Emanuele Quercigh

Emanuele Quercigh
Born1934
Naples, Italy
NationalityItalian
Alma materUniversity of Milan
Known forQuark–gluon plasma
Scientific career
FieldsHigh-energy physics, hadron physics, quark matter
InstitutionsUniversity of Milan
CERN
Doctoral advisorGiuseppe Occhialini

Emanuele Quercigh (born 1934 in Naples, Italy) is an Italian particle physicist who works since 1964 at CERN, most known for the discovery of quark-gluon plasma (QGP). Quercigh moved as a child to Friuli with his mother and his younger brother after the early death of his father.[1] Quercigh studied physics at the University of Milan in Italy, where he became assistant of professor Giuseppe Occhialini in 1959.

In 1964 Quercigh moved to Geneva, Switzerland, where he took up a position as fellow at CERN and subsequently became a staff physicist.[2] Initially Quercigh took part in various experiments using the CERN 2 m Bubble Chamber. Then he proposed and led, together with David Lord, the ERASME project, a machine for scanning and measuring film from BEBC.

In 1974, Quercigh was appointed spokesperson of the T209 experiment, a bubble chamber experiment studying high statistics 8.25 GeV/c K–p, which discovered the φ(1850) particle–the first Regge recurrence of the φ meson–and performed a detailed study of the lifetime of the Ω–baryon, as well as a first evaluation of its spin.[3][4]

As of 1979 Quercigh was the leading scientist for various CERN SPS experiments using the Omega Spectrometer, a facility he promoted with colleagues already in 1968,[5] studying quantum chromodynamics (QCD) processes, hadron spectroscopy and particle and soft photon production mechanisms.[6] This activity focused on the production of baryons and anti-baryons carrying one or more strange quarks in heavy-ion collisions.[7] Quercigh was the CERN contact man or spokesman for the WA85,[8][9] WA94[10][11] and WA97[12][13] experiments addressing strangeness and quark-gluon plasma.[14] When CERN announced the observation of the QGP in February 2000,[15] he presented the strange particle production results on behalf of these collaborations.

Together with Jürgen Schukraft and Hans Gutbrod, Quercigh laid down the foundations of the LHC ALICE experiment. He was then elected as the first chairman of the ALICE Collaboration Board on 20 April 1994 for the period from 1994 to 1998.[16][17]

After retirement from CERN in 1999, Quercigh is honorary staff member. In the years 2000, 2001 and 2003 he was guest professor at the University of Padua.

Publications

  • (with M. Jacob) Symposium on the CERN Omega Spectrometer : 25 Years of Physics, 19 Mar 1997, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland [18]
  • (with S. Hegarty and K. Potter) Joint International Lepton-Photon Symposium and Europhysics Conference on High Energy Physics, Geneva, Switzerland, 25 July – 1 August 1991 (in two volumes,1992)[19]
  • List of publications recorded in Inspire-HEP[20]

