Matteo Cacciari

Bibliometric summary

• 123 papers, 79 of which are original research articles published in peer-reviewed journals
• About 35 000 total citations received
• h-index = 50 (INSPIRE) - 62 (Google Scholar)
• Top-cited paper: "The anti-kt jet clustering algorithm", with about 11 500 citations
• 36 papers with more than 100 citations

Links to public databases

• List of publications from INSPIRE
• List of publications from Google Scholar

Curated list of papers

Miscellanea

• A thrust to trust minimum thrust.
  Matteo Cacciari.
  [arXiv:2512.04244 [hep-ph]].
• A note on the fate of the Landau-Yang theorem in non-Abelian gauge theories.
  Matteo Cacciari, Luigi Del Debbio, José R. Espinosa, Antonio D. Polosa, Massimo Testa.
  [arXiv:1509.07853 [hep-ph]]. 10.1016/j.physletb.2015.12.053. Phys.Lett. B753 (2016) 476-481.
• Fully Differential Vector-Boson-Fusion Higgs Production at Next-to-Next-to-Leading Order.
  Matteo Cacciari, Frédéric A. Dreyer, Alexander Karlberg, Gavin P. Salam, Giulia Zanderighi.
  [arXiv:1506.02660 [hep-ph]]. 10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.082002. Phys.Rev.Lett. 115 (2015) 8, 082002.
• [Review] Standard Model theory calculations and experimental tests.
  Matteo Cacciari, Gautier Hamel de Monchenault.
  10.1016/j.crhy.2015.04.004. Comptes Rendus Physique 16 (2015) 368-378.

Theoretical Uncertainties

• An extensive survey of the estimation of uncertainties from missing higher orders in perturbative calculations.
  Emanuele Bagnaschi, Matteo Cacciari, Alberto Guffanti, Laura Jenniches.
  [arXiv:1409.5036 [hep-ph]]. 10.1007/JHEP02(2015)133 JHEP 1502 (2015) 133.
• Meaningful characterisation of perturbative theoretical uncertainties.
  Matteo Cacciari, Nicolas Houdeau.
  [arXiv:1105.5152 [hep-ph]]. 10.1007/JHEP09(2011)039. JHEP 1109 (2011) 039.

