Dr. Tome Anticic

dr. Tome Anticic

Personal data:

• Date and place of birth: 04.09.1969., Split, Croatia
• Citizenship: Croatia
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Education:

• Ph.D. in experimental high energy physics:

Purely Leptonic Decays of Heavy Flavour Mesons,Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA, 1997.

• M. Sc. (Part III of Math Tripos), Cambridge University, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 1991.
• B.Sc. Physics, First Class Honors, University of London, United Kingdom, 1990.

Academic Work experience:

• Head of Department of Experimental Physics at the Rudjer Boskovic Institute, Zagreb, Croatia (12/08 -…)
• Associate Professor, Rudjer Boskovic Institute, Zagreb, (03/08 – ...)
• Junior Associate Professor, Rudjer Boskovic Institute, Zagreb, (11/03 – 03/08)
• Postdoctoral position at Rudjer Boskovic Institute, Zagreb, (10/97 –11/03)
• Postdoctoral position at the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA (5/97- 8/97)
• Research Assistant, L3 experiment, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland (4/95 – 4/97)

• Teaching Assistant, Johns Hopkins University, USA (9/92 – 4/95)

Other Work experience:

• Coordinated the production component for the Ecoper (SME, about 30 staff)chemical factory (1999-2005)

FP7 and other EU projects experience:

• Coordinator in the 1320000 € FP7 Capacities project: “Upgraded Facility for Development of Silicon and Diamond Particle Detector Systems”- Particle Detectors, (8/10-8/13)(web: ). This is the largest European physics project in Croatia, as well as largest project at RBI.

• Associate Partner in the CERN FP7 Infrastructures project AIDA – Advancing European detector development ( ) (2012 - ...)

• Appointed by the Croatian Ministry of Science, Education, and Sports as the chairman of the committee to increase the success rate of Croatia to draw funds from FP7 and other EU community programmes (2012- ...)

• Appointed by the Croatian Ministry of Science, Education, and Sports as one of two experts for the FP7 Cooperation - Energy Committee (3/11 - ...)

• External expert for numerous FP7 educational seminars

• Leads the RBI team for structural funds. In particular, leads the effort for the RBI proposal for an investment of order of 50 million Euros.

• Wrote up and submitted 1 FP7, 1 IPA, and 1 HrZZ projects that, unlike the two FP7 projects mentioned above, did not get financed – FP7 got an excellent mark of 12.5, the HrZZ got selected to the shortlist of 11 from a pool of about 70, and the IPA was just under the passing threshold for the second round.

• In the process of writing several projects for FP7 Marie Curie/People.

Active membership in scientific experiments:

• Pierre Auger Observatory, Malargue, Argentina (2008- …)
• NA61 experiment, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland (2007 – ...)
• ALICE experiment, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland (2000 – ...)
• NA49 experiment, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland (1998 – ...)
• CMS experiment, Johns Hopkins University, USA (5/97-8/97)
• L3 experiment, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland (1993-2000)

Additional training:

• Innovation Promotion, Technology Transfer and Successful Technology Licensing (STL), organized by World Intelectual Property Organization/IAEA, 07/2010, Vienna
• Regional Workshop on How to design a succesful strategy and undertake research at a European level, Hyperion Ltd., IAEA, 09/2009, Vienna
• Strengthening the Intellectual Property Implementation System, CARDS 2003, 11/2006, Zagreb
• Numerous one-day seminars on FP7 project writing and on structural funds, spaning a period of 2006 to 2012.

Programming skills:

• Excellent knowledge:
• Linux, Windows,VMS
• C++, C, Fortran, Visual Basic, perl, http, php, sql,microcode
• Apache, GEANT, Access, ROOT, Ptolemy, mySQL

Languages:

• Fluent: English, Croatian, German

Main contributions:

• Head of Department of Experimental Physics (DEP) at RBI:
• Reorganized the project operations of the Department so that it is now the most successful academic department in Croatia regarding FP7 projects, currently having 9 of the 16 FP7 projects of RBI, 5 out of 6 foreign postdocs, with only 9% of the scientific staff. Also, DEP receives four times more financing from international sources (FP7, IAEA, SCOPES, and other) than from Ministry of Science, Education, and Sports.

• RBI:
• Leader of RBI effort for structural funds.
• Member of the 7-person RBI board for restructuring the RBI departments, and preparing them for its first independent external international evaluation.
• Advisor to the RBI director for matters concerning cooperation with all Croatian Universities.- 2010
• Member of the 5-person RBI board for intellectual property -2010.

