Professor
Year Started at JMU: 1989
giovankl@jmu.edu
Contact Info
Research Description
Dr. Giovanetti probes fundamental physics. His work with the CLAS collaboration has revealed details of the structure of the nucleon where quarks and the strong interaction are underlying ingredients. His efforts to improve basic knowledge of particle properties through the MuLan collaboration led to unprecedented high precision measurement of the lifetime of the muon. This value provides critical insight into the weak interaction. He currently is challenging the current fundamental physics models working in the g2 collaboration at Fermi Laboratory.
Education
- PhD in Experimental Physics, 1982, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA
- MS in Physics, 1976, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA
- BS in Physics, 1974, Lowell Technological Institute, Lowell, MA
Select Publications
- D.M. Webber et al. (MuLan Collaboration), Measurement of the Positive Muon Lifetime and Determination of the Fermi Constant to Part-per-Million Precision. Oct 2010. (Published Jan 28, 2011). 5pp. Phys.Rev.Lett.106:041803,2011, Phys.Rev.Lett. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.106.041803.
- A. T. Fienberg, L. P. Alonzi, A. Anastasi, R. Bjorkquist, D. Cauz, R. Fatemi, C. Ferrari, A. Fioretti, A. Frankenthal, C. Gabbanini, L. K. Gibbons, K. Giovanetti, S. D. Goadhouse, W. P. Gohn, T. P. Gorringe, D. W. Hertzog, M. Iacovacci, P. Kammel, J. Kaspar, B. Kiburg, L. Li, S. Mastroianni, G. Pauletta, D. A. Peterson, D. Pocanic, M. W. Smith, D. A. Sweigart, V. Tishchenko, G. Venanzoni, T. D. Van Wechel, K. B. Wall, P. Winter, K. Yai Studies of an array of PbF2 Cherenkov crystals with large-area SiPM readout , Dec 17, 2014. 10 pp., Nucl.Instrum.Meth. A783 (2015) 12-21. DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2015.02.028.
- Probing high-momentum protons and neutrons in neutron-rich nuclei CLAS Collaboration (M. Duer (Tel Aviv U.) et al.). 2018. 5 pp. Published in Nature 560 (2018) no.7720, 617-621 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-018-0400-z.
Department of Physics & Astronomy
