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Full name..................Modesto PUSTERLA Pictures
Place of Birth............Cyprus
Nationality............... ITALIAN

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Professor Modesto PUSTERLA Dipartimento di Fisica Galileo Galilei Universita di Padova Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN) Sezione di Padova Via Marzolo 8 Padova 35131 ITALY	E-Mail: pusterla@pd.infn.it Fax: +39-049-8277112 Fax: +39-049-8277102 Phone: +39-049-8277137 (Office) Phone: +39-049-654793 (Home)

PRESENT POSITION Since, 1973: Professor of Physics (In GROUP IV); Dipartimento di Fisica Galileo Galilei Universita di Padova
ITALY
PREVIOUS POSITIONS: 1957-58 Lecturer at University of Pisa; 1958-59 Fulbright Fellowship: University of California, Berkeley USA; 1959-60 R. A. Fellowship of University of California, Berkeley USA; 1961-62 Associate Professor University of Bari; 1962-64 Associate Professor University of Padova; 1963-63 DOCENZA In Theoretical Physics; 1964-64 Associate Professor University of Bari; 1965-67 Research Fellowship of Theory Division of CERN Geneva Switzerland; Since 1973, Full Professor of Theoretical Physics University of Padova

EDUCATION

Italian Degree LAUREA (Physics): 1955, University of Pavia, with highest grades
Research Fellowship: 1956, University of Pavia,

MAIN FIELDS OF RESEARCH

Physics of Charged Particle Beams

Main Publications
(most of them one in collaboration)