Jet and final state physics

• Single-jet inclusive cross section and its definition.
  Matteo Cacciari, Stefano Forte, Davide Napoletano, Gregory Soyez, Giovanni Stagnitto.
  [arXiv:1906.11850 [hep-ph]]. 10.1103/PhysRevD.100.114015. Phys.Rev.D 100 (2019) 114015.
• [Review] Phenomenological and theoretical developments in jet physics at the LHC.
  Matteo Cacciari.
  [arXiv:1509.02272 [hep-ph]]. 10.1142/S0217751X1546001X. Int.J.Mod.Phys. A30 (2015) 31, 1546001.
• SoftKiller, a particle-level pileup removal method.
  Matteo Cacciari, Gavin P. Salam, Gregory Soyez.
  [arXiv:1407.0408 [hep-ph]]. 10.1140/epjc/s10052-015-3267-2. Eur.Phys.J. C75 (2015) 2, 59.
• Use of charged-track information to subtract neutral pileup.
  Matteo Cacciari, Gavin P. Salam, Gregory Soyez.
  [arXiv:1404.7353 [hep-ph]]. 10.1103/PhysRevD.92.014003. Phys.Rev. D92 (2015) 1, 014003.
• Pileup subtraction for jet shapes.
  Gregory Soyez, Gavin P. Salam, Jihun Kim, Souvik Dutta, Matteo Cacciari.
  [arXiv:1211.2811 [hep-ph]]. 10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.162001. Phys.Rev.Lett. 110 (2013) 16, 162001.
• Jet Fragmentation Function Moments in Heavy Ion Collisions.
  Matteo Cacciari, Paloma Quiroga-Arias, Gavin P. Salam, Gregory Soyez.
  [arXiv:1209.6086 [hep-ph]]. 10.1140/epjc/s10052-013-2319-8. Eur.Phys.J. C73 (2013) 2319.
• FastJet User Manual.
  Matteo Cacciari, Gavin P. Salam, Gregory Soyez.
  [arXiv:1111.6097 [hep-ph]]. 10.1140/epjc/s10052-012-1896-2. Eur.Phys.J. C72 (2012) 1896.
• Fluctuations and asymmetric jet events in PbPb collisions at the LHC.
  Matteo Cacciari, Gavin P. Salam, Gregory Soyez.
  [arXiv:1101.2878 [hep-ph]]. 10.1140/epjc/s10052-011-1692-4. Eur.Phys.J. C71 (2011) 1692.
• Jet Reconstruction in Heavy Ion Collisions.
  Matteo Cacciari, Juan Rojo, Gavin P. Salam, Gregory Soyez.
  [arXiv:1010.1759 [hep-ph]]. 10.1140/epjc/s10052-011-1539-z. Eur.Phys.J. C71 (2011) 1539.
• A Note on the CDF High-pT Charged Particle Excess.
  Matteo Cacciari, Gavin P. Salam, Matthew J. Strassler.
  [arXiv:1003.3433 [hep-ph]].
• On the characterisation of the underlying event.
  Matteo Cacciari, Gavin P. Salam, Sebastian Sapeta.
  [arXiv:0912.4926 [hep-ph]]. 10.1007/JHEP04(2010)065. JHEP 1004 (2010) 065.
• Quantifying the performance of jet definitions for kinematic reconstruction at the LHC.
  Matteo Cacciari, Juan Rojo, Gavin P. Salam, Gregory Soyez.
  [arXiv:0810.1304 [hep-ph]]. 10.1088/1126-6708/2008/12/032. JHEP 0812 (2008) 032.
• The Anti-k(t) jet clustering algorithm.
  Matteo Cacciari, Gavin P. Salam, Gregory Soyez.
  [arXiv:0802.1189 [hep-ph]]. 10.1088/1126-6708/2008/04/063. JHEP 0804 (2008) 063.
• The Catchment Area of Jets.
  Matteo Cacciari, Gavin P. Salam, Gregory Soyez.
  [arXiv:0802.1188 [hep-ph]]. 10.1088/1126-6708/2008/04/005. JHEP 0804 (2008) 005.
• Pileup subtraction using jet areas.
  Matteo Cacciari, Gavin P. Salam.
  [arXiv:0707.1378 [hep-ph]]. 10.1016/j.physletb.2007.09.077. Phys.Lett. B659 (2008) 119-126.
• Dispelling the N3 myth for the kt jet-finder.
  Matteo Cacciari, Gavin P. Salam.
  [hep-ph/0512210]. 10.1016/j.physletb.2006.08.037. Phys.Lett. B641 (2006) 57-61.

