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Prof. Dr. Dr. Livia Ludhova

Prof. Dr. Dr. Livia Ludhova Focus of Research: Livia Ludhova is specialized in low-energy neutrino physics with large-volume liquid-scintillator detectors. She is a member of the Borexino collaboration since 2005 and currently serves in a role of its physics co-coordinator. She joined the JUNO collaboration in 2014 and is a member of its recently established Analysis Coordination Committee. Livia Ludhova has a long-term experience with the measurement of solar neutrinos and geoneutrinos. Contact: Phone: +49 2461 61 4280 E-mail: l.ludhova_AT_fz-juelich.de Personal Travel and Photography Web: www.livialudhova.com

Education

• PhD in Experimental Physics (2005)
  Département de Physique, Université de Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland;
  Thesis title: “The Muonic Hydrogen Lamb Shift Experiment: Lifetime and Population of the μp(2S) State”
• M.A. in Physics (2001)
  Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia;
  Thesis title: “Production and study of exotic atoms at DAΦNE”
• PhD in Geology (1998)
  Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia;
  Thesis title: “Reconstruction of Variscan P-T-t (pressure-temperature-time) path of metapelites in the crystalline complex of Western and High Tatra Mts., Western Carpathians, Slovakia”
• M.A. in Geology (1996)
  Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia;
  Thesis title: “Metamorphic evolution of sillimanite-zone metapelites in the crystalline complex of Tatra Mts., Western Carpathians, Slovakia”

Positions

• since November 2015
  W2 Professor at Physics Institute IIIB, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany.
  Head of the neutrino group at IKP-2, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany.
  Funded through the HGF recruitment initiative.
• October 2005 – October 2015
  Postdoc and researcher at Instituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Milano, Italy
• September 2001 – September 2005
  Doctorante Fonds National “B” e assistante diplome’, Dèpartement de Physique, Universitè de Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland.
• October 1996 – August 1999
  Ph.D. scholarship – Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia.

Awards

• Woman physicist of the week selected by the German Physical Society (DPG) in December 2021. DPG Website Twitter Facebook Instagram
  
• European Physical Society Prize: The 2021 Giuseppe and Vanna Cocconi Prize
  for an outstanding contribution to Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology was awarded to the Borexino Collaboration for the ground-breaking observation of solar netrinos frome the pp chain and CNO cycle that provided unique and comprehensive tests of the Sun as a nucleat fusion engine.
• Borexino experiment is listed in 2020 Top Ten of Physics World
  for observing neutrinos from the carbon–nitrogen–oxygen (CNO) cycle in the Sun.
• November 2015
  Recruitment initiative of the Helmholtz Association.
• Borexino experiment is listed in 2014 Top Ten of Physics World
  for spotting neutrinos from Sun's main nuclear reaction.

Funding

• since November 2015
  Recruitment initiative of the Helmholtz Association.
• October 2018 - March 2022
  DFG (German Physical Society) Research Group "Determination of the Neutrino Mass Hierarchy with the JUNO experiment".

Teaching

Courses at RWTH Aachen

Current Responsibilities and Organisational Positions

Experiments

• Physics (co-)coordinator of the Borexino experiment
• Member of the Analysis Coordination Committee of the JUNO experiment
• Member of the Steering Committee of the Borexino experiment
• Member of the Institutional Board of the Borexino experiment
• Member of the Institutional Board of the JUNO experiment
• L2-manager for the JUNO-OSIRIS calibration

Conferences committees

• Member of the International Advisory Committee of "Physics In Collision" (PIC) conferences
• Member of the International Advisory Committee of "Symmetries in Subatomic Physics" (SSP 2022) conference
• Member of the International Advisory Committee of "Neutrino Geoscience" conference series
• Member of the Local Organizing Committee of the 7th "Symposium on Symmetries in Subatomic Physics" (SSP 2018), RWTH Aachen University, Germany, June 11-15th, 2018.
• Convener of the “Neutrino Physics” parallel session at EPS Conference on High Energy Physics 2017, 5 -12 July 2017, Venice, Italy

Summer Schools

• Hadron Physics Summer School 2018, Scientific and Organizing Committee.
• Using Particle Physics to Understand and Image the Earth 2018 Scientific and Organizing Committee.
• Using Particle Physics to Understand and Image the Earth 2016 Scientific and Organizing Committee. Recruiting team geoneutrino.

