Personal information
Name
Nuno Filipe da Silva Fernandes de Castro
Email
[email protected]
Nationality
Date of birth
Portuguese
September 29, 1978
Academic background
October 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)
March 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
July 2000
BSc 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
September 2010 – present
January 2009 – August 2010
October 2008 – December 2008
April 2008 – September 2008
October 2007 – March 2008
October 2003 – September 2007
October 2002 – September 2003
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Post-Doc researcher at LIP, Universidade do 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)
November 2000 – September
2002
Research assistant (grant by LIP, ref. LIP/BIC-13/00) at the LIP DELPHI
Group
Teaching activity
2009/2010
Departamento de Fı́sica Teórica y del Cosmos, Universidad de Granada,
Spain:
– Fı́sica de los procesos biológicos (prácticas), Licenciado en Biologı́a
– Fı́sica de Partı́culas (prácticas), Licenciado en Fı́sica
Scientific activity
2007 – present
2005 – present
2004 – present
2009 – 2010
2004 – 2008
2000 – 2006
2000 – 2001
ATLAS GRID Group at LIP
Phenomenological studies at the LHC group at LIP
ATLAS Group of LIP (Laboratório de Instrumentação e Fı́sica Experimental de Partı́culas, Portugal)
High Energy Physics Group at Departamento de Fı́sica Teórica y del
Cosmos (Universidad de Granada, Spain)
Air Scintillation Group of LIP
DELPHI Group at LIP
Center for Computational Physics (Departamento de Fı́sica, Faculdade
de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade de Coimbra
International
Collaborations
2004 – present
2000 – 2006
ATLAS Collaboration at CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research, Geneva, Switzerland)
DELPHI Collaboration at CERN
Research Projects
2010 – 2013
2009 – 2010
2009 – 2010
2004 – 2010
2007 – 2010
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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)
Phenomenological studies at the LHC, funded by Fundação para a
Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal (CERN/FP/109372/2009)
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)
GRID for ATLAS/LHC data simulation and analysis, funded by Fundação
para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal (GRID/GRI/81727/2006)
2007 – 2010
2005 – 2009
2004 – 2007
2000 – 2006
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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
Published articles
1. 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
2. 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
3. The ATLAS Collaboration (G. Aad et al), “The ATLAS Experiment
at the CERN Large Hadron Collider”, JINST 3 (2008) S08003.
4. 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
5. 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
“Search for a fourth
6. J. Abdallah et al. [DELPHI Collaboration],
√
generation b0 -quark at LEP-II at s = 196 − 209 GeV”, Eur. Phys. J.
C 50 (2007) 507
7. 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
Co-author of 1 additional article of the ATLAS Collaboration (corresponding to 15 citations according to the spires database) and of 73 additional
articles of the DELPHI Collaboration (corresponding to 2118 citations
according to the spires database)
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
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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:0901.0512v1 [hep-ex]. Responsible for the Anomalous couplings at the W tb vertex section of the Top Quark Properties chapter
Internal and conference Notes
ATLAS Collaboration:
1. 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)
2. The ATLAS
√ Collaboration, “Search for top pair candidate events in
ATLAS at s = 7 TeV”, ATLAS-CONF-2010-063, CERN (2010)
3. 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)
4. The ATLAS Collaboration, “Top Quark Properties”, ATL-PHYS-PUB2009-044, CERN (2009)
5. J. A. Aguilar-Saavedra, J. Carvalho, N. Castro, F. Veloso e A. Onofre,
“ATLAS sensitivity to W tb anomalous couplings in tt̄ events.” (proceedings do Top2008 Workshop, Isola d’Elba, Itália, Maio de 2008)
Nuov. Cim. Vol. 123B, N. 8-9, pp.1318-1319, 2008
6. J. Carvalho, N. Castro, F. Veloso e A. Onofre, “Study of ATLAS
sensitivity to FCNC top quark decays.” (proceedings do Top2008
Workshop, Isola d’Elba, Itália, Maio de 2008) Nuov. Cim. Vol. 123B,
N. 8-9, pp.1334-1336, 2008
7. 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)
8. N. Castro (on behalf of the ATLAS Collaboration), “LHC sensitivity to top properties beyond the SM”, PoS TOP2006 (2006) 028
(preparado para TOP 2006: International Workshop on Top Quark
Physics, Coimbra, Portugal, Janeiro de 2006).
9. 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:
1. 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)
2. 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)
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DELPHI Collaboration:
1. 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)
2. 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)
3. 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)
4. 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)
5. 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)
6. 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)
7. 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)
8. 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)
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Presentations in
international workshops
and meetings
Talks and posters
1. 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)
2. Top 2008 Workshop, Isola d’Elba, Italy, May 2008, “ATLAS sensitivity
to W tb anomalous couplings in tt̄ events” (poster)
3. PASC Winter School, Sesimbra, Portugal, December 2007, “Study
of ATLAS sensitivity to Wtb anomalous couplings” (oral presentation)
4. CERN Workshop “Flavour in the era of the LHC”(final meeting),
Genève, CERN, March 2007, “Flavour and Top Physics - experimental summary” (oral presentation). Contact Person for the Flavour
Phenomena in Top Quark Physics chapter of the Working Group 1
Report
5. CERN Workshop “Flavour in the era of the LHC”, Genève, May
2006, “Status report on the top FCNC studies at the LHC” (oral
presentation)
6. TOP 2006: International Workshop on Top Quark Physics, Coimbra,
January 2006: “LHC sensitivity to top properties beyond the SM”
(oral presentation on behalf of the ATLAS Collaboration, ATL-SLIDE2006-004)
7. CERN Workshop “Flavour in the era of the LHC”, Genève, November 2005, “Study of top anomalous couplings and FCNC with the
ATLAS detector”
8. European School of High-Energy Physics, Kitzbühel, Áustria, 21 de
Agosto a 3 de Setembro de 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)
9. 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 presentation on behalf of the
DELPHI Collaboration)
Invited talks
1. II. Physikalisches Institut Seminar, Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen, Germany, 15th January 2010, “Study of the top quark properties at the ATLAS experiment”
2. 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”
3. 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”
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Outreach activities
– European Masterclass 2010 (Hands on Particles). Physics Department, Universidade do Minho, Braga, 20th February 2010.
– “Fı́sica de Partı́culas Elementales” activity during the IX Spanish
Cience Week, Faculdad de Ciencias, Universidad de Granada, 918th 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
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)
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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
C1 Proficient
user
C2 Proficient
user
C1 Proficient
user
C1 Proficient
user
C1 Proficient
user
French
A2 Basic user
B1 Independent
A2 Basic user
user
A2 Basic user
A2 Basic user
(*)
September 14, 2010
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Spoken
production
Writing
Spoken
interaction
Common European Framework of Reference (CEF) level