Luca Ghislotti

Microelectronics Lab

University of Bergamo

Dalmine, Italy

I’m a Computer Engineer and a Ph.D. student in microelectronics for high energy physics at the Microelectronics Laboratory of the University of Bergamo. I also work as a technologist at the Italian National Institute of Nuclear Physics and as a Research Associate II at the Astrophysics Laboratory of the Columbia University in New York.

My research is focused on the design and characterization of analog integrated circuits for the readout of silicon-strip detectors employed in high energy physics and astrophysics experiments.

I’m currently involved in the development of the General AntiParticle Spectrometer (GAPS) Antarctic balloon experiment in search of dark matter.

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selected publications

Energy threshold calibration of the GAPS experiment Si(Li) tracker readout electronics

L. Ghislotti, M. Boezio , L. Fabris , P. Lazzaroni , M. Manghisoni , L. Ratti , V. Re , E. Riceputi , and G. Zampa

Il Nuovo Cimento C, Apr 2024

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GAPS (General AntiParticle Spectrometer) is a stratospheric balloon experiment designed to detect low-energy cosmic ray antinuclei ( <0.25 GeV) as an indirect signature of dark matter. The experiment exploits an innovative particle identification approach based on the formation of an excited atom and its consequent de-excitation and decay. GAPS will provide unprecedented sensitivity to cosmic antideuterons, an antiproton spectrum in a hitherto unexplored energy range and high sensitivity to cosmic antihelium. The first flight is foreseen to take place from the McMurdo Station in Antarctica during the austral summer of 2024. The instrument is currently undergoing integration and calibration in anticipation of launch. In this paper, the latest tracker electronics energy threshold calibration results will be presented.
A mixed-signal processor for X-ray spectrometry and tracking in the GAPS experiment

Valerio Re , Luca Ghislotti, Paolo Lazzaroni , Massimo Manghisoni , Elisa Riceputi , Lodovico Ratti , Mirko Boezio , Gianluigi Zampa , and Lorenzo Fabris

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, Apr 2023

Publisher: Elsevier