25.05.2023PhD awarded to Giovanni Volta

Congratulations to Dr. Giovanni Volta who successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis at the end of May. During his thesis, Giovanni worked on the PMT array of the XENONnT time projection chamber (from PMT tests in LXe in our lab, to design and assembly of PMT cabling and of the array), on TPC assembly and underground installation, commissioning, as well as on the data analysis of XENONnT's first science run. In particular, Giovanni performed the first search for nucleon disappearance with XENONnT data. He was also involved in the TPC response characterisation, the study of optical parameter, and in estimating the electronic recoild background from detector materials.