Bedangadas
Mohanty

Collaborator and Colleagues

Group Members at NISER

Scientists

[ Current ]

Dr. Ranbir Singh, Scientific Officer - E
Primary Job Profile: In-charge of all aspects of group's involvement in the ALICE experiment at CERN, LHC. He is also leading the NISER efforts in CBM experiment in FAIR, GSI.

Dr. Varchaswi Kashyap, Scientific Officer - D
Primary Job Profile: In-charge of gas detector and neutron detector research laboratory. He is also leading the hardware efforts in SuperCDMS and CBM experiments.

[ Past ]

Dr. Lokesh Kumar, Scientific Officer - E
Currently Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, Panjab University, Chandigrah.

Dr. Saikat Biswas, Scientific Officer - D
Currently Assistant Professor in Bose Institute, Kolkata.

Adjunct Professor/Visiting Professor

[ Current ]

Prof. Nu Xu, Senior Scientist at LBNL, Berkeley, USA
Former Spokespeson STAR Experiment at RHIC, BNL, USA; Collaboration Board Chair of CBM Experiment at GSI, Germany. Fellow of PAS and President of International Organization of Chinese Physicists and Astronomers. Known for important contributions to the observation of partonic collectivity in high energy nuclear collisions

Prof. Jean-Yves Ollitrault ,
Research Director at CNRS, Institut de Physique Théorique, point courrier 136, CEA Saclay,France

Prof. Tapan Kumar Nayak,
Deputy Spokesperson, ALICE at LHC, CERN, Geneva. Fellow of Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore. Research interest lies in photon multiplicity, correlations and fluctuations in high energy heavy-ion collisions.

[ Past ]

Prof. Rupak Mahapatra ,
Professor of Physics at Department of Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M, University. Rupak Mahapatra is an experimental particle physicist with expertise in building particle detectors and data analysis. He is currently involved in developing next generation dark matter detectors made of Ge semiconductors with Transition Edge Sensors (TES), utilizing state of the art semiconductor device fabrication instruments in his labs.

Research Associates

[ Current ]

Dr. Subhasis Samanta
Working in CBM Experiment and Heavy Ion Phenomenology
Publication(s) at NISER:
Freezeout systematics due to the hadron spectrum, Phys.Rev. C96 (2017) no.5, 054907.
Criticality in a Hadron Resonance Gas model with the van der Waals interaction,Phys.Rev. C97 (2018) no.1, 015201.
Interacting hadron resonance gas model in K-matrix formalism, Phys. Rev. C 97 (2018) 055208
Constraining the extent of the ideal hadron resonance gas phase on the QCD phasediagram, J. Phys. G 46, 065106 (2019)
Thermodynamics of a gas of hadrons with attractive and repulsive interaction within S-matrix formalism , Phys. Rev. C 99, 044919 (2019).
Transport coefficients for multi-component gas of hadrons using Chapman Enskog method.
Estimation of attractive and repulsive interactions from the fluctuation observables at RHIC using van der Waals hadron resonance gas Model

Dr. Mriganka Mouli Mondal
Working in STAR experiment and FOCAl simulations for ALICE experiment
Publication(s) at NISER:

Dr. Mohammad Yousuf Jamal
Working on phenomenology of heavy-ion collisions
Publication(s) at NISER:

[ Past ]

Dr. Abhik Jash
Worked on Gas Detectors for CBM experiment
Publication(s) at NISER:

Dr. Ajay Kumar Dash
After PDF joined as Scientific Officer in School of Earth and Planetary Sciences, NISER
Publication(s) at NISER:
Production of K∗(892)0 and ϕ (1020) in p–Pb collisions at sNN‾‾‾‾√ = 5.02 TeV Eur.Phys.J. C76 (2016) no.5, 245
Multiplicity dependence of light-flavor hadron production in pp collisions at √s=7TeV Phys. Rev. C 99 (2019) 024906
Role of system size in freeze-out conditions extracted from transverse momentum spectra of hadrons Phys.Rev. C98 (2018) no.6, 064902
Contrasting Freezeouts in Large Versus Small Systems J.Phys. G44 (2017) no.10, 105106

Dr. Rama Chandra Baral
Worked in ALICE Experiment
Publication(s) at NISER:

Dr. Chitrasen Jena
After NISER, Joined as Faculty in IISER Tirupati
Publication(s) at NISER:
D-meson production in p-Pb collisions at sNN‾‾‾‾√=5.02 TeV and in pp collisions at s√=7 TeV

Dr. Sandeep Chatterjee
After NISER joined Piotr Bozek group as a postdoctoral fellow in AGH-UST Cracow
Publication(s) at NISER:
Production of Light Nuclei in Heavy Ion Collisions Within Multiple Freezeout Scenario Phys.Rev. C90 (2014) no.3, 034908
Freezeout hypersurface at energies available at the CERN Large Hadron Collider from particle spectra: Flavor and centrality dependence Phys.Rev. C92 (2015) no.2, 024917
Probing Pb+Pb collisions at SNN‾‾‾‾√= 2760 GeV with spectatorsPhys.Lett. B754 (2016) 144-150
Freeze-Out Parameters in Heavy-Ion Collisions at AGS, SPS, RHIC, and LHC Energies Adv.High Energy Phys. 2015 (2015) 349013
Freezeout conditions in proton-proton collisions from SPS to LHC energies
Contrasting Freezeouts in Large Versus Small Systems

