Krishna S. Kumar

People

Postdoctoral Research Associates:

  1. Juliette Mammei
  2. Seamus Riordan

Graduate Students:

  1. Luis Mercado
  2. Jon Wexler
  3. Sereres Johnston

Undergraduate Students:

  1. Emmanuel Owusu

Former Ph.D. Students

  1. Wilson Miller (Princeton)
    David Relyea (Princeton)
    Lisa Kaufman

Former Research Associates

  1. Carlos Arroyo
  2. Kent Paschke
  3. Dustin McNulty

Former M.S. Students

  1. Peter Laviolette
    Kirsten Fuoti
    Darcy Lambert
  2. Adam Blomberg

Former Undergraduate Students

  1. Marcus Spradlin (Princeton)
    Peter Mastromarino (Princeton)
    Jon Celli
    Matt Libby
    Kazem Edmond
    Jon Askey
    Jennifer Niedziela
    Jason Cahoon
    James Barber
    Keith Otis
  2. Patrick Rogan
  3. Vireak Yim

 

 

 

Research Topics :

Parity-Violating Electron Scattering Experiments

Search for Neutrino-less Double Beta Decay

Search for muon-electron conversion in nuclear muon capture

Experimental Nuclear Physics Group Web Page

 

New projects MOLLER and SOLID approved at Jefferson Laboratory with A rating. more

 

Particle Physics Experiment Group Web Page

 

Selected Recent Publications :

  • "Observation of 2-neutrino Double-Beta Decay in 136Xe with EXO-200", EXO-200 Collaboration, N. Ackerman et. al, arXiv:1108:4193 [nucl-ex], accepted for publication in Phy.Rev.Lett.

    "New Precision Limit on the Strange Quark Form Factors of the Proton", HAPPEX Collaboration, Z. Ahmed et. al, arXiv:1107:0913v1 [nucl-ex], submitted to Phys.Rev.Lett.

  • "Low Energy Tests of the Standard Model: The 12 GeV Parity Violation Program at Jefferson Laboratory", K.S. Kumar, Int.J.Mod.Phys.E19:927-937 (2010).

  • "Characterization of Large Area APDs for the EXO-200 Detector", EXO-200 Collaboration, R. Nielson et. al, arXiv:0906.2499 [physics.ins-det], Nucl.Instrum.Meth.A608:68-75 (2009).

  • "Precision Measurements of the Nucleon Strange Form Factors at Q2 ~ 0.1 GeV2", HAPPEX Collaboration, A. Acha et. al, nucl-ex/0609002, Phys.Rev.Lett. 98:032301 (2007)

  • “Constraints on the Nucleon Strange Form Factors at Q2 ~ 0.1 GeV2”, HAPPEX Collaboration, nucl-ex/0506011, Phys.Lett.B635:275-279 (2006)

  • “Parity-Violating Electron Scattering from 4He and the Strange Electric Form Factor of the Nucleon”, HAPPEX Collaboration, K.A. Aniol et. al, nucl-ex/0506010, Phys.Rev.Lett. 96:022003 (2006).

  • “A Precision Measurement of the Weak Mixing Angle in Møller Scattering”, E158 Collaboration, P.L. Anthony et. al, hep-ex/0504049, Phy.Rev.Lett. 95:081601 (2005).

  • “Flux Profile Scanners for Scattered High Energy Electrons”, R.S. Hicks et al, Nucl.Instrum.Meth. A553:470-482 (2005).

  • STRANGE QUARKS AND PARITY VIOLATION, K.S. Kumar (Massachusetts U., Amherst), P.A. Souder (Syracuse U.). 2000. Prog.Part.Nucl.Phys.45:S333-S395,2000, pdf format