Sidharth Kumar Prasad
Associate Professor
Sidharth Kumar Prasad
Associate Professor, Physical Sciences
PhD: Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre (VECC) (Degree awarded by the University of Calcutta), 2011
Previous appointments:
Assistant Professor, Bose Institute, Kolkata, INDIA, October 2015 – January 2020
Research Associate-II, Bose Institute, Kolkata, INDIA, September 2014 – September 2015
Research Associate-I, Bose Institute, Kolkata, INDIA, September 2013 – August 2014
Postdoctoral Fellow, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA, January 2011 – August 2013
Research interests:
Research area: Experimental High Energy Physics (HEP)
Goal: Study the properties of quantum chromodynamics (QCD) matter under extreme conditions of temperature and/or pressure using heavy ion collisions.
Contact:
| Address: |
Physical Sciences Unified Academic Campus Bose Institute EN-80, Sector V Bidhan Nagar Kolkata - 700 091, India |
| E-Mail: | sprasad[at]jcbose.ac.in |
| Phone: | +91-33-25693244 |
Research:
My research work is in the field of Experimental High Energy Physics (HEP) and focus on the characterization of a novel state of QCD matter with partonic degrees of freedom known as Quark Gluon Plasma (QGP) formed in relativistic heavy ion collisions. My research activities include: (a) Detector development & instrumentation for the HEP experiments (b) Active participation in two most important experimental collaborations in this field, A Large Ion Collider Experiment (ALICE) at Large Hadron Collider (LHC), CERN, Geneva and Compressed Baryonic Matter (CBM) experiment at future Facility for Anti-proton and Ion Research (FAIR) at GSI, Germany (c) Data analysis and interpretation (d) Simulations and software development and (e) Model based studies.
Publications:
Selected list of publications:
12. Debjani Banerjee, Souvik Paul, Prottoy Das, Abhi Modak, Ankita Bhudraja, Sabyasachi Ghosh, Sidharth Kr. Prasad; Effect of magnetic field on jet transport coefficient q-hat; Accepted in PRAMANA Journal of Physics; arXiv: 2103.14440 [hep-ph]
10. Sumit Kumar Kundu, Saikat Biswas, Subhasis Chattopadhyay, Supriya Das, Anand Kumar Dubey, Chandrasekhar Ghosh, Ajit Kumar, Ankhi Roy, Jogender Saini, Susnata Seth and Sidharth Kr. Prasad; Development of a water-based cooling system for the Muon Chamber detector system of the CBM experiment; Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A 1050 168143 (2023); arXiv: 2204.09752 [physics.ins-det]
9. ALICE Collaboration; Measurements of the groomed and ungroomed jet angularities in pp collisions at √s = 5.02 TeV; Jour. of High Energ. Phys. (JHEP) 05 061 (2022); DOI: 10.1007/JHEP05 (2022) 061; arXiv: 2107.11303 [nucl-ex]
8. A. Kumar, A. Agarwal, S. Chatterjee, S. Chattopadhyay, A. K. Dubey, C. Ghosh, E. Nandy, V. Negi, Sidharth Kr. Prasad et al.; Commissioning and testing of pre-series triple GEM prototypes for CBM-MuCh in the mCBM experiment at the SIS18 facility of GSI; JINST 16 09, P09002 (2021); DOI: 10.1088/1748-0221/16/09/P09002; arXiv: 2108.05646 [physics.ins-det]
7. Sumit K. Saha, Debojit Sarkar, S. Chattopadhyay, Ashik Ikbal Sheikh, Sidharth Kr. Prasad; Study of medium modified jet shape observables in Pb-Pb collisions at √sNN = 2.76 TeV using EPOS and JEWEL event generators; Nucl. Phys. A 1006 122064 (2021); DOI: 10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2020.122064; arXiv: 2101.02685 [hep-ph], 2111.01200 [nucl-th]
6. Rathijit Biswas, Subikash Choudhury, Sidharth Kr. Prasad, Supriya Das; Study of jet- medium interactions using jet shape observables in heavy ion collisions at LHC energies with JEWEL; Jour. of Phys. G 46 9 095004 (2019); DOI: 10.1088/1361-6471/ab2e69; arXiv: 1906.05513 [hep-ph]
5. R. P. Adak, S. Biswas, S. Das, D. Ghosal, S. K. Ghosh, A. Mondal, D. Nag, T. K. Nayak, R. N. Patra, Sidharth Kr. Prasad, S. Raha, P. K. Sahu, S. Sahu, S. Swain; Long-term stability test of a triple GEM detector; JINST 11 10, T10001 (2016); DOI: 10.1088/1748-0221/11/10/T10001; arXiv: 1608.00562 [physics.ins-det]
4. ALICE Collaboration; Charged jet production cross sections and properties in pp collisions at √s = 7 TeV; Phys. Rev. D 91, 112012 (2015); DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.91.112012; arXiv:1411.4969 [nucl-ex] (NOTE: The important outcome of the paper is also highlighted in January 27th (2015) edition of the CERN COURIER: https://cerncourier.com/a/profiling-jets-with-alice/)
3. ALICE Collaboration; Inclusive photon production at forward rapidities for proton- proton collisions at √s = 0.9, 2.76 and 7 TeV in ALICE at the LHC; Eur. Phys. J. C 75 4 146 (2015); DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-015-3356-2; arXiv:1411.4981 [nucl-ex]
2. Shantam Ravan, Prabhat R Pujahari, Sidharth Kr. Prasad, Claude A Pruneau; Correcting Correlation Function Measurements; Phys. Rev. C 89 2, 024906 (2014); DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevC.89.024906; arXiv: 1311.3915 [nucl-ex]
