Welcome to Physics Group
Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata

Expt. Nuclear Physics Section, VECC,

1/AF Bidhan Nagar,

Kolkata -700 064

Ph: +91-33-2318 2308/2108

Email: deepak.pandit[at]vecc.gov.in

Fax : +91-33-2334 6871

Scientific Officer (F)

OCES-2005 TRAINEE (49th Batch Training School, BARC)

• PhD (2013): Homi Bhabha National Institute

• BARC Training School (OCES-2005, 49th Batch)

• M.Sc. (2004) : IIT Kharagpur, INDIA

• B.Sc. (2002) : University of Calcutta

• Experimental Nuclear Physics

• Giant Dipole Resonance (GDR) in hot rotating nuclei

• Nuclear level density 

• Bremsstrahlung Radiation

• Development of high-energy photon detectors and instrument

1. “Puzzle of collective enhancement in the nuclear level density”  
Deepak Pandit, Balaram Dey, Srijit Bhattacharya, T. K. Rana, Debasish Mondal, S. Mukhopadhyay, Surajit Pal,  A. De, Pratap Roy, K. Banerjee, A. K. Sikdar, C. Bhattacharya  and S.R. Banerjee. 
Phys. Lett. B 816 (2021) 136173. 

2. "Search for coherent bremsstrahlung from spontaneous fission at 555 meter deep underground laboratory"
Deepak Pandit, Balaram Dey, Srijit Bhattacharya, T. K. Rana, Debasish Mondal, S. Mukhopadhyay, Surajit Pal,  A. De, Pratap Roy, K. Banerjee, A. K. Sikdar, C. Bhattacharya  and S.R. Banerjee. 
Phys. Lett. B 823 (2021) 136760. 

3. "Experimental signature of collective enhancement in nuclear level density"
Deepak Pandit, Balaram Dey, Srijit Bhattacharya, T. K. Rana, Debasish Mondal, S. Mukhopadhyay, Surajit Pal,  A. De, Pratap Roy, K. Banerjee, A. K. Sikdar, C. Bhattacharya  and S.R. Banerjee.
Phys. Rev. C 97 (2018) 041301 (Rapid Communications).  

4. “Experimental determination of  n/s for finite nuclear matter” 
Debasish Mondal, Deepak Pandit, S. Mukhopadhyay, Surajit Pal, Balaram Dey, Srijit Bhattacharya, A. De Soumik Bhattacharya, S. Bhattacharyya,  Pratap Roy, K. Banerjee and S.R. Banerjee. 
Phys. Rev Lett 118, (2017) 192501.  

5. “Critical behavior in the variation of GDR width at low temperature”,
Deepak Pandit, S. Mukhopadhyay, Surajit Pal, A. De, S.R. Banerjee,
Phys. Lett. B 713 (2012) 434. 

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1. Group Achievement Award – 2017
Excellence in Science, Engineering and Technology Awards Scheme, Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India.

2. Aswini Kumar Rath Memorial Award in Nuclear Physics (2014)
Indian Physics Association.

3. Young Physicists (YPC– 2014, 2^nd Prize Winner) 
The Indian Physical Society.

4. Young Scientist Award – 2013 
Excellence in Science, Engineering and Technology Awards Scheme Department of Atomic  Energy, Government of India.

5. Group Achievement Award – 2009 
Excellence in Science, Engineering and Technology Awards Scheme, Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India.

Invited Talks

1 .“Interaction and Detection of Radiation”, 
“Recent Trends in Physics” February, 2020, Bankura University, Bankura, West Bengal, India.

2.“Understanding the collective enhancement in the nuclear level density” 
“DAE Symposium on Nuclear Physics” December, 2019, University of Lucknow, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India.

3. “Experimental evidence of collectivity in the nuclear level density” 
2nd International Workshop on Quantum Many-Body Problems in Particle, Nuclear, and Atomic Physics, March 2019, Nha Trang city, Vietnam.

4.“Experiments on giant resonances” 
Mini School on “Frontiers of Nuclear Physics and Astrophysics”, May, 2015 VECC, Kolkata. 

5. “GDR studies with LAMBDA Spectrometer at VECC”
PARIS INDIA Collaboration meeting, January, 2013, TIFR, Mumbai.

6. “Jacobi Shape Transition: A transit from macro to micro world”
Opportunities in Nuclear Physics Research in India, March, 2012, Raniganj.