Dr. Sabyasachi Ghosh
After NISER joined Physics Department Calcutta University as D. S. Kothari Post Doc Fellow. Currently Assistant Professor, IIT, Bhilai
Publication(s) at NISER:
Bulk viscosity for pion and nucleon thermal fluctuation in the hadron resonance gas model Phys.Rev. C94 (2016) no.4, 045208

Dr. Anirban Lahiri
After NISER joined Tata Institute of Fundamental research, Mumbai and then to University of Bielefeld, Germany

Dr. Purba Bhattacharya
After NISER joined Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Publication(s) at NISER:
3D simulation of electron and ion transmission of GEM-based detectors Nucl.Instrum.Meth. A870 (2017) 64-72
Characterisations of GEM detector prototype Nucl.Instrum.Meth. A870 (2017) 64-72

Detailed 3D Simulation of the GEM-based detector J.Phys.Conf.Ser. 759 (2016) no.1, 012071
Numerical Investigation on Electron and Ion Transmission of GEM-based Detectors EPJ Web Conf. 174 (2018) 06001

Dr. Victor Roy
After NISER joined as Humbodlt Fellow at Frankfurt University, Germany. Currently Faculty at NISER.
Publication(s) at NISER:
• Even-by-event hydrodynamical simulations for s N N ‾ ‾ ‾ ‾ √ =200 GeV Au+Au collisions and the correlation between flow coefficients and initial asymmetry measures
• Elliptic and Hexadecapole flow of charged hadron in viscous hydrodynamics with Glauber and Color Glass Condensate initial conditions for Pb-Pb collision at s N N ‾ ‾ ‾ ‾ √ =2.76 TeV

PhD Scholars

[ Current ]

Mr. Vijay J. Iyer
Super CDMS Experiment: Photo-neutron calibration and 32Si background measurements

Mr. Sourav Kundu
ALICE Experiment: K* production in pp collisions at 13 TeV in LHC and Spin Alignment of K* vector mesons in Pb-Pb collisions at LHC

Mr. Debasish Mallick
STAR Experiment: QCD Critical Point Search at RHIC

Mr. Samir Banik
Super CDMS Experiment: Search for Lightly Ionizing Particles

Mr. Dukhishyam Mallick
ALICE Experiment: K* production in p-Pb collisions at 8.16 TeV

Mr. Ashutosh Dash
Phenomenology of High Energy Heavy-Ion Collisions

Mr. Ashish Pandav
STAR Experiment: High Moments Analysis to look for QCD critical point signals

Ms. Mouli Chaudhuri
SuperCDMS and MINER Experiment

Mr. Prottay Das
ALICE Experiment: Resonance Production

[ Past ]

Dr. Md. Nasim, Assistant Professor IISER, Berhampur
PhD in STAR experiment: Azimuthal Anisotropy Measurements for Identified Particles Produced in Au + Au Collisions At ÖsNN = 7.7-200 GeV PhD Thesis

Dr. Subhash Singha
PhD in ALICE experiment: Identified Particle Production in Pb-Pb and pp Collisions at LHC Energies PhD Thesis

Dr. Sabita Das, Assistant Professor of Physics in K.K.S Womens College, Balasore, Odisha
PhD in STAR Experiment: Identified Particle Production and Freeze-out Dynamics in STAR at RHIC Beam Energy Scan Program PhD Thesis

Dr. Md. Rihan Haque
PhD in STAR Experiment: Nuclei Production and Azimuthal Anisotropy of Charged Particles In Heavy-Ion Collisions at RHIC PhD Thesis

Dr. Kishora Nayak
ALICE experiment : K* production in high transverse momentum in Pb-Pb collisions and high multiplicity events in pp collisions at LHC

Ms. Debadeepti Mishra
STAR experiment :Particle Production Studies in Au+Au and U+U Collisions using the STAR detector at RHIC and Understanding the freeze-out Dynamics

Mr. Vipul Bairathi
STAR Experiment: Azimuthal Anisotropy of strange and maulti strange hadrons in heavy-ion collisions at RHIC

Collaborators outside NISER

Experimental

• Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, USA ♦ Nu Xu, Hiroshi Masui, Hans Georg Ritter
• Brookhaven National Laboratory, New York, USA ♦ Zhangbu Xu and Lijuan Ruan
• Texas A&M UNiversity, College Station, Texas, USA ♦ Rupak Mahapatra
• Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China ♦ Xiaofeng Luo
• Bhaba Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai ♦ Ajit Mohanty, Pawan Kumar Netrakanti and Dipak Mishra
• Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi ♦ Bhartendu Singh and Prakhar Garg
• Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata ♦ Yogendra Vigoyi and Tapan Kumar Nayak

Theoretical

• East Carolina University ♦ Zi-Wei Lin
• Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolata ♦ Bikash Sinha, Jan-Alam, Sourav Sarkar, Asis Kumar Chaudhuri and Jajati Nayak
• Bose Institute, Kolkata ♦ Sanjay Ghosh, Rajarshi Ray
• Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai ♦ Sourendu Gupta

Collaborating Institute

Wigner Centre for Physics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences

• MOU
• Goals: Collaborative research in the areas of hadronization of quark-gluon plasma, fluctuations and correlations, applications of the non-extensive statistical aapproach, finite temperature field theory, physics of strongly interacting matter at extereme densities, detector development in high enetgy physics and applications.

ALICE Collaboration at CERN

• MOU
• Goals: Participate in all aspects of the ALICE Collaboration at LHC, CERN.
• Appointment as Team Leader for NISER