Papers/Presentations

  • Space Launch System: Post Flight Clearance Analysis by Photogrammetric Reconstruction, Ali, Rekesh; McDonough, Peter; Burger, Ben; Addona, Carole, ACGS Committee Meeting 127 - San Diego, CA - November 2021, https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20210023245

  • SLS Liftoff and Separation Dynamics Analysis Tool Chain, Peter McDonough, Benjamin S. Burger, Carole Addona, Benjamin Diedrich, William J. Harlin, Zachary Muscha, Ray Sells, Daniel Tyler, AIAA SciTech, Nashville TN, 11–15 January 2021

  • Limitations and Design Considerations for a Continuously Variable Transmission Utilizing the Conservation of Angular Momentum and Gyroscopic Precession(submitted to the Journal of Mechanical Design, December 2017)

  • Limitations of a Gyroscopic Continuously Variable Transmission for Wind Power Applications, submitted to the Journal of Wind Energy, December 2017)

  • “Neutron Scattering Differential Cross Sections for 23Na from 1.5 to 4.5 MeV,” J .R. Vanhoy, S.F. Hicks, A. Chakraborty , B.R. Champine, B. M. Combs, B.P. Crider, L. J. Kersting, A. Kumar, C. J. Lueck, S. H. Liu, P. J. McDonough,  M.T. McEllistrem, E.E. Peters , F.M. Prados-Estévez, L.C. Sidwell, A. J. Sigillito, D.W. Watts, and S.W. Yates, Nuclear Physics A 939 (2015) 121–40.  http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0375947415000706

  • “A study of measured neutron elastic differential [scattering] cross sections for 23Na,” A. Kumar,M. Balasubramaniam, A. Chakraborty, B. P. Crider, S. F. Hicks, C. Karthikraj, L. J. Kersting, C. J. Luke [Lueck], P. J. McDonough, M. T. McEllistrem, E. E. Peters, R. M. Prados-Estevez, A. J. Sigillito, M. M. Upadhyay, J. R. Vanhoy, S. W. Yates, J Radioanal Nucl Chem (2014) 302:1043–1047,DOI 10.1007/s10967-014-3535-x. (5 pgs)

  • “Differential Cross Sections for Neutron Elastic and Inelastic Scattering on Sodium-23,” J. R. Vanhoy, S. F. Hicks, A. Chakraborty,  B. R. Champine, B. Combs, B. P. Crider,  L. J. Kersting, A. Kumar, C. J. Lueck, P. J. McDonough,  M. T. McEllistrem, E. E. Peters, F. M. Prados-Estévz, L. Sidwell, A. J. Sigillito, D. Watts, and S. W. Yates, EPJ Web of Conferences 66, 03091 (2014); DOI: 10.1051/epjconf/20146603091. (4 pgs)

  • “Differential Cross Sections for Neutron Elastic and Inelastic Scattering on Sodium-23”, J.R. Vanhoy, S.F.Hicks, A. Chakraborty, B.R.Champine, B. Combs, B.P. Crider, L. J. Kersting, A. Kumar, C. J. Lueck, P.J. McDonough, M.T. McEllistrem, E.E. Peters, F.M. Prados-Estévez, L. Sidwell, A. Sigillito, D.W. Watts, and S.W. Yates, International Nuclear Physics Conference INPC2013: 2-7 June 2013, Firenze, Italy (Poster). 

  • Levi-Civita Indices Interchange Parity for tensors of depth N(submitted to American Journal of Mathematics in September 2017)

  • "Elastic and Inelastic Neutron Scattering Cross Sections for Fission Reactor Applications," S. F. Hicks, A. Chakraborty, B. Combs, B. P. Crider, L. Downes, J. Girgis, L. J. Kersting, A. Kumar, C. J. Lueck, P. J. McDonough,M. T. McEllistrem, E. E. Peters, F. M. Prados-Estevz, J. Schniederjan, L. Sidwell, A. J. Sigillito, J. R. Vanhoy, D. Watts, and S. W. Yates. AIP Conf. Proc. 1525, 276 (2013); doi: 10.1063/1.4802333.

  • Measurement of the Absolute Elastic and Inelastic Differential Neutron Cross Sections for 23Na between 2 and 4 MeV,", A Kumar, A Chakraborty, B.P. Crider, M.T. McEllistrem, E.E. Peters, F.M. Prados-Estevez , S.W. Yates S. F. Hicks, L. J. Kersting, P. J. McDonoughC.J. Luke, A. J. Sigillito,A. J. Sigillito, and J. R. Vanhoy, Capture Gamma-Ray Spectroscopy and Related Topics, ed. Paul E. Garrett and Baharak Hadinia, (World Scientific, 2013) 254-259.

  • Undergraduate Measurements for Fission Reactor Applications”, S. F. Hicks, L. J. Kersting, C. J. Lueck, P. J. McDonough, J. R. Vanhoy, M. T. McEllistrem, AIP Conf. Proc. 1336, 738 (2011).

  • McDonough, Peter. "Iridium Satellite Signal Exploitation." Bulletin of the American Physical Society 55 (2010).