Research

Research interest

Nuclear structure theory: Mean field theory, Resonance and bound states of halo nuclei; Nuclear astrophysics and nucleosynthesis; Experimental gamma spectroscopy

Recent Publication

1. Study of ground state bands in Er and Yb nuclei with N ≥ 100, Sameena Murtaza, Sajid Ali, and G, Gangopadhyay, to appear in Pramana.

2. Rhythm in the Sky: Periodic Motion in the Universe, Gautam Gangopadhyay and Anirban Kundu (2024, Springer) (Book) 

3. Recent advances in some nuclear properties relevant to the astrophysical r-process, G. Gangopadhyay and Chirashree Lahiri, Eur. Phys. J. Spec. Top. 

4. Pairing and rotation in neutron-deficient even–even Yb isotopes, Sameena Murtaza and G. Gangopadhyay, Pramana 97, 181 (2023). 

5. Reaction rate of the 16O(n,gamma)17O in R-matrix at astrophysical energies, Soumya Saha, Int. J Mod. Phys. E, 32, 2350022 (2023). 

6. Three-phonon multiplets in 116Sn,  Prithwijita Ray, H. Pai, Sajad Ali, A. Mukherjee, S. Rajbanshi, S. Chakraborty,  Soumik Bhattacharya, R.Banik,  S. Nandi,  S. Bhattacharyya, G. Mukherjee, C.Bhattacharya, G.Gangopadhyay,  S. Samanta,  S. Das,  S. Chatterjee,  R. Raut,  S.S. Ghugre,  A. Goswami, Nuclear Physics A 1018, 122375 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2021.122375   

7. Hundred years of the Saha equation and astrophysics. G. Gangopadhyay, Eur. Phys. J. Spec. Top. (2021). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjs/s11734-021-00005-3

8. Proton radioactivity half-lives with nuclear asymmetry factor, A. Soylu, F.Koyuncu, G.Gangopadhyay, V.Dehghani, and S.A.Alavi, Chinese Phys. C 45 044108 (2021).

9. Quasi-γ band in 114Te: Prithwijita Ray, H. Pai, Sajad Ali, Anjali Mukherjee, A. Goswami, S. Rajbanshi, Soumik Bhattacharya, R. Banik, S. Nandi, S. Bhattacharyya, G. Mukherjee, C. Bhattacharya, S. Chakraborty, G. Gangopadhyay, Md. S. R. Laskar, R. Palit, G. H. Bhat, S. Jehangir, J. A. Sheikh, A. K. Sinha, S. Samanta, S. Das, S. Chatterjee, R. Raut, and S. S. Ghugre, Phys. Rev. C 101, 064313 (2020).

10. Evidence of the octupole correlation between the shears bands in 142Eu, Sajad Ali, S. Rajbanshi, R. Raut, H. Pai, Y.Y. Wang, G. Gangopadhyay, J. Meng, R. Palit, Somnath Nag, Abhijit Bisoi, S. Saha, J. Sethi, S. Bhattacharyya, S. Chattopadhyay, G. Mukherjee, A.K. Singh, T. Trivedi and A. Goswami, Physics Letters B 798, 134960 (2019).

Guest Editor (with Rajdeep Chatterjee) The European Physical Journal Special Topics: Nuclear Astrophysics: Recent Progress in Understanding Element Formation in the Universe

Full List of Publications

Projects (Completed)

• Co-ordinator, UGC-DRS II Programme on 'Theoretical Nuclear Particle and Astrophysics', Dept. of Physics, University of Calcutta (2015-20).

• Principal Investigator (CU),  DST Project entitled 'R & D Efforts by University Groups for INO Project' (2013-18).

• Principal Investigator, DST Project entitled 'RPC development and testing, and  simulation studies for the INO-ICAL detector' (2010-13 ).

• Principal Investigator (CU), DST Project entitled 'Pre-Operative Programme for Indian Participation in the FAIR Project at GSI, Darmstadt, Germany‚ Accelerator and Detector-Related R & D and Prototyping' (2009-14 )

• Co-ordinator, UGC-DRS Programme on 'Theoretical Nuclear Particle and Astrophysics', Dept. of Physics, University of Calcutta (2009-14 ).

• Principal Investigator, DAE-BRNS Project entitled 'Relativistic calculation in dripline nuclei and test of the densities through the study of scattering' (2005-2009).

• Principal Investigator, AUC-DAE Project entitled 'Spectroscopy of heavy nuclei transfer products' (2005-2008).

• Principal Investigator, Minor Research Project under the UGC entitled 'Investigation of application of the exchange terms in hybrid derivative coupling relativistic mean field in nuclear matter and finite nuclei' (2002-2004).

Collaborations

Compressed Baryonic Matter (CBM) at FAIR

India-based Neutrino Observatory

Book reviews

The sky is for everyone: women astronomers in their own words: edited by Virginia Trimble and David A. Weintraub, Contemporary Physics, (2023)

The joy of science: by Jim Al-Khalil,  Contempoary Physics (2024) 

Philosophy of physics: a new introduction: by Robert P. Crease,  Contemporary Physics (2024) 

Recent lectures

Introduction to Nucleosynthesis (II), Lectures  delivered in SERB School on Nuclear Astrophysics, February 22, 2019

Physics Research of Meghnad Saha, Talk delivered in Presidency University on March 7, 2019

Saha and his equation: A century later, Lecture delivered in SERB School on Nuclear Astrophysics, February 2019 and in Guru Ghasidas Central University, Bilaspur on Ferruary 28, 2019

Nuclear Reactions in Medium and Heavy Nuclei, Lectures delivered in the CNT Lectures on Special topics in Nuclear Astrophysics, March 1-11, 2017, VECC, Kolkata

Theoretical Nuclear Astrophysics, Lectures delivered in the SERC School on Nuclear Physics, Nuclear physics from New Perspectives at Bharathiar University, Feb 7-27, 2017

Nucleosynthesis: Importance of nuclear physics inputs, Talk in Presidency University, February 24, 2016

Radiative capture in medium mass region: Astrophysical importance, Talk in 'Recent Trends in Nuclear Structure and its Implication to Nuclear Astrophysics, IOP & TIFR, January 4-8 2016,Puri

Data

Nuclear Binding Energy from a phenomenological formula