Publications in peer reviewed journals (h-index, ORCID)

Summary and review articles:

• S. Kumaran, L. Ludhova, Ö. Penek, and G. Settanta Borexino Results on Neutrinos from the Sun and Earth , Universe 07 (2021) 231, Special Issue Italian Research Facilities for Fundamental Physics.
• S. Kumaran and L. Ludhova, A New Journey to the Center of the Earth, Nucl. Phys. News 04 (2020) 17-21.
• S. Böser et al., Status of light sterile neutrino searches, Prog. Part. Nucl. Phys. 111 (2020) 103736.
• L. Ludhova, Experimental data on solar neutrinos, Eur. Phys. J. A 52 (2016) 82.
• G. Bellini, L. Ludhova, G. Ranucci, and F.L. Villante, Neutrino Oscillations, Hindawi Publishing Corporation, Adv. High En. Phys., 2014 (2014) 191960, 28 pages.
• L. Ludhova and S. Zavatarelli, Studying the Earth with Geo-neutrinos, Hindawi Publishing Corporation, Adv. High Ene. Physi., 2013 (2013) 425693, 16 pages.
• G. Bellini, A. Ianni, L. Ludhova, F. Mantovani, and W.F. McDonough, Geo-neutrinos, Progr. Part. Nucl. Phys. 73 (2013) 1–34.

Borexino:

• S. Appel et al., Improved measurement of solar neutrinos from the Carbon-Nitrogen-Oxygen cycle by Borexino and its implications for the Standard Solar Model, arXiv:2205.15975 (2022) and accepted for publication by Phys. Rev. Lett.
• M. Agostini et al., Independent determination of the Earth's orbital parameters with solar neutrinos in Borexino, Astrop. Phys. 145 (2023) 102778.
• M. Agostini et al., First Directional Measurement of sub-MeV Solar Neutrinos with Borexino, Phys. Rev. Lett. 128 (2022) 091803.
• M. Agostini et al., Correlated and Integrated Directionality for sub-MeV solar neutrinos in Borexino, Phys. Rev. D 105 (2022) 052002.
• M. Agostini et al., Search for Low-Energy Signals from Fast Radio Bursts with the Borexino Detector, arXiv:2111.14500 (2021), and submitted to European Physical Journal C.
• M. Agostini et al., Identification of the cosmogenic 11C background in large volumes of liquid scintillators with Borexino, Eur. Phys. Journal C 81 (2021) 1075.
• M. Agostini et al., Search for low-energy neutrinos from astrophysical sources with Borexino, Astrop. Phys. 125 (2021) 102509.
• M. Agostini et al., Experimental evidence of neutrinos produced in the CNO fusion cycle in the Sun, Nature 587 (2020) 577.
• M. Agostini et al., Sensitivity to neutrinos from the solar CNO cycle in Borexino, Eur. Phys. Jour. C 80 (2020) 1091.
• M. Agostini et al., Improved measurement of 8B solar neutrinos with 1.5 kt*y of Borexino exposure, Phys. Rev. D 101 (2020) 062002.
• M. Agostini et al., Comprehensive geoneutrino analysis with Borexino, Phys. Rev. D 101 (2020) 012009.
• M. Agostini et al., Constraints on Flavor-Diagonal Non-Standard Neutrino Interactions from Borexino Phase-II, JHEP 2 (2020) 038.
• M. Agostini et al., Simultaneous precision spectroscopy of pp, 7Be, and pep solar neutrinos with Borexino Phase-II, Phys. Rev. D 100 (2019) 082004.
• M. Agostini et al., Modulations of the cosmic muon signal in ten years of Borexino data, J. Cosm. Astrop. Phys. 02 (2019) 046.
• M. Agostini et al., Comprehensive measurement of pp-chain solar neutrinos, Nature 562 (2018) 496.
• M. Agostini et al., The Monte Carlo simulation of the Borexino detector, Astrop. Phys. 97 (2018) 136.
• M. Agostini et al., Limiting neutrino magnetic moments with Borexino Phase-II solar neutrino data, Phys. Rev. D - Rapid Comm. 96 (2017) 091103.
• M. Agostini et al., A search for low-energy neutrinos correlated with gravitational wave events GW150914, GW151226 and GW170104 with the Borexino detector, Astrophys. J. 850 (2017) 21.
• M. Agostini et al., Seasonal Modulation of the 7Be Solar Neutrino Rate in Borexino, Astropart. Phys. 92 (2017) 21.
• M. Agostini et al., Borexino's search for low-energy neutrino and antineutrino signals correlated with gamma-ray bursts, Astrop. Phys. 86 (2017) 11.
• M. Agostini et al., A test of electric charge conservation with Borexino, Phys. Rev. Lett. 115 (2015) 231802.
• M. Agostini et al., Spectroscopy of geoneutrinos from 2056 days of Borexino data, Phys. Rev. D 92 (2015) 031101.
• G. Bellini et al., Final results of Borexino Phase-I on low energy solar neutrino spectroscopy, Phys. Rev. D 89 (2014) 112007.
• G. Bellini et al., Neutrinos from the primary proton–proton fusion process in the Sun, Nature 512 (2014) 383.
• G. Bellini et al., Measurement of geo-neutrinos from 1353 days of Borexino, Phys. Lett. B 722 (2013) 295.
• G. Bellini et al., SOX: Short distance neutrino Oscillations with BoreXino, JHEP 1308 (2013) 038.
• G. Bellini et al., First evidence of pep solar neutrinos by direct detection in Borexino, Phys. Rev. Lett. 108 (2012) 051302.
• G. Bellini et al., Absence of a day-night asymmetry in the 7Be solar neutrino rate in Borexino, Phys. Lett. B 707 (2012) 22.
• G. Bellini at al., Study of solar and other unknown anti-neutrino fluxes with Borexino at LNGS, Phys. Lett. B 696 (2011) 191.
• G. Bellini et al., Precision measurement of the 0.862 MeV 7Be solar neutrino interaction rate in Borexino, Phys. Rev. Lett. 107 (2011) 14130.
• G. Bellini et al., Observation of Geo-Neutrinos, Phys. Lett. B 687 (2010) 299.
• G. Bellini et al., Measurement of the solar 8B neutrino rate with a liquid scintillator target and 3 MeV energy threshold in the Borexino detector, Phys. Rev. D 82 (2010) 033006.
• C. Arpesella et al., First real time detection of 7Be solar neutrinos by Borexino, Phys. Lett. B 658 (2008) 101.
• C. Arpesella et al., Direct measurement of the 7Be solar neutrino flux with 192 days of Borexino data, Phys. Rev. Lett. 101 (2008) 091302.

