Dr Davide Vadacchino
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Dr Davide Vadacchino

Lecturer in Applied Mathematics/Theoretical Physics

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

Biography

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

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

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

Publications

Key publications

Key publications are highlighted

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]

Articles
Bennett E, Holligan J, Hong DK, Hsiao H, Lee J-W, Lin C-JD, Lucini B, Mesiti M, Piai M & Vadacchino D (2023) 'Sp(2N) Lattice Gauge Theories and Extensions of the Standard Model of Particle Physics' Universe 9, (5) , DOI Open access
Bennett E, Hong DK, Lee J-W, Lin C-JD, Lucini B, Piai M & Vadacchino D (2022) 'Sp(2N) Yang-Mills theories on the lattice: Scale setting and topology' Physical Review D 106, (9) , DOI Open access
Bennett E, Hong DK, Lee J-W, Lin C-JD, Lucini B, Piai M & Vadacchino D (2022) 'Color dependence of the topological susceptibility in Yang-Mills theories' Physics Letters B 835, , DOI Open access
Bennett E, Hong DK, Hsiao H, Lee J-W, Lin C-JD, Lucini B, Mesiti M, Piai M & Vadacchino D (2022) 'Lattice studies of the Sp(4) gauge theory with two fundamental and three antisymmetric Dirac fermions' Physical Review D 106, (1) , DOI Open access
Bonanno C, D'Elia M, Lucini B & Vadacchino D (2022) 'Towards glueball masses of large-N SU(N) pure-gauge theories without topological freezing' Physics Letters B 833, , DOI Open access
Lee J-W, Bennett E, Hong DK, Hsiao H, Lin C-JD, Lucini B, Piai M & Vadacchino D (2022) 'Composite dynamics in Sp(2<i>N</i>) gauge theories' EPJ Web of Conferences 274, , DOI Open access
Lucini B, Bennett E, Holligan J, Hong DK, Hsiao H, Lee J-W, Lin C-JD, Mesiti M, Piai M & Vadacchino D (2022) 'Sp(4) gauge theories and beyond the standard model physics' EPJ Web of Conferences 258, 08003-08003 , DOI Open access
Bennett E, Holligan J, Hong DK, Lee J-W, Lin C-JD, Lucini B, Piai M & Vadacchino D (2021) 'Glueballs and strings in Sp(2N) Yang-Mills theories' Physical Review D 103, (5) , DOI Open access
Bennett E, Holligan J, Hong DK, Lee J-W, Lin C-JD, Lucini B, Piai M & Vadacchino D (2020) 'Color dependence of tensor and scalar glueball masses in Yang-Mills theories' Physical Review D 102, (1) , DOI Open access
Clemente G, Cardinali M, Bonati C, Calore E, Cosmai L, D’Elia M, Gabbana A, Rossini D, Schifano FS & Tripiccione R (2020) 'Quantum computation of thermal averages in the presence of a sign problem' Physical Review D 101, (7) , DOI
Bennett E, Hong DK, Lee J-W, Lin C-JD, Lucini B, Mesiti M, Piai M, Rantaharju J & Vadacchino D (2020) 'Sp(4) gauge theories on the lattice: Quenched fundamental and antisymmetric fermions' Physical Review D 101, (7) , DOI Open access
Bennett E, Hong DK, Lee J-W, Lin C-JD, Lucini B, Piai M & Vadacchino D (2019) 'Sp (4) gauge theories on the lattice: Nf = 2 dynamical fundamental fermions' Journal of High Energy Physics 2019, (12) , DOI
Giannetti C, Lucini B & Vadacchino D (2019) 'Machine Learning as a universal tool for quantitative investigations of phase transitions' Nuclear Physics B 944, 114639-114639 , DOI
Caselle M, Nada A, Panero M & Vadacchino D (2019) 'Conformal field theory and the hot phase of three-dimensional U(1) gauge theory' Journal of High Energy Physics 2019, (5) , DOI
Armoni A, Ireson E & Vadacchino D (2018) 'Equivalence of meson scattering amplitudes in strong coupling lattice and flat space string theory' Nuclear Physics B 928, 72-92 , DOI
Bennett E, Hong DK, Lee J-W, Lin C-JD, Lucini B, Piai M & Vadacchino D (2018) 'Sp(4) gauge theory on the lattice: towards SU(4)/Sp(4) composite Higgs (and beyond)' Journal of High Energy Physics 2018, (3) , DOI
Hong DK, Lee J-W, Lucini B, Piai M & Vadacchino D (2017) 'Casimir scaling and Yang–Mills glueballs' Physics Letters B 775, 89-93 , DOI
Caselle M, Panero M & Vadacchino D (2016) 'Width of the flux tube in compact U(1) gauge theory in three dimensions' Journal of High Energy Physics 2016, (2) , DOI
Caselle M, Panero M, Pellegrini R & Vadacchino D (2015) 'A different kind of string' Journal of High Energy Physics 2015, (1) , DOI
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]

