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Natalia S. Oreshkina

addressMax-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik (MPIK)
Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics
Saupfercheckweg 1
69117 Heidelberg
Germany
emailnatalia.oreshkina@mpi-hd.mpg.de
fax+ 49 (0)6221 516-152
phone+ 49 (0)6221 516-171
office363b

Education History

2019 

Habilitation and Venia Legendi in physics, Heidelberg University (Germany)

2004-2008 

Ph.D. in physics, Saint-Petersburg State University, Saint-Petersburg (Russia). Thesis: "QED and correlation corrections to the hyperfine structure of highly charged ions", scientific advisor: Prof. Dr. Shabaev V. M.

2001-2004 

M.Sc. in physics at Department of Physics, Saint-Petersburg State University, Saint-Petersburg (Russia). Thesis: "Electric quadrupole hyperfine splitting in Li-like ions", scientific advisor Prof. Dr. Shabaev V. M.

1997-2001 

Student at Department of Physics, Saint-Petersburg State University, Saint-Petersburg (Russia)

1994-1997 

Academic Gymnasium, Saint-Petersburg (Russia)

Employment History

2011-present

PostDoc at Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg (Germany)

2008-2011

PostDoc at Saint-Petersburg State University, Department of Quantum Mechanics, Saint-Petersburg (Russia)

2000-2008

Scientific fellow at at Saint-Petersburg State University, Department of Quantum Mechanics, Saint-Petersburg (Russia)

Research interests

  • Spectra of the heavy muonic atoms
  • The variation of the fundamental constants
  • Relativistic atomic structure, electron correlation and quantum electrodynamic effects
  • Nuclear effects in the highly charged ions
  • Time-dependent dynamics of the atomic systems in intense laser fields
  • Radiative lifetimes, hyperfine splitting and g-factors of the highly charged ions
  • Kaonic atoms

