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Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata

Experimental Nuclear Physics

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Saikat Chakraborty
Official Address

Raja Ramanna Research Scholars' Wing

Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre

1/AF, Bidhan Nagar, Kolkata – 700064, India

 

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Present position

National Post-Doctoral Fellow (SERB, India)

 

Earlier positions held

> 2021-2023: Research Associate, Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre,  Kolkata, India.

> 2019-2021: Research Associate, Inter-University Accelerator Centre, New Delhi, India.

Education

> PhD (2019): Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India.

(Thesis title: Collective and non-collective states in transitional nuclei) 

> M.Sc. (2011): Guru Ghasidas Vishwavidyalaya, Bilaspur, India

> B.Sc. (2009): Chandernagore College (under The University of Burdwan), Chandannagar, India

 

Research Interests

Exploring the structure of atomic nuclei via gamma-ray spectroscopy and relevant theoretical models.

 

Selected Publications

1. Multiphonon longitudinal wobbling in 127Xe

S. Chakraborty, H. P. Sharma, S. S. Tiwary, C. Majumder, A. K. Gupta, P. Banerjee, S. Ganguly, S. Rai, Pragati, Mayank, S. Kumar, A. Kumar, R. Palit, S. S. Bhattacharjee, R. P. Singh, and S. Muralithar

Phys. Lett. B 811, 135854 (2020)

 

2. Search for the origin of wobbling motion in the A ≈ 130 region: The case of 131Xe

S. Chakraborty, S. Bhattacharyya, R. Banik, Soumik Bhattacharya, G. Mukherjee, C. Bhattacharya, S. Biswas, S. Rajbanshi, Shabir Dar, S. Nandi, Sajad Ali, S. Chatterjee, S. Das, S. Das Gupta, S. S. Ghugre, A. Goswami, A. Lemasson, Debasish Mondal, S. Mukhopadhyay, H. Pai, Surajit Pal, Deepak Pandit, R. Raut, P. Ray, M. Rejmund, and S. Samanta

Phys. Rev. C 107, 064318 (2023)

 

3. Rotational band on a three-quasineutron isomer in 127Xe

S. Chakraborty, H. P. Sharma, S. S. Tiwary, C. Majumder, P. Banerjee, S. Ganguly, S. Rai, Pragati, Swati Modi, P. Arumugam, Mayank, S. Kumar, R. Palit, A. Kumar, S. S. Bhattacharjee, R. P. Singh, and S. Muralithar

Phys. Rev. C 97, 054311 (2018)

 

Awards & Fellowships

Award for the Best Poster Presentation, 63rd DAE International Symposium on Nuclear Physics (2018),  Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, India

Talks Delivered 
(Selected)

1. Invited plenary talk on “Non-axial nuclear shapes in A ≈ 130 region” in the 66th DAE Symposium on Nuclear Physics (2022) at Cotton University, Guwahati, Assam, India.

 

2. Contributory oral presentation on “Structure of the negative parity states in 131Xe” in the 65th DAE Symposium on Nuclear Physics (2021) at Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, India.

 

3. Contributory oral presentation on “Signature inversion in νg7/2 band of 127Xe” in the 64th DAE Symposium on Nuclear Physics (2019) at University of Lucknow, Lucknow, India.

 

4. Contributory oral presentation on “Spectroscopy of 126Xe” in the 62nd DAE Symposium on Nuclear Physics (2017) at Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology, Patiala, India.

 

5. Contributory oral presentation on “Low Lying states in 200Pb” in the 59th DAE Symposium on Nuclear Physics (2014) at Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi , India.