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A research assistant in elementary particle and high energy physics at SPbPU.

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ABOUT ME

I'm Mariia Mitrankova, researcher in elementary particle and high energy physics.

I have studied physics of atomic nuclei and elementary particles at St. Petersburg Polytechnic University (SPbPU) under the bachelor, master, and PhD programs.

During my study, I joined the PHENIX collaboration at RHIC collider.

On April 20, 2023 I sucssesfully defended my PhD thesis, devoted to \(\phi\) meson production in \(p\rm{+Al}\), \(p\rm{+Au}\), \(d\rm{+Au}\), and \(^{3}\rm{He+Au}\) collisions at \(\sqrt{s_{_{NN}}}\rm{=200~GeV}\), measured by PHENIX.

I also participate in light hadron \( ( \pi^{\pm}, K^{\pm}, K^{0*}(895), p(\bar{p}) ) \) production studies in various collisions systems at PHENIX.

Additionally, I have an experience in lecturing on physics of atomic nuclei for the final year undergraduate students.

I am interested in new analyzing methods, such as maching learning and grid computing. Together with graduate students, we are implementing these methods to predict observables, based on PYTHIA calculations and have prepared paper devoted to this work.

Aside from elementary particles physics, my research interest is also high temperature plasma. From 2017 to 2020 I was working in Ioffe Institute (St. Petersburg, Russia) in the Globus-M(2) research group.

My maiden name is Mariia Larionova. In 2020, I married Iurii Mitrankov and changed my last name to Mitrankova. All our scientific career my husband and I work side by side and share all research interests with each other.

EDUCATION

2019 - April 2023

Ph. D. - Physics of atomic nuclei and elementary particles, high energy physics
Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University (SPbPU), Russia
PhD title: The \(\phi\) meson production in \(p\rm{+Al}\), \(p\rm{+Au}\), \(d\rm{+Au}\), and \(^{3}\rm{He+Au}\) collisions at \(\sqrt{s_{_{NN}}}\rm{=200~GeV}\).
I received a diploma upon graduation from PhD program: Qualification - Researcher. Teacher researcher.

2017 - 2019

M. Phys. - Physics of nucleus and elementary particles
Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University (SPbPU), Russia
Passed with 4.00/4.00 CGPA.

2013 - 2017

B. Phys. - Physics
Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University (SPbPU), Russia
Passed with 3.54/4.00 CGPA

WORK EXPERIENCE

Jan 2019 - ongoing

Researcher
Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University (SPbPU), Russia
Measurements of \(\phi\)-meson production in \(p\rm{+Al}\), \(p\rm{+Au}\), \(d\rm{+Au}\), and \(^{3}\rm{He+Au}\) collisions at \(\sqrt{s_{_{NN}}}\rm{=200~ GeV}\). Participating in light hadron \( ( \pi^{\pm}, K^{\pm}, K^{0*}(895), p(\bar{p}) ) \) production studies in various collisions systems at PHENIX.

2017 - 2019

Researcher
Ioffe Institute, St.Petersburg, Russia. High Temperature Plasma Physics Lab.
CXRS measurements of ion temperature profile in NBI shots of the Globus-M and Globus-M2 spherical tokamak.
Design of the optical light collection system for the CXRS-diagnostic, modified for Globus-M2 spherical tokamak.

2020 - 2021

Engineer
Ioffe Institute, St.Petersburg, Russia. Scientific and technical projects support department.
Creation of the database of Ioffe Institute previous and current fundings and contracts.
Quality and Management plan documentation for the designing ToF detector for FAIR experiment at GSI.

Jan 2022 - ongoing

Teaching experience
Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University (SPbPU), Russia
Lectures and practicies on physics of atomic nuclei.