Invited Talks

  1. ''Probing nuclear structure with exotic atomic systems'' on 9 March 2023
    School of Physics Colloqium in University of New South Wales in Sydney (Australia)
  2. ''Theory of heavy muonic atoms'' on 25 October 2022
    EMMI Workshop "Accurate relativistic treatment of multi-electron atoms and applications to Super-Heavy elements" in Paris (France)
  3. ''Theory of heavy muonic atoms and access to the nuclear properties'' on 15 October 2022
    Muonic Atoms at PSI'2022 in Villigen (Switzerland)
  4. ''Astrophysical line diagnosis requires non-linear dynamical atomic modeling'' on 6 October 2022
    A Workshop on Atomic Data in Heidelberg (Germany)
  5. ''Theoretical predictions of the structure of heavy muonic atoms'' on 2 September 2022
    20th International Conference on the Physics of Highly Charged Ions HCI'2022 in Matsue (Japan)
  6. ''A resolution of the long-standing x-ray puzzle of astrophysically relevant highly charged ions'' on 21 July 2022
    30th annual International Laser Physics Workshop LPHYS'22 (online)
  7. ''Theoretical predictions of the structure of heavy muonic atoms and searching for an elephant in the room'' on 19 July 2022
    HITRAP Workshop 2022 in Eisenach (Germany)
  8. ''"Photon-bridge" effect in the new-physics contributions to the energy levels in simple ions'' on 16 February 2022
    42th Extreme Atomic Systems Meeting in Riezlern, Kleinwalsertal (Austria)
  9. ''Exotic HCIs'' on 26 November 2021 (online)
    Seminar of Quantum Mechanics Division, Physics Department of Saint-Petersburg State University in Saint-Petersburg (Russia)
  10. ''Highly charged ions in traps II: Atomic clocks and VFC'' on 5 February 2021 (online)
    Winter School on Physics with Trapped Charged Particles 2020 in Les Houches (France)
  11. ''Highly charged ions in traps I: Hyperfine splitting and g factor'' on 4 February 2021 (online)
    Winter School on Physics with Trapped Charged Particles 2020 in Les Houches (France)
  12. ''Time variation of fine-structure constant'' on 24 March 2020 (online)
    AVA School on Precision Studies in Prague (Czech Republic)
  13. ''Skyrme-type nuclear interaction for high-precision atomic calculations'' on 29 January 2020
    41th Extreme Atomic Systems Meeting in Riezlern, Kleinwalsertal (Austria)
  14. ''FNS, QED and screening effects in heavy muonic atoms'' on 18 April 2019
    Workshop ''Fundamental theories for negative muon experiments at J-PARC, and its application to elemental analysis'' in Tokai (Japan)
  15. ''The determination of nuclear parameters and nuclear polarization correction in heavy muonic systems'' on 20 February 2019
    40th Extreme Atomic Systems Meeting in Riezlern, Kleinwalsertal (Austria)
  16. ''Fine and Hyperfine Structure of Heavy Muonic Atoms: Towards the determination of nuclear parameters'' on 24 October 2018
    Seminar Helmholtz Institute Jena in Helmholtz Institute Jena, Jena (Germany)
  17. ''Hyperfine splitting in simple ions for the search of the variation of fundamental constants'' on 08 September 2018
    15th Topical Workshop of the Stored Particles Atomic Physics Research Collaboration (SPARC'2018) in Lisbon (Portugal)
  18. ''Search for the variation of fundamental constants in highly charged ions'' on 29 June 2018
    Matter-AntiMatter asymmetry Section Seminar in Helmholtz-Institute Mainz, Mainz (Germany)
  19. ''Hyperfine splitting in simple ions for the search of the variation of fundamental constants'' on 18 May 2018
    670. WE-Heraeus Seminar "Fundamental Constants: Basic Physics and Units" in Bad Honnef (Germany)
  20. ''Fine and hyperfine structure of heavy muonic atoms'' on 22 February 2018
    39th Extreme Atomic Systems Meeting in Riezlern, Kleinwalsertal (Austria)
  21. ''Hyperfine splitting in simple ions for the search of the variation of fundamental constants'' on 13 October 2017
    Atomic Clock Seminar in  PTB, Braunschweig (Germany)
  22. ''Variation of the fundamental constants in simple ions'' on 18 May 2017
    International Conference on Precision Physics and Fundamental Physical Constants (FFK 2017) in Warsaw (Poland)
  23. ''Variation of the fundamental constants in simple ions'' on 01 February 2017
    38th Extreme Atomic Systems Meeting in Riezlern, Kleinwalsertal (Austria)
  24. ''X-ray fluorescence spectrum of the astrophysically relevant highly charged Fe ions driven by strong free-electron-laser fields'' on 17 February 2016
    37th Extreme Atomic Systems Meeting in Riezlern, Kleinwalsertal (Austria)
  25. ''Many-body calculations for highly charged ions in search towards the variation of fundamental constants'' on 03 November 2015
    Atomic Physics Seminar in GSI, Darmstadt (Germany)
  26. ''Strong-fields effects in the XFEL spectroscopy of astrophysically relevant highly charged ions'' on 25 August 2015
    24th annual International Laser Physics Workshop (LPHYS'15) in Shanghai (China)
  27. ''Astrophysical line diagnosis requires nonlinear dynamical atomic modeling'' on 10 December 2014
    Atomic Physics Seminar in Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Giessen (Germany)
  28. ''Presicion calculations of the structure of astrophysically relevant Fe ions'' on 10 September 2012
    Conference on Precision Physics and Fundamental Physical Constants 2012 in Stará Lesná (Slovakia)

