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Nuno Filipe da Silva Fernandes de Castro
LIP Minho, Departamento de Fı́sica, Universidade do Minho, Campus de
Gualtar, 4710-057 Braga, Portugal
+351 253 604 331
[email protected]
Portuguese
September 29, 1978
Academic background
Oct 2008
PhD in Experimental Physics: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia,
Universidade de Coimbra. Thesis: “Study of the W tb vertex structure at
the ATLAS experiment” (CERN-THESIS-2008-083). Supervisors: Prof.
João Carlos Lopes de Carvalho and Prof. António Joaquim Onofre de
Abreu Ribeiro Gonçalves. Classification: maximum grade (cum laude.)
Mar 2004
MSc in Physics (Particle Physics, Astrophysics and Cosmology): Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa. Thesis: “Search
for a fourth generation b0 -quark at LEP-II” (CERN-THESIS-2005-034).
Supervisors: Prof. António Joaquim Onofre de Abreu Ribeiro Gonçalves
and Prof. Mário João Martins Pimenta.
Jul 2000
Degree in Physics: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade
de Coimbra. Final Classification: 16 out of 20. Thesis: “Estudo da
produção de leptões na colisão e+ e− (Study of leptons’ production in
e+ e− collisions)” (classification 18 out of 20).
Career
Jan 2014 — present
Sep 2010 – Dec 2013
Jan 2009 – Aug 2010
Oct 2008 – Dec 2008
Apr 2008 – Sep 2008
Oct 2007 – Mar 2008
Oct 2003 – Sep 2007
Oct 2002 – Sep 2003
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Auxiliary Researcher at LIP-Minho, Portugal (funded by FCT under contract IF/00050/2013).
Post-Doc researcher at LIP-Minho, Portugal (funded by FCT with the
fellowship SFRH/BPD/63495/2009).
Post-Doc researcher (Investigador Postdoctoral Contratado, Proyecto de
Excelencia de la Junta de Andalucı́a) at the High Energy Physics Group
of the Departamento de Fı́sica Teórica y del Cosmos, Universidad de
Granada, Spain.
Research assistant (fellowship by LIP, ref. CERN/FP/83551/2008) at the
LIP ATLAS Group.
Research assistant (fellowship by LIP, ref. POCI/FP/81934/2007) at the
LIP ATLAS Group.
Research assistant (fellowship by LIP, ref. POCI/FP/81950/2007) at the
Physics at LHC Group at LIP.
PhD student (grant by Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, ref.
SFRH/BD/13936/2003).
MSc student (grant by Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, ref.
SFRH/BM/8130/2002).
Nov 2000 – Sep 2002
Research assistant (grant by LIP, ref. LIP/BIC-13/00) at the LIP DELPHI
Group.
Teaching activity
2013/2014
MAP-Fis (Physics Master’s Programme from the Universities of Minho,
Aveiro and Porto, Portugal):
– Experimental Particle and Astroparticle Physics
Jan 2013
Departamento de Fı́sica Teórica y del Cosmos, Universidad de Granada,
Spain:
– Seminar devoted to the search of the Higgs boson in colliders, integrated in the Particle Physics Beyond the Standard Model (“Fı́sica
de Partı́culas más allá del Modelo Estándard”) of the Master’s Program “Métodos y Técnicas Avanzadas en Fı́sica (MTAF)”
2012/2013
MAP-Fis (Physics Master’s Programme from the Universities of Minho,
Aveiro and Porto, Portugal):
– Experimental Particle and Astroparticle Physics
2011/2012
Technology School, Polytechnic Institute of Cávado and Ave, Portugal:
– Fundamentos de Fı́sica (theory and problem classes), Degree in
Computer Science (Engenharia Informática) and Degree in Electrical Engineering (Engenharia Eléctrica).
2011/2012
MAP-Fis (Physics PhD Programme from the Universities of Minho, Aveiro
and Porto, Portugal):
– Experimental Particle and Astroparticle Physics, in collaboration
with Prof. António Onofre
2010/2011
MAP-Fis (Physics PhD Programme from the Universities of Minho, Aveiro
and Porto, Portugal):
– Experimental Particle and Astroparticle Physics, in collaboration
with Prof. António Onofre
2009/2010
Departamento de Fı́sica Teórica y del Cosmos, Universidad de Granada,
Spain:
– Fı́sica de los procesos biológicos (laboratory classes), Biology
Degree (Licenciado en Biologı́a).
