Serban MISICU

• phone: (001) (630) 252 3442
  
• fax: (001) (630) 252 6008
• e-mail: [email protected]
• home page: http://www.theory.nipne.ro/~misicu

Biographical sketch

• 1990 Diploma in Physics Engineering, Faculty of Technological Physics, University of Bucharest, Romania.
• 1990-1995 Research Assistant, National Institute for Earth Physics, Bucharest-Magurele, Romania.
• 1995 Ph.D.,  Institute of Atomic Physics, Bucharest, Romania
• 1995-1996, Teachingassistant,  Department of Physics, Tulane University,    New Orleans, Louisiana.
• 1996-2005, Senior Researcher, National Institute for Nuclear  Physics and Engineering, Bucharest-Magurele, Romania
  
• 1997-1998,  Senior Scientist, Bogoliubov Laboratory of Theoretical Physics, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia.
• 1998-1999, CIES  Postdoctoral Fellowship,  CIES Bordeaux-Gradignan, France
• 1997-1999,  2-3 months/year DFG and DAAD  Fellow, Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
• 2000-2001 Alexander von Humboldt Fellow, Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
• 2001-2003 Marie Curie Individiual Fellowship of the European Commission, Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
• 2003 Habilitation (Venia legendi), Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
• 2005 Alexander von Humboldt Fellow, Institut für Kernphysik, Technische  Universität Darmstadt, Germany.
• present Fulbright Research Scholar, Theory Group, Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois.

Selected Publications

• Quasi-molecular structures in cold fission and synthesis of superheavy nuclei, S.Misicu, J.W.Goethe Universität, Fachbereich Physik,  320p., Frankfurt am Main 2003.  

• Cluster Radioactivity and Nuclear Molecules in Cold Fission,  A.Sandulescu and  S.Misicu, in ''Cluster Radioactivity, Fission, Fusion and the Superheavy Nuclei'', Proceedings of CCAST-World Laboratory Workshop Series : Volume 123, pp.31-110, Ed.Qi-ren Zhang,  Beijingh, Peoples Republic of China (2000).
• Cold binary and ternary fragmentations as an extension of cluster radioactivity, A.Sandulescu, F.Carstoiu, S.Misicu, A.Florescu, A.V.Ramayya, J.H.Hamilton, J.K.Hwang, G.M.Ter-Akopian and W.Greiner, in "Heavy Elements and Related Phenomena", eds. Raj K. Gupta and W.Greiner, World-Scientific, Singapore 1999.

• Hindrance of Heavy-Ion Fusion due to Nuclear Incompressibility, S. Misicu and H.Esbensen, Phys.Rev.Lett. 91, no.11,112701 (2006).
• Interplay of compressional and vortical nuclear currents in  overtones of the isoscalar giant dipole resonance, S. Misicu, Phys.Rev.C  73,  024301 (2006).
  
• Spectroscopic Factors of Cluster Decays in an Algebraic Cluster Model,  S. Misicu and P.O.Hess, Phys.Lett.B 595, No.1-4, pp.187-192 (2004).
• Influence of hexadecupole deformation and role of orientation in capture reactions with ⁴⁸Ca projectiles leading to superheavy nuclei, S. Misicu and W.Greiner, Phys. Rev. C 69, 054601 (2004).
• An  Algebraic Vibron Model Applied to  Light and Heavy  Nuclear  Molecules, Huitzilin Yepez Martinez, Peter O. Hess and S. Misicu, Phys.Rev.C  68,  014314 (2003).
• Cold Valleys in Cluster Radioactivity,  S. Misicu and W.Greiner, J.Phys.G 29, L1-L12 (2003)
  
