Sofia Quaglioni

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  • Title
    Deputy Group Leader, Nuclear Data & Theory
  • Email
    quaglioni1@llnl.gov
  • Phone
    (925) 422-8152
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Background

Sofia Quaglioni was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Arizona prior to joining LLNL in 2006. She received a 2011 Early Career Award from the DOE Office of Science and currently serves as deputy group leader of the LLNL Nuclear Data and Theory group. She has served on the National Advisory Committee of the Institute for Nuclear Theory and on the Theory User Group Executive Committee of the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams. As a member of panels sponsored by the DOE Offices of Advanced Scientific Computing Research and Nuclear Physics, Quaglioni has provided advice on the computing requirements needed to support forefront scientific research in nuclear physics. She is presently a member of the joint DOE/NSF Nuclear Science Advisory Committee.

Research Interests

Quaglioni’s research seeks a unified understanding of the structural and reaction properties of nuclei, starting from the constituent protons and neutrons and accurate representations of the nuclear interactions among them. Her work has helped lead to the emergence of a new, more fundamental understanding of light nuclei and their reactions, which are important to stellar astrophysics and fusion energy programs. She is currently working on the treatment of bound and continuum nuclear systems in the proximity of three-body breakup thresholds and quantifying how uncertainties in the nuclear interaction models affect light-nuclei scattering and fusion cross sections. Quaglioni is also a member of the multi-institutional DOE Topical Collaboration on Double Beta Decay and Fundamental Symmetries, which aims at using nuclear theory to address questions about fundamental particles and symmetries.

Ph.D., Physics, University of Trento, Italy, 2005

Laurea, Physics, University of Trento, Italy, 2001

  1. Two-body photodisintegration of 4He with full final-state interaction, S. Quaglioni, N. Barnea, V. D. Efros, W. Leidemann, and G. Orlandini, Phys. Rev. C 69, 044002 (2004) (https://journals.aps.org/prc/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevC.69.044002)
  2. The 4He total photo-absorption cross section with two- plus three-nucleon interactions from chiral effective field theory, S. Quaglioni and P. Navrátil, Phys. Lett. B 652, 370 (2007) (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269307007642)
  3. Ab initio many-body calculations of n-3H, n-4He, p-3,4He, and n-10.Be scattering, S. Quaglioni and P. Navrátil, Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 092501 (2008) (https://journals.aps.org/prl/pdf/10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.102502)
  4. Ab initio many-body calculations of nucleon-nucleus scattering, S. Quaglioni and P. Navrátil, Physical Review C 79, 044606 (2009) (https://journals.aps.org/prc/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevC.79.044606)
  5. Three-Nucleon Low-Energy Constants from the Consistency of Interactions and Currents in Chiral Effective Field Theory, D. Gazit, S. Quaglioni, and P. Navrátil, Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 102502 (2009) (http://journals.aps.org/prl/pdf/10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.102502)
  6. Ab initio many-body calculations of the 7Be(p,γ)8B radiative capture, P. Navrátil, R. Roth, and S. Quaglioni, Phys. Lett. B 704, 379 (2011) (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269311011646)
  7. Ab initio many-body calculations of the 3H(d,n)4He and 3He(d,p)4He fusion reactions, P. Navrátil and S. Quaglioni, Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 042503 (2012) (https://journals.aps.org/prl/pdf/10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.042503)
  8. Ab initio many-body calculations of nucleon-4He scattering with three-nucleon forces, G. Hupin, J. Langhammer, P. Navrátil, S.Quaglioni, A. Calci, and R. Roth, Phys. Rev. C 88, 054622 (2013) (https://journals.aps.org/prc/pdf/10.1103/PhysRevC.88.054622)
  9. Three-cluster dynamics within an ab initio framework, S. Quaglioni, C. Romero-Redondo, and P. Navrátil, Phys. Rev. C 88, 034320 (2013) (https://journals.aps.org/prc/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevC.88.034320)
  10. Predictive theory for elastic scattering and recoil of protons from 4He, G. Hupin, S. Quaglioni, and P. Navrátil, Phys. Rev. C 90, 061601(R) (2014) (https://journals.aps.org/prc/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevC.90.061601)
  11. Operator evolution for ab initio theory of light nuclei, M. D. Schuster, S. Quaglioni, C. W. Johnson, E. D. Jurgenson, and P. Navrátil, Phys. Rev. C 90, 011301(R) (2014) (https://journals.aps.org/prc/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevC.90.011301)
  12. 4He+n+n continuum within an ab initio framework, C. Romero-Redondo, S. Quaglioni, P. Navrátil, and G. Hupin, Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 032503 (2014) (https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.113.032503)
  13. Unified description of 6Li structure and deuterium-4He dynamics with chiral two- and three-nucleon forces, G. Hupin, S. Quaglioni, and P. Navrátil, Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 212502 (2015) (http://journals.aps.org/prl/pdf/10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.212502)
  14. Close encounters of the alpha kind, S. Quaglioni, Nature 528, 42 (2015) (http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v528/n7580/pdf/528042a.pdf)
  15. Unified ab initio approaches to nuclear structure and reactions, P. Navrátil, S. Quaglioni, G. Hupin, C. Romero Redondo, and A. Calci, Special Physica Scripta Edition - Nobel Prize ‘75, Physica Scripta 91, 053002 (2016) (http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0031-8949/91/5/053002/pdf)
  16. How many-body correlations and alpha clustering shape 6He, C. Romero-Redondo, S. Quaglioni, P. Navrátil, and G. Hupin, Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 222501 (2016) (http://journals.aps.org/prl/pdf/10.1103/PhysRevLett.117.222501)
  17. Can ab initio theory explain the phenomenon of parity inversion in 11Be?, A. Calci, P. Navrátil, R. Roth, J. Dohet-Eraly, S. Quaglioni, and G. Hupin, Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 242501 (2016) (http://journals.aps.org/prl/pdf/10.1103/PhysRevLett.117.242501)
  18. 3He(α,γ)7Be and 3H(α,γ)7Li astrophysical S factors from the no-core shell model with continuum, J. Dohet-Eraly, P. Navrátil, S. Quaglioni, W. Horiuchi, and F. Raimondi, Phys. Lett. B 757, 430 (2016) (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269316300946)
  19. Nuclear Force Imprints Revealed on the Elastic Scattering of Protons with 10C, A. Kumar et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 262502 (2017) (https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.262502)
  • Early and Mid-Career Recognition Award, LLNL, 2017
  • Early Career Award, Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Nuclear Physics, 2011
  • Outstanding Postdoc, Physical and Life Sciences Directorate, LLNL, 2009
  • Cum Laude, University of Trento, Italy, 2001