– Fı́sica de Partı́culas (problem classes), Physics Degree (Licenciado
en Fı́sica).
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Students Supervision
2013 — present
2013 — present
2011 — present
Summer 2012
.
2011 — 2012
2011 — 2012
2010
2010
Supervisor of Ester Amaral Simões (MAP-Fis Master Student in the
University of Porto.
Co-supervisor of Rafael Silva (Master student of the Informatics Department at the University of Minho). Thesis devoted to the use of parallel
platforms in the analysis of big data from LHC collisions. Supervisor: Prof.
António Pina.
Supervisor of Juan Pedro Araque Espinosa (MAP-Fis PhD student; grant
funded by LIP). Research project theme: “seach for new vector-like quarks
at the LHC”.
Supervisor of Ece Akıllı (degree student at the Bogazici University, Turkey)
during her summer internship at LIP-Minho. Work devoted to the study of
Z+jets events collected by the ATLAS experiment
Supervisor of João Rodolfo Alves (undergraduate student) within the
programme of the research grant dedicated to the “study of angular
asymmetries in top-quark decays with the data collected by the ATLAS
experiment”, funded by LIP. Co-supervisor: Prof. António Onofre.
Co-supervisor of Emanuel Gouveia (undergraduate student) within the
programme of the research grant dedicated to the ”study of same-sign
top quark production with the data collected by the ATLAS experiment”,
funded by LIP. Supervisor: Prof. António Onofre.
Supervisor of Paulo André Dias Gonçalves (undergraduate student) within
the programme of the research grant dedicated to the “study of spin asymmetries in tt̄ production with the data collected by the ATLAS experiment”,
funded by LIP. Co-supervisor: Prof. António Onofre.
Co-supervisor of Nuno Filipe Gonçalves Rodrigues (undergraduate student) within the programme of the research grant dedicated to the “study
of angular asymmetries in top-quark decays with the data collected by the
ATLAS experiment”, funded by LIP. Supervisor: Prof. António Onofre.
Participation in Juries
2011 — present
27 Feb 2014
10 Dec 2013
10 Dec 2013
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Member of several juries for selection of candidates for research and postdoc grants, within the ATLAS, Phenomenology at the LHC and LIP-Minho
projects, funded by FCT
Member of the jury (arguente) for the PhD defence of Carlos Alexandre
Fernandes dos Santos (MAP-Fis PhD programme, University of Aveiro,
thesis: “ Thick-Microstructures for MPGDs: Simulations and Experimental
Studies”).
Member of the jury for the PhD defence of Bo Li (PhD in physics, University of Shandong, China, and University of Aix-Marseille, France, “W
polarization and tt̄ spin correlation study in tt̄ semi-lepton decay at ATLAS”).
Member of the jury for the PhD defence of Liming Chen (PhD in physics,
University of Shandong, China, and University of Aix-Marseille, France,
“Mesurement of tt̄ spin correlation and W polarization with the tt̄ channel
events at ATLAS”).
Organization of Schools
and International
Conferences
Aug/Set 2014
Jan 2014
Janeiro de 2014
CERN School of Computing 2014, Braga, PhD school devoted to scientific
computing, organized by CERN in collaboration with the University of
Minho and LIP.
New Worlds in Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology 2014, Braga, Workshop oorganized by LIP within the IDPASC network.
Fourth IDPASC School, Braga, PhD school devoted to Particle and Astroparticle Physics and Cosmology
Scientific activity
2004 – present
2000 – present
2009 – 2010
2000 – 2006
2000 – 2001
Member of the ATLAS Collaboration at CERN
Member of LIP (Portugal)
Member of the High Energy Physics Group at Departamento de Fı́sica
Teórica y del Cosmos (Universidad de Granada, Spain)
Member of the DELPHI COllaboration at CERN
Center for Computational Physics (Departamento de Fı́sica, Faculdade
de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade de Coimbra
International
Collaborations
2004 – present
2005 – 2007
2000 – 2006
ATLAS Collaboration at CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research, Geneva, Switzerland). Convener of the Top Properties subgroup
between Oct 2012 and Mar 2014. Editor and contact person for the search
for vector like quarks decaying into a Z boson and a third generation quark
(since 2012). Contact person for the W tb anomalous couplings studies
within the Top Quark Properties group (2008-2010). Contact person and
paper editor for the W polarization in top decays analysis (2010-2012).
