Department of Physics and Astronomy
Faculty and Staff Directory
Roberto Petti
| Title: | Professor Research Interest: Experimental High Energy Physics |
| Department: | Physics and Astronomy McCausland College of Arts and Sciences |
| Email: | petti@mailbox.sc.edu |
| Phone: | 803-777-6830 |
| Office: | Jones PSC, Room 601 |
| Resources: | Curriculum Vitae [pdf] |

Selection of Publications
• S. Abubakar et al. [NOvA Collaboration], “Precision Measurement of Neutrino Oscillation Parameters with 10 Years of Data from
the NOvA Experiment”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 136 (2026) 011802, arXiv: 2509.04361 [hep-ex]
• S. Abubakar et al. [NOvA and T2K Collaborations], “Joint neutrino oscillation analysis from the T2K and NOvA experiments”, Nature 646 (2025) 8086, 818-824, arXiv: 2510.19888 [hep-ex]
• S.I. Alekhin, S.A. Kulagin and R. Petti, “On the interplay of nuclear and high-twist corrections in nuclear structure functions”,
PoS DIS2024 (2025) 067, arXiv:2410.21472 [hep-ph]
• R. Petti, "An oxygen target for (anti)neutrinos”, Phys. Part. Nucl. 57 (2026) 144,arXiv:2301.04744 [hep-ex]
• R. Petti, R.J. Hill and O. Tomalak, "Nucleon axial-vector form factor and radius from future neutrino experiments",
Phys. Rev. D 109 (2024) L051301, arXiv:2309.02509 [hep-ph]
• D. Abrams et al. [Jefferson Lab Hall A Tritium], "EMC effect of tritium and helium-3 from the JLab MARATHON experiment," Phys. Rev. Lett. 135 (2025) 062502, arXiv:2410.12099[nucl-ex].
• A. Abed Abud et al. [DUNE Collaboration], "DUNE Phase II: scientific opportunities, detector concepts, technological solutions”,
JINST 19 (2024) P12005, arXiv:2408.12725 [physics.ins-det]
• S.I. Alekhin, S.A. Kulagin and R. Petti, “Off-shell effects in bound nucleons and partondistributions from 1H, 2H, 3H and 3He data,” Phys. Rev. D 107 (2023) L051506, arXiv:2211.09514 [hep-ph]
• R. Petti, "Probing free nucleons with (anti)neutrinos," Phys. Lett. B 834 (2022) 137469,
arXiv:2205.10396 [hep-ph]
• S.I. Alekhin, S.A. Kulagin and R. Petti, "Nuclear effects in the deuteron and global QCD analyses," Phys. Rev.
D 105 (2022) 114037, arXiv:2203.07333 [hep-ph].
• R. Abdul Khalek et al. [EIC Collaboration], "Science Requirements and Detector Concepts for the Electron-Ion
Collider: EIC Yellow Report," Nucl. Phys. A 1026 (2022) 122447, arXiv:2103.05419 [physics.ins-det].
• D. Abrams et al. [Jefferson Lab Hall A Tritium], "Measurement of the Nucleon F2 Structure Function Ratio neutron to proton by the Jefferson Lab MARATHON Tritium/Helium-3 Deep Inelastic Scattering Experiment,"
Phys. Rev. Lett. 128 (2022) 132003, arXiv:2104.05850 [hep-ex].
• A. Abed Abud et al. [DUNE Collaboration], "Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE)
Near Detector Conceptual Design Report," Instruments 5 (2021) 31, arXiv:2103.13910
[physics.ins-det].
• B. Abi et al. [DUNE Collaboration], “Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE),
Far Detector Technical Design Report. Volume I: Introduction to DUNE”, JINST 15 (2020)
08, T08008, arXiv: 2002.02967 [physics.ins- det]
• H. Duyang, B. Guo, S.R. Mishra, R. Petti, “A Precise Determination of (Anti)neutrino Fluxes
with (Anti)neutrino-Hydrogen Interactions”, Phys. Lett. B 795 (2019) 424-431.
• M.A. Acero et al. [NOvA Collaboration], “First Measurement of Neutrino Oscillation Parameters using Neutrinos
and Antineutrinos by NOvA”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 123 (2019) 151803
• H. Duyang, B. Guo, S.R. Mishra and R. Petti, “A novel approach to neutrino-hydrogen measurements”,
Eur. Phys. J. Plus 139 (2024) 1014; arXiv:1809.08752 [hep-ph]
• R. Petti, "Precision Measurements of Fundamental Interactions with (Anti)Neutrinos,
PoSDIS2019 (2019) 235, arXiv:1910.05995 [hep-ex].
• L. Alvarez-Ruso et at. [NuSTEC Collaboration], “NuSTEC white paper: status and challenges of neutrino-nucleus scattering”, Prog. Part. Nucl. Phys. 100 (2018) 1-68, arXiv:1706.03621 [hep-ph]
• P. Ru, S.A. Kulagin, R. Petti and B.W. Zhang, “Study of W+/W- and Z boson production in proton-lead collisions at the LHC with Kulagin-Petti nuclear parton distributions”, Phys. Rev. D 94, (2016) 113013, arXiv:1608.06835 [nucl-th]
• S.I. Alekhin, J. Blumlein, L. Caminadac, K. Lipka, K. Lohwasser, S. Moch, R. Petti and R. Placakyte, “Determination of Strange Sea Quark Distributions from Fixed-target and Collider
Data”, Phys. Rev. D 91 (2015) 094002, arXiv:1404.6469 [hep-ph]
• S.A. Kulagin and R. Petti, “Nuclear parton distributions and the Drell-Yan process”, Phys. Rev. C 90 (2014) 045204, arXiv:1405.2529 [hep-ph]
• O. Samoylov et al. [NOMAD Collaboration], “A Precision Measurement of Charm Dimuon Production
in Neutrino Interactions from the NOMAD Experiment”, Nucl. Phys. B 876 (2013) 339, arXiv:1308.4750 [hep-ex]
• S.A. Kulagin and R. Petti, “Structure functions for light nuclei”, Phys. Rev. C 82 (2010) 054614,
arXiv:1004.3062 [hep-ph]
• G. Aad et al. [ATLAS Collaboration], “The ATLAS experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider”,
JINST 3 (2008) S08003
• E. Abat et al. [ATLAS TRT Collaboration], “The ATLAS TRT end-cap detectors”, JINST 3 (2008) P10003
• E. Abat et al. [ATLAS TRT Collaboration], “The ATLAS Transition Radiation Tracker (TRT) proportional
drift tube: Design and performance”, JINST 3 (2008) P02013
• S.I. Alekhin, S.A. Kulagin and R. Petti, “Modeling lepton-nucleon inelastic scattering from high to low momentum
transfer”, AIP Conf. Proc. 967 (2007) 215, arXiv:0710.0124 [hep-ph]
• S.A. Kulagin and R. Petti, “Neutrino inelastic scattering off nuclei”, Phys. Rev. D 76 (2007)
094023, hep-ph/0703033 [hep-ph]
• S.A. Kulagin and R. Petti, “Global study of nuclear structure functions”, Nucl. Phys. A 765 (2006) 126, hep-ph/0412425
• P. Astier et al. [NOMAD Collaboration], “Final NOMAD results on muon-neutrino to tau-neutrino and electron-neutrino to tau-neutrino oscillations including a new search for tau-neutrino appearance using
hadronic tau decays”, Nucl. Phys. B 611 (2001) 3, hep-ex/0106102