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    • Dr. Dorin Poenaru
    Senior Researcher I (retired), Honorary Member of the Romanian Academy
    Polytehnic Institute, Bucharest, 1968; Central Institute of Physics, 1981
    +40-(0)21-4042390
    nuclear theory
    alpha decay, cluster decay, spontaneous fission, nuclear structure, nuclear half lives, ternary fission, nuclear reactions, nanophysics of atomic clusters deposited on planar surface, semiconductor detectors for nuclear radiations, nuclear electronics

     

    Calculation of half-lives against alpha-, cluster- decay, and spontaneous fission. We developed computer codes allowing to use the macroscopic-microscopic method, cranking inertia, etc. We weintroduced a new semi-empirical relationship (SemFIS) for the alpha-decay half-life. In cooperation with A. Sandulescu and W. Greiner, we published in 1980 our paper predicting this new decay mode 4 years before the first experiment. There are only four Romanian Scientists in Encyclopaedia Britanica: 1. N.C. Paulescu (1869-1931) who conducted groundbreaking research on the antidiabetic hormone insulin; 2. Henri Marie Coanda(1886 -1972) Romanian inventor, aerodynamics pioneer, and builder of an experimental aircraft. He discovered the Coandă effect of fluid dynamics; 3-4. Aureliu Sandulescu (1932- ) and Dorin N Poenaru (1936- ) Romanian theoretical physicists.

     

    1. D.N. Poenaru, R.A. Gherghescu, Alpha decay and cluster radioactivity of nuclei of interest to the synthesis of Z=119,120 isotopes, Phys. Rev. C 97, 044621 (2018).
    2. D.N. Poenaru, R.A. Gherghescu, W. Greiner, Nuclear inertia and the decay modes of superheavy nuclei, J. Phys. G: Nucl. Part. Phys. 40, 105105 (2013). JOURNAL'S HIGHLIGHTS OF 2013.
    3. D.N. Poenaru, R.A. Gherghescu, W. Greiner, Heavy particle radioactivities of superheavy nuclei, Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 062503 (2011).
    4. D.N. Poenaru, R.A. Gherghescu, A.Solovyov, W. Greiner, Hemispheroidal quantum harmonic oscillator. Physics Letters A 372, 5448-5451 (2008).
    5. A. Sandulescu, D.N. Poenaru, W. Greiner, New type of decay of heavy nuclei intermediate between fission and alpha-decay, Sov. J. Part. Nucl. 11, 528-541 (1980).
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