Davison's parametric method in Q.M.
Functional methods in field theory
Il Nuovo Cimento 4, 150 (1956).
Electron scattering in nuclear field with pair--creation
Il Nuovo Cimento 4, 1601- (1956).
Spin of $K_{\mu 3}$ from the decay process Il Nuovo Cimento 5, 961- (1957).
Conseguenze della violazione del principio di parit\`a nelle interazioni deboli
Proc. Padua--Venice Conference on elem. particles, 1958.
Effects of the pion--pion resonance on $K^- -p$ scattering
dagli ``Studia GHISLERIANA" Serie IV Vol. II - pg. 63 (1959).
Long range Interaction in $\bar K$--nucleon and K--nucleon elastic amplitudes
Phys. Rev. Letters 4, 615 (1960).
Energy dependence of the low energy $\bar K$--proton and $K^+$--proton cross sections
Phys. Rev. 123, 308, (1961).
A coupled analysis of the 3/2, 3/2 P and D waves in pion--nucleon scattering
Phys. Rev. 123, 315, (1961).
Pion--hyperon resonance from $\bar K$--nucleon Coulomb constructive S--wave parameters
Il Nuovo Cimento 22 1306- (1961).
Inelastic Contributions to the Low Energy pion--nucleon scattering
Il Nuovo Cimento 20 1224- (1961).
Inelasticity effects on the low energy pion--nucleon phase--shifts
Proc. Sienna Int. Conf. Elem. particles, pg. 413, 1963.
Spin of $SU_3$ multiplets from a generalized Lorentz Group
Il Nuovo Cimento 33 895- (1964).
Many channel scattering and bootstrap dynamics
Il Nuovo Cimento 34 813- (1964).
A maximum principle for strong interaction symmetries
Il Nuovo Cimento 3 422- (1965).
Theory of octet enhouncement and the pseudoscalar vector meson interaction
Il Nuovo Cimento 40 839- (1966).
Bootstrap solutions in a vector--meson model
Il Nuovo Cimento 48 430- (1967)
Unitary Pad\`e approximants for the S matrix
Il Nuovo Cimento 48 412- (1967).
Unitarity Pad\`e approximants in strong coupling...
Phys. Lett. 25B, (1967).
Low energy pion nucleon phase--shifts....
Il Nuovo Cimento 54A 243- (1968).
Relativistic quark field theory using the Pad\`e methods
Phys. Lett. 27B, 34, (1968).
The problem of bound states in relativistic field theory...
Lettere Nuovo Cimento 3, 757, (1970).
General formulation of a relativistic theory of particle costituents (quarks)...
Rev. Brasileira de Fisica 1, 429 (1971).
Physical foundations of non relativistic quark models
Proc. Scuola estiva di Cargese (Corsica, Francia), 1970.
A proposal of phase shift analysis of $\bar K$, K nucleon scattering....
Il Nuovo Cimento 13A 845- (1973).
Model field theories and Pad\`e approximants
On Pad\`e approximants and their applications
pp. 299 Edited by P.R. Graves Morris - Academic Press, 1973.
Lettere Nuovo Cimento 2, 287 (1974).
A method for computing Feynman amplitudes with branch cuts
Feynman integrals and the moment problem
Comp. physics comm. 1976.
A proposal for a non--perturbative analytical approach in plasmas
Lettere Nuovo Cimento 16, 367, (1976).
Analytical methods in laser fusion
Lettere Nuovo Cimento 20, 625, (1977).
Classical Oscillations excited parametrically...
Proc. Second. Intern. Conf. Energy Storage, Plenum 1979.
Analytical approximate solutions of the non linear basic equations in classical physics
J. Math. Phys. 20, 2639, (1979).
Fusion driven by heavy ion beams. Recent progress and future perspectives
Lettere Nuovo Cimento 27, 331 (1980).
The relevance of Pad\`e methods in non--linear dynamics
Preprint Marzo 1980 IFPD 11/80.
Approach in the beam--beam interaction problem in storage rings
Lett. Nuovo Cimento 31, n.6 pag. 217 (1981).
Extrapolation algorithms and their application for the evaluation of beam--beam effects on the motion and polarization of particles in storage rings
IEEE Trans. Nucl. Science vol.5, 28 n.3, 2543, June 1981.
Non--Linear beam--beam effects in present and future storage rings generalized Birkhoff method on conservative mappings
Particles Accelerator, vol.12, pags. 121--130, 1982.
Non--Linear Classical Dynamics and its application on beams in Storage Rings
IEEE Trans. Nucl. Science vol. NS--30, n.4 -- August 1983.
Non Linear Classical Dynamics and its application on beams in Storage Rings
Proceedings Universit\`a di Salerno: Theoretical Physics Metting, Amalfi 6--7 Maggio 1983 -- Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane pag. 246--274.
A Non Linear Schr\"odinger Equation and its Relativistic Generalization from Basic Principles
Int. Acc. Conf. FERMILAB August 1983.
Studio delle mappe simplettiche non--lineari in sistemi classici a numero qualsiasi di gradi di libert\`a
Lettere al Nuovo Cimento 34, 12 (1982).
Studio dell'evoluzione temporale del moto dei protoni in fasci di elevata intensit\`a e polarizzazione dei fasci medesimi
(Comunicazione Conf. SIF)
(Comunicazioni presso Workshop di Capri 1986).