Publications

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Submitted papers

1   Muon-Induced Nuclear Magnetic Moments in Spinless Muonic Atoms: A Simple Estimate

K. A. Beyer and N. S. Oreshkina
submitted (2023).

2   Nuclear Deformation Effects in the Spectra of Highly Charged Ions

Z. Sun, I. A. Valuev, and N. S. Oreshkina
submitted (2023).

3   Challenging Beyond-the-Standard-Model Solutions to the Fine-Structure Anomaly in Heavy Muonic Atoms

K. A. Beyer, I. A. Valuev, C. H. Keitel, M. Tamburini, and N. S. Oreshkina
submitted (2023).

4   Improved access to the fine-structure constant with the simplest atomic systems

H. Cakir, N. S. Oreshkina, I. A. Valuev, V. Debierre, V. A. Yerokhin, C. H. Keitel, and Z. Harman
submitted (2020).

Publications in MPIK

33 Full leading-order nuclear polarization in highly charged ions

I. A. Valuev and N. S. Oreshkina
Physical Review A 109, 042811 (2024)

32 Comment on “Nuclear Excitation by Free Muon Capture”

N. S. Oreshkina and J. C. Berengut
Physical Review Letters 132, 129201 (2024)

31 QED calculations of the nuclear recoil effect in muonic atoms

V. A. Yerokhin and N. S. Oreshkina
Physical Review A 108, 052824 (2023)

30 New Measurement Resolves Key Astrophysical Fe XVII Oscillator Strength Problem

S. Kühn, C. Cheung, N. S. Oreshkina, R. Steinbrügge, M. Togawa, S. Bernitt, L. Berger, J. Buck, M. Hoesch, J. Seltmann, F. Trinter, C. H. Keitel, M. G. Kozlov, S. G. Porsev, M. F. Gu, F. S. Porter, T. Pfeifer, M. A. Leutenegger, Z. Harman, M. S. Safronova, J. R. Crespo López-Urrutia, and C. Shah
Physical Review Letters 129, 245001 (2022)
 Phys. Rev. Lett.: Editors' Suggestion - Open Access
 APS Physics Viewpoint: Getting a Clearer View of Iron Emission Lines
 idw press release: X-ray analysis without doubt - Four-decade enigma of cosmic X-rays solved
 Focus Online: Rätsel im Röntgenspektrum gelöst
 pro-physik.de: Kosmisches Röntgen-Rätsel gelöst
 MPG-Pressemitteilung: Röntgenanalyse ohne Zweifel
 MPIK press release: X-ray analysis without doubt
 MPIK-Pressemitteilung: Röntgenanalyse ohne Zweifel
 Physics Today: Experiment resolves long-standing iron-spectrum discrepancy

29 Testing standard-model extensions with isotope shifts in few-electron ions

V. Debierre, N. S. Oreshkina, I. A. Valuev, Z. Harman, and C. H. Keitel
Physical Review A 106, 062801 (2022)

28 Self-energy correction to the energy levels of heavy muonic atoms

N. S. Oreshkina
Physical Review Research 4, L042040 (2022)

27 Direct measurement of the 3He+ magnetic moments

A. Schneider, B. Sikora, S. Dickopf, M. Müller, N. S. Oreshkina, A. Rischka, I. A. Valuev, S. Ulmer, J. Walz, Z. Harman, C. H. Keitel, A. Mooser, and K. Blaum
Nature 606, 878-883 (2022)
 MPIK press release: How magnetic is helium-3?
 MPIK-Pressemitteilung: Wie magnetisch ist Helium-3?
 phys.org: Investigating the magnetic properties of helium-3

26 Evidence Against Nuclear Polarization as Source of Fine-Structure Anomalies in Muonic Atoms

I. A. Valuev, G. Colò, X. Roca-Maza, C. H. Keitel, and N. S. Oreshkina
Physical Review Letters 128, 203001 (2022)

25 Access to the Kaon Radius with Kaonic Atoms

N. Michel and N. S. Oreshkina
Annalen der Physik, 2100150 (2021)

24 Radiative and photon-exchange corrections to new-physics contributions to energy levels in few-electron ions

V. Debierre and N. S. Oreshkina
Physical Review A 104, 032825 (2021)

23 Relativistic effective charge model of a multi-electron atom

K. Dzikowski, O. D. Skoromnik, I. D. Feranchuk, N. S. Oreshkina, and C. H. Keitel
Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics 54, 115002 (2021)