JUNO:

• A. Abusleme et al., Sub-percent Precision Measurement of Neutrino Oscillation Parameters with JUNO, in press in Chin. Phys. C X (2022) Y.
• A. Abusleme et al., Prospects for Detecting the Diffuse Supernova Neutrino Background with JUNO, J. Cosm. Astrop. Phys. 10 (2022) 033.
• J. Wang et al., Damping signatures at JUNO, a medium-baseline reactor neutrino oscillation experiment, J. High En. Phys. 62 (2022) 82.
• A. Abusleme et al., JUNO physics and detector, Progr. Part. Nucl. Ph. 123 (2022) 103927.
• L. Bieger et al., Potential for a precision measurement of solar pp neutrinos in the Serappis Experiment, arXiv:2109.10782 (2021), and submitted to Eur. Phys. J. C.
• A. Abusleme et al., Radioactivity control strategy for the JUNO detector, J. High En. Phys. 102 (2021) 381.
• A. Abusleme et al., JUNO sensitivity to low energy atmospheric neutrino spectra, Eur. Phys. J. C 81 (2021) 887.
• A. Abusleme et al., Calibration strategy of the JUNO experiment, J. High En. Phys. 3 (2021) 4.
• A. Abusleme et al., The Design and Sensitivity of JUNO's scintillator radiopurity pre-detector OSIRIS, arXiv:2103.16900 and submitted to European Physical Journal C.
• A. Abusleme et al., TAO Conceptual Design Report: A Precision Measurement of the Reactor Antineutrino Spectrum with Sub-percent Energy Resolution, arXiv:2005.08745.
• A. Abusleme et al., Feasibility and physics potential of detecting 8B solar neutrinos at JUNO, Chin. Phys. C 45 (2021) 1.
• A. Abusleme et al., Optimization of the JUNO liquid scintillator composition using a Daya Bay antineutrino detector, Nucl. Instr. Meth. A, 988 (2021) 164823.
• P. Kampmann, Y. Chenga, and L. Ludhova, A semi-analytical energy response model for low-energy events in JUNO, JINST 15 (2020) P10007.
• H. Rebber, L. Ludhova, B. Wonsak, and Y. Xu, Particle Identification at MeV Energies in JUNO, JINST 16 (2020) P01016.
• M.G. Aarsten et al., Combined sensitivity to the neutrino mass ordering with JUNO, the IceCube Upgrade, and PINGU, Phys. Rev. D 101 (2020) 032006.
• C. Genster, M. Schever, L. Ludhova, M. Soiron, A. Stahl, and C. Wiebusch, Muon reconstruction with a geometrical model in JUNO, JINST 13 (2018) T03003.
• F. An et al.: Neutrino physics with JUNO, J. Phys. G: Nucl. Part. Phys. 43 (2016) 030401.