Heavy Quarks

• Inclusive open charm photoproduction in ultraperipheral collisions at the LHC with in the generalized photon-nucleus fixed-order next-to-leading logarithm framework.
  Matteo Cacciari, Gian Michele Innocenti, Anna M. Staśto.
  [arXiv:2506.09893 [hep-ph]]. 10.1103/1w13-r2tr. Phys.Rev.D 112 (2025) 094029.
• An improved description of charm fragmentation data.
  Matteo Cacciari, Andrea Ghira, Simone Marzani, Giovanni Ridolfi.
  [arXiv:2406.04173 [hep-ph]]. 10.1140/epjc/s10052-024-13245-z. Eur.Phys.J. C84 (2024) 889.
• Heavy quark fragmentation in e+ e- collisions to NNLO+NNLL accuracy in perturbative QCD.
  Leonardo Bonino, Matteo Cacciari, Giovanni Stagnitto.
  [arXiv:2312.12519 [hep-ph]]. 10.1007/JHEP06(2024)040. JHEP 06 (2024) 040.
• Top production at large pT at NLO+NLL accuracy.
  Matteo Cacciari.
  [arXiv:1809.06626 [hep-ph]]. PoS DIS2018 (2018) 133.
• Gluon PDF constraints from the ratio of forward heavy quark production at the LHC at \sqrt{S}=7 and 13 TeV.
  Matteo Cacciari, Michelangelo L. Mangano, Paolo Nason.
  [arXiv:1507.06197 [hep-ph]]. 10.1140/epjc/s10052-015-3814-x. Eur.Phys.J. C75 (2015) 12, 610.
• Top-pair production at hadron colliders with next-to-next-to-leading logarithmic soft-gluon resummation.
  Matteo Cacciari, Michal Czakon, Michelangelo Mangano, Alexander Mitov, Paolo Nason.
  [arXiv:1111.5869 [hep-ph]]. 10.1016/j.physletb.2012.03.013. Phys.Lett. B710 (2012) 612-622.
• Constraint fitting of experimental data with a jet quenching model embedded in a hydrodynamical bulk medium.
  Nestor Armesto, Matteo Cacciari, Tetsufumi Hirano, James L. Nagle, Carlos A. Salgado.
  [arXiv:0907.0667 [hep-ph]]. 10.1088/0954-3899/37/2/025104. J.Phys. G37 (2010) 025104.
• Updated predictions for the total production cross sections of top and of heavier quark pairs at the Tevatron and at the LHC.
  Matteo Cacciari, Stefano Frixione, Michelangelo L. Mangano, Paolo Nason, Giovanni Ridolfi.
  [arXiv:0804.2800 [hep-ph]]. 10.1088/1126-6708/2008/09/127. JHEP 0809 (2008) 127.
• How sensitive are high-p(T) electron spectra at RHIC to heavy quark energy loss?
  Nestor Armesto, Matteo Cacciari, Andrea Dainese, Carlos A. Salgado, Urs Achim Wiedemann.
  [hep-ph/0511257]. 10.1016/j.physletb.2005.12.073. Phys.Lett. B637 (2006) 362-366.
• A Study of heavy flavored meson fragmentation functions in e+ e- annihilation.
  Matteo Cacciari, Paolo Nason, Carlo Oleari.
  [hep-ph/0510032]. 10.1088/1126-6708/2006/04/006. JHEP 0604 (2006) 006.
• Crossing heavy-flavor thresholds in fragmentation functions.
  Matteo Cacciari, Paolo Nason, Carlo Oleari.
  [hep-ph/0504192]. 10.1088/1126-6708/2005/10/034. JHEP 0510 (2005) 034.
• QCD predictions for charm and bottom production at RHIC.
  Matteo Cacciari, Paolo Nason, Ramona Vogt.
  [hep-ph/0502203]. 10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.122001. Phys.Rev.Lett. 95 (2005) 122001.
• [Review] Rise and fall of the bottom quark production excess.
  Matteo Cacciari.
  [hep-ph/0407187].
• QCD analysis of first b cross-section data at 1.96-TeV.
  M. Cacciari, S. Frixione, M.L. Mangano, P. Nason, G. Ridolfi.
  [hep-ph/0312132]. 10.1088/1126-6708/2004/07/033. JHEP 0407 (2004) 033.
• Charm cross-sections for the Tevatron Run II.
  Matteo Cacciari, Paolo Nason.
  [hep-ph/0306212]. 10.1088/1126-6708/2003/09/006. JHEP 0309 (2003) 006.
• The t anti-t cross-section at 1.8-TeV and 1.96-TeV: A Study of the systematics due to parton densities and scale dependence.
  M. Cacciari, S. Frixione, M.L. Mangano, P. Nason, G. Ridolfi.
  [hep-ph/0303085]. 10.1088/1126-6708/2004/04/068. JHEP 0404 (2004) 068.
• Heavy quark fragmentation.
  Matteo Cacciari, Einan Gardi.
  [hep-ph/0301047]. 10.1016/S0550-3213(03)00435-8. Nucl.Phys. B664 (2003) 299-340.
• Soft gluon resummation for bottom fragmentation in top quark decay.
  Matteo Cacciari, Gennaro Corcella, Alexander D. Mitov.
  [hep-ph/0209204]. 10.1088/1126-6708/2002/12/015. JHEP 0212 (2002) 015.
• Is there a significant excess in bottom hadroproduction at the Tevatron?.
  Matteo Cacciari, Paolo Nason.
  [hep-ph/0204025]. 10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.122003. Phys.Rev.Lett. 89 (2002) 122003.
• Soft gluon resummation for the fragmentation of light and heavy quarks at large x.
  Matteo Cacciari, Stefano Catani.
  [hep-ph/0107138]. 10.1016/S0550-3213(01)00469-2. Nucl.Phys. B617 (2001) 253-290.
• The p(T) spectrum in heavy flavor photoproduction.
  Matteo Cacciari, Stefano Frixione, Paolo Nason.
  [hep-ph/0102134]. 10.1088/1126-6708/2001/03/006. JHEP 0103 (2001) 006.
• The P(T) spectrum in heavy flavor hadroproduction.
  Matteo Cacciari, Mario Greco, Paolo Nason.
  [hep-ph/9803400]. 10.1088/1126-6708/1998/05/007. JHEP 9805 (1998) 007.
• D* production from e+ e- to e p collisions in NLO QCD.
  Matteo Cacciari, Mario Greco.
  [hep-ph/9702389]. 10.1103/PhysRevD.55.7134. Phys.Rev. D55 (1997) 7134-7143.
• Charmed mesons fragmentation functions.
  M. Cacciari, Mario Greco, S. Rolli, A. Tanzini.
  [hep-ph/9608213]. 10.1103/PhysRevD.55.2736. Phys.Rev. D55 (1997) 2736-2740.
• Large p(T) heavy quark production in two photon collisions.
  M. Cacciari, Mario Greco, Bernd A. Kniehl, M. Kramer, G. Kramer, M. Spira.
  [hep-ph/9512246]. 10.1016/0550-3213(96)00067-3. Nucl.Phys. B466 (1996) 173-188.
• Charm photoproduction via fragmentation.
  Matteo Cacciari, Mario Greco.
  [hep-ph/9505419]. 10.1007/s002880050047. Z.Phys. C69 (1996) 459-466.
• Large pT hadroproduction of heavy quarks.
  Matteo Cacciari, Mario Greco.
  [hep-ph/9311260]. 10.1016/0550-3213(94)90515-0. Nucl.Phys. B421 (1994) 530-544.

