Publications & Presentations

H-index: Web of Science = 12, Google Scholar = 13 (as of October 1, 2021)

Papers et al.

1, 2, 3, … ~standard papers;  A, B, C, … JUNO Collaboration papers (~600 co-authors);  α, β, γ, … other works

?. B. Roskovec, O. Šrámek, and W. F. McDonough: “On quantifying geochemical anomalies in the mantle using geoneutrinos.” This awesome paper has been repeatedly rejected.
G. JUNO Collaboration (2021): “Radioactivity control strategy for the JUNO detector.” J. High En. Phys. 2021, 102, doi:10.1007/JHEP11(2021)102 (arXiv:2107.03669)
F. JUNO Collaboration (2021): “The design and sensitivity of JUNO’s scintillator radiopurity pre-detector OSIRIS.” Eur. Phys. J. C 81, 973, doi:10.1140/epjc/s10052-021-09544-4 (arXiv:2103.16900)
E. JUNO Collaboration (2021): “JUNO sensitivity to low energy atmospheric neutrino spectra.” Eur. Phys. J. C 81 Article number: 887, doi:10.1140/epjc/s10052-021-09565-z (arXiv:2103.09908)
D. JUNO Collaboration (2021): “Calibration strategy of the JUNO experiment.” J. High En. Phys. 2021 (3) 004, doi:10.1007/JHEP03(2021)004 (arXiv:2011.06405)
C. Daya Bay and JUNO Collaborations (2021): “Optimization of the JUNO liquid scintillator composition using a Daya Bay antineutrino detector.” Nucl. Instr. Methods Phys. Res. A 988, doi:10.1016/j. nima.2020.164823 (arXiv:2007.00314)
B. JUNO Collaboration (2021): “Feasibility and physics potential of detecting 8B solar neutrinos at JUNO.” Chin. Phys. C 45, 023004, doi:10.1088/1674-1137/abd92a (arXiv:2006.11760)
A. JUNO Collaboration: “TAO Conceptual Design Report: A precision measurement of the reactor antineutrino spectrum with sub-percent energy resolution.” (arXiv:2005.08745)
21. O. Šrámek (2021): “Geoneutrinos: Seeing the Earth with Particle Physics.” In: D. Alderton & S. A. Elias (eds.), Encyclopedia of Geology, 2nd edition, Academic Press, Oxford, pp. 258–269, doi:10.1016/B978-0-08-102908-4.00161-2 (PDF, BibTeX)
20. A. Pastorek, M. Ferus, V. Čuba, O. Šrámek, O. Ivanek, and S. Civiš (2020): “Primordial radioactivity and prebiotic chemical evolution: Effect of γ radiation on formamide-based synthesis.” J. Phys. Chem. B 124 (41), 8951–8959, doi:10.1021/acs.jpcb.0c05233 (PDF, BibTeX)
19. W. F. McDonough, O. Šrámek, and S. A. Wipperfurth (2020): “Radiogenic power and geoneutrino luminosity of the Earth and other terrestrial bodies through time.” Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst. 21 (7), e2019GC008865, doi:10.1029/2019GC008865 (PDF, BibTeX, arXiv:1912.04655)
18. V. Patočka, O. Šrámek, and N. Tosi (2020): “Minimum heat flow from the core and thermal evolution of the Earth.” Phys. Earth Planet. Int. 305, 106457, doi:10.1016/j.pepi.2020.106457 (PDF, BibTeX)
17. S. A. Wipperfurth, O. Šrámek, and W. F. McDonough (2020): “Reference Models for Lithospheric Geoneutrino Signal.”  J. Geophys. Res. 125, e2019JB018433, doi:10.1029/2019JB018433 (PDF, BibTeXarXiv:1907.12184)
α. T. Alexander, H. O. Back, et al. [25 coauthors] (2019): “The Low-Radioactivity Underground Argon Workshop: A workshop synopsis.” (arXiv:1901.10108, PDF) [a funny “paper”, essentially a book of abstracts]
16. S. A. Wipperfurth, M. Guo, O. Šrámek, and W. F. McDonough (2018): “Earth’s chondritic Th/U: Negligible fractionation during accretion, core formation, and crust–mantle differentiation.” Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 498, 196–202, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2018.06.029 (PDF, BibTeX, arXiv:1801.05473)
