As a member of the gamma-spectroscopy group in Milano, my experimental research activity is focused on the study of nuclear properties at extreme conditions of temperature and angular momentum (4-5 MeV and 70 ħ).

The tipical reactions used to produce such critical conditions are fusion-evaporation reactions of heavy ions. The decay of the compound nucleus is analyzed using high resolution 4-pi gamma-arrays like EUROBALL, GAMMASPHERE and GASP often coupled to ancillary detector, as HECTOR and the InnerBall.

Currently I am also involved in the RISING experiment to serach for the pigmy resonance in the nucleus ⁶⁸Ni to be performed at the FRS in GSI in spring 2005.
(More details on this analysis can be found in the results section and in related papers)

One of the topics of my Ph.D. thesis was the study the order-to-chaos transition going from ordered rotational structures close to the yrast line to chaotic motion typical of the compound system. This topic was addressed by studying the conservation of the selection rules on the K-quantum number as a function of the excitation energy at high spin in the nucleus ¹⁶³Er, using the fluctuation analysis thechniques..
(More details on this analysis can be found in the results section and in related papers)

Another topic of my PhD project was the population of hyper-deformed structures. This analysis was performed on the ¹²⁶Ba nucleus, populated by the reaction ⁶⁴Ni+⁶⁴Ni at two different beam energies: 255-261 MeV. The analysis of the E2 continuum has evidenced the presence of a Jacobi-shape transition, considered as the precoursor for such highly deformed structures.
A full calibration of the multiplicity filter, InnerBall, was also performed in order to transform the raw info. of fold into spin.
The analysis of the high energy gamma-ray spectra to study the decay of the GDR is still in progress.
(More details on this analysis can be found in the results section and in related papers)

The role of the GDR on the population of SD configurations, studied in the nucleus ¹⁴³Eu, was the topic of my undergraduate thesis.
(More details on this analysis can be found in the results section and in related papers)

I also took part to many different experiments aiming at the study of the wobbling motion and of the evolution of the GDR width as a function of the temperature.
(More details on this analysis can be found in related papers)