Participation in the same-sign top quark production (2011-2012) and rare
top quark decays searches (2010-2013). Participation in the detector
operation tasks, namely in the computing system and data quality shifts,
and on the study of pileup noise in the Tile Calorimeter.
Flavour in the era of the LHC Workshop at CERN. Contact person (together with Prof. Gustavo Burdman) for the Flavour phenomena in topquark physics subgroup.
DELPHI Collaboration at CERN. Contact person for the pair production
of fourth generation b0 -quarks analysis within the Exotica Research Line.
Research Projects
2009 – 2014
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Phenomenological studies at the LHC, funded by Fundação
para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal (CERN/FP/109372/2009,
CERN/FP/116397/2010, CERN/FP/123619/2011).
2004 – 2014
2012 – 2014
2010 – 2013
2010 – 2013
2009 – 2010
2007 – 2010
2007 – 2010
2005 – 2009
2004 – 2007
2000 – 2006
Collaboration in the ATLAS experiment at CERN, funded by Fundação
para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal (POCTI/FP/FNU/50206/2003,
POCI/FP/63422/2005, POCI/FP/63936/2005, POCI/FP/81934/2007,
CERN/FP/83551/2008, CERN/FP/109309/2009, CERN/FP/116346/2010,
CERN/FP/123595/2011).
Particle Physics at the LHC - Large Hadron Collider - and in future
colliders, funded by Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
(PTDC/FIS/117951/2010).
Cálculos Precisos en Fı́sica de Partı́culas, financiado pela Junta de
Andalucı́a, Espanha (Proyecto de Excelencia P07-FQM-6552).
Nueva Fı́sica a la escala del TeV y sus implicaciones en grandes colisionadores, funded by Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación, Spain (subprograma FPA FPA2010-17915).
Búsqueda de nueva fı́sica en colisionadores de partı́culas y observatorios
de astropartı́culas, funded by Junta de Andalucı́a, Spain (Proyecto de
Excelencia P07-FQM-03048).
GRID for ATLAS/LHC data simulation and analysis, funded by Fundação
para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal (GRID/GRI/81727/2006).
Particle Physics at the LHC - Large Hadron Collider - and at the ILC International Linear Collider, funded by Fundação para a Ciência e a
Tecnologia, Portugal (PTDC/FIS/70156/2006).
Physics at LHC, funded by Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal (POCI/FP/63420/2005, POCI/ FP/63926/2005, POCI/FP/81950/2007,
CERN/FP/83588/2008).
Study of the primary air scintillation in air for cosmic ray detection, funded by Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal (POCTI/FP/FNU/50340/2003, POCI/FP/63440/2005,
POCI/FP/63913/2005).
Collaboration in the DELPHI experiment at CERN, funded by Fundação
para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal (POCTI/FNU/43674/2002,
POCTI/FP/FNU/50204/2003).
Publications
Thesis
1. N. Castro, Study of the W tb vertex structure at the ATLAS experiment, PhD Thesis, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal, 2008 [CERN-THESIS-2008-083].
2. N. Castro, Search for a Fourth Generation b0 -quark at LEP-II, MSc
Thesis, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa,
Portugal, 2004 [CERN-THESIS-2005-034].
Books
1. ATLAS Collaboration, “The expected performance of the ATLAS
experiment – Physics, trigger and detector” (2008). CERN-OPEN2008-020, ISBN: 978-92-9083-321-5, also available as preprint
arXiv:0901.0512 [hep-ex]. Responsible for the Anomalous couplings
at the W tb vertex section of the Top Quark Properties chapter.
Published papers’ summary
Co-author of a total of 386 papers, several of them within in the ATLAS
and DELPHI Collaborations. Total number of citations: 30755; h-index:
77 (according to the inSpire database in 15th July 2014). Further informations can be found in http://cern.ch/go/QDM7.