Hsiao H, Bennett E, Hong DK, Lee J-W, Lin C-JD, Lucini B, Piai M & Vadacchino D (2023) 'Spectroscopy of chimera baryons in a Sp(4) lattice gauge theory' The 39th International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory 8-/-0/20228-/-0/2022Sissa Medialab , DOI Open access
Mason D, Lucini B, Piai M, Rinaldi E & Vadacchino D (2022) 'The density of state method for first-order phase transitions in Yang-Mills theories' The 39th International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory 8-/-0/20228-/-0/2022Sissa Medialab , DOI Open access
Vadacchino D, Bennett E, Lin C-JD, Hong DK, Lee J-W, Lucini B & Piai M (2022) 'Topological susceptibility, scale setting and universality from $Sp(N_c)$ gauge theories' The 39th International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory 8-/-0/20228-/-0/2022Sissa Medialab , DOI Open access
Lee J-W, Bennett E, Hong DK, Hsiao H, Lin C-JD, Lucini B, Piai M & Vadacchino D (2022) 'Spectroscopy of $Sp(4)$ lattice gauge theory with $n_f=3$ antisymmetric fermions' The 39th International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory 8-/-0/20228-/-0/2022Sissa Medialab , DOI Open access
Bonanno C, D'Elia M, Lucini B & Vadacchino D (2022) 'Towards glueball masses of large-$N$ $\mathrm{SU}(N)$ Yang-Mills theories without topological freezing via parallel tempering on boundary conditions' The 39th International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory 8-/-0/2022Sissa Medialab , DOI Open access
Lee J-W, Bennett E, Holligan J, Hong DK, Hsiao H, Lin C-JD, Lucini B, Mesiti M, Piai M & Vadacchino D (2022) 'Progress in $Sp(2N)$ lattice gauge theories' The 38th International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory 7-/-0/2021Sissa Medialab , DOI
Mason D, Lucini B, Piai M, Rinaldi E & Vadacchino D (2022) 'The density of states method in Yang-Mills theories and first order phase transitions' 8-/-0/20228-/-0/2022EDP Sciences 08007-08007 , DOI Open access
Holligan J, Bennett E, Hong DK, Lee J-W, Lin C-JD, Lucini B, Piai M & Vadacchino D (2020) 'Sp(2N) Yang-Mills towards large N' 37th International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory 6-/-0/2019Sissa Medialab , DOI
Lee J-W, Bennett E, Hong DK, Lin C-JD, Lucini B, Piai M & Vadacchino D (2019) 'Meson spectrum of Sp(4) lattice gauge theory with two fundamental Dirac fermions' 37th International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory 6-/-0/2019Sissa Medialab , DOI
Lee J-W, Bennett E, Hong DK, Lin C-JD, Lucini B, Piai M & Vadacchino D (2019) 'Progress in the lattice simulations of Sp(2N) gauge theories' The 36th Annual International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory 7-/-0/2018Sissa Medialab , DOI
Bennett E, Ki Hong D, Lee J-W, David Lin C-J, Lucini B, Piai M & Vadacchino D (2018) 'Higgs compositeness in Sp(2N) gauge theories — The pure gauge model' EDP Sciences 08013-08013 , DOI
Bennett E, Ki Hong D, Lee J-W, David Lin C-J, Lucini B, Piai M & Vadacchino D (2018) 'Higgs compositeness in Sp(2N) gauge theories – Determining the low-energy constants with lattice calculations' EDP Sciences 08011-08011 , DOI
Bennett E, Ki Hong D, Lee J-W, David Lin C-J, Lucini B, Piai M & Vadacchino D (2018) 'Higgs compositeness in Sp(2N) gauge theories — Resymplecticisation, scale setting and topology' EDP Sciences 08012-08012 , DOI
Vadacchino D, Caselle M & Panero M (2017) 'Squared width and profile of the confining flux tube in the U(1) LGT in 3D' 34th annual International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory 7-/-0/2016Sissa Medialab , DOI
Pellegrini R, Lucini B, Rago A & Vadacchino D (2017) 'Computing the density of states with the global Hybrid Monte Carlo' 34th annual International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory 7-/-0/2016Sissa Medialab , DOI Open access
Vadacchino D, Caselle M, Panero M & Pellegrini R (2015) 'Effective string description of the interquark potential in the 3D U(1) Lattice Gauge Theory' The 32nd International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory 6-/-0/2014Sissa Medialab , DOI
Caselle M, Panero M, Pellegrini R & Vadacchino D (2015) 'On the rigid string contribution to the interquark potential' The 32nd International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory 6-/-0/2014Sissa Medialab , DOI
Vadacchino D, Caselle M, Pellegrini R & Panero M (2014) 'Fine structure of the confining string in an analytically solvable 3D model' 31st International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory LATTICE 2013 7-/-0/2013Sissa Medialab , DOI
Personal

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