About
Professor Amidei has most recently conducted research in particle physics at the ATLAS experiment at the CERN, studying the results of proton collisions at 13 TeV, the highest controlled interaction energy ever achieved. Work there focused on radiation-hard power electronics and the search for new scalar particles that would accompany the Higgs boson in the electroweak symmetry-breaking sector.
Professor Amidei has previously worked on, and remains interested in, the search for dark matter with CCDs, silicon detectors, and precision tracking, the physics of the top quark, techniques for b-quark tagging, and electronics for high-energy physics. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society.
Selected Publications
The ATLAS Collaboration, “Search for low-mass diphoton resonances in the 66 to 110 GeV mass range using 139.5 fb-1 of 13 TeV pp collisions collected by the ATLAS detector", JHEP 01:053 (2025).
The ATLAS Collaboration, “A Search for the decays of the 125 GeV/c2 Higgs Boson in the bbττ final state with ATLAS detector using 139.5 fb-1 of 13 TeV pp collisions”, Phys. Rev. D 110:052013 (2024).
The ATLAS Collaboration, “Search for resonances decaying to photon pairs in 139 fb-1 of pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector”, Phys. Lett. B. 822:136651 (2021).
A. Aguilar-Arevalo et al. (DAMIC Collaboration), “Results on Low-Mass Weakly Interacting Massive Particles from an 11 kg d Target Exposure of DAMIC at SNOLAB”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 125:241803 (2020).
Radiation-Hard Power Electronics for the ATLAS New Small Wheel, (J. Ameel, R. Edgar, D. Amidei, et al.), Proceedings for the Topical Workshop on Electronics for Particle Physics, Journal of Instrumentation 10 C01009 (2014).
Evidence for a Mass Dependent Forward-Backward Asymmetry in Top Quark Pair Production, (T. Aaltonen et al.), The CDF Collaboration Phys. Rev. D 83:112003 (2011).
