Modesto Montoya (born 24 February 1949) in Salpo Peru is a nuclear physicist at the Instituto Peruano de Energía Nuclear in Lima, Peru and member of the Peruvian National Academy of Sciences. He is past president of that institute, and past president of the Peruvian Physical Society.

Education

He holds a B.Sc., a Lic. a M.Sc. in physics from the National University of Engineering, a DEA, a doctorat de 3eme cycle and a doctorat d´Etat from the Paris-Sud 11 University .

Academic activities

Montoya is affiliated as professor to the National University of Engineering and he teaches science and technology subjects at "Centro de Preparación para la Ciencia y Tecnología (Ceprecyt)" [[12]], [[13]], [[14]], [[15]], [[16]], [[17]]

Research

His research work was on cold fission at the CEA Saclay, he participated on the discovering the nucleon-pair breaking in cold fission ^[1]^[2], phenomenum studied also by Hervé Nifenecker^[3] in cold fission of uranium 233, uranium 235 y el plutonium 239.He studied also the mass and kinetic energy distribution of fragments in cold fission ^[4]

Between 1985 and 1986 he was guest scientist at (GSI) in Darmstadt in the group lead by Peter Armbruster, dedicated to research on transuranides nuclei ^[5]^[6]. At GSI published his work on Coulomb and shell effects in low energy fission.^[7], ^[8]

As guest scientist at the Institut de Physique Nucléaire, Orsay, in the Bernard Borderie's group, he participated in research on deeply inelastic collisions.^[9] He was also invited by the Carnegie-Mellon Institute in the Morton Kaplan group dedicated to ternary fragmentations in nuclear collisions.^[10]

He now studies effects of neutron emission on fragments fission measurements ^[11], ^[12], ^[13].

Promoting science and technology

As a opinion leader on science and technology in Peru, Montoya has published a number of articles on the main peruvian newspapers [[18]], [[19]], [[20]], [[21]], [[22]], [[23]], [[24]], [[25]], [[26]], [[27]], [[28]], [[29]], [[30]], [[31]], [[32]], [[33]], [[34]], [[35]], [[36]], [[37]].

He is continously interviewed by newspapers about science and technology subjects [[38]], [[39]], [[40]], [[41]], [[42]], [[43]], [[44]], [[45]], [[46]], [[47]], [[48]], [[49]], [[50]], [[51]], [[52]], [[53]], [[54]], [[55]], [[56]], [[57]], [[58]], [[59]], [[60]], [[61]], [[62]], [[63]], [[64]], [[65]], [[66]], [[67]], [[68]], [[69]], [[70]], [[71]], [[72]], [[73]], [[74]].

As part of his promoting actions he found the International Scientific Meeting (ECI) for which is recognized by international institutions.[[75]], [[76]].

References

^ [1] C. Signarbieux et al. "Evidence for nucleon pair breaking even in the coldest scission configurations of ²³⁴U and ²³⁶U", Journal de Physique Lettres Vol 42, No 19 /1981, DOI: 10.1051/jphyslet:019810042019043700, pp. 437-440
^ [2] M. Montoya. Journal de Physique, Volume 44 /1983, DOI: 10.1051/jphys:01983004407078500, pp. 785-790
^ [3] H. Nifenecker et al. "A combinatorial analysis of pair-breaking in fission", Lecture Notes in Physics, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, Volume 158/1982, DOI 10.1007/BFb0021503, pp. 1616-6361
^ [4] M. Montoya. "Mass and kinetic energy distribution in cold fission of ²³³U, ²³⁵U and ²³⁹Pu induced by thermal neutrons", Zeitschrift für Physik A Hadrons and Nuclei, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, Vol 319, No 2 / June, 1984, DOI: 10.1007/BF01415636, pp. 219-225
^ [5] Münzenberg, G. et al. "Attempt to synthesize element 110 by fusion of 64Ni + 208Pb", GSI Annual Report GSI-86-1/ 1985, p. 29.
^ [6]Hofman, S. et al. "Nuclear Physics" A, Volume 447/January, 1986, DOI: 10.1016/0375-9474(86)90615-9, pp. 335-346.
^ [7] Modesto Montoya, "Shell and coulomb effects in thermal neutron induced cold fission of U-233, U-235, and Pu-239", Radiation Effects and Defects in Solids, Volume 93, Issue 1 - 4 March 1986 , pages 9 - 12
^ [8] M. Montoya et al., "Coulomb effects in low energy fission" Zeitschrift für Physik A Hadrons and Nuclei, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, Vol 325, No 3/September, 1986, DOI: 10.1007/BF01294620, pp. 357-362
^ [9] B. Borderie et al. "Deeply inelastic collisions as a source of intermediate mass fragments at E/A=27 MeV", Physics Letters B, Vol. 205 /1988, pp. 26-29
^ [10] Emanuele Vardaci et al "Search for ternary fragmentation in the reaction 856 MeV 98Mo+51V: kinematic probing of intermediate-mass-fragment emissions", Physics Letters B, Volume 480, Issues 3-4 /May, 2000, doi:10.1016/S0370-2693(00)00407-X, pp. 239-244
^ [11] M. Montoya et al., "Effects of Neutron Emission on Fragment Mass and Kinetic Energy Distribution from Thermal Neutron-Induced Fission of 235U", "AIP Conference Proceedings", American Institute of Physics, Volume 947/October, 2007, DOI:10.1063/1.2813826, pp. 326-329
^ M. Montoya, E. Saettone, J. Rojas, "Monte Carlo Simulation for fragment mass and kinetic energy distribution from neutron-induced fission of U 235" , Revista Mexicana de Física 53 (5) 366-370, oct 2007
^ M. Montoya, J. Rojas, I. Lobato, "Neutron emission effects on final fragments mass and kinetic energy distribution from low energy fission of U 234", Revista Mexicana de Física, 54(6) dic 2008