Welcome to Physics Group
Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata

VECC,

1/AF, Bidhannagar, Kolkata 700064

INDIA

Phone: +91-33-2318-2321

Fax: +91-33-2334-6871

Scientific Officer (F)

• Post Doctoral Fellow at GANIL, France 2004 – 2005

• Research Associate at SINP, Kolkata 2003 – 2004

• Post Doctoral Fellow at ANL, USA 2001 – 2003

• Post Doctoral Fellow at UML, USA 2000 – 2001

• Research Associate at TIFR, Mumbai 1999 - 2000

• PhD (1999) : Visva Bharati University / Nuclear Science Centre, India

(Thesis title: High Spin Spectroscopy of Nuclei in Mass 70 – 80 Region)

• Gamma ray spectroscopy and nuclear structure

• Nuclear reaction and dynamics

• Nuclear structure data evaluation

1. K-hindered decay of a six-quasiparticle isomer in ¹⁷⁶Hf

G. Mukherjee, P. Chowdhury, F. G. Kondev, P. M. Walker, G. D. Dracoulis, R. D’Alarcao, I. Shestakova, K. Abu Saleem, I. Ahmad, M. P. Carpenter, A. Heinz, R. V. F. Janssens, T. L. Khoo, T. Lauritsen, C. J. Lister, D. Seweryniak, I. Wiedenhoever, D. M. Cullen, C. Wheldon, D. L. Balabanski, M. Danchev, T. M. Goon, D. J. Hartley, L. L. Riedinger, O. Zeidan, M. A. Riley, R. A. Kaye, and G. Sletten, Phys. Rev. C82, 054316 (2010).

2. Effect of pg_9/2 and ng_9/2 alignments on the shape of ⁷⁵Br from lifetime measurement

    G. Mukherjee, P.Joshi, R.K Bhowmik, S.N Roy, S. Datta,  S.Muralithar, R.P. Singh: Nucl. Phys. A829, 137 (2009) 

3. K Isomers in ²⁵⁴No: Probing Single-Particle Energies and Pairing Strengths in the Heaviest Nuclei:

 S.K. Tandel, T.L. Khoo, D. Seweryniak, G. Mukherjee, I. Ahmad, B. Back, R. Blinstrup, M.P. Carpenter, J. Chapman, P. Chowdhury, C.N. Davids, A.A. Hecht, A. Heinz, P. Ikin, R.V.F. Janssens, F.G. Kondev, T. Lauritsen, C.J. Lister, E.F. Moore, D. Peterson, P. Reiter, U.S. Tandel, X. Wang, S. Zhu : Phys.Rev.Lett. 97, 082502 (2006).

4. Sharp change-over from compound nuclear fission to quasifission

T.K.Ghosh, K.Banerjee, C.Bhattacharya, S.Bhattacharya, S.Kundu, P.Mali, J.K.Meena, G.Mukherjee, S.Mukhopadhyay, T.K.Rana, P.Bhattacharya, K.S.Golda:.: Phys.Rev. C79, 054607 (2009)

5. Nuclear Data Sheets for A = 88

 G.Mukherjee, A.A.Sonzogni :: Nucl.Data Sheets 105, 419 (2005).

• Best Thesis Award, Indian Physics Association (1999)

1. Title: Structure of nuclei near N, Z ~ 82 shell closure.

August 24, 2010, CENBG, Bordeaux-Gradignan, France

Seminar

2.Title: Shape change in nuclei in mass region A ~ 70 - 80 May 10, 1999, GSI, Darmstadt, GERMANY

Invited talk

3. Title: Onset of deformation in trans-lead nuclei around A = 190.

Frontiers in Gamma Ray Spectroscopy (FIG09), March 2 - 4, 2009, TIFR, Mumbai, INDIA