15. J. F. Beacom et al. [40 coauthors] (2017): “Physics prospects of the Jinping neutrino experiment.” Chin. Phys. C, 41 (2), eid:23002, doi:10.1088/1674-1137/41/2/023002 (PDF, BibTeX)
14. O. Šrámek, L. Stevens, W. F. McDonough, S. Mukhopadhyay, and J. Peterson (2017): “Subterranean production of neutrons, 39Ar and 21Ne: Rates and uncertainties.” Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 196, 370–387, doi:10.1016/j.gca.2016.09.040 (PDF, BibTeXarXiv:1509.07436).
13. O. Šrámek, B. Roskovec, S. A. Wipperfurth, Y. Xi, and W. F. McDonough (2016): “Revealing the Earth’s mantle from the tallest mountains using the Jinping Neutrino Experiment.” Sci. Rep. 6, Article number 33034, doi:10.1038/srep33034 (PDF, BibTeX).
12. S. T. Dye, Y. Huang, V. Lekić, W. F. McDonough, and O. Šrámek (2015): “Geo-neutrinos and Earth models.” Physics Procedia 61, 310–318, doi:10.1016/j.phpro.2014.12.050 (PDF, BibTeX, arXiv:1405.0192).
11. W. F. McDonough, and O. Šrámek (2014): “Neutrino geoscience, news in brief.” Environ. Earth Sci. 71 (8), 3787–3791, doi:10.1007/s12665-014-3133-9 (PDF, BibTeX).
10. O. Šrámek, W. F. McDonough, E. S. Kite, V. Lekić, S. T. Dye, and S. Zhong (2013): “Geophysical and geochemical constraints on geoneutrino fluxes from Earth’s mantle.” Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 361, 356–366, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2012.11.001 (PDF, BibTeX, arXiv:1207.0853). Research Highlight in Nature!
9. O. Šrámek, W. F. McDonough, and J. G. Learned (2012): “Geoneutrinos.” Adv. High Energ. Phys. vol. 2012, Special Issue on Neutrino Physics, Article ID 235686, doi:10.1155/2012/235686 (PDF, BibTeX).
8. O. Šrámek, and S.J. Zhong (2012): “Martian crustal dichotomy and Tharsis formation by partial melting coupled to early plume migration.” J. Geophys. Res. 117 (E1), E01005, doi:10.1029/2011JE003867 (PDF, BibTeX).
7. O. Šrámek, L. Milelli, Y. Ricard, and S. Labrosse (2012): “Thermal evolution and differentiation of planetesimals and planetary embryos.” Icarus 217 (1), 339–354, doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2011.11.021 (PDF, BibTeX).
6. M. Ulvrová, N. Coltice, Y. Ricard, S. Labrosse, F. Dubuffet, J. Velímský, and O. Šrámek (2011): “Compositional and thermal equilibration of particles, drops and diapirs in geophysical flows.” Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst.12 (10), Q10014, doi:10.1029/2011GC003757 (PDF, BibTeX).
5. B. M. Hynek, S. J. Robbins, O. Šrámek, and S.J. Zhong (2011): “Geological evidence for a migrating Tharsis plume on early Mars.” Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 310 (3-4), 327–333, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2011.08.020 (PDF, BibTeX).
4. O. Šrámek, and S.J. Zhong (2010): “Long-wavelength stagnant-lid convection with hemispheric variation in lithospheric thickness: link between Martian crustal dichotomy and Tharsis?” J. Geophys. Res. 115, E09010, doi:10.1029/2010JE003597 (PDF, BibTeX).
3. O. Šrámek, Y. Ricard, and F. Dubuffet (2010): “A multiphase model of core formation.” Geophys. J. Int. 181 (1), 198–220, doi:10.1111/j.1365-246X.2010.04528.x (PDF, BibTeX).
2. Y. Ricard, O. Šrámek, and F. Dubuffet (2009): “A multi-phase model of runaway core–mantle segregation in planetary embryos.” Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 284 (1-2), 144–150, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2009.04.021 (PDF, BibTeX).
1. O. Šrámek, Y. Ricard and D. Bercovici (2007): “Simultaneous melting and compaction in deformable two-phase media.” Geophys. J. Int. 168 (3), 964–982, doi:10.1111/j.1365-246X.2006.03269.x (PDF, BibTeX).

