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Sofia Quaglioni

Sofia Quaglioni is a physics topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Sofia Quaglioni rather than just read about it. In short: Sofia Quaglioni is a nuclear physicist. She is Deputy Group Leader at the Nuclear Data and Theory Group in the Nuclear and Chemical Sciences Division in Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), and is a member of the DOE Topical Collaboration on Double Decay and Fundamental Symmetries.

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Reference excerpt

Sofia Quaglioni is a nuclear physicist. She is Deputy Group Leader at the Nuclear Data and Theory Group in the Nuclear and Chemical Sciences Division in Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), and is a member of the DOE Topical Collaboration on Double Decay and Fundamental Symmetries.

Biography Quaglioni completed her undergraduate degree from the University of Trento, Italy, and then PhD from the same institution in 2005. She was then a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Arizona. She joined LLNL in 2006. At LLNL, Quaglioni conducts research on nuclei, investigating their properties based on the nuclear interactions between protons and neutrons.

Honours and awards 2011 Early Career Award Winner, United States Department of Energy 2017 Early and Mid-Career Recognition Award, LLNL 2019 Fellow of the American Physical Society for "contributions to unifying theories for the structure and dynamics of light nuclei by elucidating the role of the continuum in weakly bound nuclei, and the inclusion of three-body final states and three-nucleon interactions within reaction dynamics." 2021 Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award Laureate

Publications Navrátil, Petr; Quaglioni, Sofia; Stetcu, Ionel; Barrett, Bruce R (2009-08-01). "Recent developments in no-core shell-model calculations". Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics. 36 (8) 083101. arXiv:0904.0463. doi:10.1088/0954-3899/36/8/083101. ISSN 0954-3899. OSTI 957622. S2CID 16414572. Gazit, Doron; Quaglioni, Sofia; Navrátil, Petr (2009-09-01). "Three-Nucleon Low-Energy Constants from the Consistency of Interactions and Currents in Chiral Effective Field Theory". Physical Review Letters. 103 (10) 102502. arXiv:0812.4444. Bibcode:2009PhRvL.103j2502G. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.102502. ISSN 0031-9007. PMID 19792299. S2CID 1157840. Gysbers, P.; Hagen, G.; Holt, J. D.; Jansen, G. R.; Morris, T. D.; Navrátil, P.; Papenbrock, T.; Quaglioni, S.; Schwenk, A.; Stroberg, S. R.; Wendt, K. A. (May 2019). "Discrepancy between experimental and theoretical β-decay rates resolved from first principles". Nature Physics. 15 (5): 428–431. arXiv:1903.00047. Bibcode:2019NatPh..15..428G. doi:10.1038/s41567-019-0450-7. ISSN 1745-2473. S2CID 119005375. Navrátil, Petr; Quaglioni, Sofia; Hupin, Guillaume; Romero-Redondo, Carolina; Calci, Angelo (2016-05-01). "Unified ab initio approaches to nuclear structure and reactions". Physica Scripta. 91 (5) 053002. arXiv:1601.03765. Bibcode:2016PhyS...91e3002N. doi:10.1088/0031-8949/91/5/053002. ISSN 0031-8949. S2CID 119280384.

References

External links Sofia Quaglioni publications indexed by Google Scholar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVWVAgWWnJg

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Sofia Quaglioni

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Example 2 — changing one variable

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Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Sofia Quaglioni ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Sofia Quaglioni

In research: Sofia Quaglioni appears in physics research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Sofia Quaglioni in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Sofia Quaglioni is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 21st-century physicists, 21st-century women physicists, Fellows of the American Physical Society, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Sofia Quaglioni outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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