Dr. Mirela S. Fetea

Associate Professor of Physics
Engineering Dual-Degree Advisor
D-105 Gottwald Science Center
Office: (804) 289-8256
Fax: (804) 484-1542

http://facultystaff.richmond.edu/~mfetea/index.htm

My research focuses on calculations performed under different model frameworks: particle rotor, total routhian surface, cranking shell, tilted axis cranking, and interacting boson models.

The amount of available experimental data has increased dramatically since the completion of GAMMASPHERE, the high sensitivity detector system based at Argonne National Laboratory. In my research I try to understand specific features seen experimentally, not understood so far, by employing different theoretical models and at the same time, I test proposed theoretical models against systematic trends of the available experimental data.

My research is conducted at the UR and, for limited periods of time, with experienced theoretical and experimental groups, at the University of Tennessee, the Tennessee Technical University, Yale University, SUNY at Stony Brook, Argonne National Laboratory, and Oak Ridge National Laboratory.  It is complementary to and supportive of studies with the proposed Rare Isotope Accelerator (RIA) and the Gamma-Ray Energy Tracking Array (GRETA), which are the highest priority projects of the DoE and NSF in the present decade.

I am a strong supporter of undergraduate research, which I consider to be the epitome of teaching and active learning, and therefore I involve students in my research activities.

Research:
Theoretical Physics - nuclear, particle, solid-state physics expertise

Education:
Ph.D., University of Cape Town

Selected Publications:

K. Martus, M.S. Fetea, and B. Woodhal, Test Bank Supplements for Physics for Scientists and Engineers by Ohanian & Markert, publisher W.W. Norton & Company, ISBN 978-0-393-92977-5 (2007).

R.B. Cakirli, M.S. Fetea, R.F. Casten, D.D. Warner, E.A. McCutchan, D.A. Meyer, A. Heinz, G. Gülhan, J. Qian, and R. Winkler, A First Test of the E(5/4) Bose-Fermi Symmetry: 135Ba, AIP Conf. Proc. 899 99 (2007)

M.S. Fetea, R.B. Cakirli, R.F. Casten, D.D. Warner, E.A. McCutchan, D.A. Meyer, A. Heinz, G. Gülhan, J. Qian, and R. Winkler, A First Search for E(5/4) Symmetry: the Structure of 135Ba, Phys. Rev. C 73 (2006), 051301(R).

M.S. Fetea, R.B. Cakirli, R.F. Casten, D.D. Warner, Possible E(5/4) Symmetry in 135Ba, the World Scientific Proceedings of the Carpathian Summer School of Physics 2005, Editors S. Stoica, L. Trache, and R.E. Tribble, ISBN 981-270-007-2, (2006), 377.

M.S. Fetea, V. Nikolova*, B. Crider*, Chiral Degeneracy in Mass 130 Region, J. Phys. G: Nucl. Part. Phys. 31 (2005), S1847.

M.S. Fetea, R.B. Cakirli, R.F. Casten, D.D. Warner, Possible E(5/4) Symmetry in 135Ba, the American Institute of Physics Conference Proceedings series AIP Conf. Proc.   802 (2005), 271.

M.S. Fetea, V. Nikolova*, B. Crider*, Chiral symmetry and signature splitting in odd-odd neutron deficient Pr nuclei, Eur. Phys. J. A direct (2005) DOI: 10.1140/epjad/i2005-06-175-0. 

Fetea, M.S. (2005) Chiral degeneracy in mass 130 region. Journal of Physics G - Nuclear and Particle Physics, v. 31.

Fetea, M.S. (2005) Chiral symmetry in odd-odd neutron-deficient Pr nuclei. European Physical Journal A, v.25.