Dr Vitaly Kudryavtsev
Senior Lecturer in Particle Astrophysics
Contact details
- Room : F9b
- Phone : +44 (0)114 22 24531
- Fax : +44 (0)114 22 23555
email : v.kudryavtsev@sheffield.ac.uk
Research interests
- Dark matter search
- Neutrino physics and astrophysics
- Cosmic rays
Research projects
- EURECA
- ZEPLIN-II
- DRIFT
- ILIAS
- LAGUNA
Teaching
- PHY112 (lectures and problem classes)
- PHY101 (problem classes)
- PHY102 (problem classes)
- PHY411/412 (lectures)
- PHY466 (lectures)
Departmental administration
- Examinations Officer
- Year Tutor for 2nd Year Physics students
- Mentor for postgraduate students
- Advisor for undergraduate students
Professional activities
- Member of the International Advisory Committee and Co-editor for the Workshop series "Identification of Dark Matter"
- Coordinator of the Working group on background studies within the EU FP6 programme ILIAS
- Coordinator of the Monte Carlo simulations activity within the FP7 I3 proposal
- Referee for Astroparticle Physics, Nuclear Instruments and Methods, Journal of Physics G etc.
- Member of the Institute Board for the ZEPLIN-II international dark matter experiment
Recent key publications
- V. A. Kudryavtsev et al. "Study and suppression of anomalous fast events in inorganic scintillators for dark matter searches", Astroparticle Physics, 17 (2002) 401-408.
- M. J. Carson et al. "Neutron background in large-scale xenon detectors for dark matter searches", Astroparticle Physics, 21 (2004) 667-687.
- G. J. Alner et al. "Limits on WIMP cross-sections from the NAIAD experiment at the Boulby Underground Laboratory", Physics Letters B, 616 (2005) 17-24.
- A. Tang, G. Horton-Smith, V. A. Kudryavtsev and A. Tonazzo. "Muon simulations for Super-Kamiokande, KamLAND and CHOOZ", Physical Review D, 74 (2006) 053007.