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Main papers
(in peer-review journals)
1. ATLAS Collaboration (G. Aad et al), “Measurement of the top quark
pair
√ production charge asymmetry in proton-proton collisions at
s = 7 TeV using the ATLAS detector”, JHEP 1402 (2014) 107.
2. ATLAS Collaboration (G. Aad et al), “Measurement of top quark
polarization
in top-antitop events from proton-proton collisions at
√
s = 7 TeV using the ATLAS detector”, Phys. Rev. Lett 111 (2013)
232002.
3. ATLAS Collaboration (G. Aad et al), “A search for flavour changing
neutral currents in top-quark
√ decays in pp collision data collected
with the ATLAS detector at s = 7 TeV”, JHEP 1209 (2012) 139.
4. ATLAS Collaboration (G. Aad et al), “Measurement of the W boson
polarization in top quark decays”, JHEP 1206 (2012) 088.
5. ATLAS Collaboration (G. Aad et al), “Search for same-sign topquark production and fourth-generation down-type quarks in pp
collisions at sqrt(s)=7 TeV with the ATLAS detector”, JHEP 1204
(2012) 069.
6. J.A. Aguilar-Saavedra, N.F. Castro and A. Onofre, “Constraints
on the W tb vertex from early LHC data”, Phys.Rev. D83 (2011)
117301.
7. ATLAS Collaboration (G. Aad et al), “Measurement of the top quark
√
pair production cross section with ATLAS in pp collisions at s =
7 TeV”, Eur.Phys.J. C71 (2011) 1577.
8. DELPHI Collaboration (J. Abdallah et al), “Search for single top
quark production via contact interactions at LEP2”, Eur. Phys. J. C
71 (2011) 1555.
9. F. del Aguila et al., “Collider aspects of flavour physics at high
Q,” Report of Working Group 1 of the CERN Workshop Flavor in
the Era of the LHC: A Workshop on the Interplay of Flavor and
Collider Physics, CERN, 2005-2007. Flavour phenomena in top
quark physics chapter edited by G. Burdman and N. Castro. Eur.
Phys. J. C57 (2008) 183.
10. M.M. Fraga, A. Onofre, L. Pereira, N. Castro, F. Veloso, R. Ferreira
Marques, M. Pimenta and A. Policarpo, “Temperature-dependent
quenching of UV fluorescence of N2 ”, Nucl. Inst. and Meth. A 597
(2008) 75.
11. The ATLAS Collaboration (G. Aad et al), “The ATLAS Experiment
at the CERN Large Hadron Collider”, JINST 3 (2008) S08003.
12. J. A. Aguilar-Saavedra, J. Carvalho, N. Castro, F. Veloso and
A. Onofre, “ATLAS sensitivity to W tb anomalous couplings in top
quark decays”, Eur. Phys. J. C 53 (2008) 689.
13. J. Carvalho, N. Castro, L.D. Chikovani, T. Djobava, J. Dodd, S. McGrath, A. Onofre, J. Parsons and F. Veloso, “Study of ATLAS sensitivity to FCNC top decays”, Eur. Phys. J. C 52 (2007) 999.
14. DELPHI Collaboration (J. Abdallah
et al.), “Search for a fourth
√
generation b0 -quark at LEP-II at s = 196 − 209 GeV”, Eur. Phys. J.
C 50 (2007) 507.
15. J. A. Aguilar-Saavedra, J. Carvalho, N. Castro, F. Veloso and
A. Onofre, “Probing anomalous W tb couplings in top pair decays”,
Eur. Phys. J. C 50 (2007) 519.
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Internal notes and conference
proceedings
ATLAS Collaboration:
– ATLAS Collaboration, “Search for pair production of new heavy
quarks that decay
to a Z boson and a third generation quark in pp
√
collisions at s = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector”, ATLAS-CONF2014-036, CERN (2014).
– ATLAS Collaboration, “Search for pair production of new heavy
quarks that decay
to a Z boson and a third generation quark in pp
√
collisions at s = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector”, ATLAS-CONF2013-056, CERN (2013).
– ATLAS Collaboration, “Letter of Intent for the Phase-II Upgrade of
the ATLAS Experiment”, CERN-LHCC-2012-022, CERN (2012).