Awards and honours

References

  1. ^ ""Consensus" and "Balance": Interview with Emanuele Quercigh". ALICE Matters. 11 June 2018. Archived from the original on 2 November 2019. Retrieved 2020-05-07.
  2. ^ Redondi, Pietro; Sironi, Giorgio; Tucci, Pascuale; Vegni, Guido (2007-05-11). The Scientific Legacy of Beppo Occhialini. Springer Science & Business Media. p. 112. ISBN 978-3-540-37354-4.
  3. ^ Al-Harran, S.; Amirzadeh, J.; Baubillier, M.; Bloodworth, I.J.; Bossen, G.J.; Burns, A.; Carney, J.N.; Cox, G.F.; Dore, U.; Gavillet, Ph.; Kinson, J.B. (1981). "Observation of a K enhancement at 1.85 GeV in the reaction". Physics Letters B. 101 (5): 357–360. doi:10.1016/0370-2693(81)90063-0.
  4. ^ Baubillier, M.; Bloodworth, I.J.; Bossen, G.J.; Burns, A.; Carney, J.N.; Corden, M.J.; Cowan, C.A.; Cox, G.F.; De Lima, C.J.; Dixon, D.; Gavillet, Ph. (1978). "A study of the lifetime and spin of Ω− produced in K−p interactions at 8.25 GeV/c". Physics Letters B. 78 (2–3): 342–346. doi:10.1016/0370-2693(78)90036-9.
  5. ^ Baker, W. F.; Beusch, Werner; Brautti, G.; Cocconi, Giuseppe; French, Bernard R.; Gildemeister, O.; Michelini, Aldo; Morpurgo, Mario; Nellen, B. (1968). The OMEGA project: Proposal for a large magnet and spark chamber system. The Omega Project Working Group.
  6. ^ Beusch, Werner; Quercigh, Emanuele (2017). "Advanced Series on Directions in High Energy Physics (Chapter 3: The Proton Synchrotron (PS): At the Core of the CERN Accelerators)". In Cundy, Donald; Gilardoni, Simone (eds.). OMEGA: towards the electronic bubble chamber. Vol. 27. World Scientific. pp. 74–77. Bibcode:2017cern.book...39C. doi:10.1142/9789814749145_0003. ISBN 978-981-4749-13-8.
  7. ^ Koch, Peter; Müller, Berndt; Rafelski, Johann (2018), "From Strangeness Enhancement to Quark–Gluon Plasma Discovery", Walter Greiner Memorial Volume, World Scientific, pp. 221–248, arXiv:1708.08115, doi:10.1142/9789813234284_0016, ISBN 978-981-323-427-7
  8. ^ CERN. Geneva. SPS Experiments Committee, ed. (1984). Proposal: study of high energy nucleus-nucleus interactions using the ' spectrometer equipped with a multiparticle high pT detector.
  9. ^ Di Bari, Domenico; Abatzis, S.; Andrighetto, A.; Antinori, F.; Barnes, R.P.; Bayes, A.C.; Benayoun, M.; Beusch, W.; Carney, J.N.; de la Cruz, B.; Di Bari, D. (1995). "Results on the production of baryons with |S| = 1, 2, 3 and strange mesons in S-W collisions at 200 GeV/c per nucleon". Nuclear Physics A. 590 (1–2): 307–315. doi:10.1016/0375-9474(95)00243-T.
  10. ^ Vasileiadis, G.; Abatzis, S.; Di Bari, D. (1991). Proposal: study of baryon and antibaryon spectra in sulphur sulphour interactions at 200 Ge V/c per nucleon. CERN. Geneva. SPS-LEAR Experiments Committee.
  11. ^ Abatzis, S; Andersen, E; Andrighetto, A; Antinori, F; Barnes, R.P.; Bayes, A.C.; Benayoun, M; Beusch, W; Bohm, J; Carney, J.N.; Carrer, N (1995). "Strange particle production in sulphur-sulphur interactions at 200 GeV/c per nucleon". Nuclear Physics A. 590 (1–2): 317–331. Bibcode:1995NuPhA.590..317A. doi:10.1016/0375-9474(95)00244-U.
  12. ^ Armenise, N.; Catanesi, M. G.; Di Bari, D. (1991). Proposal: study of baryon and antibaryon spectra in lead lead interactions at 160 GeV/c per nucleon. CERN. Geneva. SPS-LEAR Experiments Committee.
  13. ^ Antinori, F.; Bakke, H.; Beusch, W.; Bloodworth, I.J.; Caliandro, R.; Carrer, N.; Di Bari, D.; Di Liberto, S.; Elia, D.; Evans, D.; Fanebust, K. (1999). "Production of strange and multistrange hadrons in nucleus—nucleus collisions at the SPS". Nuclear Physics A. 661 (1–4): 130–139. Bibcode:1999NuPhA.661..130A. doi:10.1016/S0375-9474(99)85015-5.
  14. ^ Quercigh, Emanuele; Rafelski, Johann (2000). "A strange quark plasma". Physics World. 13 (10): 37–42. doi:10.1088/2058-7058/13/10/35. ISSN 0953-8585.
  15. ^ "New State of Matter created at CERN". CERN. Retrieved 2020-05-07.
  16. ^ Greco, Virginia (13 April 2018). "Happy 25th birthday, ALICE!". CERN. Archived from the original on 2 November 2019. Retrieved 2020-05-08.
  17. ^ "Quercigh Emanuele". Ropi Publications. 2015-07-06. Archived from the original on 8 May 2020. Retrieved 2020-05-07.
  18. ^ Jacob, Maurice René Michel; Quercigh, Emanuele (1997). Symposium on the CERN Omega Spectrometer : 25 Years of Physics. CERN-97-02. Geneva: CERN. doi:10.5170/CERN-1997-002. ISBN 9789290831136.
  19. ^ Seamus, Hegarty; Keith, Potter; Emanuele, Quercigh (1992-05-26). Joint International Lepton-Photon Symposium and Europhysics Conference on High Energy Physics - LP-HEP '91 (In 2 volumes). World Scientific. doi:10.1142/1529-vol1. ISBN 978-981-4555-53-1.
  20. ^ "INSPIRE: Author profile for Emanuele Quercigh". inspirehep.net. Retrieved 2020-05-07.
  21. ^ a b "People/Letters". CERN Courier. 40 (2): 40–44.