• FP7 projects
• Coordinator of the largest Croatian international project in physics: “Upgraded Facility for Development of Silicon and Diamond Particle Detector Systems”:1320000 Euro (web: ).

• Took active part in writing numerous other FP7, IPA, NATO, and IAEA projects connected with the Department of Experimental Physics.

• Coordinates and leads the planning in the Department of Experimental Physics for the application for the structural funds available once Croatia joins the European Union.

• Ecoper chemical factory
• Coordinated factory operation and R&D of the 30 person chemical factory (1999-2005), increasing overall productivity by a factor of 5 with same funds and manpower, by implementing more efficient work practices

• Wrote and implemented a full software package (in Access) for bookkeeping and factory inventory control

• NA49/NA61 experiment
• Leads analysis of hyperons in proton-proton and proton-lead data at the NA49 i NA61 experiments at CERN. Part of team that found first signals for Omega and anti-Omega particles in proton-proton collisions at SPS energies. This is based on software and analysis techniques developed by me – a new finder/algorithm for Xi and Omega searches that increases the efficiency by almost a factor of two.

• Developed a new method for the calibration of the detector geometry, enabling for the first time a detailed calibration of extremely inhomogeneous magnetic fields. This became a standard step in the calibration of all NA61 data, with Zagreb as a result leading this important part.

• ALICE experiment
• Designed and wrote program for detailed monitoring of thousands of computers used for the Data Acquisurion System of ALICE.

• Designed and wrote program for a detailed simulation of the Trigger and DAQ system of the ALICE eksperiment.

• L3 experiment
• Discovered new analytic methods for improving the measurement of heavy meson decay constants

• Designed the full system for data acquisition for silicon sensor testing, including the online and offline code, trigger system, design of the DAQ hardware, as well as a Geant simulation of the full process.

• Pierre Auger observatory
• Created web interface for online systematic monitoring of detector performance under different software environments.

Workshops and meetings organized:

• Diamond Detectors workshop - FP7 „Particle Detectors“ – 2012 – May, Plitvice Lakes
• NA61/CERN Collaboration week at RBI – Oct 2011
• DAQ workshop - FP7 „Particle Detectors“ – Nov 2011
• Silicon Detectors workshop, - FP7 „Particle Detectors“ – 2012 – October, Split (in process)
• Committee member for several LHC Days in Split

Patents:

• Three patent applications in the process of submission (not based on RBI related work), one of them in final stages.

Leadership of scientific projects:

• Croatia
• Croatian GRID and cluster project, 2002 – Isabella.

I lead the team of almost 20 scientists, engineers and technicians that constructed at SRCE the first GRID based computing cluster in Croatia, for the needs of projects of the Ministry of Science and Technology. The aim of the project was to join the European project DataGrid which was started and led by CERN. Isabella was made available for the broader academic community so that Croatian experts can take part in top scientific projects. The aim was also to motivate them to use clustering technologies and to develop parallel algorithms and models in IT branches of numerous basic and applied sciences.

Today Isabella is the strongest computer resource in Croatia and as the common resource of all the scientists in Croatia it enables the demanding data processing within many scientific research projects financed by the Ministry of Science, Education and Sport. This cluster is being used by 58 projects at the moment.

• International

• FP7 project “Particle Detectors” - 2010 - …

I am the coordinator in the 1 320 000 € FP7 Capacities project: “Upgraded Facility for

Development of Silicon and Diamond Particle Detector Systems”- Particle Detectors, (8/10-8/13) (web: ). This is the largest European physics project in Croatia, as well as largest project at RBI. The project passed the very competitive international selection procedure (under 10% passing rate), as it successfully builds upon the strengths of the entire DEP, addresses the weaknesses, and creates an environment that the European Research Area profits from. The focus is on silicon and diamond detectors, their readout, and their testing. The European partners of this project, with whom frequent and detailed contacts and communication is being performed, are:

• University of Birmingham, England
• University of Frankfurt, Germany
• University of Huelva, Spain
• University of Manchester, England
• University of Torino, England
• CERN
• Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland
• GSI, Germany
• Ganil, France

• FP7 project “AIDA - Advanced European Infrastructures for Detectors at Accelerators.” - 2012 - …

More than 80 institutes and laboratories from 23 European countries are involved in the project asbeneficiaries or associate partners. It aims to upgrade, improve and integrate key European research infrastructures and develop advanced detector technologies for future particle accelerators (LHC upgrade, Linear Colliders, Neutrino facilities and Super-B factories). The project is coordinated byCERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research.The particle detectors developed in the AIDA project will be used in a planned upgrade to the LHC, and the proposed International Linear Collider machine. The goals of the AIDA projects are very much in line with what DEP strives to achieve, so a partnership with AIDA is of great strategic benefit to PD. RBI joined AIDA, with me as the person in charge for RBI, in March 2012.