– ATLAS Collaboration, “Physics at a High-Luminosity LHC with ATLAS”, ATL-PHYS-PUB-2012-001, CERN (2012).
– N. Castro (on behalf of the ATLAS Collaboration), “W -polarisation
and constraints on W tb-vertex” (ATL-PHYS-PROC-2011-273 proceedings of Top2011, Sant Feliu de Guixols, Espanha, September
2011).
– ATLAS Collaboration, “A search for Flavour
Changing Neutral Cur√
rents in Top Quark Decays t → qZ at s = 7 TeV in 0.70 fb−1 of pp
collision data collected with the ATLAS Detector”, ATLAS-CONF2011-154, CERN (2011).
– ATLAS Collaboration, “Measurement of the W boson
√ polarisation
in top quark decays in 0.70 fb−1 of pp collisions at s = 7 TeV with
the ATLAS detector”, ATLAS-CONF-2011-122, CERN (2011).
– N. Castro (on behalf of the ATLAS Collaboration), “Search for
Flavour Changing Neutral Currents in Top Quark Decays in ATLAS”
(proceedings of the Physics at LHC 2011 Conference, Perugia, Italy,
June 2011).
– ATLAS
Collaboration, “Search for FCNC Top Quark Processes at
√
s = 7 TeV with the ATLAS Detector”, ATLAS-CONF-2011-061,
CERN (2011).
– ATLAS Collaboration, “Measurement of the√W-boson polarisation
in top quark decays in pp collision data at s = 7 TeV using the
ATLAS detector”, ATLAS-CONF-2011-037, CERN (2011).
– The ATLAS Collaboration, “Background√studies for top pair production in lepton plus jets final states in s = 7 TeV ATLAS data”,
ATLAS-CONF-2010-087, CERN (2010).
– The ATLAS
√ Collaboration, “Search for top pair candidate events in
ATLAS at s = 7 TeV”, ATLAS-CONF-2010-063, CERN (2010).
– N. Castro (on behalf of the ATLAS Collaboration), “Top Properties
with ATLAS” (proceedings of the XIV International Symposium on
Lepton Photon Interactions at High Energies, Hamburg, Germany,
August 2009).
– The ATLAS Collaboration, “Top Quark Properties”, ATL-PHYS-PUB2009-044, CERN (2009).
– J. A. Aguilar-Saavedra, J. Carvalho, N. Castro, F. Veloso e A. Onofre,
“ATLAS sensitivity to W tb anomalous couplings in tt̄ events.” (proceedings of the Top2008 Workshop, Isola d’Elba, Itália, May 2008)
Nuov. Cim. Vol. 123B, N. 8-9, pp.1318-1319, 2008.
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– J. Carvalho, N. Castro, F. Veloso e A. Onofre, “Study of ATLAS
sensitivity to FCNC top quark decays.” (proceedings of the Top2008
Workshop, Isola d’Elba, Itália, May 2008) Nuov. Cim. Vol. 123B, N.
8-9, pp.1334-1336, 2008.
– J. A. Aguilar-Saavedra, J. Carvalho, N. Castro, A. Onofre e F. Veloso,
“Study of the ATLAS sensitivity to angular asymmetries in top quark
decays”, ATL-PHYS-PUB-2006-018, CERN (2006).
– N. Castro (on behalf of the ATLAS Collaboration), “LHC sensitivity to
top properties beyond the SM”, PoS TOP2006 (2006) 028 (prepared
for the TOP 2006: International Workshop on Top Quark Physics,
Coimbra, Portugal, January 2006).
– J. Carvalho, N. Castro, A. Onofre e F. Veloso, “Study of the ATLAS
sensitivity to FCNC decays in single top events”, ATL-PHYS-PUB2005-026, CERN (2005).
Fluorescence:
– M. Fraga, A. Onofre, N.F. Castro, R. Ferreira-Marques, S. Fetal,
F. Fraga, M. Pimenta, A. Policarpo, F. Veloso, “Air Fluorescence
Studies for Cosmic Ray Detection”, (prepared for 20th European
Cosmic Ray Symposium, Lisbon, Portugal 5-8 September 2006).