1. Sidharth Kr. Prasad, Victor Roy, S. Chattopadhyay, A. K. Chaudhuri; Elliptic flow (v2) in pp collisions at energies available at the CERN Large Hadron Collider: A hydrodynamical approach; Phys. Rev. C 82 024909 (2010); DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevC.82.024909; arXiv: 0910.4844 [nucl-th]
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Recognition:
Teaching:
1. Subject: Interfacing and Computing Tools
( M. Sc. Semester-2, Paper-MPHC4252, Module: CE-IC)
2. Subject: Fundamentals of Linux/Unix
(PhD course work: A-level course)
3. Subject: Computer Programming and Monte Carlo simulations for High Energy Physics
(PhD course work: B-level course)Students:
| Image | Name | Designation | Department | Campus | Contact number | |
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Abhi Modak | Senior Research Fellow | Physics | Unified | abhimodak@jcbose.ac.in | |
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Mintu Haldar | Junior Research Fellow | Physics | Unified | mintu2017mh@gmail.com | |
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Prottoy Das | Senior Research Fellow | Physics | Unified | dasprottoy000@gmail.com |
Former:
1. Mr. Vipul Pant (IIT, Kanpur, UP; 2022)
Summer project: Understanding particle and jet production mechanism in
pp collisions and jet-medium interactions in PbPb collisions at LHC
energies
2. Mr. Shivam Maharaj (NIT, Rourkela, Odisha; 2022)
Summer project: Study of photon production in forward rapidity region using ALICE experiment at LHC
3. Mr. Umesh Kumar (Bose Institute, Kolkata, WB; 2021)
Master thesis: Study of inclusive photon multiplicity and its √s dependence at LHC energies
Master thesis: Photon production in pp collisions at 5.02 TeV with ALICE
5. Mr. Abhi Modak (Bose Institute, Kolkata, WB; 2018)
Master thesis: Evolution of jet production with centre-of-mass energy in proton-proton collisions at LHC
6. Mr. Prottoy Das (Bose Institute, Kolkata, WB; 2018)
Master thesis: Study of jet properties in proton-proton collisions using PYTHIA simulations
7. Mr. Keshav Kumar (Applied Physics Department, S. V. NIT, Surat, Gujarat; 2018)
Summer project: Study of a water based cooling system for the Muon Chamber detector of the CBM experiment
8. Ms. Nilanjana Nandi (Rajabazar Science College, Calcutta University, Kolkata, WB; 2018)
Summer project: Differentiating quark and gluon jets using
R80 observable
9. Ms. Debapriya Das (IIT (ISM), Dhanbad, Jharkhand; 2018)
Summer project: Study of underlying events and their multiplicity dependence in pp collisions at 7 TeV
10. Mr. Nirmalkumar Shiroya (Applied Physics Department, S. V. NIT, Surat, Gujarat; 2017)
Summer project: Contributions of quarks and gluons to final state jets in pp collisions and their momentum, rapidity and energy dependence
Group News:
10. My student Mr. Abhi Modak has been invited by the INFN Sezione di Trieste (INFN TS) in Trieste for a period of one month with full financial support to carry out a scientific collaboration work “Charged particle multiplicities from Run2 to Run3 with ALICE at the LHC”.
09. Our research work on “Inclusive photon production in proton-proton and proton-lead collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 5.02 TeV using indigenous Photon Multiplicity Detector of ALICE experiment” has been highlighted in the prestigious CERN Courier in July/August 2023 edition (https://cerncourier.com/a/inclusive-photon-production-at-forward-rapidities/)
08. I am serving as the Deputy spokesperson of the ALICE-STAR-India Collaboration since January 2023
07. I served as the Physics coordinator of the ALICE-STAR-India Collaboration during January 2021 to December 2022
06. My student Mr. Abhi Modak received one of the best posters in the conference “Recent Trends in Natural Sciences, 2022” organized by Bose Institute, Kolkata
05. My student Mr. Prottoy Das received FIRST prize of best oral presentation in the conference “Hot QCD Matter, 2022” organized jointly by IIT, Goa and Goa University in May 2022
04. My student Mr. Abhi Modak received THIRD prize of best oral presentation in the conference “Hot QCD Matter, 2022” organized jointly by IIT, Goa and Goa University in May 2022
03. My student Ms. Debjani Banerjee received FIRST prize in oral presentations in the conference “Fundamental and Applied Sciences (FAS-2021)” organized by SVNIT, Surat, Gujarat during October 2021
02. My student Mr. Abhi Modak received one of the best posters award in “XXIV DAE-BRNS Symposium on High Energy Physics, 2020” organized by NISER, Jatni, Bhubaneswar during December 2020
01. My student Mr. Abhi Modak received SECOND prize in oral presentations in the "National Conference on Frontiers in Modern Physics, 2020" organized by ADAMAS University, Kolkata during February, 2020