Prof. Dr. Livia Ludhova
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Prof. Dr. Livia Ludhova
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Education
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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: “Metmorphic evolution of sillimanite-zone metapelites in the crystalline complex of Tatra Mts., Western Carpathians, Slovakia”
Positions
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since November 2015
W2 Professor in Experimental Physics at RWTH Aachen and head of the neutrino group at IKP-2, Forschungzentrum Jülich, Germany.
Funding through the recruitment initiative of the HGF. -
October 2005– October 2015
Postdoc and researcher at Istituto 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.
Teaching
Courses in RWTH AachenCurrent Responsibilities and Organisational Positions
Experiments
- Physics (co-)coordinator of the Borexino experiment
- (Co-)coordinator of Borexino solar analysis (nusol) working group
- 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
- Co-chair of the Speakers Committee of the JUNO experiment
- L2-manager for the JUNO-OSIRIS calibrations
- Data-quality manager in Borexino
Conferences
- Member of the International Advisory Committee of Neutrino Geoscience conference series
- Member of the International Advisory Committee of Physics In Collision (PIC) conferences
- Member of the Local Organizing Committee of the 7th Symposium on Symmetries in Subatomic Physics (SSP2018), 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.
Selected Publications
JUNO:
- A. Abusleme et al. (JUNO Collaboration), Optimization of the JUNO liquid scintillator composition using a Daya Bay antineutrino detector, prepring submitted to Nucl. Instr. Meth. A, July 2020
- A. Abusleme et al. (JUNO Collaboration), Calibration Strategy of the JUNO Experiment, submitted on ArXiv, November 2020
- L. Ludhova et al., Particle Identification at MeV Energies in JUNO, submitted on ArXiv, July 2020
- A. Abusleme et al. (JUNO Collaboration), Feasibility and physics potential of detecting 8B solar neutrinos at JUNO, Chinese Physics C Vol. 45, No. 1 (2021)
- A. Abusleme et al. (JUNO Collaboration), TAO Conceptual Design Report: A Precision Measurement of the Reactor Antineutrino Spectrum with Sub-percent Energy Resolution, submitted to arXiv, May 2020
- P. Kampmann et al., A semi-analytical energy response model for low-energy events in JUNO, (JINST) Vol. 15, (2020) P10007
- C. Genster, M. Schever, L.Ludhova et al. Muon reconstruction with a geometrical model in JUNO, (JINST) Vol. 13, (2018) T03003
- F. An et al.: Neutrino physics with JUNO, J. Phys. G: Nucl. Part. Phys. 43 (2016) 030401 (188pp).
Borexino:
- S. Kumaran and L. Ludhova, "A New Journey to the Center of the Earth", Nucl. Phys. News 04, p17-21, 2020
- New! M. Agostini et al. (Borexino Collaboration), "Experimental evidence of neutrinos produced in the CNO fusion cycle in the Sun", Nature 587, p 577–582(2020)
- M. Agostini et al. (Borexino Collaboration), Sensitivity to neutrinos from the solar CNO cycle in Borexino, Eur. Phys. Jour. C 1091 (2020)
- M. Agostini et al. (Borexino Collaboration), Improved measurement of 8B solar neutrinos with 1.5 kt*y of Borexino exposure, Physical Review D 101 (2020), p. 062002
- M. Agostini et al., "Comprehensive geoneutrino analysis with Borexino", Physical Review D 101 (2020), p. 012009
- M. Agostini et al., Simultaneous precision spectroscopy of pp, 7Be, and pep solar neutrinos with Borexino Phase-II, Phys. Rev. D 100 (2019) p.082004
- 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", arXiv:1704.02291 (2017). Astroparticle Physics 97 (2018) 136 -159
- M. Agostini et al., "Limiting neutrino magnetic moments with Borexino Phase-II solar neutrino data", arXiv:1707.09355 (2017). Physical Review D - Rapid Communications 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", arXiv:1706.1010176 (2017). The Astrophysical Journal 850 (2017) 21
- M. Agostini et al., "Improved measurement of 8B solar neutrinos with 1.5 kt y of Borexino exposure", arXiv:1709.00756 (2017).
- M. Agostini et al., "First Simultaneous Precision Spectroscopy of pp, 7Be, and pep Solar Neutrinos with Borexino Phase-II", arXiv:1707.09279. (2017)
- M. Agostini et al., Seasonal Modulation of the 7Be Solar Neutrino Rate in Borexino,arXiv:1701.07970, Astropart. Phys. 92 (2017) 21-29.
- M. Agostini et al., Borexino's search for low-energy neutrino and antineutrino signals correlated with gamma-ray bursts, Astrop. Phys. 86 (2017) 11-17.
- 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) 295-300.
- 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) 22-26.
- G. Bellini at al., Study of solar and other unknown anti-neutrino fluxes with Borexino at LNGS., Phys. Lett. B 696 (2011) 191-196.
- 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) 299-304.
- G. Bellini et al. (Borexino collaboration): 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. (Borexino collaboration): First real time detection of 7Be solar neutrinos by Borexino, Phys. Lett. B 658 (2008) 101-108.
- C. Arpesella et al. (Borexino collaboration): Direct measurement of the 7Be solar neutrino flux with 192 days of Borexino data, Phys. Rev. Lett. 101 (2008) 091302.
SOX
- G. Bellini et al. (Borexino collaboration): SOX: Short distance neutrino Oscillations with BoreXino, JHEP 1308 (2013) 038.
Exotic Atoms
- R. Pohl et al. (The CREMA Collaboration), 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.
LENA
- M. Wurm et al.: The next-generation liquid-scintillator neutrino observatory (LENA), Astrop. Phys. 35 (2012) 685-732
Reviews:
- S. Böser et al. Status of light sterile neutrino searches, Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics, In Press
- 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, Advances in High Energy Physics, Volume 2014 (2014) Article ID 191960, 28 pages.
- L. Ludhova and S. Zavatarelli: Studying the Earth with Geo-neutrinos, Hindawi Publishing Corporation, Advances in High Energy Physics, Volume 2013 (2013) Article ID 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.
Geology
- 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, European Journal of Mineralogy 12 (2000) 1283–1300
- L. Ludhova and M. Janak: Phase relations and P-T path of cordierite-bearing migmatites, Western Tatra Mountains, Western Carpathians, Geol. Carp. 50 (1999) 283-293.
- L. Ludhova and M. Janak: Decompression and exhumation of Variscan orogenic root in the Tatra Mountains, Western Carpathians: Evidence from high-grade metapelites, Geol. Carp. 50 (1999) 120-122.
- M. Janak et al.: Dehydration melting and devolatilzation during exhumation of high-grade metapelites: the Tatra Mountains, Western Carpathians, Journal of Metamorphic Geology 17,4 (1999) 379–396.
- M. Janak et al.: Partial melting and retrogression during exhumation of high-grade metapelites, the Tatra Mountains, Western Carpathians, Physics and Chemistry of the Earth - Part A. Solid Earth and Geodesy 17 (1999) 379–395.
ORCID
Outreach
- 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.