– M. Fraga, A. Onofre, N.F. Castro, R. Ferreira-Marques, S. Fetal,
F. Fraga, M. Pimenta, A. Policarpo, F. Veloso, ‘Pressure And Temperature Dependence Of The Primary Scintillation In Air”, (prepared for
5th International Workshop on New Worlds in Astroparticle Physics,
Faro, Portugal, 8-10 Jan 2005).
DELPHI Collaboration:
– S. Andringa, N. Castro, M. Espirito-Santo, P. Goncalves, O. Oliveira,
A. Onofre, M. Pimenta, B. Tome, F. Veloso, “Search for Single Top
Production at LEP via Contact Interactions at LEP2”, 2006-003
CONF 749 (2006). Contributed Paper for ICHEP 2006 (Moscow).
– S. Andringa, N. Castro, M. Espı́rito-Santo, P. Gonçalves, O. Oliveira,
S.M. Oliveira, A. Onofre, M. Pimenta, R. Santos, B. Tomé, and
F.
√ Veloso, “Search for a fourth generation b’-quark at LEP-II at
s = 196 − 209 GeV”, 2006-001 CONF 747 (2006). Contributed
Paper for ICHEP 2006 (Moscow).
– W. Adam, S. Andringa, N. Castro, M.C. Espı́rito-Santo, P. Gonçalves,
A. Onofre, M. Pimenta, B. Tom
√ é and F. Veloso, “Search for excited
leptons in e+ e− collisions at s = 189 − 208 GeV”, 2004-024 CONF
699 (2004). Contributed paper for ICHEP 2004 (Beijing).
– V. Obraztsov, S. Slabospitsky and O. Yushchenko, S. Andringa,
N. Castro, P. Gonçalves, A. Onofre, M. Pimenta, B. Tomé and
F.
√ Veloso, “Search for single top production via FCNC at LEP at
s = 189 − 208 GeV”, 2004-023 CONF 698 (2004). Contributed
paper for ICHEP 2004 (Beijing).
– S. Andringa, N. Castro, M. Espı́rito-Santo, P. Gonçalves, O. Oliveira,
S.M. Oliveira, A. Onofre, M. Pimenta, R. Santos, B. Tomé, and
F.
√ Veloso, “Search for a fourth generation b’-quark at LEP-II at
s = 196 − 209 GeV”, 2003-048 CONF 668 (2003). Contributed
Paper for EPS 2003 (Aachen) and LP 2003 (FNAL).
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– N. Castro (on behalf of the DELPHI Collaboration), “Search for a
fourth generation b’-quark at the DELPHI experiment at LEP”, (prepared for Lake Louise Winter Institute: Particles and the Universe,
Lake Louise, Alberta, Canada, 16-22 Feb 2003).
– S. Andringa, N. Castro, M. Espı́rito-Santo, P. Gonçales, O. Oliveira,
A. Onofre, M. Pimenta, B. Tomé and
√ F. Veloso, “Search for a fourth
generation b’-quark at LEP-II at s = 200 − 209 GeV”, 2002-063
CONF 597 (2002). Contributed Paper for ICHEP 2002 (Amsterdam).
– S. Andringa, N. Castro, P. Gonçalves, O. Oliveira, A. Onofre,
L. Peralta, M. Pimenta, B. Tomé and F. Veloso, “Search for Single
√ Top Production at LEP via four Fermion Contact Interactions at
s = 189 − 208 GeV”, 2001-087 CONF 515 (2001). Contributed
Paper for EPS HEP 2001 (Budapest), LP01 (Rome) and ICHEP
2002 (Amsterdam).
Presentations in
international workshops
and meetings
Talks and posters
– Rencontres de Moriond – Electroweak Interactions and Unified
Theories, La Thuile, Italy, March 2014: “Measurement of the top
quark mass and properties at the LHC” (oral communication on
behalf of the ATLAS and CMS Collaborations).
– New Worlds in Particle and Astroparticle and Cosmology, Braga,
Portugal, January 2014: “Search for vector-like quarks with the
ATLAS experiment” (oral communication).
– The top-charm frontier at the LHC, CERN, Genève, Switzerland,
January 2014: “Top FCNC @ ATLAS” (oral communication).
– New Worlds in Particle and Astroparticle Physics, Lisboa, Portugal,
December 2012: “The top quark and new physics searches with
the ATLAS detector” (oral communication).