Training of researchers in early stages of their career:

• As the coordinator of the FP7 project “Particle Detectors”, I am currently in charge of five postdocs (three are foreigners) at various stages – dr Laura Grassi, dr. Davit Chokheli, dr. Vlassios Petoussis, dr. Fabio Schirru, dr. Darko Mekterovic, and soon dr. Nikola Poljak. Their tasks are spread across different components of the project, but for two of them, dr. Petoussis and dr. Mekterovic, I am in direct charge of their duties and progress monitoring and further career development. They are both assigned to work on the novel gas based silicon pixel detectors, so called GridPix developed at NIKHEF, as well as for the CMS pixel upgrade.

• I have one diploma student completion – Antonia Utrobicic, 2011,title of diploma thesis: “Hyperon cross section at SPS energies”.

• As the Head of DEP, I am responsible for the progress and career development of about 15 graduate students.

• At CERN I lead two summer interns (2002) from the University of Zagreb – Vedran Sego and Ruzica Piskac, both of them now with a Ph.D. and academic positions.

Invited international talks

• Inclusive production of hyperons, as well as of pions, charged kaons, protons, anti-protons and neutrons in p+p collisions at 158 GeV/c beam momentum, International Conference on High Energy Physics (ICHEP), Paris, France, 07/2010.

• Hyperon analysis at the NA49 experiment, Symposium on proton-proton reactions, Frankfurt, Germany, 02/2010.

• Determining the best phenomenological model for hadronic interactions using the anti-Omega to Omega ratio in proton-proton collisions, Astroparticle Physics: Current Issues 2007 (APCI07), Budapest, Hungary, 2007.

• AFFAIR : a fast cluster and application monitoring software package, ROOT 2005 Workshop, Geneva, Switzerland, 27-29.09.2005.

• NA49 results on exotic Xi states, Workshop on Exotic Baryons, Trento, Italy, 21-24.02.2005.

• A new pentaquark: can the correct pentaquark model already be determined?, MIT Theory seminar, Boston, USA, 21.11.2003.

• Simulating the ALICE HLT, HLT workshop, Heidelberg University, 2003.

• Performance monitoring with AFFAIR, CERN IT seminar, 2002.

• Specification and simulation of the ALICE Trigger and DAQ System, Anticic for the ALICE collaboration, Computing in High Energy Physics, Beijing, China, (2001).

• Pure Leptonic Decays of Heavy Flavour Mesons, American Physics Society meeting, Washington (1997).

Published papers:

• SPIRES base:

Total publications: 119

Total citations: 5854

h-index: 41

• WOS base:

Total publications: 94

Total citations: 2635

h-index: 28

• Search for the critical point of strongly interacting matter at the CERN SPS.
  By NA49 Collaboration (G.L. Melkumov et al.).Nucl.Phys.Proc.Suppl. 219-220 (2011) 102-110.

• $J/\psi$ Production as a Function of Charged Particle Multiplicity in $pp$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 7$ TeV.By ALICE Collaboration (B. Abelev et al.).Phys.Lett. B712 (2012) 165-175.

• Heavy flavour decay muon production at forward rapidity in proton--proton collisions at \sqrt(s) = 7 TeV.By ALICE Collaboration (Betty Abelev et al.).
  Phys.Lett. B708 (2012) 265-275.

• Measurement of Event Background Fluctuations for Charged Particle Jet Reconstruction in Pb-Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 2.76$ TeV.By ALICE Collaboration (Betty Abelev et al.).JHEP 1203 (2012) 053.

• Light vector meson production in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV.
  By ALICE Collaboration (B. Abelev et al.).Phys.Lett. B710 (2012) 557-568.

• Measurement of Production Properties of Positively Charged Kaons in Proton-Carbon Interactions at 31 GeV/c.By NA61/SHINE Collaboration (N. Abgrall et al.).Phys.Rev. C85 (2012) 035210.

