Salvatore Rappoccio

I am interested in searching for solutions to the vast discrepancy between the mass of the Higgs boson (~100 GeV) and the Planck scale (~10^18 GeV), also known as the hierarchy problem. To explore the energy regime of interest, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) collides protons at 13 TeV, producing heavier particles such as the Higgs boson, the top quark, and the W and Zbosons. Many models that solve the hierarchy result in particles with large Lorentz boosts, culminating in massive hadronically decaying particles (boosted jets). I am also interested in the details of the strong nuclear force, quantum chromodynamics (QCD),in particular within sprays of particles produced by QCD called “jets,” and the production of the heaviest known particle, the top quark.