22 Two-loop virtual light-by-light scattering corrections to the bound-electron g factor

V. Debierre, B. Sikora, H. Cakir, N. S. Oreshkina, V. A. Yerokhin, C. H. Keitel, and Z. Harman
Physical Review A 103, L030802 (2021)

21 Ab initio electronic factors of the A and B hyperfine structure constants for the 5s25p6s 1,3P01 states in Sn ׀

A. Papoulia, S. Schiffmann, J. Bieroń, G. Gaigalas, M. Godefroid, Z. Harman, P. Jönsson, N. S. Oreshkina, P. Pyykkö, and I. I. Tupitsyn
Physical Review A 103, 022815 (2021)

20 QED corrections to the g factor of Li- and B-like ions

H. Cakir, V. A. Yerokhin, N. S. Oreshkina, B. Sikora, I. I. Tupitsyn, C. H. Keitel, and Z. Harman
Physical Review A 101, 062513 (2020)

19 Structural trends in atomic nuclei from laser spectroscopy of tin

D. T. Yordanov, L. V. Rodríguez, D. L. Balabanski, J. Bieroń, M. L. Bissell, K. Blaum, B. Cheal, J. Ekman, G. Gaigalas, R. F. G. Ruiz, G. Georgiev, W. Gins, M. R. Godefroid, C. Gorges, Z. Harman, H. Heylen, P. Jönsson, A. Kanellakopoulos, S. Kaufmann, C. H. Keitel, V. Lagaki, S. Lechner, B. Maaß, S. Malbrunot-Ettenauer, W. Nazarewicz, R. Neugart, G. Neyens, W. Nörtershäuser, N. S. Oreshkina, A. Papoulia, P. Pyykkö, P. Reinhard, S. Sailer, R. Sánchez, S. Schiffmann, S. Schmidt, L. Wehner, C. Wraith, L. Xie, Z. Xu, and X. Yang
Communications Physics 3, 107 (2020)

18 High Resolution Photoexcitation Measurements Exacerbate the Long-Standing Fe XVII Oscillator Strength Problem

S. Kühn, C. Shah, J. R. Crespo López-Urrutia, K. Fujii, R. Steinbrügge, J. Stierhof, M. Togawa, Z. Harman, N. S. Oreshkina, C. Cheung, M. G. Kozlov, S. G. Porsev, M. S. Safronova, J. C. Berengut, M. Rosner, M. Bissinger, R. Ballhausen, N. Hell, S. Park, M. Chung, M. Hoesch, J. Seltmann, A. S. Surzhykov, V. A. Yerokhin, J. Wilms, F. S. Porter, T. Stöhlker, C. H. Keitel, T. Pfeifer, G. V. Brown, M. A. Leutenegger, and S. Bernitt
Physical Review Letters 124, 225001 (2020)

17 Skyrme-type nuclear interaction as a tool for calculating the finite-nuclear-size correction to atomic energy levels and the bound-electron g factor

I. Valuev, Z. Harman, C. H. Keitel, and N. S. Oreshkina
Physical Review A 101, 062502 (2020)

16 Measurement of the quadrupole moment of 185Re and 187Re from the hyperfine structure of muonic X rays

A. Antognini, N. Berger, T. E. Cocolios, R. Dressler, R. Eichler, A. Eggenberger, P. Indelicato, K. Jungmann, C. H. Keitel, K. Kirch, A. Knecht, N. Michel, J. Nuber, N. S. Oreshkina, A. Ouf, A. Papa, R. Pohl, M. Pospelov, E. Rapisarda, N. Ritjoho, S. Roccia, N. Severijns, A. Skawran, S. M. Vogiatzi, F. Wauters, and L. Willmann
Physical Review C 101, 054313 (2020)

15 Self-energy-corrected Dirac wave functions for advanced QED calculations in highly charged ions

N. S. Oreshkina, H. Cakir, B. Sikora, V. A. Yerokhin, V. Debierre, Z. Harman, and C. H. Keitel
Physical Review A 101, 032511 (2020)

