Dr. Soumen Nandi

Designation: Scientist-D

Group: Nuclear Physics

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Dr. Nandi’s research focuses on experimental nuclear structure studies using gamma-ray spectroscopy techniques. Nuclear structure information is essential for understanding complex many-body quantum systems composed of protons and neutrons. Such data play a crucial role in nuclear astrophysics, neutrino physics, reactor decay heat calculations, and efforts to prevent nuclear weapons proliferation. The current activities include-

Experiments primarily conducted at three accelerator facilities in India: Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre (VECC), Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), and Inter-University Accelerator Centre (IUAC).
Operation and handling of different types of semiconductor detectors (HPGe) for gamma-ray detection. These detectors provide excellent energy resolution and are well suited for discrete gamma-ray spectroscopy.
Use of fast scintillator detectors to measure nuclear level lifetimes in the range of around 10 pico-second to 1 nano-second.
Beta-decay studies of deformed nuclei using HPGe detector arrays to establish detailed Beta-decay schemes.
Beta-decay investigations employing highly efficient scintillator detectors using the Total Absorption Gamma-ray Spectroscopy (TAGS) method to address the well-known Beta-decay pandemonium effect.

Bachelor of Science from Raja Peary Mohan College, (2010-2013), University of Calcutta

Master of Science from NIT Durgapur (2013-2015)

Ph.D. from Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre (2006-2011) under the supervision of Dr. Gopal Mukherjee.

Post Doctoral Fellow at the Argonne National Laboratory USA (2021-2023) under the supervision of Dr. Filip. G. Kondev and Dr. Michael P. Carpenter .

Post doctoral CNRS fellow at SUBATECH , Nantes, France (2023-2025), under the supervision of Dr. Muriel Fallot.
Scientist at UGC-DAE Consortium for Scientific Research, Kolkata Centre since April 2025

Mr. Subhra Sankar Dutta

Role: Junior Research Fellow (UGC-DAE CSR)

M.Sc: University of Delhi

Joined: 2025

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Email: subhrasankardutta.2000@gmail.com

Full publication list

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Selected Publications

First Observation of Multiple Transverse Wobbling Bands of Different Kinds in ¹⁸³Au;
S. Nandi, G. Mukherjee, Q. B. Chen, S. Frauendorf, R. Banik, Soumik Bhattacharya, Shabir Dar, S. Bhattacharyya, C. Bhattacharya, S. Chatterjee, S. Das, S. Samanta, R. Raut, S.S. Ghugre, S. Rajbanshi, Sajad Ali, H. Pai, Md. A. Asgar, S. Das Gupta, P. Chowdhury, A. Goswami, Physical Review Letters 125, 132501 (2020).
Structure of beta-decaying states in the deformed, neutron-rich nucleus ¹⁰⁴Nb;

S Nandi, F G Kondev, M P Carpenter, J A Clark, P A Copp, D J Hartley, H Jayatissa, T Lauritsen, S Marley, G E Morgan, G Mukherjee, C Müller- Gatermann, W Reviol, G Savard and D Seweryniak, Physica Scripta 100 075302 (2025).

Effect of neutron alignments on the structure of ¹⁹⁷Tl;

S. Nandi, G. Mukherjee, T. Roy, R.Banik, A. Dhal, Soumik Bhattacharya, S. Bhattacharyya, C. Bhattacharya, Md. A. Asgar, H. Pai, S. Rajbanshi, Pratap Roy, T. K. Ghosh, K. Banerjee, T. K. Rana, Samir Kundu, S. Manna, R. Pandey, A. Sen, S. Pal, S. Mukhopadhyay, D. Pandit, D. Mandal, and S. R. Banerjee; Physical Review C 99, 054312 (2019).

Different manifestations of triaxial shapes of the positive and negative parity bands in ¹⁸⁷Os;

S. Nandi, G. Mukherjee, A. Dhal, R. Banik, Soumik Bhattacharya, S. Basu, Shabir Dar, S. Bhattacharyya, C. Bhattacharya, S. Kundu, D. Paul, S. Rajbanshi, S. Chatterjee, S. Das, S. Samanta, R. Raut, S. S. Ghugre, H. Pai, Sajad Ali, S. Biswas and A. Goswami, Physical Review C 105, 034336 (2022).

Was awarded the Outstanding Doctoral Student Award by the Homi Bhabha National Institute, in the year 2022

Doctoral thesis was selected as one of the best three theses shortlisted for the IPA C.V.K. Baba Best Thesis Award by the Indian Physics Association, in the year 2021.