Prof. Dr. Dr. Livia Ludhova
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Prof. Dr. 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: “Metamorphic 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 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
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Woman physicist of the week selected by the German Physical Society (DPG) in December 2021.
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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. -
November 2015
Recruitment initiative of the Helmholtz Association.
Teaching
Courses at RWTH AachenCurrent 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
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).
- 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., JUNO physics and detector, Progr. Part. Nucl. Ph. in Press, online available since Dec 3.
- 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, JHEP11 (2021) 102.
- 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
- Colloqium at Université de Paris and Institut Universitaire de France, Laboratoire Astroparticule et Cosmologie - October 20, 2022 - Paris, France
Geoneutrinos - 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
- 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.