14 Theory of the two-loop self-energy correction to the g factor in nonperturbative Coulomb fields

B. Sikora, V. A. Yerokhin, N. S. Oreshkina, H. Cakir, C. H. Keitel, and Z. Harman
Physical Review Research 2, 012002(R) (2020)

13 g Factor of Boronlike Argon 40Ar13+

I. Arapoglou, A. Egl, M. Höcker, T. Sailer, B. Tu, A. Weigel, R. Wolf, H. Cakir, V. A. Yerokhin, N. S. Oreshkina, V. A. Agababaev, A. V. Volotka, D. V. Zinenko, D. A. Glazov, Z. Harman, C. H. Keitel, S. Sturm, and K. Blaum
Physical Review Letters 122, 253001 (2019)
 pro-physik.de: Alphatrap-Experiment liefert erste Ergebnisse
 idw press release: First results of the new Alphatrap experiment
 MPIK-Pressemitteilung: Erste Resultate des neuen ALPHATRAP-Experiments

12 Higher-order corrections to the dynamic hyperfine structure of muonic atoms

N. Michel and N. S. Oreshkina
Physical Review A 99, 042501 (2019)

11 Nonperturbative analysis of nuclear shape effects on the bound electron g factor

N. Michel, J. Zatorski, N. S. Oreshkina, and C. H. Keitel
Physical Review A 99, 012505 (2019)

10 Finite nuclear size effect to the fine structure of heavy muonic atoms

A. S. M. Patoary and N. S. Oreshkina
European Physical Journal D: Atomic, Molecular, Optical and Plasma Physics 72, 54 (2018)

9 Improving the accuracy of the muon mass and magnetic moment anomaly via the bound-muon g factor

B. Sikora, H. Cakir, N. Michel, V. Debierre, N. S. Oreshkina, N. Belov, V. A. Yerokhin, C. H. Keitel, and Z. Harman
Physical Review D 97, 111301(R) (2018)

8 Theoretical prediction of the fine and hyperfine structure of heavy muonic atoms

N. Michel, N. S. Oreshkina, and C. H. Keitel
Physical Review A 96, 032510 (2017)

7 Hyperfine splitting in simple ions for the search of the variation of fundamental constants

N. S. Oreshkina, S. M. Cavaletto, N. Michel, Z. Harman, and C. H. Keitel
Physical Review A 96, 030501(R) (2017)

6 X-ray fluorescence spectrum of highly charged Fe ions driven by strong free-electron-laser fields

N. S. Oreshkina, S. M. Cavaletto, C. H. Keitel, and Z. Harman
Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics 49, 094003 (2016)

5 Identifications of 5s1/2−5p3/2 and 5s2−5s5p EUV transitions of promethium-like Pt, Ir, Os and Re

H. Bekker, O. O. Versolato, A. Windberger, N. S. Oreshkina, R. Schupp, T. M. Baumann, Z. Harman, C. H. Keitel, P. O. Schmidt, J. Ullrich, and J. Crespo Lopez-Urrutia
Journal of Physics B 48, 144018 (2015)

4 Identification of the Predicted 5s−4f Level Crossing Optical Lines with Applications to Metrology and Searches for the Variation of Fundamental Constants

A. Windberger, J. R. Crespo López-Urrutia, H. Bekker, N. S. Oreshkina, J. C. Berengut, V. Bock, A. Borschevsky, V. A. Dzuba, E. Eliav, Z. Harman, U. Kaldor, S. Kaul, U. I. Safronova, V. V. Flambaum, C. H. Keitel, P. O. Schmidt, J. Ullrich, and O. O. Versolato
Physical Review Letters 114, 150801 (2015)

3 Astrophysical line diagnosis requires non-linear dynamical atomic modeling

N. S. Oreshkina, S. M. Cavaletto, C. H. Keitel, and Z. Harman
Physical Review Letters 113, 143001 (2014)
 Phys. Rev. Lett.: Editors’ suggestion