Ph.D. Thesis

Ondřej Šrámek: “Modèle d’écoulement biphasé en sciences de la terre : fusion partielle, compaction et différenciation.” Ph.D. thesis, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France & Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic, 2007 (website, BibTeX).

Master Thesis

Ondřej Šrámek: “Modelování dynamického geoidu (Modeling of dynamic geoid).” Master’s thesis, Charles University of Prague, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Department of Geophysics, Prague, Czech Republic, 2002 (PDF, BibTeX; in Czech).

Invited presentations

Seeing the Earth with particle physics: Geoneutrinos and the planet’s radiogenic power.” An online talk presented at Institute of Geosciences, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel on 6 January 2021.

Geoneutrino measurements and radiogenic power in the Earth’s mantle.” Talk presented at Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR) Berlin on 3 March 2020.

Geoneutrinos and radiogenic power in the Earth: recent advances and future prospects.” Talk presented at International Symposium “Geoneutrinos and Quantitative Geochemical Modeling” held in Makuhari, Japan on 25 May 2019.

Geoneutrinos and radiogenic power in the Earth: recent advances and future prospects.” Talk presented at the Joint symposium of Misasa 2019 & Core-Mantle Coevolution “Origin, Evolution & Dynamics of the Earth & Planetary Interiors” held at Brancart Misasa, Japan on 18–21 March 2019.

Subterranean production of 39Ar and implications for Doe Canyon well gas.” Talk presented at the Low-Radioactivity Underground Argon workshop at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, Washington USA on 19–20 March 2018, doi:10.5281/zenodo.1239072

Geological models for geoneutrino prediction at JUNO: uncertainties and weak points.” Talk presented at Continental margin in South China: Multidisciplinary frontiers in neutrino geoscience at Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China on 21–23 July 2017.

Geoneutrinos at Jinping and beyond.” Talk presented at Workshop of Jinping Neutrino Experiment 2017 on 15–16 July 2017 at University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Yanqihu Campus), Beijing, China.

How geoneutrinos define the radiogenic power driving the Earth’s engine.” Talk presented at Geophysical Colloquium at Institute of Geophysics, ETH Zürich, Switzerland on 31 March 2017.

Revealing the Earth’s mantle from the tallest mountains using the Jinping Neutrino Experiment.” Talk presented at International Workshop: Neutrino Research and Thermal Evolution of the Earth, Tohoku Forum for Creativity, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, on 26 October 2016.

“Geoneutrinos – a new tool to study Earth’s interior.” Talk presented at Colloquium of Institute of Theoretical Physics, Charles University in Prague, on 12 April 2016.

“Modeling Mars’ early internal dynamics.” Talk presented at Nečas seminar on continuum mechanics, Mathematical Institute of the Charles University in Prague, on 6 January 2014.

“Calculating subsurface nucleonic production of noble gas nuclides: Implications on crustal and mantle K, Th, U abundances.” Seminar presented at Department of Geophysics, Charles University in Prague on 18 December 2013.

“Neutrino tomography of Earth’s mantle.” Colloquium presented at Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, University of British Columbia on 24 October 2013.

“Geoneutrino perspective on Earth’s heat budget and mantle structure.” Colloquium presented at Southwest Research Institute on 25 July 2013.

“Earth models and primordial heat and geoneutrino emission from deep mantle piles.” Talk presented at Neutrino Geoscience 2013, Takayama (Japan), 21–23 March 2013.

