 (2020) no.09, P09015 doi:10.1088/1748-0221/15/09/p09015 [arXiv:2004.13447 [physics.ins-det]]
9. “The BIS78 Resistive Plate Chambers upgrade of the ATLAS Muon Spectrometer for the LHC Run-3,”L. Massa [ATLAS Muon], JINST 15 (2020) no.10, C10026 doi:10.1088/1748-0221/15/10/C10026 [arXiv:2004.12693 [physics.ins-det]]
10. “Performance of the ATLAS RPC detector and Level-1 muon barrel trigger at ps = 13 TeV,”G. Aad et al. [ATLAS], JINST 16 (2021) no.07, P07029 doi:10.1088/1748-0221/16/07/P07029 [arXiv:2103.01029 [physics.ins-det]]