Exotic Atoms

• R. Pohl et al., Laser spectroscopy of muonic deuterium, Science 353 (2016) 6300.
• R. Pohl et al., The size of the proton, Nature 466 (2010) 213.
• L. Ludhova et al., Muonic hydrogen cascade time and lifetime of the shortlived 2S state, Phys. Rev. A 75 (2007) 040501(R).
• G. Beer et al., Measurement of the Kaonic Hydrogen X–Ray Spectrum, Phys. Rev. Lett. 94 (2005) 212302.

THEIA

• M. Askins et al., Theia: Summary of physics program. Snowmass White Paper Submission, arXiv 2202.12839 (2022).
• M. Askins et al., An advanced optical neutrino detector, Eur. Phys. J. C 80 (2020) 416.

LENA

• M. Wurm et al., The next-generation liquid-scintillator neutrino observatory (LENA), Astrop. Phys. 35 (2012) 685.

Geology

• M. Nemcok at al., Tertiary development of the Polish and eastern Slovak parts of the Carpathian accretionary wedge: insights from balanced cross-sections, Geol. Carp. 57/5 (2006) 355.
• V. Hurai et al., Nitrogen-bearing fluids, brines and carbonate liquids in Variscan migmatites of the Tatra Mountains, Western Carpathians - heritage of high-pressure metamorphism, Europ. J. Mineral. 12 (2000) 1283.
• M. Nemcok at al, Results of 2D balanicng along 20° and 21° 30’ longitude and pseudo-3D in the Smilno tectonic window: implications for shortening mechanisms of the West Carpathian accretionary wedge, Geol. Carp. 51/5 (2000) 281.
• L. Ludhova and M. Janak, Phase relations and P-T path of cordierite-bearing migmatites, Western Tatra Mountains, Western Carpathians, Geol. Carp. 50 (1999) 283.
• M. Janak et al., Dehydration melting and devolatilzation during exhumation of high-grade metapelites: the Tatra Mountains, Western Carpathians, J. Metam. Geol. 17,4 (1999) 379.
• M. Janak et al., Partial melting and retrogression during exhumation of high-grade metapelites, the Tatra Mountains, Western Carpathians, Phys. Chem. Earth - Part A. Solid Earth and Geodesy 17 (1999) 379.

Conference talks since 2017

• Passion for Earth - A new era for geoscience - October 27, 2022 - Milano, Italy
  Geoneutrinos from Borexino (invited talk)
• 23rd International Workshop on Neutrinos from Accelerators (NuFACT 2022) - July 31-August 6, 2022 - Salt Lake City, USA
  JUNO - the first multi-kton liquid scintillator neutrino observatory (invited pleanary talk)
• DPG-Frühjahrstagung - Spring Meeting of the German Physical Society, the Matter and Cosmos Section (SMuK) - March 21-25, 2022 - Heidelberg, Germany (online event)
  Borexino looks in the direction of solar neutrinos (Hauptvortrag - invited pleanary talk)
• TAUP 2021 - 17th International Conference on Topics in Astroparticle and Underground Physics - August 30 - September 3, 2021 - Valencia, Spain (online event)
  Solar and geo neutrinos (invited plenary review talk)
• 7th Komitee für Astroteilchen (KAT) Strategy meeting - December 4-5, 2020 - online event
  Borexino: Experimental evidence of neutrinos produced in the CNO fusion cycle in the Sun
(invited talk)
• TAUP 2019 - 16th International Conference on Topics in Astroparticle and Underground Physics - September 9-13, 2019 - Toyama, Japan
  Updated geoneutrino measurement with Borexino (parallel talk)
• Workshop on observatory synergies for astroparticle physics and geoscience - February 11-12, 2019 - Paris, France
  Neutrino tomography I. Geoneutrinos: a new tool to study the Earth (invited review talk)
• DISCRETE 2018 - Symposium on Prospects in the Physics of Discrete Symmetries - November 26, 2018 - Wien, Austria
  Overview on solar, geo, and reactor neutrino experiments (invited review talk)
• NNN 2018 - International Workshop on Next Generation Nucleon Decay and Neutrino Detectors - October 31 - November 4, 2018 - Vancouver, Canada
  Systematic errors in Borexino solar and geoneutrino measurements
• History of the Neutrino - September 5-7, 2018, Paris, France
  Geoneutrinos (invited review talk)
• NuPhys2017 - Prospects in Neutrino Physics - December 20-22, 2017 - London, United Kingdom
  Solar neutrinos: recent results and future prospects (invited review talk)
• 18th Lomonosov Conference on Elementary Particle Physics - August 24-28, 2017 - Moscow, Russia
  Low energy neutrino physics with liquid scintillator detectors (invited review talk)
• TAUP 2017 - 15th International Conference on Topics in Astroparticle and Underground Physics - July 24-28, 2017 - Sudbury, Canada
  Limiting the effective magnetic moment of solar neutrinos with the Borexino detector (parallel talk)