The problem of painting in the injective into circular accelerators: a general analytical approach
Proposal for a European Hadron Facility (EHF), Maggio 1986.
Strategies for filling the longitudinal phase space in the injection into a booster proton synchrotron at very high intensity currents
Pubblicato sulla rivista ``Nuclear Instruments and Methods" (1988).
Quantum Mechanical Implications for polarized antiprotons in the spin--splitter device
Preprint DFPD/88/TH/27.
Non--Linear beam--beam effects in present and future storage rings generalized Bikhoff method on conservative mappings
Pubblicato su Il Nuovo Cimento, 1990 (note brevi).
Non Linear Classical Dynamics and its application on beams in Storage Rings
IEEE Trans. Nucl. Science Vol. NS--30, n.4--August 1983.
Non Linear Classical Dynamics and its application on beams in Storage Rings
Proceedings Universit\`a di Salerno: Theoretical Physics Metting, Amalfi 6--7 Maggio 1983 -- Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane pp. 246--274.
Quantum Mechanical Implications for polarized Antiprotons in the Spin--Splitter Device
Int.Acc. Conf. FERMILAB August 1983.
A study of effects of tune modulation in non linear maps
Il Nuovo Cimento (Note brevi) Vol. 103 A n.71 (1990) pp. 1087--1090.
Measurements of spin motions in a storage ring outside the stable polarization direction
AIP Conf. Proc. N.292 -- Particles and fields upton, NY 1992, series 54 -- pp. 337--344.
Measurement of spin motion...
Phys. Rev. Lett. Vol. 69, n.12 -- Sept. 1992 -- pp. 1753 -- 1756.
A proposal for an experiment on ionization and stopping of heavy ions...
High Energy spin Physics - Nagoya SPIN 92 -- Frontiers of Univ. Ac. Press. pp. 387--390 (1992).
The spin--splitter concept
Proc. Int. Symp. HIF. Nuovo Cimento 106A, 412, pag. 1821,1993.
Spin splitting due to longitudinal Stern--GZerlach kicks
INFN/TC--93/04
Il Nuovo Cimento (Note Brevi), Vol. 108A, pag. 127, 1995.
M. Conte, R. Jagannathan, S. A. Khan and M. Pusterla,
Beam optics of the Dirac particle with anomalous magnetic moment
Preprint:IMSc/96/07 INFN/AE-96/08
Particle Accelerators 56 (2) 99-126 (1996).
Modesto Pusterla,
Stern-Gerlach Force in Classical and Quantum Mechanics and its Applications to produce Polarized Beams,
In: Proceedings of the 15th Advanced ICFA Beam Dynamics Workshop on
Quantum Aspects of Beam Physics (04 - 09 January 1998, Monterey, California USA)
Editor Pisin Chen (World Scientific, Singapore, 1999) pp. 702-709.
Modesto Pusterla,
Quantum mechanical implications in spin-splitter devices,
To appear in:
Proceedings of the Workshop on Non-Linear Problems in Charged-Particle Beam Transport in Linear and Recirculated Accelerators, Analysis of Transverse and Longitudinal Instabilities
Nuovo Cimento.
Sameen A. Khan and Modesto Pusterla,
Quantum mechanical aspects of the halo puzzle
To appear in: Proceedings of the 1999 Particle Accelerator Conference (PAC99)
(29 March - 02 April 1999, New York City, NY)
Editors A. Luccio and W. MacKay,
PAC99 Archive THP136.pdf
LANL e-print archive physics/9904064.
Sameen A. Khan and Modesto Pusterla,
Quantum-like approaches to the halo problem
To appear in: Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Squeezed States and Uncertainty Relations (ICSSUR'99)
24 - 29 May 1999
(NASA Conference Publication Series)
LANL e-print archive physics/9905034.
N. Cuffaro Petroni and Modesto Pusterla,
Levy Processes and Schrodinger equation
06 November 2008

In Preparation

M. Conte, R. Jagannathan, S. A. Khan and M. Pusterla,
A quantum mechanical formalism for studying the transport of Dirac-particle beams through magnetic optical elements in accelerators.
And others ...

List of Writeups is also accessible via the SLAC SPIRES

Participation in Conferences/Seminars/Colloquia

15th Advanced ICFA Beam Dynamics Workshop on
Quantum Aspects of Beam Physics Monterey, California, USA
04 - 09 January 1998
Stern-Gerlach Force in Classical and Quantum Mechanics and its Applications to produce Polarized Beams
Workshop report available in: ICFA Beam Dynamics Newsletter
No. 16 April 1998 pp. 22 - 25.
Workshop on Non-Linear Problems in Charged-Particle Beam Transport in Linear and Recirculated Accelerators, Analysis of Transverse and Longitudinal Instabilities
Italian National Agency for New Technology, Energy and Environment (ENEA) Frascati
13 - 15 May 1998
Quantum mechanical implications in spin-splitter devices
1999 Particle Accelerator Conference (PAC99)
New York City,
29 March - 02 April 1999
Quantum mechanical aspects of the halo puzzle TH136.pdf

Italian Beam Physics Club (IBPC)

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