IKP-2 Neutrino Group

Dr. Zara Bagdasarian

Dr. Zara Bagdasarian

PostDoc, May 2016 - February 2020
Focus of Research: Involved in the Borexino fit of the whole solar neutrino spectrum, an update of the geoneutrino measurements and supernova searches.

Contact:

Phone: +49 2461 61 3723
E-mail: z.bagdasarian_AT_fz-juelich.de

Education

2016 Cotutelle PhD in Particle Physics, University of Cologne and Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University
PhD Thesis: "Measurement of nucleon-nucleon elastic scattering at small angles up to the maximum COSY energy"
2012 MSc in Atomic, Nuclear and Particle Physics, Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Georgia
2010 BSc in Physics, Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Georgia

Selected Events

2019 19th Lomonosov Conference on Elementary Particles, Moscow, Russia
2018 International Conference on Neutrino Physics and Astrophysics (Neutrino 2018). Heidelberg, Germany
2018 100th Anniversary of Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University. Tbilisi, Georgia
2017 NuPhys conference: Prospects in Neutrino Physics. London, UK (Poster Runner-up Prize)
2017 International School of Nuclear Physics "Neutrinos in Cosmology, in Astro-, Particle- and Nuclear Physics". Erice, Italy
2017 "Recent Developments in Neutrino Physics and Astrophysics". Gran Sasso/L'Aquila, Italy (Poster Prize)
2017 International Conference on "Topics in Astroparticle and Underground Physics" (TAUP 2017). Sudbury, Canada
2016 Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting, Lindau, Germany
2015 International Conference on Few Body Problems in Physics. Chicago, USA
2015 International Winter Meeting on Nuclear Physics, Bormio, Italy
2018, 2016, 2014, 2012, 2010 Georgian - German School and Workshop in Basic Science CGSWHP. Tbilisi, Georgia

Invited Talks

2019 19th Lomonosov Conference on Elementary Particles, Moscow, Russia
2018 Columbia University, New York, USA
2018 Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, USA

Miscellaneous

Blog post for Nature Research Astronomy Community “Neutrinos sunny side up”

Interview on radio "My Voice" (რადიო ჩემი ხმა) (audio) (video)

DPG Physikerin der Woche (Kalendarwoche 15)

School visit outreach talk "Particle physics on high heels"

Invited speech at the Symposium “Prospects of Higher Education: Recalling the Past and Exploring the Future” dedicated to
the 100th Anniversary of Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University

Featured at "Karriereschub für junge Forscher" (interviewed by Eva Wolfangel for Bild der Wissenschaft)

"10 questions with ..." on Women in Research Blog

Featured at "Dispatches from Lindau" (interviewed by Brian Malow for American Scientist)

"#LiNo16: Ein enormer Motivationsschub für Neutrinoforscherin Zara Bagdasarian" (interviewed by Kristin Mosch for Forschungszentrum Juelich)

"Mit Zara durch die Nobelpreistraegertagung" (interviewed by Julia Baumann for Lindauer Zeitung)

"Get Together mit Nobelpreisträgern" interviewed for Regio TV Bodensee

Selected Publications

BOREXINO:

M. Agostini et al. (Borexino Collaboration), "First Simultaneous Precision Spect roscopy of pp, ⁷Be, and pep Solar Neutrinos with Borexino Phase-II", arXiv:1707.09279. Physical Review D 100 (2019) p. 082 004
M. Agostini et al. (Borexino Collaboration), "Comprehensive geoneutrino analysis with Borexino", arXiv:1909.02257, September 2019
M. Agostini et al. (Borexino Collaboration), "Search for low-energy neutrinos from astrophysical sources with Borexino", arXiv:1909.02257, September 2019
M. Agostini et al. (Borexino Collaboration, "Constraints on Non-Standard Neutrino Interactions from Borexino Phase-II", arXiv:1905.03512, May 2019
M. Agostini et al. (Borexino Collaboration), "Modulations of the Cosmic Muon Signal in Ten Years of Borexino Data", arXiv:1808.04207 Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics 02 (2019) 046
"Comprehensive measurement of pp-chain solar neutrinos" Nature 562 (2018) 496 (link)
M. Agostini et al. (Borexino Collaboration), "The Monte Carlo simulation of the Borexino detector", arXiv:1704.02291 (2017). Astroparticle Physics 97 (2018) 136 -159
M. Agostini et al. (Borexino Collaboration), "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. (Borexino Collaboration), "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. (Borexino Collaboration), "Improved measurement of ⁸B solar neutrinos with 1.5 kt y of Borexino exposure", arXiv:1709.00756 (2017).

ANKE:

S.Barsov, Z. Bagdasarian et. al., The European Physical Journal A 54, 225 (2018)
Measurement of the analyzing powers in pdelastic and pn quasi-elastic scattering at small angles"
Z. Bagdasarian et. al., Physics Letters B 739, 152-156 (2014)
"Measurement of the analysing power in proton-proton elastic scattering at small angles"
D. Mchedlishvili et. al Physics Letters B 755, 92-96 (2016)
"Measurement of the absolute differential cross section of proton-proton elastic scattering at small angles"

JEDI:

N. Hempelmann et al. Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 014801 (2017)
"Phase Locking the Spin Precession in a Storage Ring"
G. Guidoboni et al. Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 054801 (2016)
"How to Reach a Thousand-Second in-Plane Polarization Lifetime with 0.97−GeV/c Deuterons in a Storage Ring"
Z. Bagdasarian et. al., Phys. Rev. ST Accel. Beams 17, 052803 (2014)
"Measuring the Polarization of a Rapidly Precessing Deuteron Beam"

PAX:

D. Oellers et. al. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment Volume 759, 6–9 (2014)
"Toward polarized antiprotons: Machine development for spin-filtering experiments at COSY"

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