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Grinstein, Sebastian
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ICREA Researcher at IFAE (Institut de Física d'Altes Energies). Experimental Sciences & Mathematics
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I completed my Master of Science at the University of Buenos Aires in 1998 working on the measurement of the production cross section of direct photons at the D0 experiment (Fermilab, USA). Afterwards, I worked in Sweden as a member of the Astroparticle Group of the Royal Institute of Technology in the WiZard/CAPRICE collaboration studying cosmic rays. Back with the University of Buenos Aires I did my Ph.D. (2003) at Fermilab, measuring the properties of quarks in high energy collisions. In 2003 I became a postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University where I worked mainly at the CDF experiment at Fermilab. In 2008 I joined the IFAE (Institut de Física d'Altes Energies) LHC-ATLAS experiment group as a ICREA Researcher. I am currently supervising ATLAS students and leading the Pixel Detector upgrade effort at IFAE. The 3D pixel silicon sensors developed and produced at Barcelona (by a collaboration of CNM and IFAE) will be included in the IBL upgrade of the ATLAS experiment at the LHC.
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Research Interests
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My research has been focused on high-energy experimental particle physics. I am interested in tests of the Standard Model and the search of new physics. At the Fermilab Tevatron I have performed studies of QCD and the properties of the heaviest quark, the top quark. I am also interested in detector R&D and challenges related with the next generation of high energy accelerators and detectors, the LHC and ATLAS. Currently I am leading the coordinated project between CNM and IFAE on the ATLAS pixel upgrade. This project is two folded: in the short term a new pixel layer (IBL) will be mounted directly on the beam-pipe to attenuate the performance degradation of the current detector. In the longer term, the super-LHC luminosity upgrade will require a complete replacement of the current pixel system.
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KeyWords
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Fermilab, CDF, Tevatron, LHC, ATLAS, Particle Physics, High Energy Physics, Pixel Detectors
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