Antimo Palano is one of the Italian and international leading experts of hadron spectroscopy.
Biography
editAfter attaining his degree in physics in 1972, he participated to the WA76-OMEGA experiment at CERN; he was also appointed as spokesman[1] of that experiment. Palano is involved in the BaBar experiment, at SLAC laboratories, Stanford University. He is currently Full Professor of Physics at the University of Bari.
In 2003 he discovered a new particle, dubbed Ds0*(2317),[2][3][4] unexpected resonance constituted by a charm quark and a strange quark. In the paper[5] in which the discovery of the new particle was reported, there is also an indication about the possible existence of another particle with a mass of about 2460 MeV, the so-called Ds1(2460), subsequently confirmed by the Belle experiment, at the KEK laboratories, in Japan.
References
edit- ^ WA76 Archived 2007-08-07 at the Wayback Machine on greybook
- ^ See the press release by SLAC
- ^ See also the press release Archived 2006-05-07 at the Wayback Machine by INFN.
- ^ Whitehouse, David (30 April 2003). "Physicists find 'rebel' particle". BBC News Online. Retrieved 21 March 2011.
- ^ Observation of a Narrow Meson Decaying to Ds+π0 at a mass of 2.32 GeV/c2, Phys. Rev. Lett. 90 (2003) 242001