Colloquia and seminars since 2017

• Astroparticle seminar at DESY - December 2, 2022 - Zeuthen, Germany
  Solar neutrinos from the Carbon-Nitrogen-Oxygen fusion cycle: Borexino discovery and implications for the Standard Solar Model
• IOPB Online Colloquium - November 22, 2022 - Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India (online)
  Geoneutrinos - a new tool to study the Earth
• Colloqium at Université de Paris and Institut Universitaire de France, Laboratoire Astroparticule et Cosmologie - October 20, 2022 - Paris, France
  Geoneutrinos (YouTube Link)
• Seminar at King's College EPAP (Experimental Particle and Astroparticle Physics) group - June 13, 2022 - King's College, London, United Kingdom (online event)
  JUNO: the first multi-kton liquid scintillator based neutrino detector
• ILL (Institute Max von Laue - Paul Langveln) College III Webinar - February 11, 2022 - ILL, Grenoble, France (online event)
  Updated geoneutrino measurement with Borexino
• Colloquium at Physics Department, University of Houston - February 23, 2021 - Houston, United States
  Latest solar- and geo-neutrino results from the Borexino experiment
• Seminar at McDonald Institute, Queen's University - February 16, 2021 - Kingston, Canada
  The new journey to the center of the Earth: goeneutrino measurement with Borexino
• INPA Seminar, Berkley National Laboratory - October 30, 2020 - Institute for Nuclear and Particle Astrophysics (INPA), Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
  JUNO - the first multi-kton liquid scintillator detector
• Università degli Studi di Ferrara - December 12, 2019 - Ferrara, Italy
  Solar neutrino spectroscopy with Borexino
• DFG Research Unit JUNO Meeting - October 10, 2019 - Garching, Germany
  Geoneutrinos
• Seminar at GSI - April 30, 2019 - Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung (GSI), Darmstadt, Germany
  Observation of Neutrinos from the Sun and the Earth in Borexino
• Colloqium at Shanghai Jiao-Tong University - January 25, 2019 - Shanghai Jiao-Tong University (SJTU), Shanghai, China
  Low-energy neutrino physics with Borexino
• Seminar at IIHE ULB-VUB - December 14, 2018 - Inter-University Institute for High Energies (IIHE), Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB)- Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Brussels, Belgium
  Low-energy neutrino physics with Borexino and JUNO
• Seminar at INFN Bari - October 26, 2017 - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Bari, Italy
  Observation of Neutrinos from the Sun and the Earth in Borexino
• Seminar at the Erlangen Centre for Astroparticle Physics - June 28th, 2017 - Erlangen Centre for Astroparticle Physics, Erlangen, Germany
  JUNO

Outreach

• June 2022: Interview by Ken Croswell in Science News about the first estimation of the carbon and nitrogen content in the Sun using the improved CNO solar neutrino measurement by Borexino.
• January 2022: Interview by the Slovak newspaper SME Zeny about Slovak Women.
• December 2021: Representation of the Slovak Republic at EXPO 2021 in Dubai during the week "Knowledge and Learning". Article in the internal journal of the Comenius University.
• July 2020: Neutrino-Physikerin mit einem Faible für Berge, interview with Weltmaschine.de
• February 2020: Neutrinos geben Auskunf über den energiefluss aus dem Erdinneren, interview with Frankfurter Allgemeiner Zeitung about the latest Borexino geoneutrino measurement
• October 24th, 2019: "Night pyramid", interview with RTVS Radio Slovakia
• January 2019: "Sonnenteleskop", interview in "Effzett", journal of FzJ
• August 2017: Interviews of the 18th Lomonosov Conference participants Interview starting at 1:38:29
  
• October 2016: Interviewed by Leah Crane for the Symmetry magazine, A joint Fermilab/SLAC publication: Recruiting team geoneutrino.
• June 5th, 2014: protagonist of the TV program Nautilus Scienza (RAI Educational) about the dark matter in the Italian TV RAI.