Dr Davide Vadacchino

Biography

Lecturer in Theoretical Physics

Prior appointments:

2020 - 2022 : Simons Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Trinity College Dublin

2018 - 2020 : Assegnista di Ricerca, INFN - Sezione di Pisa

2017 - 2017: Research Software Engineer, Accademy of Advanced Computing - Swansea

2016 - 2017: Postodoctoral Research Officer, University of Swansea - Physics department

Qualifications

Qualifications:

2016: PhD degree in Theoretical Physics from Università degli Studi di Torino.
Advisor: Prof. Michele Caselle.
Thesis: "Confinement in the U(1) Lattice Gauge Theory in D=2+1 dimensions".

2012: M. Sc. in Theoretical Physics from Università degli Studi di Torino.
Advisor: Michele Caselle.
Thesis: "A Numerical Study of confinement in lattice QED". 110/110 Magna cum Laude
2008: B. Sc. in Physics from Università degli Studi di Torino.
Advisor: Prof. S. Sciuto.
Thesis: "Bell Inequalities in Quantum Mechanics" 110/110.

Teaching

Teaching interests

Current Courses:

MATH1610 - Numerical and Computational Analysis
University of Plymouth

Past Courses:

2021 - Lattice Field Theory.
M. Sci. in Quantum Fields, Strings and Gravity
Trinity College Dublin

Research

Research interests

Non-perturbative aspects of Quantum Field Theory: Glueballs, the confinement problem...

HPC for simulations in particle physics

Statistical learning theory for statistical mechanics and particle physics

Publications

Journals

Ed Bennett et al. - Glueballs and strings in Sp(2N) Yang-Mills theories
Phys. Rev. D103.5 (2021), p. 054509.
doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.103.054509. arXiv:2010.15781[hep-lat].
Ed Bennett et al. - Sp(4) gauge theories on the lattice: quenched fundamental and antisymmetric fermions in
Phys. Rev. D101.7 (2020), p. 074516. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.101.074516. arXiv:1912.06505[hep-lat].
Ed Bennett et al. Color dependence of tensor and scalar glueball masses in Yang-Mills theories.
Phys. Rev. D102.1 (2020), p. 011501.doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.102.011501. arXiv:2004.11063[hep-lat].
Giuseppe Clemente et al. Quantum computation of thermal averages in the presence of a sign problem.
Phys. Rev. D101.7 (2020), p. 074510.doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.101.074510. arXiv:2001.05328[hep-lat].
Ed Bennett et al. Sp(4) gauge theories on the lattice: Nf=2 dynamical fundamental fermions
JHEP12 (2019), p. 053.doi:10.1007/JHEP12(2019)053. arXiv:1909.12662 [hep-lat].
Caselle, Michele and Nada, Alessandro and Panero, Marco and Vadacchino, Davide. Conformal field theory and the hot phase of three-dimensional U(1) gauge theory
JHEP05 (2019), p. 068.doi:10.1007/JHEP05(2019)068. arXiv:1903.00491 [cond-mat.str-el].
Giannetti, Cinzia and Lucini, Biagio and Vadacchino, Davide. Machine Learning as a universal tool for quantitative investigations of phase transitions
Nucl. Phys.B944 (2019), p. 114639.doi:10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2019.114639. arXiv:1812.06726
Armoni, Adi and Ireson, Edwin and Vadacchino, Davide. Equivalence of Meson Scattering Amplitudesin Strong Coupling Lattice and Flat Space String Theoryin:Nucl. Phys.B928 (2018), pp. 72–92.doi:10 . 1016 / j . nuclphysb . 2018 . 01 . 002. arXiv:1708.05309 [hep-lat].
Bennett, Ed and Hong, Deog Ki and Lee, Jong-Wan and Lin, C. -J. David and Lucini, Biagio and Piai,Maurizio and Vadacchino, Davide. Sp(4) gauge theory on the lattice: towards SU(4)/Sp(4) composite Higgs (and beyond)
JHEP03 (2018), p. 185.doi:10.1007/JHEP03(2018)185. arXiv:1712.04220 [hep-lat].
Hong, Deog Ki and Lee, Jong-Wan and Lucini, Biagio and Piai, Maurizio and Vadacchino, Davide. Casimir scaling and Yang–Mills glueballs. 2017.doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2017.10.050. arXiv:1705.00286 [hep-th].
Caselle, Michele and Panero, Marco and Vadacchino, Davide. Width of the flux tube in compact U(1) gauge theory in three dimensionsin:JHEP02 (2016), p. 180.doi:10.1007/JHEP02(2016)180. arXiv:1601.07455 [hep-lat].
Caselle, Michele, and Panero, Marco and Pellegrini, Roberto and Vadacchino, Davide. A different kindof string
JHEP01 (2015), p. 105.doi:10.1007/JHEP01(2015)105. arXiv:1406.5127 [hep-lat]