• Potential Energy Surfaces and Spectra of Superheavy Elements,  P.O.Hess and S. Misicu, Phys.Rev.C 68,    064303 (2003).
• Double Fine Structure in the Binary Cold Fission, D.S.Delion, A.Sandulescu, S. Misicu and F.Carstoiu and W.Greiner,  J.Phys.G:Part.&Nucl.  28, 289 (2002).
• Properties of some collective excitations of spherical nuclei in the superheavy island, S. Misicu, T.Buervenich, T.Cornelius and W.Greiner, J.Phys.G.:Part.&Nucl. 28, 1441 (2002).
• The low-lying Isoscalar Giant Dipole Resonance, S. Misicu and S.I.Bastrukov, Eur.Phys.J. A 13, 399 (2002).
• Role of fragment orientation in the formation of fusion valleys of Superheavy Elements,  S. Misicu  and W.Greiner, Phys.Rev.C 66, 044606 (2002).
• Orientation of Fragments Emitted in Binary Cold Fission of ²⁵²Cf, S. Misicu and W.Greiner, J.Phys.G  28,  2861 (2002).
• Collective Spectra of alpha-like Giant Trinuclear Molecules, S.Misicu, P.O Hess and W.Greiner, Phys.Rev.C  63 ,  054308 (2001)
• An Algebraic Model for Three-Cluster Giant Molecules ,  R.Bijker, P.O.Hess and S. Misicu, Rev.Mex. de Fisica  47, Supp.2 , 52(2001).
• Emission of Electromagnetic Radiation in alpha-decay,  S.Misicu, M.Rizea and W.Greiner, J.Phys.G  27 ,  993 (2001)
• Coupling between fragments radial motion and the transversal degrees of freedom on the tunneling in Cold Fission, S. Misicu, A.Sandulescu and W.Greiner, Phys.Rev.C  64, 044610 (2001).
• Quasimolecular Resonances in the binary cold fission, D.S.Delion, A.Sandulescu, S. Misicu and F.Carstoiu and W.Greiner, Phys.Rev.C 64, 041303(2001) .
• Energy shift of the 2⁺₁ state in ¹⁰Be in the cold fission of ²⁵²Cf, S.Misicu, A.Sandulescu and W.Greiner, Phys.Rev.C  61,  041602 (2000) .
• Collective Modes of Tri-Nuclear Molecules,  P.O.Hess, S.Misicu, W.Greiner and W.Scheid,  J.Phys.G  26, 957 (2000).
• Quantum Tunneling with Dissipation in Nuclear Cluster Decay, S. Misicu , J.Phys.G  26, 1447 (2000).
• Molecular Collective Vibrations in the Ternary Neutronless Fission of ²⁵²Cf, S.Misicu, P.O.Hess, A.Sandulescu and W.Greiner, J.Phys.G:Part.Nucl. 25, L147 (1999).
• Long Range Alpha Characteristics in the Ternary Cold Fission of ²⁵²Cf, S. Misicu, A. Sandulescu, F. Carstoiu, M. Rizea, W. Greiner,  Il Nuovo Cimento 112, no. 4, 313-326  (1999).
  
• Deformation Effects in Cluster Radioactivity, S. Misicu and D.Protopopescu, Acta Physica Polonica 30, no.1, 127-138 (1999).
  
• Cold Fission Modes in ²⁵²Cf, A.Sandulescu, S.Misicu, F.Carstoiu and W.Greiner,   Elem.Chast.At.Yadra 30, no.4, 908-953  (1999) & Phys.Part.Nucl,  30, 386 (1999).
• Angular Momenta of Even-Even Fragments in the Cold Fission of ²⁵²Cf,  S.Misicu, A.Sandulescu and W.Greiner,  Phys.Rev.C 60, 034613 (1999).
• Semi-Microscopical Description of the Scission Configuration in the Cold Fission, S. Misicu and  P. Quentin, Eur.J.Phys.A. 6, 399 (1999)
• Dual Killing-Yano symmetry and multipole moments in electromagnetism and mechanics of continua ,  D. Baleanu, V. M. Dubovik, S. Misicu, Helv.Phys.Acta 72, 171-179 (1999), math-ph/9806011
• Neutronless ¹⁰Be -accompanied ternary fission of ²⁵²Cf,  A.Sandulescu, F.Carstoiu, S.Misicu, A.Florescu, A.V.Ramayya, J.H.Hamilton and W.Greiner,  J.Phys.G:Part.Nucl. 24, 181-204 (1998).
• Role of the Higher Static Deformations of Fragments in the cold binary fission of ²⁵²Cf, A. Sandulescu, S. Misicu, F. Carstoiu, A. Florescu, and W. Greiner,  Phys.Rev.C 57,no.5, 2321-2328 (1998).
  
• Proton Decay from Excited States in Spherical Nuclei, S.Misicu and N.Carjan, J.Phys.G:Part.Nucl. 24  1745-1755 (1998) .
  
• Toroidal Collective Motions in the Atomic Nucleus, S.Misicu, Rom.J.Phys. 43, no.1-2 , 193-219 (1998),  nucl-th/9803051.
• Toroidal quadrupole transitions associated to collective rotational-vibrational motions of the nucleus, S.Misicu, J.Phys.G:Part.Nucl.21, 669(1995).
• Determination of physical constants of a dual medium with regularily distributed tangential dislocations, M.Misicu,  S.Misicu, Rev.Roum.Sci.Tech-Mec.Appl. 39, 4, 393-401 (1994).
• Dipole torus mode in Nuclear Fluid-Dynamics,  S.I.Bastrukov, S.Misicu and A.V.Sushkov,  Nucl.Phys. A562, 191-204 (1993).
• Explicit realisations of static and nonstatic solenoids and conditions for their existence, G.N.Afanasiev, V.M.Dubovik and S.Misicu, J.Phys.A:Math.Gen. 26, 3279 (1993).
• Dual continuum as a phenomenological characterization for materials with distributed defects, M.Misicu and S.Misicu, Rev.Roum.Sci.Tech-Mec.Appl.38, 4, 341-353 (1993).
• Classical radiation of toroidal dipole moment,  S.Misicu, Rom.J. of Phys. 37, 9, 855-864 (1992).