– Top 2011 Workshop, Sant Feliu de Guixols, Spain, September 2011,
“W polarization and constraints on W tb vertex” (oral communication
on behalf of the ATLAS Collaboration).
– Beyond the Standard Model: Results with the 7 TeV LHC Collision
Data, Trieste, Italy, September 2011, “New Physics Searches Involving Top Quarks with the ATLAS Detector” (oral communication on
behalf of the ATLAS Collaboration).
– Physics at the LHC (PLHC 2011), Perugia, Italy, June 2011, “Search
for Flavour Changing Neutral Currents in Top Quark Decays in
ATLAS” (poster presented on behalf of the ATLAS Collaboration).
– PLANCK 2011 - From the Planck Scale to the ElectroWeak Scale,
Lisboa, Portugal, May 2011, “Constrains on the W tb vertex from
early LHC data” (oral communication).
– PASC Winter Workshop, Sesimbra, Portugal, December 2010, “First
results from the ATLAS experiment” (oral communication).
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– XIV International Symposium on Lepton Photon Interactions at High
Energies (Lepton Photon 09), Hamburg, Germany, August 2009,
“Top properties with ATLAS” (poster presented on behalf of the
ATLAS Collaboration).
– Top 2008 Workshop, Isola d’Elba, Italy, May 2008, “ATLAS sensitivity
to W tb anomalous couplings in tt̄ events” (poster).
– PASC Winter School, Sesimbra, Portugal, December 2007, “Study
of ATLAS sensitivity to W tb anomalous couplings” (oral communication).
– CERN Workshop “Flavour in the era of the LHC” (final meeting),
Genève, CERN, March 2007, “Flavour and Top Physics - experimental summary” (oral communication).
– CERN Workshop “Flavour in the era of the LHC”, Genève, May
2006, “Status report on the top FCNC studies at the LHC” (oral
communication).
– TOP 2006: International Workshop on Top Quark Physics, Coimbra,
January 2006: “LHC sensitivity to top properties beyond the SM”
(oral communication on behalf of the ATLAS Collaboration).
– CERN Workshop “Flavour in the era of the LHC”, Genève, November 2005, “Study of top anomalous couplings and FCNC with the
ATLAS detector” (oral communication).
– European School of High-Energy Physics, Kitzbühel, Áustria, 21st
August to 3rd September 2005: “Study of ATLAS sensitivity to
FCNC decays in single top events” and “Study of ATLAS sensitivity
to FCNC top quark decays” (posters in collaboration with F. Veloso).
– Lake Louise Winter Institute 2003, Lake Louise, Alberta, Canada,
February 2003: “Search for a fourth generation b0 -quark at the
DELPHI experiment at LEP” (oral communication on behalf of the
DELPHI Collaboration).
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Invited talks
– LIP Seminar, Lisboa, Portugal, 10th July 2014, “The top quark and
the search for new physics at the LHC”.
– Physics Center Seminar, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal, 30th
May 2014, “The top quark and the search for new physics at the
LHC”.
– Physics Department Seminar, Shandong University, Jinan, China,
11th December 2013, “Measurement of the top quark properties at
the ATLAS experiment”.
– LIP Seminar, Lisboa, Portugal, 26th July 2012, “Measurement of
the top quark properties at the ATLAS experiment”.
– II. Physikalisches Institut Seminar, Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen, Germany, 15th January 2010, “Study of the top quark properties at the ATLAS experiment”.
– Departamento de Fı́sica Teórica y del Cosmos Seminar, Universidad de Granada, Spain, 15th Jan 2009, “Study of the top quark
properties at the ATLAS experiment”.
– Departamento de Fı́sica Teórica y del Cosmos Seminar, Universidad de Granada, Spain, 31th May 2007, “Testing the SM with Top
Quark Physics at the LHC”.
Outreach activities
– “O Nosso Universo e a Fı́sica das Partı́culas”, Camilo Castelo
Branco High School, Famalicão, 7th May 2014.
– “O Nosso Universo e a Fı́sica das Partı́culas”, High School of Ponte
de Lima, 6th May 2014.
– “O Nosso Universo e a Fı́sica das Partı́culas”, D. Diogo de Sousa
High School, Braga, 23rd April 2014.