• The effect of the geomagnetic field on cosmic ray energy estimates and large scale anisotropy searches on data from the Pierre Auger Observatory.
  By Pierre Auger Collaboration (P. Abreu et al.).JCAP 1111 (2011) 022.
• Search for signatures of magnetically-induced alignment in the arrival directions measured by the Pierre Auger Observatory.By Pierre Auger Collaboration (P. Abreu et al.).Astropart.Phys. 35 (2012) 354-361.

• Antideuteron and deuteron production in mid-central Pb+Pb collisions at 158$A$ GeV.By NA49 Collaboration (T. Anticic et al.).Phys.Rev. C85 (2012) 044913.
  
• A Search for Ultra-High Energy Neutrinos in Highly Inclined Events at the Pierre Auger Observatory.By Pierre Auger Observatory Collaboration (P. Abreu et al.).Phys.Rev. D84 (2011) 122005.

• Measurement of charm production at central rapidity in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 7$ TeV.By ALICE Collaboration (B. Abelev et al.).JHEP 1201 (2012) 128.

• J/psi polarization in pp collisions at sqrt(s)=7 TeV.By ALICE Collaboration (B. Abelev et al.).Phys.Rev.Lett. 108 (2012) 082001.

• The Lateral Trigger Probability function for the ultra-high energy cosmic ray showers detected by the Pierre Auger Observatory.By Pierre Auger Collaboration (P. Abreu et al.).Astropart.Phys. 35 (2011) 266-276.

• Particle-yield modification in jet-like azimuthal di-hadron correlations in Pb-Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 2.76$ TeV.By ALICE Collaboration (K. Aamodt et al.).
  Phys.Rev.Lett. 108 (2012) 092301.

• Harmonic decomposition of two-particle angular correlations in Pb-Pb collisions at sqrt(sNN) = 2.76 TeV.By ALICE Collaboration (K. Aamodt et al.).
  Phys.Lett. B708 (2012) 249-264.

• Anisotropy and chemical composition of ultra-high energy cosmic rays using arrival directions measured by the Pierre Auger Observatory.By Pierre Auger Collaboration (P. Abreu et al.).JCAP 1106 (2011) 022.

• Higher harmonic anisotropic flow measurements of charged particles in Pb-Pb collisions at sqrt(s_{(NN)}) = 2.76 TeV.By ALICE Collaboration (K. Aamodt et al.).
  Phys.Rev.Lett. 107 (2011) 032301.

• $K^{\ast}(892)^0$ and $\bar{K}^{\ast}(892)^0$ production in central Pb+Pb, Si+Si, C+C and inelastic p+p collisions at 158$A$~GeV.By NA49 Collaboration (T. Anticic et al.).Phys.Rev. C84 (2011) 064909.

• Rapidity and transverse momentum dependence of inclusive J/psi production in $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 7$ TeV.By ALICE Collaboration (K. Aamodt et al.).hys.Lett. B704 (2011) 442-455.
• Proton - Lambda Correlations in Central Pb+Pb Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 17.3$ GeV.By NA49 Collaboration (T. Anticic et al.).Phys.Rev. C83 (2011) 054906.

• Search for First Harmonic Modulation in the Right Ascension Distribution of Cosmic Rays Detected at the Pierre Auger Observatory.
  By Pierre Auger Collaboration (P. Abreu et al.).Astropart.Phys. 34 (2011) 627-639.

• The Pierre Auger Observatory scaler mode for the study of solar activity modulation of galactic cosmic rays.By Pierre Auger Collaboration (P. Abreu et al.).
  JINST 6 (2011) P01003.

• Measurements of Cross Sections and Charged Pion Spectra in Proton-Carbon Interactions at 31 GeV/c.By NA61/SHINE Collaboration (N Abgrall et al.).
  Phys.Rev. C84 (2011) 034604.

• Advanced functionality for radio analysis in the Offline software framework of the Pierre Auger Observatory.By AUGER Collaboration (P. Abreu et al.).
  Nucl.Instrum.Meth. A635 (2011) 92-102.

• Production of pions, kaons and protons in $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}= 900$ GeV with ALICE at the LHC.By ALICE Collaboration (K. Aamodt et al.). Eur.Phys.J. C71 (2011) 1655.

• Femtoscopy of $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}=0.9$ and 7 TeV at the LHC with two-pion Bose-Einstein correlations.By ALICE Collaboration (K. Aamodt et al.).
  Phys.Rev. D84 (2011) 112004.

