Employee Name
Devesh Kumar
Official Address
Nuclear Lifetime Spectroscopy Section,
Crogentic Trap & Nuclear Spectroscopy Division
Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre,
1/AF, Bidhannagar, Kolkata-700064, India.
ORCID: 0000-0003-1923-2074
devesh.k@vecc.gov.in
Contact Number
+91 33 23183291
Designation
Scientific Officer (D)
Qualifications
- PhD, Physics, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Mumbai, India (2026)
- OCES Training School (61st Batch), BARC, Mumbai
- M.Sc. (Physics), University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad
- B.Sc.(Physics), St Xavier's College, Ranchi
Field of Work
- Experimental Nuclear Structure
- Fast-timing measurements,
- Gamma-Ray Spectroscopy
- Nuclear Shell Model
- Exotic shapes & Symmetries
Publications
1. Evidence of the excited X(5)-like critical-point symmetry structures in 152Sm, Phys. Lett. B 879 (2026) 1440662.
2. Lifetimes and transition probabilities in N=76,130Xe, Nucl. Phys. A 1069 (2026) 123354.
3. New evidence of interplay between tetrahedral and octahedral symmetries and symmetry breaking: Exotic rotational bands in Sm152, Phys. Rev. C 111 (2025) 034319.
4. Lifetime measurement for the 15/2- and 13/2− levels in 129Sn, Phys. Rev. C 109 (2024) 024304.
5. Lifetimes and transition probabilities for low-lying yrast levels in 130,132Te, Phys. Rev. C 106 (2022) 034306.