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Faculty members
Prof S N Mishra (Chair)
Prof E Krishnakumar
Prof M Krishnamurthy
Prof S V K Kumar
Prof G Ravindra Kumar
Prof Deepak Mathur
Prof Indranil Mazumdar
Dr Deepankar Misra
Prof Sushil Mujumdar
Recent Results:
Control of molecular dissociation using low energy electrons: First demonstration of selective breaking
of O-H, C-H, and N-H bonds in simple organic molecules using electron energy as a control parameter.
Unravelling the structure and dynamics of transient molecular negative ions: Developed the very first
ion momentum imaging technique to study the dynamics of transient molecular anions formed in low
energy electron molecule interaction.
Catalytic action of low energy electrons: Demonstrated the
catalytic action of low energy electron in chemical transformation
of simple molecules by studying the resonant CO2 formation from
condensed formic acid on interaction with low energy electrons
Electron interaction with crystalline v/s amorphous CO2 films.
Sub-ionization low energy
Current Members:
electrons break DNA, &
E. Krishnakumar, S. V. K. Kumar, Vaibhav S. Prabhudesai,
protein
Vishvesh Tadsare, Krishnendu Gope, Sramana Kundu, Atiq-urRahman, Yogesh Upalekar, Satej Tare, Julia Chellia, Thupten Tsering
Location and Contact Details:
Room W145 (Prof. E. Krishnakumar) Extn: 2502
Room W144 (Prof. S. V. K. Kumar) Extn: 2400
Room P309 (Dr. Vaibhav S. Prabhudesai) Extn: 2821
Room W140 (Lab) Extn: 2729/2401/2043;
PhD positions available
Recent Results:
Current members:
G. Ravindra Kumar, M. Krishnamurthy
Prashant Kumar Singh, Amitava Adak, Amit D. Lad,
P. Brijesh, Malay Dalui, Sheroy Tata, Jagannath Jha,
Moniruzzaman Shaikh, Deep Sarkar, Soubhik Sarkar
Location and Contact details:
Room B133 (Prof. G. Ravindra Kumar) Extn: 2381
Room B114 (Prof. M. Krishnamurthy) Extn: 2685
Room B136/137 (Lab) Extn: 2650
Room B122 (Office) Extn: 2745
URL: http://www.tifr.res.in/~uphill/
PhD positions available
Recent Results:
With only 2 optical cycles, the carrier envelope phase (CEP) within
a pulse becomes important: we stabilize and control it!
This allows us to explore how ionization and dissociation of
molecules depend on CEPopens new vistas for attosecond
dynamics. [Mathur et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 110 (2013) 083602]
Weve shown that ultrafast molecular rearrangements, like proton
migration, can occur on timescales of only one vibrational period!
[Garg et al., J. Chem. Phys. 136 (2012) 024320]
By created hot plasma in water containing DNA weve shown that
DNA damage can be induced by very low-energy electrons and by
OH-radicals. [DSouza et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 106 (2011) 118101]
We trap healthy and malaria-infected red blood cells to probe
changes in cell membrane elasticity and birefringence.
[Dharmadhikari et al., J. Biomed. Opt. 18 (2013) 125001]
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Recent Results:
Spin precession of
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nano-Nb
Recent Publications:
Phys. Rev. Lett., 85, 1978 (2000);
Phys. Rev. Lett., 105, 147203 (2010);
Phys. Rev. B, 71, 094429 (2005);
Phys. Rev. B, 87, 125125 (2013)
A 7T; 1.5-320K experimental
set up for accelerator based
hyperfine interaction studies.
Current Members:
S. N. Mishra,
S K Mohanta, S M Davane
Location and Contact Details:
Room P114. (Lab) - Extn: 2344
Prof. S. N. Mishra Email: mishra@tifr.res.in
Ph.D positions available
Recent Results:
Radiative decay of auto ionizing doubly
excited states in He like highly charged ions.
First observation of the fluorescence-active
doubly excited states in He-like Si, S, and Cl
ions measured using a bent crystal x-ray
spectrometer.
Total ionization cross section of Uracil in
collisions with highly charged ions from
ECRIA and Pelletron. A comparative study of
total ionization cross sections measured
over a wide range of energies which covers
the Bragg peak region in hadron therapy.
