RESEARCHERS

Orlando Soto

Young researcher

Orlando Soto is an academic at the Universidad de La Serena and researcher in Experimental High Energy Physics. He holds a Master's degree in Electronic Engineering Sciences from the Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María and a PhD in Sciences, mention in Physics, from the same university. 

He has worked on the characterization of photo-sensors called "Multipixel-photon counter" (MPPC) that are part of the calorimeter of the GlueX experiment at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (TJNAF), among other developments and collaborations of the electronics of this particle accelerator. He has studied the hadronization process using the CLAS spectrometer, insemi-inclusive deep inelsastic scattering(SIDIS) fixed target experiments: specifically, he has studied the production of eta mesons by electron collisions with heavy nuclei. He has also done research in hardware development using scintillation material in conjunction with MPPC to prototype hodoscopes and radon detectors. After his PhD, he worked as a researcher at the INFN group, LNF section, Italy, on the analysis of CLAS12 data, focusing his research on hadron production in SIDIS with protons and neutrons. He also participated in the calibration of the CLAS12 RICH detector. After three years, he returned to Chile to work as an academic in Experimental High Energy Physics at the Universidad de La Serena.

Research and development area:

-Development of detectors and data analysis

    -Collaboration with the Atlas experiment (Large Hadron Collider), performing radiation tests for the Charge Monitoring System of Atlas phase 2 upgrade.

-Development of a simple prototype Water Cherenkov Detector (WCD) in collaboration with The Southern Wide-field Gamma-ray Observatory (SWGO).