7th semester

  1. Introduction
  2. Introduction to the properties of nuclei. Mass number, electric charge, mass of the atomic nucleus. Binding energy. Dependence \(\varepsilon(Z,A)\).
  3. Radius of atomic nuclei.
  4. Spin and magnetic moment of nucleons and nuclei.
  5. The concept of parity. Parity conservation law.
  6. The shape of the nuclei. Dipole and quadrupole electric moments.
  7. Isotopic spin
  8. Nuclear models. The liquid-drop model of the atomic nucleus. Semi-empirical mass formula.
  9. Nuclear shell model. Magic Numbers in Nuclear Structure. Including a spin–orbit interaction. Including residual interactions.
  10. Fermi gas model. Fermi momentum and energy. The depth of the nuclear potential well.
  11. Collective model. Region of closed shells. Strongly deformed nuclei. The spectrum for a strongly deformed nucleus: change in the particle motion with respect to the deformed field, mode of excitation associated with the collective vibrations, mode of excitation associated with the nuclear rotation
  12. Nature of nuclear interactions. Yukawa potential. Deuterium. Scattering of a neutron by a proton. Properties of nuclear forces.
8th semester
  1. Radioactive decay. Main charactristics. Universal law. Corollaries of laws.
  2. \(\alpha\)-decay. Mechanism of \(\alpha\)-decay. Probability of \(\alpha\)-decay.
  3. \(\beta\)-decay, double \(\beta\)-decay. Energy spectrum of \(\beta\)-decay, neutrino. Theory of \(\beta\)-decay. Violation of parity in the weak interactions. \(\beta\)-decay of polorized neutrons.
  4. \(\gamma\)-radiation. Decay scheme. Selection rules. Nuclear isomer. The angular correlation of the cascade \(\gamma\)-rays. Internal conversion.
  5. Mössbauer effect. Application of the Mössbauer effect.
  6. New (exotic) types of radioactivity
  7. The Bohr theory of nuclear reactions.
  8. Nuclear fission
  9. Types of interaction of neutrons with nuclei
  10. Fermi's experiments on studying the interaction of neutrons with matter
  11. Neutron spectroscopy
  12. Scattering of fast neutrons
  13. The concept of the optical model of nuclear interactions
  14. Ultracold neutrons

MY PUBLICATIONS

Total number of articles/proceedings 47
PHENIX and SPD collaboration papers 14
Not collaboration articles 16
Proceedings 17

  • Main author: U. Acharya et al. (PHENIX collaboration) Study of \(\phi\)-meson production in \(p\rm{+Al}\), \(p\rm{+Au}\), \(d\rm{+Au}\), and \(^{3}\rm{He+Au}\) collisions at \(\sqrt{s_{_{NN}}}\rm{=200~ GeV}\), Phys. Rev. C 106, 014908 (2022). ( 10.1103/PhysRevC.106.014908 )
  • M. M. Mitrankova, Ya. A. Berdnikov, A. Ya. Berdnikov, D. O. Kotov, Iu. M. Mitrankov for the PHENIX collaboration, Production of light flavor hadrons in small systems measured by PHENIX at RHIC, Phys. Scr. 96, 084010 (2021). (10.1088/1402-4896/abfd64 )
  • M.M. Larionova, I.V. Miroshnikov, V.K. Gusev, V.B. Minaev, M.I. Patrov, Yu.V. Petrov, N.V. Sakharov, P.B. Schegolev, A.Yu. Telnova, and N.N. Bakharev, CXRS measurements of ion temperature profile in NBI shots of the Globus-M spherical tokamak, J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 1400 077018 (2019). (10.1088/1742-6596/1400/7/077018)
  • Coauthor: U. Acharya et al. (PHENIX collaboration) Measurement of \(\phi\)-meson production in Cu+Au at \(\sqrt{s_{_{NN}}}\) = 200 GeV and U+U at \(\sqrt{s_{_{NN}}}\) = 193 GeV, Phys. Rev. C 107, 014907 (2023). ( 10.1103/PhysRevC.107.014907 )
  • M. M. Mitrankova, Ya. A. Berdnikov, A. Ya. Berdnikov, D. O. Kotov, Iu. M. Mitrankov for the PHENIX collaboration, Model calculations of φ-meson production in small collision systems, J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 2103 012135 (2021). (10.1088/1742-6596/2103/1/012135 )

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