Prof. Dr. A M Vinodkumar Professor Email: Personal Web Page

Academic Qualifications:

• Ph. D. Physics (1997) from Nuclear Science Centre, New Delhi (IUAC) and University of Calicut, Kerala.
• M. Sc. Physics (1990) from MG University, Kottayam, Kerala.

Research Interests:

Nuclear Physics

Recent Publications:

1. Fusion studies in 12C+182,184,186W reactions at energies below and near the Coulomb barrier - S. Sanila, A. M. Vinodkumar, B.R.S. Babu, N. Madhavan, S. Nath, J. Gehlot, Rohan Biswas, Chandra Kumar, Gonika, Anjali Rani, A. Parihari, Dinesh Viswakarma, Shoaib Noor, and E. Prasad, Phys. Rev.C.106(2022)024614.
2. Role of positive transfer Q values in fusion cross sections for 18O+ 182,184,186W reactions - P. Jisha, A. M. Vinodkumar, S. Sanila, K Arjun, B. R. S. Babu, J. Gehlot, S. Nath, N. Madhavan, Rohan Biswas, A. Parihari, A. Vinayak, Amritraj Mahato, E. Prasad, and A.C. Visakh,Phys. Rev.C105(2022)054614.
3. Running coupling constant in thermal ϕ4 theory up to two loop order - K. Arjun, A. M. Vinodkumar, and Vishnu Mayya Bannur, Phys. Rev. D105(2022)025023.
4. Fusion studies in 16O +142,150Nd reactions at energies near the Coulomb barrier - A. C. Visakh, E. Prasad, P. V. Laveen, M. Shareef, A. Shamlath, S. Nath, N. Madhavan, J. Gehlot, Gonika, Rohan Biswas, A. Parihari, J. Khuyagbaatar, B. Lommel, B. Kindler, A. M. Vinodkumar, B. R. S. Babu, S. Sanila, K. M. Varier, and S. Appannababu, Phys. Rev. C104(2021)054602.
5. Evaluation of detection efficiency and neutron scattering in NAND detector array: FLUKA simulation and experimental validation - N. Saneesh , Divya Arora, A. Chatterjee , K. S. Golda, Mohit Kumar, A. M. Vinodkumar , P. Sugathan , Nuclear Instruments and Methods A 1013(2021)165682.
6. P. V. Laveen, E. Prasad, N. Madhavan, A. K. Nasirov, J. Gehlot, S. Nath, G. Mandaglio, G. Giardina, A. M. Vinodkumar, M. Shareef, A. Shamlath, S. K. Duggi, P. Sandya Devi, Tathagata Banerjee, M. M. Hosamani, Khushboo, P. Jisha, Neeraj Kumar, Priya Sharma, and T. Varughese, Fusion studies in 35,37Cl + 181Ta reactions via evaporation residue cross section measurements, Physical Review C 102, 034613 (2020).
7. S. Sanila, A. M. Vinodkumar and B. R. S. Babu, Systematics of multinucleon transfer in heavy ion reactions, Pramana-Journal of Physics, 94, 70 (2020).
8. P. Jisha, A. M. Vinodkumar, B. R. S. Babu, S. Nath, N. Madhavan, J. Gehlot, A. Jhingan, T. Banerjee, Ish Mukul, R. Dubey, N. Saneesh, K. M. Varier, E. Prasad, A. Shamlath, P. V. Laveen, and M. Shareef, Evaporation residue measurements for compound nuclei in the A = 200 region, Physical Review C 101, 02461 (2020).
9. J. Gehlot, A. M. Vinodkumar, N. Madhavan, S. Nath, A. Jhingan, T. Varughese, Tathagata Banerjee, A. Shamlath, P. V. Laveen, M. Shareef, P. Jisha, P. Sandya Devi, G. Naga Jyothi, M. M. Hosamani, I. Mazumdar, V. I. Chepigin, M. L. Chelnokov, A. V. Yeremin, A. K. Sinha, and B. R. S. Babu, Evaporation residue cross-section measurements for 16O + 203,205Tl, Physical Review C 99, 034615 (2019).
10. M. Shareef, E. Prasad, A. Jhingan, N. Saneesh, K. S. Golda, A. M. Vinodkumar, Mohit Kumar, A. Shamlath, P. V. Laveen, A. C. Visakh, M. M. Hosamani, S. K. Duggi, P. Sandya Devi, G. N. Jyothi, A. Tejaswi, P. N. Patil, Jhilam Sadhukhan, P. Sugathan, A. Chatterjee, and Santanu Pal, Nuclear dissipation at high excitation energy and angular momenta in reaction forming 227Np, Physical Review C 99, 024618 (2019).
11. W. Loveland, A. M. Vinodkumar, Ricardo Yanez, Larry Yao, Jonathan King, Jens Lassen, and Alex Rojas, Sub-barrier fusion of ¹¹Li with ²⁰⁸Pb, European Physical Journal A - Hadrons Nuclei 54, 140 (2018).
12. A. Shamlath, E. Prasad, N. Madhavan, P. V. Laveen, J. Gehlot, A. K. Nasirov, G. Giardina, G. Mandaglio, S. Nath, Tathagata Banerjee, A. M. Vinodkumar, M. Shareef, A. Jhingan, T. Varughese, DVGRKS Kumar, P. Sandya Devi, Khushboo, P. Jisha, Neeraj Kumar, M. M. Hosamani, and S. Kailas, Fusion and quasifission studies in reactions forming Rn via evaporation residue measurements, Physical Review C 95, 034610 (2017).
13. Reshma, C D Ravikumar, A M Vinodkumar, I Vijyalakshmi, B Dhanalakshmi, N Chitra, S. Bala Sundar, M T Jose, B Venkatramanan, Hazard indices and annual effective dose due to terrestrial radioactivity in Northern Kerala, India, Journal of Radioanalytical Chemistry 314, 2171 (2017).
14. B. R. S. Babu, E. Prasad, P. V. Laveen, A. M. Vinodkumar, Searching the Stabilizing Effects of Neutron Shell Closure via Fusion Evaporation Residue Studies, World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology International Journal of Mathematical, Computational, Physical, Electrical and Computer Engineering 10, 6 (2016).
15. A. Shamlath, M. Shareef, E. Prasad, P. Sugathan, R.G. Thomas, A. Jhingan, S. Appannababu, A.K. Nasirov, A.M. Vinodkumar, K.M. Varier, C. Yadav, B.R.S. Babu, S. Nath, G. Mohanto, Ish Mukul, D. Singh, S. Kailas, Fission fragment mass distribution studies in 30Si + 180Hf reaction, Nuclear Physics A945, 67 (2016).

Research Group:

Ph.D Students

1. P. Jisha
2. Muhammed Irshad
3. Sanila S
4. Arjun K
5. Saneesh

M.Phil Students

1. Meenu Thomas

Ph.D Awarded

1. Rakhee Kushwah (Particle and Astroparticle Physics group, KTH Sweden)
2. Jagdish Gehlot (IUAC, New Delhi)

M.Phil Awarded

1. P. Jisha
2. K. V. Vineetha
3. Ibtisam Alavi
4. Sikha Simon
5. Jeena K
6. Suhara Beevi