IITKGP

Ajay Kumar Singh

Professor

Physics

+91-3222-283832

singh@phy.iitkgp.ac.in

Responsibilities

  • Member, Students Grievance Redressal Committee
  • President, Gymkhana

Research Areas

  • Nuclear Structure
  • Gamma-ray spectroscopy
  • Nuclear detectors
We  are using gamma ray spectroscopy as a tool to explore nuclear structure and excitation modes in nuclei. The  experiments related 
to nuclear  structure studies  are performed  using Indian National Gamma Array (INGA) at the accelerator  facilities like  TIFR Mumbai, 
IUAC New  Delhi and VECC Kolkata.

The work undertaken is designed to address several key questions in the field, such as:

(i) What are the excitation modes in nuclei at low and high spin.
(ii) How collectivity is developed in nuclei
(iii) Particle alignments and shape coexistence
(iv) Generation of angular momentum in nuclei and  band termination
(v) Dynamics of magnetic and Anti-magnetic rotation
(vi) Octupole correlation
(vii) Chiral rotation



We are also involved in simulation of Muon Chamber (MUCH) detectors which will
be  used  to track  muons  in the forthcoming Compressed Baryonic Matter (CBM) experiment  at  GSI  Germany.
The goal of the CBM  experiment  is to explore the phase diagram of strongly interacting matter in the region of
high baryon densities. This approach offers the possibility to find signatures of partonic degrees of-freedom, and
to discover the conjectured first order deconfinement phase transition and its critical endpoint. Another important
goal is the study of in-medium modifications of hadron properties in order to shed light on the phenomenon of chiral
symmetry restoration in dense hadronic and partonic matter.


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  • Evidence for Second-Phonon Nuclear Wobbling D.R. Jensen, G.B. Hagemann, I. Hamamoto, S.W. Odegard, B. Herskind, G. Sletten, J.N. Wilson, K. Spohr, H. Huebel, P. Bringel, A. Neusser, G. Schoenwasser, A. K. Singh, W.C. Ma, H. Amro, A. Bracco, S. Leoni, G. Benzoni, A. Maj, C.M. Petrache, G. Lo Bianco, P. Bednarczyk and D. Curien By PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTER 89 - (2002)
  • Evidence for octupole correlations and chiral symmetry breaking in 124Cs K. Selvakumar, A. K. Singh, Chandan Ghosh, Purnima Singh, A. Goswami, R. Raut, A. Mukherjee, U. Datta, P. Datta, S. Roy, G. Gangopadhyay, S. Bhowal, S. Muralithar, Rakesh Kumar, R. P. Singh and M. Kumar Raju By PHYSICAL REVIEW C 92 - (2015)
  • One- two- phonon wobbling excitations in triaxial 165Lu. G. Schoenwasser, H. Huebel, G.B. Hagemann, P. Bednarczyk, G. Benzoni, G. Lo Bianco, A. Bracco, P. Bringel, R. CHapman, D. Curien, J. Domscheit, B. Herskind, D.R. Jensen, S. Leoni, W.C. Ma, A. Maj, A. Neu\ss er, S.W. Odegard, C.M. Petrache, D. Ro\ss bach, H. Ryde, K.H. Spohr and A.K. Singh By PHYSICS LETTER B 552 - (2003)
  • Relativistic Coulomb excitation of neutron-rich 54,56,58Cr: On the pathway of magicity from N=40 to N = 32,34 A. Buerger, T. Saito, A. Al-Khatib, A. Banu, T. Beck, F. Becker, P. Bednarczyk, G. Benzoni, A. Bracco, P. Bringel, F. Camera, E. Clement, P. Doornenbal, H. Geissel, J. Gerl, M. Gorska, A. Goergen, H. Grawe, J. G rebosz, G. Hammond, M. Hellstroem, H. Huebel, M. Kavatsyuk, O. Kavatsyuk, M. Kmiecik, I. Kojouharov, N. Kurz, R. Lozeva, A. Maj, S. Mandal, B. Million, S. Muralithar, A. Neu\ss er, F. Nowacki, T. Otsuka, Zs. Podoly\'ak, P. Reiter, N. Saito, A. K. Singh, H. Weick, O. Wieland, M. Winkler, C. Wheldon, H.J. Wollersheim By PHYSICS LETTER B 622 - (2005)
  • Excitation energies of superdeformed states in 196Pb: towards a systematic study of the second well in Pb isotopes A.N. Wilson, A.K. Singh, H. Huebel, A. Korichi, P.M. Davidson, A. Goergen, D. Rossbach, A. Astier, F. Azaiez, D. Bazacco, C. Bourgeois, N. Buforn, P. Byrne, G.D. Dracoulis, F. Hannachi, K. Hauschild, W. Korten, Kroell, G.J. Lane, A. Lopez-Martens, N. Redon, P. Reiter, C. Rossi-Alvarez, G. Schoenwasser, O. Stezowski, and P.G. Thirolf By PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTER 95 - (2005)
  • Highly deformed high-spin band in 125I Purnima Singh, Somnath Nag, A.K. Singh, H. Huebel, A. Al-Khatib, P. Bringel, C. Engelhardt, A. Neu\ss er-Neffgen, I. Ragnarsson, M.P. Carpenter, R.V.F. Janssens, T.L. Khoo, T. Lauritsen, G.B. Hagemann, C.R. Hansen, B. Herskind, G. Sletten, A. Bracco, F. Camera, G. Benzoni, P. Fallon, R.M. Clark, P. Chowdhury, H. Amro By PHYSICAL REVIEW C 84 - (2011)
  • High-spin rotational bands in 123I Purnima Singh, A.K. Singh, A. N. Wilson, I. Ragnarsson, H. Huebel, A. Buerger, M. P. Carpenter, S. Chmel, P. Fallon, G. B. Hagemann, B. Herskind, Hoa Ha, R. V. F. Janssens, K. Juhasz, A. Kardan, T. L. Khoo, G. Kondev, A. Korichi, T. Lauritsen, B. M. Nyako, J. Rogers, G. Sletten, J. Timar, and S. Zhu By PHYSICAL REVIEW C 86 - (2012)
  • Shape evolution in 123Cs and 124Ba nuclei K. Selvakumar, A.K. Singh, Subhashri Das, Purnima Singh, A. Goswami, R. Raut, A. Mukherjee, U. Datta Pramanik, P. Dutta, S. Roy, G. Gangopadhyay, S. Bhowal, S. Muralithar, Rakesh Kumar, R. P. Singh, M. Kumar Raju, Thomas Reddy By PHYSICAL REVIEW C 88 - (2013)
  • Collective and noncollective excitations in 122Te Somnath Nag, A.K. Singh, I. Ragnarsson, H. Huebel, A. Al-Khatib, P. Bringel, C. Engelhardt, A. Neu\ss er-Neffgen, G.B. Hagemann, B. Herskind, G. Sletten, M.P. Carpenter, R.V.F. Janssens, T.L. Khoo, T. Lauritsen, R.M. Clark, P. Fallon, G. Benzoni, A. Bracco, F. Camera, P. Chowdhury By PHYSICAL REVIEW C 88 - (2013)

Principal Investigator

  • IIT KGP Staff Sports Meet

Ph. D. Students

Atreyee Dey

Area of Research: Nuclear Structure

Sadashiv

Area of Research: Nuclear structure