Conference Papers

Jack Holligan et al. Sp(2N)Yang-Mills towards large-N
PoSLATTICE2019 (2019), p. 177.doi:10.22323/1.363.0177. arXiv:1912.09788 [hep-lat].
Jong-Wan Lee et al. Meson spectrum of Sp(4) lattice gauge theory with two fundamental Dirac fermions
PoSLATTICE2019 (2019), p. 054.doi:10.22323/1.363.0054. arXiv:1911.00437 [hep-lat].
Bennett, Ed and Hong, Deog Ki and Lee, Jong-Wan and Lin, C. -J. David and Lucini, Biagio and Piai,Maurizio and Vadacchino, Davide. Higgs compositeness in Sp(2N) gauge theories – Determining the low-energy constants with lattice calculationsin
EPJ Web Conf.175 (2018), p. 08011.doi:10.1051/epjconf/201817508011. arXiv:1710.06941[hep-lat].
Bennett, Ed and Hong, Deog Ki and Lee, Jong-Wan and Lin, C. -J. David and Lucini, Biagio and Piai,Maurizio and Vadacchino, Davide. Higgs compositeness in Sp(2N) gauge theories — Resymplecticisation, scale setting and topology
EPJ Web Conf.175 (2018), p. 08012.doi:10.1051/epjconf/201817508012. arXiv:1710.06715[hep-lat].
Bennett, Ed and Hong, Deog Ki and Lee, Jong-Wan and Lin, C. -J. David and Lucini, Biagio and Piai,Maurizio and Vadacchino, Davide. Higgs compositeness in Sp(2N) gauge theories — The pure gaugemodel
EPJ Web Conf.175 (2018), p. 08013.doi:10.1051/epjconf/201817508013. arXiv:1710.07043[hep-lat].
Lee, Jong-Wan and Bennett, Ed and Hong, Deog Ki and Lin, C. J. David and Lucini, Biagio and Piai,Maurizio and Vadacchino, Davide. Progress in the lattice simulations of Sp(2N) gauge theories
PoSLATTICE2018 (2018), p. 192.doi:10.22323/1.334.0192. arXiv:1811.00276 [hep-lat].
Pellegrini, Roberto and Lucini, Biagio and Rago, Antonio and Vadacchino, Davide. Computing the density of states with the global Hybrid Monte Carlo
PoSLATTICE2016 (2017), p. 276.doi:10.22323/1.256.0276.
Caselle, Michele and Panero, Marco and Vadacchino, Davide. Squared width and profile of the confining flux tube in the U(1) LGT in 3D
[PoSLattice2016,347(2017)]. arXiv:1610.08315 [hep-lat].
Caselle, Michele and Vadacchino, Davide and Panero, Marco and Pellegrini, Roberto. On the rigid string contribution to the interquark potentialin:PoSLATTICE2014 (2014), p. 348.doi:10.22323/1.214.0348. arXiv:1410.7433 [hep-lat].
Vadacchino, Davide and Caselle, Michele and Panero, Marco and Pellegrini, Roberto. Effective string description of the interquark potential in the 3D U(1) lattice gauge theory
PoSLATTICE2014 (2014), p. 349.doi:10.22323/1.214.0349. arXiv:1410.7436 [hep-lat].
Vadacchino, Davide and Caselle, Michele and Pellegrini, Roberto and Panero, Marco. Fine structure of the confining string in an analytically solvable 3D model
PoSLATTICE2013 (2014), p. 373.doi:10.22323/1.187.0373. arXiv:1311.4071 [hep-lat]

Personal

Reports & invited lectures

2021 - Lattice QCD: a primer of methods and results - Galileo Galilei Institute, Firenze
In the series ``Theory Lectures by Young Researchers''

Conferences organised

Organizing Committee:

2020: Mini-Workshop on Glueball hunting, https://indico.cern.ch/event/1035153/
2020: EuroPLEx progress Workshop 2020, https://indico.cern.ch/event/965890/

Other academic activities

Referee for Physics Letters B

Profiles

Lecturer in Applied Mathematics/Theoretical Physics

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics (Faculty of Science and Engineering)