“Geoneutrinos and the heat budget of the Earth.” Seminar presented at Department of Geophysics, Charles University in Prague on 14 November 2012.

“Modeling of two-phase flow in geophysics: compaction, differentiation, partial melting, and melt migration.” Talk presented at BIRS workshop Model reduction in continuum thermodynamics: Modeling, analysis and computation, Banff, Canada, 16–21 September 2012.

“Thermal Evolution And Core Formation In Planetesimals And Planetary Embryos.” Abstract DI41B-04 presented at AGU 2011 Fall Meeting, San Francisco, 5–9 Dec 2011 (with S. Labrosse, Y. Ricard, and L. Milelli).

“Modeling of two-phase flow in geophysics: compaction, differentiation and partial melting.” Talk presented at Nečas seminar on continuum mechanics, Mathematical Institute of the Charles University in Prague, on 18 April 2011.

Other presentations

2020

O. Šrámek: “What we have learned from geoneutrinos.” Seminar presented at Department of Geophysics, Charles University in Prague on 2 December 2020.

2018

O. Šrámek: “Testing a proposed ‘second continent’ beneath eastern China using geoneutrino measurements.” Seminar presented at Department of Geophysics, Charles University in Prague on 14 November 2020.

O. Šrámek: “Geoneutrinos: current status and outlook.” Talk presented at Department of Physics, University of Colorado Boulder, on 24 August, 2018.

O. Šrámek, S. A. Wipperfurth, M. Guo, and W. F. McDonough: “Thorium and uranium power plate tectonics, but not the geodynamo.” PICO presentation at EGU General Assembly 2018 in Vienna, Austria on 9 April 2018 (Abstract EGU2018-4542; slides PPT).

2017

O. Šrámek: “κ and κPb of the Earth: How much radioactivity in Earth’s core?” Seminar presented at Department of Geophysics, Charles University in Prague on 20 December 2017.

O. Šrámek, B. Roskovec, S. A. Wipperfurth, Yufei Xi, and W. F. McDonough: “Using geoneutrinos to constrain the radiogenic power in the Earth’s mantle.” Talk presented at EGU General Assembly 2017 in Vienna, Austria on 28 April 2017 (Abstract EGU2017-15602).

O. Šrámek: “Geoneutrinos: a new tool to study Earth’s interior.” Talk presented at IISER Thiruvananthapuram, School of Physics, Kerala, India on 7 February 2017.

2016

O. Šrámek: “Geoneutrinos, noble gases, and geophysical two-phase flow.” Talk presented at ESSAM School on Mathematical Modelling, Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing in Kácov, Czech Republic on 30 May 2016.

O. Šrámek: “Particle Geoscience: Geoneutrinos and noble gases.” Seminar presented at Department of Geophysics, Charles University in Prague on 27 April 2016.

2015

O. Šrámek, L. Stevens, W. F. McDonough, S. Mukhopadhyay, and J. Peterson: “Subterranean production of neutrons, 39Ar and 21Ne: Rates and uncertainties.” Poster presented at Neutrino Geoscience 2015, Institut de physique du globe de Paris (France), 15–17 June.

2013

O. Šrámek, W. F. McDonough, S. Mukhopadhyay, L. Stevens, J. Siegel: “Calculating subsurface nucleonic production of noble gas nuclides: Implications on crustal and mantle K, Th, U abundances.” Poster MR43A-2371 presented at AGU 2013 Fall Meeting, San Francisco, 9–13 December.

L. Stevens, O. Šrámek, S. Mukhopadhyay, W. F. McDonough: “Calculating K–Th–U abundances from 21Ne and 39Ar nucleonic production in the crust and mantle.” Poster presented at Neutrino Geoscience 2013, Takayama (Japan), 21–23 March.

O. Šrámek, W. F. McDonough, E. S. Kite, V. Lekić, S. T. Dye, and S. Zhong: “Geoneutrino Flux From Earth’s Mantle And Its Detectability.” Poster presented at Neutrino Geoscience 2013, Takayama (Japan), 21–23 March.

