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 in the WA76-OMEGA experiment at CERN; he was also appointed as spokesmanWA76 on greybook of that experiment. Palano participated 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),See the press release by SLACSee also the press release by INFN. unexpected resonance constituted by a charm quark and a strange quark. In the paperObservation of a Narrow Meson Decaying to Ds+π0 at a mass of 2.32 GeV/c2, Phys. Rev. Lett. 90 (2003) 242001 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
External links Homepage of the BaBar experiment Personal Homepage of Prof. Palano Educational page of Prof. Palano (in Italian)