Heavy Quarkonium

• Soft gluon resummation in heavy quarkonium physics.
  Matteo Cacciari.
  [hep-ph/9910412]. 10.1016/S0550-3213(99)00808-1. Nucl.Phys. B571 (2000) 185-196.
• NLO production and decay of quarkonium.
  Andrea Petrelli, Matteo Cacciari, Mario Greco, Fabio Maltoni, Michelangelo L. Mangano.
  [hep-ph/9707223]. 10.1016/S0550-3213(97)00801-8. Nucl.Phys. B514 (1998) 245-309.
• Associated J/psi + gamma photoproduction as a probe of the color octet mechanism.
  Matteo Cacciari, Mario Greco, Michael Kramer.
  [hep-ph/9611324]. 10.1103/PhysRevD.55.7126. Phys.Rev. D55 (1997) 7126-7133.
• Color octet contributions to J/psi photoproduction.
  Matteo Cacciari, Michael Kramer.
  [hep-ph/9601276]. 10.1103/PhysRevLett.76.4128. Phys.Rev.Lett. 76 (1996) 4128-4131.
• Charmonium production at the Tevatron.
  Matteo Cacciari, Mario Greco, Michelangelo L. Mangano, Andrea Petrelli.
  [hep-ph/9505379]. 10.1016/0370-2693(95)00868-L. Phys.Lett. B356 (1995) 553-560.
• J/psi production via fragmentation at the Tevatron.
  Matteo Cacciari, Mario Greco.
  [hep-ph/9405241]. 10.1103/PhysRevLett.73.1586. Phys.Rev.Lett. 73 (1994) 1586-1589.

