Mankind has always been wondering about the composition of matter. Gradually the modern science developed and people came to know about atoms, nuclei and their constituents, electrons, protons and neutrons. Scientists further explored the substructure of protons and neutrons - discovered the existence of quarks and gluons. These constituents have never been free, due to a phenomenon called confinement, except for a few millionths of a second shortly after the Big Bang. At that time, the universe was dominated by an extremely hot and de-confined state of quarks and gluons. In those first evanescent moments of extreme conditions, quarks and gluons were interacting only weakly and could move freely in the form of what is known as the quark-gluon plasma. There are many mysteries about how these quarks and gluons behaved in this primordial stage of universe. Once this stage was over, the quarks and gluons were confined into hadrons and eventually the visible matter around us were made. After billions of years, Scientists found a way to free the quarks and gluons from their strong bondage inside hadrons and re-create the primordial de-confined state of matter existed in the early universe.
Scientists at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) and the Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) produce this matter at the Laboratory by colliding two nuclei or protons and smashing them together with powerfull machines called the Collider. It’s a Little Bang at the Laboratory :) This is very much interesting and fascinating! Indeed it’s a great pleasure to take part in such large experiments.
I am a postdoc at the Kent State University, stationed at the Brookhaven National Laboratory. I work in the Solenoidal Tracker At RHIC (STAR) experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) facility at the Brookhaven National Laboratory, Long Island, New York, USA.
I obtained my PhD degree from Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Kolkata, India. For my PhD thesis, I worked in A Large Ion Collider Experiment (ALICE) at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland.
My PhD thesis can be found in the CERN Document Server: Study of Inclusive b-Jet Production in ALICE Experiment at LHC
My area of research is Experimental High Energy Heavy Ion Collisions. In our experiment, we create an astonishingly hot and dense soup of matter made of quarks and gluons or the quark-gluon plasma. More specifically, my interests include measurements of the physical properties of that primordial hot soup, using particle correlations and hard probes.
Download ResumePhD in Experimental High Energy Nuclear Physics, 2019
Homi Bhabha National Institute, India
MSc in Physics, 2014
University Of Kalyani, India
BSc in Physics, 2012
University Of Kalyani, India
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