ECR based Ion Accelerator at TIFR
First Hit
Second Hit
Fragmentation of N2 : Momentum Distribution
Current Members
Lokesh C. Tribedi, Deepankar Misra,
W. A. Fernandes, K. V. Thulasiram, Nilesh Mhatre,
S. Manjrekar, A. H. Kelkar, M. Rundhe, S. Nandi, A.
Khan, S. Biswas, S. Bhattacharjee
Location and Contact Details:
Room: PG-06/W-134 Extn: 2465
Prof. Lokesh Tribedi E-mail: lokesh@tifr.res.in;
Dr. Deepankar Misra E-mail: dmisra@tifr.res.in
URL: http://www.tifr.res.in/~abap
Ph.D positions available
Recent Results:
Exponentiallytempered Levy sums, Phys.
Rev. Lett., (2015)
Supercritical angle fluorescence, App. Opt.,
(2015)
Superreflection from a random laser, Phys.
Rev. A (2014)
Gapstate random lasing, Phys. Rev. Lett.,
(2013)
Current Members:
Sushil Mujumdar,
Randhir Kumar, Tajinder Singh, Shadak Alee, Arpit
Rawankar, Sreeman Kumar.
Location and Contact Details:
Room AB101 (Lab) - Extn 2195.
Room P109 (Prof. Sushil Mujumdar) - Extn 2459
Prof. Sushil Mujumdar Email: mujumdar@tifr.res.in
URL: http://www.tifr.res.in/~mujumdar
Ph.D positions available
Theoretical Physics
Research Interests:
The theoretical physics program focuses on the development of fundamental and
phenomenological models to identify various new phases of dense nuclear matter with
an emphasis to study the:(i) Equation of state of neutron-rich asymmetric nuclear
matter formed at intermediate energy heavy ion collisions,(ii) Properties of the novel
state of matter viz. the Quark-Gluon Plasma formed at ultra-relativistic energy heavy ion
collisions at RHIC/BNL and LHC/CERN.
Density dependence of symmetry energy:
The density dependence of asymmetry energy has wide-ranging implications for the
physics with radioactive ion beams to neutron stars. However, it is poorly known. Our
group has developed relativistic mean-field and transport models that could constrain
the asymmetry energy over wide density range by comparison with measurements of:
neutron skin of various nuclei at subsaturation nuclear densities and mass-radius of
neutrons stars at supranormal densities.
The Quark-Gluon Plasma:
In ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions high temperature and density are reached. The
quarks and gluons confined within the atomic nuclei are liberated to form the QuarkGluon Plasma (QGP). Our group has developed very sophisticated transport models that
encompasses all stages of the collision. Within this model, we have shown that the QGP
formed at RHIC and LHC is a (strongly coupled) near perfect fluid that has large
anisotropic collective flow and long range dihadron correlations. We have also
formulated relativistic dissipative fluid dynamics from kinetic theory which could explain
the observed femtoscopic radii of emerging particles from QGP.
Current Members:
Subrata Pal,
Sreemoyee Sarkar,
Ananta Mishra,
Chandrodoy Chattopadhyay
Room P309 (Prof. Subrata Pal) Extn 2820
Prof. Subrata Pal Email: spal@tifr.res.in
Ph.D positions available
The Quest
How does a simple pattern emerge in excitation of complex nuclei?
How are the patterns of the excited states related with symmetry and shape of nuclei?
What are the different correlations present in the nuclei?
Current Members:
Rudrajyoti Palit
B.S. Naidu, R. Donthi, S. Jadhav, S. Saha, J.
Sethi, S. Biswas, D. Choudhury, P. Singh
Location and Contact Details:
Room: P309 (Prof. Rudrajyoti Palit) Extn 2562
URL: http://www.tifr.res.in/~nsg
PhD positions available
Facilities
The Pelletron LINAC facility, a joint venture of
TIFR and BARC, has been a major research centre
for the heavy ion accelerator based research in
India. The Pelletron accelerator was inaugurated
on 30th December 1988 and marked an
important milestone in nuclear physics research
in India. The facility was augmented in July 2007
with
the
indigenously
developed
superconducting LINAC booster to enhance the
energy of the accelerated beams. A number of
state-of-the-art experimental facilities have been
developed at this centre to pursue frontier
research in nuclear, atomic, condensed matter
and bio-environmental physics.
Experiment hall
LINAC hall