Electromagnetic Radiative Corrections

• Improving methods and predictions at high-energy e+ e- colliders within collinear factorisation.
  V. Bertone, M. Cacciari, S. Frixione, G. Stagnitto, M. Zaro, X. Zhao.
  [arXiv:2207.03265 [hep-ph]]. 10.1007/JHEP10(2022)089. JHEP 10 (2022) 089.
• The partonic structure of the electron at the next-to-leading logarithmic accuracy in QED.
  V. Bertone, M. Cacciari, S. Frixione, G. Stagnitto.
  [arXiv:1911.12040 [hep-ph]]. 10.1007/JHEP03(2020)135. JHEP 03 (2020) 135.
• SABSPV: A Monte Carlo integrator for small angle Bhabha scattering.
  Matteo Cacciari, Guido Montagna, Oreste Nicrosini, Fulvio Piccinini.
  [hep-ph/9507245]. 10.1016/0010-4655(95)00102-L. Comput.Phys.Commun. 90 (1995) 301-310.
• A Critical analysis of radiative corrections to e+ e- ---> mu+ mu-.
  M. Cacciari, G. Montagna, O. Nicrosini, G. Passarino, R. Pittau.
  10.1016/0370-2693(92)91792-8. Phys.Lett. B286 (1992) 387-391.
• QED structure functions: A Systematic approach.
  M. Cacciari, A. Deandrea, G. Montagna, O. Nicrosini.
  10.1209/0295-5075/17/2/007. Europhys.Lett. 17 (1992) 123-128.
• A Critical analysis of radiative corrections to Bhabha scattering.
  Matteo Cacciari, Guido Montagna, Oreste Nicrosini, Gianpiero Passarino.
  10.1016/0370-2693(92)90409-W. Phys.Lett. B279 (1992) 384-388.
• Bhabha scattering at LEP: Small angle.
  M. Cacciari, A. Deandrea, G. Montagna, O. Nicrosini, L. Trentadue.
  10.1016/0370-2693(91)90113-5. Phys.Lett. B271 (1991) 431-434.
• Bhabha scattering at LEP: Large angle.
  M. Cacciari, A. Deandrea, G. Montagna, O. Nicrosini, L. Trentadue.
  10.1016/0370-2693(91)91605-U. Phys.Lett. B268 (1991) 441-446.
• Intermediate vector boson pair production at the TeV scale.
  M. Cacciari, A. Deandrea, G. Montagna, O. Nicrosini.
  10.1016/0370-2693(91)91476-C. Phys.Lett. B269 (1991) 208-212.
• Collinear photons from final state leptons.
  Matteo Cacciari, Guido Montagna, Oreste Nicrosini.
  10.1016/0370-2693(92)92018-C. Phys.Lett. B274 (1992) 473-476.
• Higher order QED corrections to W pair production at LEP-2.
  M. Cacciari, A. Deandrea, G. Montagna, O. Nicrosini.
  10.1007/BF01559436. Z.Phys. C52 (1991) 421-426.

Community papers

• Challenges in Monte Carlo Event Generator Software for High-Luminosity LHC.
  Andrea Valassi, Efe Yazgan, Josh McFayden, Simone Amoroso, Joshua Bendavid, Andy Buckley, Matteo Cacciari, et al.
  [arXiv:2004.13687 [hep-ex]]. 10.1007/s41781-021-00047-9. Comput.Softw.Big Sci. 5 (2021) 12.
• HL-LHC Computing Review: Common Tools and Community Software.
  Thea Aarrestad, Simone Amoroso, Markus Julian Atkinson, Joshua Bendavid, Tommaso Boccali, Andrea Bocci, Andy Buckley, Matteo Cacciari, et al.
  [arXiv:2008.13636 [hep-ex]]. Proc. HL-LHC Computing Review, C21-07-11 (2020).
• Novel tools and observables for jet physics in heavy-ion collisions.
  Harry Arthur Andrews, David d'Enterria, Liliana Apolinario, Redmer Alexander Bertens, Christian Bierlich, Matteo Cacciari, et al.
  [arXiv:1808.03689 [hep-ph]]. 10.1088/1361-6471/ab7cbc. J.Phys.G 47 (2020) 065102.
• Vector boson scattering: Recent experimental and theory developments.
  C.F. Anders, B. Alessandro, et al. (LHC VBS Working Group).
  [arXiv:1801.04203 [hep-ex]]. 10.1016/j.revip.2018.09.001. Rev.Phys. 3 (2018) 44-63.
• Physics at a 100 TeV pp Collider: Standard Model Processes.
  M.L. Mangano, G. Zanderighi, J.A. Aguilar-Saavedra, S. Alekhin, S. Badger, C.W. Bauer, T. Becher, V. Bertone, Matteo Cacciari, et al.
  [arXiv:1607.01831 [hep-ph]]. CERN Yellow Rep. (2017) 254.