CURRICULUM VITAE

 

Maria Ioana Niculescu

 

PERSONAL DATA

home work e-mail
3822 Shutterlee Mill Rd.
Staunton, VA 24401
(540)886-1763
 JMU, MSC 4502
Harrisonburg, VA 22807
(540)568-2980
 niculemi@jmu.edu

EDUCATION


May 1999
 <>Ph.D. degree:   Hampton University
Inclusive Resonance Electroproduction Data from Hydrogen and Deuterium and Studies of Bloom--Gilman Duality
May 1991
 <>Engineer Physicist (M.S. equivalent) degree:   Bucharest University
Detectors for High Energy Physics: Multiwire Proportional Chambers and Drift Chambers

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

August 2008 – present: Associate Professor, James Madison University

2002 – 2008: Assistant Professor, James Madison University

2001 – 2002: Adjoint Professor, Hampton University

 

NSF GRANTS

 2003 –  2006: Co-PI on NSF grant “Detectors to Explore Quarks and Leptons”

 2006 –  2007: PI on NSF grant “Probing Subatomic Physics Via Lepton Interactions”

 2007 –  2010: PI on NSF grant “Probing Subatomic Physics Via Lepton Interactions”

 2007 – 2010: PI on NSF grant “MRI: Collaborative Research: Development of the Detector Package for the Super HMS in Hall C at JLab”

AWARDS

1988 Honorable Mention, Students’ Communications Session, Bucharest University

1999 CEBAF-SURA PhD. Thesis Prize

 

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE


TEACHING EXPERIENCE


SELECTED  PUBLICATIONS

  1. I. Niculescu et al., Calibration of a Neutron Polarimeter to Measure the Electric Form Factor of the Neutron, IEEE, Trans. Nucl. Sci. 45 (1998) 68
  2. G. Niculescu et al., Longitudinal and Transverse Cross Sections in p(e,e'K+)L, Phys. Rev. Lett. 81 (1998) 1805
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  3. I.Niculescu et al., Extraction of Higher Twists from Electron-Proton Inclusive Data at Large Bjorken x, Phys. Rev. D60 (1999) 94001
  4. I.Niculescu et al., Evidence for Valence Quark – Hadron Duality, Phys. Rev. Lett. 85 (2000) 1182
  5. I.Niculescu et al., Experimental Verification of Quark – Hadron Duality, Phys. Rev. Lett. 85 (2000) 1186
  6. R. Ent, C.E. Keppel, and I. Niculescu, Nucleon Elastic Form Factors and Local Duality, Phys. Rev. D62 (2000) 073008
  7. C. Armstrong et al., Moments of the Proton Structure Function at Low Q2, Phys. Rev. D63 (2001) 094008J.
  8. Arrington et al., x- and x Scaling of the Nuclear Structure Function at Large x, Phys. Rev. C64 (2001) 014602
  9. R. Ent, C. E. Keppel, I. Niculescu, Reply to comment on nucleon elastic form factors and local duality, Phys. Rev. D64 (2001) 038302.
  10. S. Liuti, R. Ent, C.E. Keppel, I. Niculescu, Perturbative QCD Analysis of Local Duality in a Fixed W2 Framework, Phys.Rev.Lett. 89 (2002) 162001
  11. M. E. Christy et al Measurements of Electron Proton Elastic Cross-Section for 0.4<Q2<5.5 (GeV/c)2. Phys.Rev.C70 (2004) 015206
  12. D. Naples et al. MINERvA: High statistics neutrino scattering using a fine-grained detector. Int.J.Mod.Phys.A20 (2005) 3078
  13. I. Niculescu, J. Arrington, R. Ent, C.E. Keppel Moments of nuclear and nucleon structure functions at low Q2 and the momentum sum rule. Phys.Rev.C73 (2006) 045206
  14. J. Arrington, R. Ent, C.E. Keppel, J. Mammei, I. Niculescu Low Q scaling, duality, and the EMC effect. Phys.Rev.C73 (2006) 035205
  15. Peter E. Bosted et al. Quark-hadron duality in spin structure functions g(1)p and g(1)d.Phys.Rev.C75 (2007) 035203

  16. V. Tvaskis et al. Longitudinal-transverse separations of structure functions at low Q2 for hydrogen and deuterium. Phys.Rev.Lett.98 (2007) 142301

  17. Howard C. Fenker et al. BoNuS: Development and Use of a Radial TPC using Cylindrical GEMs. Nucl.Instrum.Meth. A592 (2008) 273
  18. M. Nozar et al. Search for the photo-excitation of exotic mesons in the pi+ pi+ pi- system. Phys.Rev.Lett. 102 (2009) 102002
  19. S.A. Morrow et al. Exclusive rho0 electroproduction on the proton at CLAS. Eur.Phys.J.A39 (2009) 5
  20. O. Hashimoto et al. Hypernuclear spectroscopy program at JLab Hall C. Nucl.Phys.A804 (2008) 125
  21. G.V. Fedotov et al. Electroproduction of p pi+ pi- off protons at 0.2 < Q**2 < 0.6-GeV**2 and 1.3 < W < 1.57-GeV with CLAS.  Phys.Rev.C79 (2009) 015204
  22. G.M. Huber et al. Charged pion form-factor between Q**2 = 0.60-GeV**2 and 2.45-GeV**2. II. Determination of, and results for, the pion form-factor. Phys.Rev.C78 (2008) 045203
  23. H.P. Blok et al. Charged pion form factor between Q**2 = 0.60-GeV**2 and 2.45-GeV**2. I. Measurements of the cross section for the H-1(e,e-prime pi+)n reaction.  Phys.Rev.C78 (2008) 045202
  24. L. Tang et al. The HKS experiment on Lambda-hypernuclear spectroscopy via electroproduction at JLab  Nucl.Phys.A790 (2008) 679C
  25. M. Battaglieri et al. First measurement of direct f0(980) photoproduction on the proton.  Phys.Rev.Lett.102 (2009) 102001
  26. J. Lachniet et al. A Precise Measurement of the Neutron Magnetic Form Factor G**n(M)in the Few-GeV**2 Region.  Phys.Rev.Lett.102 (2009) 192001


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