Antimo Palano

Antimo Palano is one of the Italian and international leading experts of hadron spectroscopy.

Biography

After 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
  1. WA76 on greybook
  2. See the press release by SLAC
  3. See also the press release by INFN.
  4. Whitehouse, David (30 April 2003). "Physicists find 'rebel' particle". BBC News Online. Retrieved 21 March 2011.
  5. Observation of a Narrow Meson Decaying to Ds+π0 at a mass of 2.32 GeV/c2, Phys. Rev. Lett. 90 (2003) 242001
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