Vivek Penumetcha, Ph.D.

CONTACT

VivekP@life.edu
Associate Professor, Department of Natural Sciences

BIOGRAPHY

Education

Ph.D, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Georgia

M.S,, Department of Nuclear Physics, Andhra University, India

B.S, Loyola College, India

Vivek Penumetcha is an associate professor in the Department of Natural Sciences, presently teaching college algebra and introductory physics courses. He is the author of a number of research papers, conference presentations and invited talks in the area of High Energy Nuclear Physics.

He was involved in Nuclear Physics research in collaboration with Georgia State University until 2005. As part of this research, he participated in PHNNIX Experiment at Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory to study properties of Quark Gluon Plasma and performed a number of experiments at Hollifield Heavy Ion Research Facility (HHIRF) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory to study the reaction mechanisms of Heavy-Ion interactions at intermediate energies, with particular emphasis on Deep Inelastic Collisions.

1.) The Phenix Experiment at RHIC, D.P. Morrison for Phenix Collaboration; Nucl. Phys. A638(1998) 565 – 570.

2.) Neutron Transition Densities From ⁸⁸Sr (p, p’) at E_p = 200 MCN, J. J. Kelly, B. S. Flanders, A. Scott, V. Penumetcha, F. T. Baker, W. P. Jones, G. T. Emory, A. D. Bacher, C. Olmer, M. A. Grimm, M. L. Whiten; Phys. Rev. C47 (1993) 2146 – 2158.

3.) Charge and Mass Distributions in Strongly Damped Reactions of ⁵⁸Ni = ¹⁶⁵HO at 16 MCN/Nucleon, V. Penumetcha, G. A. Petitt, T. C. Awes, J. R. Beene, R. L. Ferguson, F. E. Obenshain, F. Plasil, G. R. Young, S. P. Sorenson; Phys. Rev. C42 (1990) 1489 – 1499.

4.) Neutron Emission from Products of Strongly Damped Reactions ⁵⁸Ni + ¹⁶⁵Ho at 930 MeV, G.A. Petitt, C. Butler, V. Penumetcha, T.C. Awes, J.R. Beene, F.E. Obenshain, F. Plasil, S.P. Sorensen, G.R. Young; Phys. Rev. C40 (1989) 692 – 705.

5.) ¹⁹²OS(p,p’) Reaction at 135 MeV, F. Todd Baker, A. Sethi, V. Penumetcha, G. T. Emery, W. P. Jones, M. A. Grimm, M. L. Whiten; Phys. Rev. C32 (1985) 2212 – 2214.

6.) g-bosons and the Third 4⁺ State in ¹⁹²Os, F. Todd Baker, A. Sethi, A. Scott, M. A. Grimm, V. Penumetcha, C. Glashausser, W. G. Love, M. L. Whiten; Phys. Rev. C32 (1985) 2212-2214

7.) The ^90,92Zr (p,p’) Reaction at E = 800 MeV, F. Todd Baker, A. Scott, M. A. Grimm, V. Penumetcha, C. Glashausser, W. G. Love, G. Adams, G. Igo, G. W. Hoffman, W. Swenson, B. E. Wood; Nucl. Phys. A393 (1983) 283 – 300.

8.) Coupled-Channels Analysis of 800 MeV Polarized proton Inelastic Scattering from ¹⁶O, C. Glashausser, R de Swiniarski, K. Jones, S. Nanda, F. Todd Baker, M. Grimm, V. Penumetcha, A. Scott, G. Adams, G. Igo, G. W. Hoffman, W. Swenson, B.E. Wood; Phys. Lett. 116B (1982) 215 – 218.

9.) Test of Data-to-Data Relations of the Reactions ^90,92Zr (p,p’) at 800 MeV, F. Todd Baker, C. Glashausser, Alan Scott, M. A. Grimm Jr., G. S. Adams, G. Hoffman, G. Igo, W. G. Love, J. M. Moss, S. Nanda, V. Penumetcha, W. Swenson, B. E. Wood; Phys. Rev. Lett. 47 (1981) 1823 – 1826.

10.) Shapes of Measured (p,p’) Analyzing Powers at 160 MeV for Proton States in ⁹⁰Zr and Neutron States in ⁹²Zr, Alan Scott, F. Todd Baker, M. A. Grimm jr., J. H. Johnson, V. Penumetcha, R. C. Styles, W. G. Love, W. P. Jones, J. D. Wiggins; Phys. Rev. Lett. 45 (1980) 1315 – 1318.

11.) Conversion Coefficient of the 96 keV Transition in ⁷⁹Se, D. Sudhakara Reddy, Vivekananda Penumetcha, K. L. Narasimham, V. Lakshinarayana; Current Science (India) 48 (1979) 894.

