CP Violation in the KAON sector - A review in Honour of Italo Mannelli

Wednesday 5 Sept 2018, 14:30 → 19:30 Europe/Rome

Sala Azzurra (Scuola Normale Superiore - Pisa)

The importance of the 1964 discovery of CP violation (CPV) in neutral kaon decays was recognized by the scientific community with the 1980 Nobel Prize attribution to V. Fitch and J. Cronin. A strong research program started after such discovery to ascertain the origin of this effect by looking for the "direct" CP violation in the decay of K mesons, with experimental efforts in Brookhaven, Fermilab and CERN. Several generations of increasingly precise experiments (the latest being NA31 and NA48 at CERN, E731 and KTeV at FNAL) led to the final confirmation in 1999 of the existence of the "direct" CPV, 35 years after the first observation of the phenomenon. A recollection of some of the people involved in the search of direct CPV intends to retrace some steps of this long and difficult research in the occasion of the 85-th birthday of Italo Mannelli, who devoted to this and related investigations a large part of his scientific activity.

Poster locandina_Mannelli_WEB_V2.pdf

14:30 → 14:50 Welcome addresses

Speakers: Prof. Augusto Sagnotti (Scuola Normale Superiore), Prof. Ettore Vicari (Physics Dept. Director Universita' di Pisa)

Slides SAGNOTTI_Mannelli_2018.pdf

14:50 → 15:10 Italo and INFN

Speaker: Prof. Fernando Ferroni (INFN President - Roma University "La Sapienza")

15:10 → 15:20 Italo and INFN-Pisa Lab

Speaker: Dr Marco Grassi (INFN - Sezione di Pisa)

15:20 → 15:40 The beginning of particle physics in Pisa.

Speaker: Prof. Paolo Rossi (Physics Department - University of Pisa)

Slides SLIDES_PAOLO_ROSSI_Mannelli_2018.pdf The_birth_of_Elementary_Particle_Physics_in_Pisa-2.pdf

15:40 → 16:00 Italo and epsilon'/epsilon

Speaker: Prof. Ikaros Bigi (Physics Department - University of Notre Dame)

Slides PisatalkSept18V30.pdf

16:00 → 16:20 Italo and NA31

Speaker: Dr Lydia Iconomidou-Fayard (LAL - Orsay)

Slides ItalosFest_NA31.pdf

16:20 → 16:50 Coffee break

16:50 → 17:10 Italo and NA48

Speakers: Dr Guillaume Unal (CERN), Prof. Mario Calvetti (University of Florence)

Slides italo-na48-guillaumeUnal.pdf

17:10 → 17:30 My work with Italo

Speaker: Prof. Luigi Di Lella (CERN and Physics Department - University of Pisa)

Slides Italo_85.pdf

17:30 → 17:50 The cusp and other lessons from NA48/2.

Speaker: Prof. Gino Isidori (Zürich University)

Slides Mannelli.pdf

17:50 → 18:10 Italo and NA62

Speaker: Dr Augusto Ceccucci (CERN)

Slides Italo.pdf

18:10 → 18:30 CP Violation in the B sector

Speaker: Prof. Marcello Giorgi (Physics Department - University of Pisa)

Slides CP_violation_in_B_sector_M_Giorgi.pdf

18:30 → 19:00 Personal recollections by Colleagues and Friends

Speakers: Dr B. Peyaud (CEA) "Moments in the making of NA48 with Italo Mannelli", Other colleagues and friends..., Dr Y. Potrebenikov (Dubna) "Greetings from Dubna"

Slides PEYAUD_SLIDES.pdf

19:00 → 19:20 Concluding remarks

Speaker: Prof. Italo Mannelli (Scuola Normale Superiore - Pisa)