2012

O. Šrámek, W. F. McDonough, E. S. Kite, V. Lekić, S. T. Dye, and S. Zhong: “Geoneutrino perspective on Earth’s heat budget and mantle structure.” Talk DI51B-02 presented at AGU 2012 Fall Meeting, San Francisco, 3–7 Dec.

O. Šrámek, W. F. McDonough, E. S. Kite, V. Lekić, S. T. Dye, and S. Zhong: “Geoneutrino Flux From Earth’s Mantle And Its Detectability.” Poster at Workshop in Celebration of SNOLAB’s Grand Opening, May 14–16, 2012 at SNOLAB. Also presented at CIDER 2012 Summer Program, Jul 15–Aug 3, KITP, Santa Barbara.

O. Šrámek: “Geoneutrinos from Earth’s mantle: constraints from geophysics and geochemistry.” Seminar presented at University of Hawai, Jan 18, 2012.

2011

O. Šrámek, W. F. McDonough, S. Dye and S.J. Zhong: “Geoneutrino Fluxes From A Laterally Heterogeneous Lower Mantle: Constraints From Geophysics And Geochemistry.” Poster U41A-0004 presented at AGU 2011 Fall Meeting, San Francisco, 5–9 Dec.

O. Šrámek and S.J. Zhong: “Martian dichotomy formation by partial melting coupled to early Tharsis migration.” 42nd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, Abstract 2366, 2011.

2010

O. Šrámek and S.J. Zhong, Self-consistent Model of Martian Dichotomy Formation and Tharsis Evolution?, Abstract P51A-1414 presented at AGU 2010 Fall Meeting, San Francisco, 13–17 Dec.

O. Šrámek, and Y. Ricard, Early metal-silicate differentiation of accreting planetesimals and planetary embryos, EGU General Assembly 2010, Abstract EGU2010-6187, 2010.

O. Šrámek and S.J. Zhong, Link Between Tharsis and the Hemispheric Dichotomy – Testing the Model of Rotation of Lithosphere for Mars, 41st Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, Abstract 2636, 2010.

2009

O. Šrámek and S.J. Zhong, Stagnant-lid Convection with Lateral Variations in Lithospheric Thickness: Application to Mars, EOS Trans. AGU, 90 (52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract P41A-07, 2009.

Dubuffet, F., O. Šrámek and Y. Ricard, Multiphase model of metal segregation and core formation in growing planetesimals and planetary embryos, EOS Trans. AGU, 90 (52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract V12B-04, 2009.

O. Šrámek and S.J. Zhong, Dynamic Stress at Martian Surface in the Model of Rotation of the Lithosphere, 40th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, Abstract 2491, 2009.

2006

O. Šrámek, D. Bercovici and Y. Ricard, General model of coupled deformation and kinetics-controlled melting, EOS Trans. AGU, 87 (52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract V23D-0672, 2006.

2005

O. Šrámek, Y. Ricard and D. Bercovici, Melting and compaction in deformable two- phase media, 9th International Workshop on Numerical Modeling of Mantle Convection and Lithospheric Dynamics, Erice, Italy, 2005.

O. Šrámek, Y. Ricard and D. Bercovici, Melting and compaction in deformable two- phase media, Gordon Research Conference on Interior of the Earth, Mount Holyoke, MA USA, 2005.

2004

O. Šrámek, Y. Ricard and D. Bercovici, Melt extraction in two-phase continuum theory, EOS Trans. AGU, 85 (47), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract V53A-0607, 2004.

2003

O. Šrámek, and Y. Ricard, Melt extraction in two-phase flows, 8th European Workshop on Numerical Modeling of Mantle Convection and Lithospheric Dynamics, Hrubá Skála, Czech Republic, 2003 (abstract).

O. Šrámek, and Y. Ricard, Melt extraction in two-phase flows, 2nd Workshop on Mantle Composition, Structure and Phase Transitions, Fréjus, France, 2003 (abstract).

Outreach and instruction

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