M. Costa

Research summary

Combination of H1 and ZEUS inclusive neutral- and charged-current e+/- p deep-inelastic scattering cross sections across six orders of magnitude in Q^2 and x produced a single HERA dataset whose correlated systematic treatment yielded reduced uncertainties; this combined sample was the sole input to an NLO QCD fit that delivered the HERAPDF1.0 parton distributions with model and parametrization uncertainty estimates [1]. A subsequent combination focused on open-charm production cross sections in deep-inelastic ep scattering, again accounting for systematic correlations across H1 and ZEUS, producing reduced charm cross sections for 2.5 <= Q^2 <= 2000 GeV^2 and 3e-5 <= x <= 5e-2; the combined charm plus inclusive data were used in an NLO QCD analysis to compare different heavy-flavour schemes and their impact on parton distribution functions [2]. A clinical-research contribution analysed neurological events following transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) in patients enrolled in the CoreValve US Extreme Risk and High Risk Pivotal Trials and Continued Access Study; the 1-year stroke rate was 8.4%, with the hazard partitioned into an early phase (0-10 days, 4.1%) and a late phase (11-365 days, 4.3%), and baseline predictors of early stroke included factors identified from the registry analysis [3].

Recent publications

1. Combined measurement and QCD analysis of the inclusive e ± p scattering cross sections at HERA2010 · Journal of High Energy Physics · 718 citationsDOI
2. Radiation hard silicon detectors—developments by the RD48 (ROSE) collaboration2001 · Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment · 427 citationsDOI
3. Searches for supersymmetric particles in e + e- collisions up to 208 GeV and interpretation of the results within the MSSM2003 · The European Physical Journal C · 307 citationsDOI
4. Combination and QCD analysis of charm production cross section measurements in deep-inelastic ep scattering at HERA2013 · The European Physical Journal C · 192 citationsDOI
5. The barrel modules of the ATLAS semiconductor tracker2006 · Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment · 152 citationsDOI
6. Searches for neutral Higgs bosons in extended models2004 · The European Physical Journal C · 107 citationsDOI
7. The ATLAS semiconductor tracker end-cap module2007 · Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment · 101 citationsDOI
8. Developments for radiation hard silicon detectors by defect engineering—results by the CERN RD48 (ROSE) Collaboration2001 · Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment · 100 citationsDOI
9. The silicon microstrip sensors of the ATLAS semiconductor tracker2007 · Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment · 99 citationsDOI
10. Neurological Events Following Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement and Their Predictors2016 · Circulation Cardiovascular Interventions · 99 citationsDOI

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