– “O Nosso Universo e a Fı́sica das Partı́culas”, Carlos Amarante
High School, Braga, 22nd April 2014.
– International Masterclass 2014 (Hands on Particles). University of
Minho, Braga, 4th and 5th April 2014.
– “O Nosso Universo e a Fı́sica das Partı́culas”, High School of Caldas
das Taipas, 18th March 2014.
– “A vida em 2020: Ciência, Saúde e Ambiente”, debate organized
within the European Researchers Night by the School of Sciences,
University of Minho. D. Diogo de Sousa museum, 27th September
2013.
– “Cientista do CERN por um dia”, activity for High School students
organized within the “Festa da Ciência” event. School of Sciences,
University of Minho, Braga, 13th May 2013.
– “O Nosso Universo e a Fı́sica das Partı́culas”, High School of Caldas
das Taipas, 10th April 2013.
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– “O Nosso Universo e a Fı́sica das Partı́culas”, D. Diogo de Sousa
High School, Braga, 8th April 2013.
– International Masterclass 2013 (Hands on Particles). University of
Minho, Braga, 1st March 2013.
– “O bosão como se tivéssemos 5 anos”, interview at Canal Q TV
channel, 13th July 2012.
– “Cientista do CERN por um dia” activity for High School students
organized within the “Festa da Ciência” event. Escola de Ciências,
Universidade do Minho, Braga, 15th May 2012.
– Hands on Particles activity devoted to the discovery on the Z boson
in LHC data collected by the ATLAS experimement for High School
students. Colégio Dr. Luı́s Pereira da Costa, Monte Redondo, 2nd
May 2012.
– Hands on Particles activity devoted to the discovery on the Z boson
in LHC data collected by the ATLAS experimement for High School
students from Portugal, Germany, Denmark, Czech Republic and
Italy within the Comenius project. Escola de Ciências, Universidade
do Minho, Braga, 26th April 2012.
– International Masterclass 2012 (Hands on Particles). Physics Department, Universidade do Minho, Braga, 10th and 24th March
2012.
– Tertúlia FNACiência, organized by the Escola de Ciências of the
Universidade do Minho and FNAC. Science roundtable devoted to
the theme “Particle Physics and the ATLAS experiment at CERN”
with the participation of António Onofre and Nuno Castro. Braga,
24th November 2011.
– European Masterclass 2011 (Hands on Particles). Physics Department, Universidade do Minho, Braga, 12th March 2011.
– European Masterclass 2010 (Hands on Particles). Physics Department, Universidade do Minho, Braga, 20th February 2010.
– Fı́sica de Partı́culas Elementales, activity during the IX Spanish
Science Week, Faculdad de Ciencias, Universidad de Granada,
9-18th November 2009.
– European Masterclass 2008 (Hands on Particles). Physics Department, Universidade de Coimbra, 8th March 2008.
– Hands on Particles, Physics Department, Universidade de Coimbra,
10th May 2006.
– European Masterclass 2006 (Hands on Particles) Physics Department, Universidade de Coimbra, 11th March 2006.
– “Faraday & Lenz” activity, Physics Department, Universidade de
Coimbra, several sessions during February 2006.
– WPY 2005, European Masterclass (Hands on Particles). Physics
Department, Universidade de Coimbra, 12th March 2005.
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Computational skils
– Operating systems: Linux, MacOS, Windows
– Computer languages: C++, C, fortran, python, pascal
– Grid middleware: gLite LCG
– Scripting: tcsh, bash
– Data analysis: Root, PAW, MS Excel (and similar)
– Data aquisition: LabView
– Word processing: LATEX, MS Word
– Image processing: Gimp (and similar)
Spoken languages
Mother tongue
Portuguese
Self-assessment
European level (*)
Understanding
Speaking
Listening
Reading
English
C2 Proficient
user
C2 Proficient
user
C1 Proficient
user
C1 Proficient
user
C2 Proficient
user
Spanish
C2 Proficient
user
C2 Proficient
user
C2 Proficient
user
C2 Proficient
user
C1 Proficient
user
French
A2 Basic user
B1 Independent
A2 Basic user
user
A2 Basic user
A2 Basic user
(*)
(July 15, 2014)
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Spoken
production
Writing
Spoken
interaction
Common European Framework of Reference (CEF) level