• Energy dependence of kaon-to-proton ratio fluctuations in central Pb+Pb collisions from $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 6.3 to 17.3~GeV.By NA49 Collaboration (T. Anticic et al.).Phys.Rev. C83 (2011) 061902.

• Two-pion Bose-Einstein correlations in central Pb-Pb collisions at $sqrt(s_NN)$ = 2.76 TeV.By ALICE Collaboration (K. Aamodt et al.).Phys.Lett. B696 (2011) 328-337.

• Strange particle production in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 0.9 TeV with ALICE at the LHC.By ALICE Collaboration (K. Aamodt et al.).Eur.Phys.J. C71 (2011) 1594.

• Centrality dependence of the charged-particle multiplicity density at mid-rapidity in Pb-Pb collisions at sqrt(sNN) = 2.76 TeV.By ALICE Collaboration (K. Aamodt et al.).Phys.Rev.Lett. 106 (2011) 032301.

• Suppression of Charged Particle Production at Large Transverse Momentum in Central Pb--Pb Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 2.76$ TeV.By ALICE Collaboration (Kenneth Aamodt et al.).Phys.Lett. B696 (2011) 30-39.

• Elliptic flow of charged particles in Pb-Pb collisions at 2.76 TeV.By ALICE Collaboration (K Aamodt et al.).Phys.Rev.Lett. 105 (2010) 252302.

• Charged-particle multiplicity density at mid-rapidity in central Pb-Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 2.76$ TeV.By ALICE Collaboration (B Abelev et al.).Phys.Rev.Lett. 105 (2010) 252301.

• Centrality dependence of proton and antiproton spectra in Pb+Pb collisions at 40A GeV and 158A GeV measured at the CERN SPS.By NA49 Collaboration (T. Anticic et al.).Phys.Rev. C83 (2011) 014901.

• Update on the correlation of the highest energy cosmic rays with nearby extragalactic matter.By Pierre Auger Observatory Collaboration (P. Abreu et al.).Astropart.Phys. 34 (2010) 314-326.

• The exposure of the hybrid detector of the Pierre Auger Observatory.
  By Pierre Auger Observatory Collaboration (P. Abreu et al.).Astropart.Phys. 34 (2011) 368-381.

• Two-pion Bose-Einstein correlations in pp collisions at sqrt(s)=900 GeV.
  By ALICE Collaboration (K Aamodt et al.).Phys.Rev. D82 (2010) 052001.

• Transverse momentum spectra of charged particles in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 900$~GeV with ALICE at the LHC.By ALICE Collaboration (K Aamodt et al.).Phys.Lett. B693 (2010) 53-68.

• Midrapidity antiproton-to-proton ratio in pp collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 0.9$ and $7$~TeV measured by the ALICE experiment.By ALICE Collaboration (Authors:: K. Aamodt et al.).Phys.Rev.Lett. 105 (2010) 072002.

• Commissioning and initial experience with the ALICE on-line.
  By ALICE Collaboration (V. Altini et al.).J.Phys.Conf.Ser. 219 (2010) 022022.

• Charged-particle multiplicity measurement in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 0.9 and 2.36 TeV with ALICE at LHC.By ALICE Collaboration (K. Aamodt et al.).Eur.Phys.J. C68 (2010) 89-108.

• Charged-particle multiplicity measurement in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV with ALICE at LHC.By ALICE Collaboration (K. Aamodt et al.).
  Eur.Phys.J. C68 (2010) 345-354.

• Inclusive production of charged kaons in p+p collisions at 158 GeV/c beam momentum and a new evaluation of the energy dependence of kaon production up to collider energies.By NA49 Collaboration (T. Anticic et al.).Eur.Phys.J. C68 (2010) 1-73.

• Trigger and aperture of the surface detector array of the Pierre Auger Observatory.
  By Pierre Auger Observatory Collaoration Collaboration (J. Abraham et al.).Nucl.Instrum.Meth. A613 (2010) 29-39.

• Measurement of the energy spectrum of cosmic rays above $10^{18}$ eV using the Pierre Auger Observatory.By Pierre Auger Collaboration (J. Abraham et al.).
  Phys.Lett. B685 (2010) 239-246.

• Measurement of the Depth of Maximum of Extensive Air Showers above 10^18 eV.
  By Pierre Auger Observatory Collaboration (J. Abraham et al.).