2 Coronium in the laboratory: measuring the Fe XIV green coronal line by laser spectroscopy

K. Schnorr, V. Mäckel, N. S. Oreshkina, S. Augustin, F. R. Brunner, Z. Harman, C. H. Keitel, J. H. Ullrich, and J. R. Crespo López-Urrutia
The Astrophysical Journal, Supplement Series 776, 121 (2013)

1 Nuclear Shape Effect on the g Factor of Hydrogenlike Ions

J. Zatorski, N. S. Oreshkina, C. H. Keitel, and Z. Harman
Physical Review Letters 108, 063005, 1-5 (2012)

Publications before MPIK

11 Finite nuclear size correction to vacuum polarization in hydrogen-like ions

A. I. Bondarev, Yu. S. Kozhedub, and N. S. Oreshkina,
Opt. Spectr. 109, 823 (2010).

10 Ground-state hyperfine structure of H-, Li-, and B-like ions in the intermediate-Z region

D. A. Glazov, A. V. Volotka, I. I. Tupitsyn, N. S. Oreshkina, G. Plunien, and V. M. Shabaev,
Phys. Rev. A 78, 062507 (2008).

9 Radiative and interelectronic-interaction effects on the hyperfine splitting of highly charged B-like ions

N. S. Oreshkina, D. A. Glazov, A. V. Volotka, V. M. Shabaev, I. I. Tupitsyn, and G. Plunien,
Phys. Lett. A 372, 675 (2008).

8 QED calculation of the 2p - 2s and 2p3/2 - 2s transition energies and the ground-state hyperfine splitting in lithiumlike scandium

Y. S. Kozhedub, D. A. Glazov, A. N. Artemyev, N. S. Oreshkina, V. M. Shabaev, I. I. Tupitsyn, A. V. Volotka, and G. Plunien,
Phys. Rev. A 76, 012511 (2007).

7 Hyperfine structure of lithium-like scandium

N. S. Oreshkina, A. V. Volotka, D. A. Glazov, I. I. Tupitsyn, V. M. Shabaev, and G. Plunien,
Opt. Spectr. 102, 815 (2007).

6 g-Factor of Heavy Ions: A New Access to the Fine Structure Constant

V. M. Shabaev, D. A. Glazov, N. S. Oreshkina, A. V. Volotka, G. Plunien, H.-J. Kluge, and W. Quint,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 253002 (2006).

5 QED effects in heavy few-electron ions

V. M. Shabaev, O. V. Andreev, A. N. Artemyev, S. S. Baturin, A. A. Elizarov, Y. S. Kozhedub, N. S. Oreshkina, I. I. Tupitsyn, V. A. Yerokhin, and O. M. Zherebtsov,
Int. J. Mass Spectrom. 251, 109 (2006).

4 The hyperfine structure of heavy hydrogen-like ions: Calculations based on experimental data on muonic atoms

A. A. Elizarov, V. M. Shabaev, N. S. Oreshkina, I. I. Tupitsyn and Th. Stöhlker,
Opt. Spectr. 100, 361 (2006).

3 Hyperfine splitting in heavy ions with the nuclear magnetization distribution determined from experiments on muonic atoms

A. A. Elizarov, V. M. Shabaev, N. S. Oreshkina, and I. I. Tupitsyn,
Nucl. Instr. Meth. in Physics Research B 235, 65 (2005).

2 Hyperfine Splitting of Low-Lying Levels in Heavy Li-Like Ions

E. Y. Korzinin, N. S. Oreshkina, and V. M. Shabaev,
Phys. Scr. 71, 464 (2005).

1 g factor of hydrogenlike ions with nonzero nuclear spin

D. L. Moskovkin, N. S. Oreshkina, V. M. Shabaev, T. Beier, G. Plunien, W. Quint, and G. Soff, Phys. Rev. A 70, 032105 (2004).