# Fr Antony Prakash Monteiro awarded “VGST Award for Research Publications (ARP) 2017-18”

Sep. 1 : Rev Dr Antony Prakash Monteiro, Campus Director of the St Philomena College, Puttur and Chairman for PG Studies & Research has been awarded by VGST in programme ‘VGST Award for Research Publications (ARP) 2017-18’ for his outstanding research publications in Theoretical Particle Physics field. He had published these research articles together with Dr K B Vijaya Kumar, Professor, Mangalore University and Dr Manjunath Bhat, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland in international journals.

Rev Dr Antony Prakash Monteiro

This award seeks to encourage and reward Science, Engineering and Medicine faculty members in Colleges, Universities and research organizations/ Institutes in the State, who have published quality research publications in National & International journals with high impact factor. Rev Fr Antony Prakash Monteiro is one among two Physicists to receive this recognition.

Vision Group on Science and Technology (VGST), Department Of Information Technology, Biotechnology and Science & Technology, Karnataka Government is constituted under the Chairmanship of distinguished scientist Bharat Ratna Prof. C. N. R. Rao. The objective of VGST is to encourage and promote Science and Technology education and research in the state. VGST plays a vital role in catalyzing, strengthening educational institutions to meet scientific and technological needs. To accomplish this, VGST is involved in developing, in stages, mechanisms to bring a paradigm shift in the Basic Science Education, research and taking science to the masses through a wide range of initiatives.

VGST emphasizes for a strong foundation in the pure sciences with prudent investment to reap rich dividends in the future. For the year 2017-18, the VGST has formulated a set of 7 programmes to promote science education and research in the state.

Details of the three Research Publications published in high impact factor journals which are considered for this award. These have been published from 01-01-2014 to 07-08-2017.

1.Journal: Physical Review D
$c\bar{b}$ spectrum and decay properties with coupled channel effects, Antony Prakash Monteiro, Manjunath Bhat and K. B. Vijaya Kumar, Phys. Rev. D 95, 054016(2017) arXiv:1608.05782v2 [hep-ph],
DOI: 10.1103/Phys-RevD.95.054016

2.Journal: International Journal of Modern Physics A (World Scientific)
Mass spectra and decays of ground and orbitally excited $c\bar{b}$ states in non relativistic quark model, Antony Prakash Monteiro, Manjunath Bhat and K. B. Vijaya Kumar, arXiv:1607.07594v2 [hep-ph], Int. J. Mod. Phys. A 32, 1750021(2017)
DOI: 10.1142/S0217751X1750021X

3.Journal: International Journal of Modern Physics E (World Scientific)
Effects of coupled channels on $c\bar{b}$ mass and decays in NRQM with OGEP, Manjunath Bhat, Antony Prakash Monteiro and K. B. Vijaya Kumar, International Journal of Modern Physics E 26, (2017)1750037,
DOI:10.1142/S0218301317500379