Invited Talks and Contributions to Conference Proceedings

• Orientation Windows in the Cold Synthesis and Decay of Heavy Elements, S.Misicu, Proceedings of the Symposium on Nuclear Clusters: From Light Exotic to Superheavy Nuclei, Rauischholzhausen 5-9 August 2002, eds.W.Scheid and R.Jolos, pp.331-336, EP Systema, Debrecen, 2003 .
•  Cold Deformed Valleys of Heavy and Superheavy Elements,  S.Misicu and W.Greiner,  Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Fission and Properties of Neutron-Rich Nuclei, Sanibel Island, Florida, November 3-9, 2002., eds.J.H.Hamilton, A.V.Ramayya and H.K.Carter, pp.587-594, World Scientific Singapore (2003).
• Theory of Binary and Ternary Cold Fission,  D. S. Delion, A. Sandulescu, S. Misicu, and W. Greiner, Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Fission and Properties of Neutron-Rich Nuclei, Sanibel Island, Florida, November 3-9, 2002., eds.J.H.Hamilton, A.V.Ramayya and H.K.Carter, pp.552-559, World Scientific Singapore (2003).
• Cold Valleys in Fusion and Fission,  S.Misicu,  Proceedings of the International Workshop XXXI, on Gross Properties of Nuclei and Nuclear Excitations Hirschegg, Austria, January 12 - 18, 2003,  pp.222-227, Eds.H.Feldmeier, J.Knoll, W.Nörenberg and J.Wambach, GSI, Darmstadt (2003) http://theory.gsi.de/hirschegg/2003/Proceedings/ 
• Cold Valleys in Cluster Radioactivity, Cold Fision and Formation of Heavy and Superheavy Nuclei,S.Misicu and W.Greiner, in 10th International Conference on Nuclear Reaction Mechanisms, Varenna, Villa Monastero, 9-13 June 2003 Conference 2003, Ed.E.Gadioli, pp.433-442.
• Spectroscopy with Giant Trinuclear Molecules,  S. Misicu, P.O.Hess  and W.Greiner, Journal of Nuclear and Radiochemical Sciences 3, No.1, 81 (2002).
• Excitation of Fragments Rotational States in Cold Fission, S.Misicu and D.S.Delion,  Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Dynamical Aspects of Nuclear Fission, Chasta-Papiernicka, Slovak Republic, October 23-27, 2001, eds.J.Kliman, M.G.Itkis and S.Gmuca, pp.150-158, World Scientific, Singapore  2002.
• Traveling along cold valleys-A tale on the  superheavy elements, S. Misicu, Proceedings of the 13th Workshop of Marie Curie Fellows : Research Training in Physics and Technology in Progress, Research 3-4 October, 2002, CERN, eds. M.Lola, M.Pepe-Altarelli and T.Papazoglou, European Comission, EUR20708, pp.60-65.
• Theoretical Description of Cold Fission Modes,  A.Sandulescu,S.Misicu, F.Carstoiu and W.Greiner,   in "Nuclei Far from stability and Astropysics", eds.D.Poenaru, H.Rebel and J.Wentz, Kluwer, Amsterdam,p.209, 2001.
• Scission configuration in the cold fission, S.Misicu, P.Quentin and N.Pillet, Proceedings of the International Workshop on Fission Dynamics of Atomic Clusters and Nuclei, Luso, Portugal, 15-20 May 2000, eds.J. da Providencia, D.M.Brink, F.Karpechine and F.B.Malik, pp.324-331, 2001.
• Molecular Fingerprints in the Cold Fission of ²⁵²Cf, A.Sandulescu, S.Misicu and W.Greiner,  Symposium Advances in Nuclear Physics, pp.83-91 , eds.D.Poenaru and S.Stoica,
• Cluster description of cold fission modes in ²⁵²Cf, A.Sandulescu, S.Misicu,  A.Florescu,  F.Carstoiu and  W.Greiner , Proceedings of the International Conference  Fission and neutron-rich nuclei, St.Andrews, Scotland, eds.J.L.Durell and J.H.Hamilton, pp.59-66, 1999.
• Binary and ternary cold fission of ²⁵²Cf , A.Sandulescu, A.Florescu, S.Misicu et al Proceedings of the International Conference "Fission and properties of neutron-rich nuclei", eds.J.H.Hamilton and A.V.Ramayya, pp.131-139, World Scientific, 1998.
• Toroidal Multipole Transitions in Collective Excitations of Atomic Nuclei, S.Misicu, Frontier Topics in Nuclear Physics, eds.W.Scheid and A.Sandulescu, pp.267-268, NATO ASI Series, Series B:Physics Vol.334, Plenum Press, New York 1994.