INVITED TALKS

1.) Reaction Mechanisms in Collisions of ⁵⁸Ni and ¹⁶⁵Ho Nuclei; Department of Physics and Astronomy Colloquium, Georgia State University, Atlanta, November 14, 1989.

2.) Deep Inelastic Scattering of Heavy-ions from Holmium Nucleus, Physics Department Colloquium, Emory University, Atlanta, November 17, 1988.

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

1.) Primary Charge and Mass Distributions in Strongly Damped Reactions of ⁵⁸Ni + ¹⁶⁵Ho at 16 MeV/ nucleon, V. Penumetcha, G. A. Petitt, T. C. Awes, J. R. Beene, R. L. Ferguson, F. E. Obenshain, F. Plasisl, G. R. Young; AAPT/APS Joint Winter Meeting, Atlanta, GA, January 22-25, 1990.

2.) Mass, Charge, and Excitation Energy Distributions for Heavy Framents in Strongly Damped Reactions ⁵⁸Ni + ¹⁶⁵Ho at 16 MeV/amu, V. Penumetcha, G. A. Pettit, T. C. Awes, J. R. Beene, R. L. Ferguson, F. E. Obenshain, F. Plasil, S. Sorensen, G. R. Young; Baltimore Meeting of the American Physical Society, 18-21 April 1988.

3.) Neutron – Neutron and Neutron – Light Ion Correlations in the Reaction ³²S + ¹⁹⁷Au at 21.9 MeV/Nucleon, S. Siani, T. C. Awes, F. E. Obenshain, F. Plasil, D. Shapira, G.R. Young, V. Penumetcha, G. A. Petitt; Baltimore Meeting of the American Physical Society, 18-21 April 1988.

4.) Charge and Mass Distributions of Projectile-Like Fragments in the Reaction ₅₈Ni + ¹⁶⁵Ho at 15.7 MeV/Nucleon, V. Penumetcha, G. A. Petitt, T. C. Awes, R. L. Ferguson, F. E. Obenshain, F. Plasil, G. R. Young; New-Brunswick Meeting of American Physical Society (Nuclear Physics Division), 15-17 October 1987.

5.) Neutron Emission in Damped Reactions of ⁵⁸Ni + ¹⁶⁵Ho at 15.5 MeV/Nucleon, G. A. Petitt, C. Butler, V. Penumetcha, T. C. Awes, J. R. Beene, R. L. Ferguson, F. E. Obenshain, F. Plasil, S. P. Sorensen, G. R. Young; New-Brunswick Meeting of the American Physical Society (Nuclear Physics Division), 15-17 October 1987.

6.) E4 Properties of ¹⁹²Os and Possible Role of g-boson, F. Todd Baker, A. Sethi, V. Penumetcha, A. Scott, M. A. Grimm Jr., G. T. Emery, W. P. Jones, M. L. Whiten; Workshop on Interacting Boson-Boson and Boson-Fermion Systems, Gull Lake, Michigan, 28-30 May 1984.

7.) Experimental Neutron Transition Densities from 200 MeV (p,p’), F. W. Hersman, J. R. Calarco, J. Heisenberg, T. Milliman, J. J. Kelly, F. T. Baker, V. Penumetcha, A. Scott, A. Bacher, G. T. Emery, C. Olmer, W. P. Jones, M. L. Whiten, M. Grimm Jr., Washington Meeting of the American Physical Society, 23-26 April 1984.

8.) g-bosons in ¹⁹²Os, A. Sethi, F. Todd Baker, V. Penumetcha, A. Scott, M. A. Grimm Jr., G. T. Emery, W. P. Jones, M. L. Whiten; Notre Dame Meeting of the American Physical Society (Nuclear Physics Division), 13-15 October 1983.

9.) ¹⁹²Os(p,p’) Reaction at 135 MeV, F. Todd Baker, Anil Sethi, V. Penumetcha, Alan Scott, M. A. Grimm Jr., G. T. Emery, W. P. Jones, M. L. Whiten; Notre Dame Meeting of the American Physical Society (Nuclear Physics Division), 13-15 October 1983.

10.) Observation of 1⁺ State in ⁸⁸Sr by Polarized by Proton Scattering at 200 MeV, F. W. Hersman, J. R. Calarco, J. Heisenberg, T. Milliman, F. T. Baker, V. Penumetcha, A. Scott, A. Bacher, G. T. Emery, W. P. Jones, C. Olmer, M. Whiten; Baltimore Meeting of the American Physical Society, 18-21 April 1983.

11.) ^90,92Zr Reaction at 160 MeV, Alan Scott, F. Todd Baker, M. A. Grimm Jr., J. H. Johnson, V. Penumetcha, R. C. Styles, W. G. Love, W. P. Jones, J. D. Wiggins; Minneapolis Meeting of the American Physical Society (Nuclear Physics Division), 9-11 October 1980.