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Elisa Resconi (born 1 December 1971 in Brescia, Italy) is an Italian astroparticle physicist and the Chair of Experimental Physics with Cosmic Particles at the Technical University of Munich, Germany. Her research concentrates on high-energy neutrino astronomy and developing advanced detection technologies for cosmic particles.[1][2][3]

Academic career

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From 1989 to 1995, Resconi studied physics at the University of Milan. She earned her PhD from the University of Genoa in 2001 under the supervision of G. Manuzio and R. Raghavan.[4] From 2002 to 2005, she worked as a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at DESY Zeuthen, Germany, and from 2005 to 2011, she led an Emmy Noether research group at the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg, Germany.[5] After serving as a guest professor at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, she moved to the Technical University of Munich (TUM) in 2011 and held a Heisenberg Professorship from 2012 to 2018. In 2019, she was appointed Liesel Beckmann Professor for Experimental physics at TUM.[1]

Since 2017, Resconi has been the spokesperson of the DFG Collaborative Research Center 1258 (SFB1258) "Neutrinos and Dark Matter in Astrophysics and Particle Physics".[5] In 2022, she received an ERC Advanced Grant for the project ‘Neutrinoshot'.[6][7] In 2023, Resconi was elected the spokesperson of the Pacific Ocean Neutrino Experiment (P-ONE), an international initiative to construct a high-energy neutrino detector that instruments the waters of the Pacific Ocean.[8]

Research

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Elisa Resconi's research is focused on the detection and analysis of high-energy neutrinos, elementary particles that offer insights into the universe's most energetic astrophysical phenomena. As a member of the IceCube Collaboration, she contributed to the design of IceCube's DeepCore, a densely instrumented sub-detector enhancing IceCube's sensitivity to lower-energy neutrinos. This innovation has been critical for studying atmospheric neutrinos and searching for signals from dark matter annihilation.[9][10]

Resconi also played a leading role in developing the atmospheric neutrino veto technique, which helps distinguish astrophysical neutrinos from background particles.[11] This method has improved the detection of neutrinos originating from cosmic sources, enabling significant advancements in multi-messenger astronomy.

A highlight of Resconi's research is the association of high-energy neutrinos with active galactic nuclei (AGN). She has been particularly involved in studies linking neutrino emissions to the AGN NGC 1068, a nearby Seyfert galaxy. This discovery provides critical evidence for AGN as potential sources of high-energy cosmic neutrinos and highlights the role of neutrinos in understanding the universe's most extreme environments.[12]

She advocates for developing innovative neutrino observatories and advanced detection techniques, complementing existing high-energy neutrino observatories like IceCube and KM3NeT.[13]

The Pacific Ocean Neutrino Experiment (P-ONE)

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Resconi's recent work centers on the Pacific Ocean Neutrino Experiment (P-ONE), an international collaboration to establish a large-scale neutrino observatory in the Pacific Ocean. The experiment seeks to deploy an array of detectors at great depths to capture high-energy neutrinos with unprecedented precision. P-ONE aims at addressing key unanswered questions in astrophysics, such as the origin of cosmic rays and the properties of dark matter.[14][15][16]

Selected publication

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  • with Thomas K. Gaisser und Ralph Engel: Cosmic Rays and Particle Physics, Cambridge 2016
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References

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  1. ^ a b Elisa Resconi – TUM Professor Profile. Accessed 28 November 2024.
  2. ^ Elisa Resconi – TUM FIS Portal. Accessed 28 November 2024.
  3. ^ Elisa Resconi's Academic Profile – TUM. Accessed 28 November 2024.
  4. ^ Elisa Resconi's PhD thesis. Accessed 28 November 2024.
  5. ^ a b Elisa Resconi – DFG GEPRIS Funding Information. Accessed 28 November 2024.
  6. ^ European Research Council – 2021 Advanced Grant Results (Physical Sciences and Engineering). Accessed 28 November 2024.
  7. ^ Technical University of Munich – Three EU Grants for Cutting-Edge Research. Accessed 28 November 2024.
  8. ^ Elisa Resconi Elected Spokesperson for the P-ONE Collaboration – SFB1258. Accessed 28 November 2024
  9. ^ Resconi, Elisa (April 2009). "Status and prospects of the IceCube neutrino telescope". Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment. 602 (1): 7–13. arXiv:0807.3891. Bibcode:2009NIMPA.602....7R. doi:10.1016/j.nima.2008.12.013.[non-primary source needed]
  10. ^ Abbasi, R.; et al. (May 2012). "The design and performance of IceCube DeepCore". Astroparticle Physics. 35 (10): 615–624. arXiv:1109.6096. Bibcode:2012APh....35..615A. doi:10.1016/j.astropartphys.2012.01.004.[non-primary source needed]
  11. ^ Schönert, Stefan; Gaisser, Thomas K.; Resconi, Elisa; Schulz, Olaf (18 February 2009). "Vetoing atmospheric neutrinos in a high energy neutrino telescope". Physical Review D. 79 (4): 043009. arXiv:0812.4308. Bibcode:2009PhRvD..79d3009S. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.79.043009.[non-primary source needed]
  12. ^ Abbasi, R.; et al. (4 November 2022). "Evidence for neutrino emission from the nearby active galaxy NGC 1068". Science. 378 (6619): 538–543. arXiv:2211.09972. Bibcode:2022Sci...378..538I. doi:10.1126/science.abg3395. PMID 36378962.[non-primary source needed]
  13. ^ Resconi, Elisa (26 November 2021). "The Pacific Ocean Neutrino Experiment". Proceedings of 37th International Cosmic Ray Conference — PoS(ICRC2021). p. 024. doi:10.22323/1.395.0024.[non-primary source needed]
  14. ^ Pacific Ocean Neutrino Experiment (P-ONE). Accessed 28 November 2024.
  15. ^ Agostini, Matteo; Böhmer, Michael; Bosma, Jeff; Clark, Kenneth; Danninger, Matthias; Fruck, Christian; Gernhäuser, Roman; Gärtner, Andreas; Grant, Darren; Henningsen, Felix; Holzapfel, Kilian; Huber, Matthias; Jenkyns, Reyna; Krauss, Carsten B.; Krings, Kai; Kopper, Claudio; Leismüller, Klaus; Leys, Sally; Macoun, Paul; Meighen-Berger, Stephan; Michel, Jan; Moore, Roger; Morley, Mike; Padovani, Paolo; Papp, Laszlo; Pirenne, Benoit; Qiu, Chuantao; Rea, Immacolata Carmen; Resconi, Elisa; Round, Adrian; Ruskey, Albert; Spannfellner, Christian; Traxler, Michael; Turcati, Andrea; Yanez, Juan Pablo (8 September 2020). "The Pacific Ocean Neutrino Experiment". Nature Astronomy. 4 (10): 913–915. arXiv:2005.09493. Bibcode:2020NatAs...4..913A. doi:10.1038/s41550-020-1182-4.[non-primary source needed]
  16. ^ Malecki, Paweł (23 January 2024). "Pacific Ocean Neutrino Experiment". Universe. 10 (2): 53. Bibcode:2024Univ...10...53M. doi:10.3390/universe10020053.


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