Employee Name
Ekata Nandy
Official Address
Experimental High Energy Physics Division,
Experimental Nuclear Physics Group,
Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre,
1/AF, Bidhannagar, Kolkata-700064.
ORCID: 0000-0003-1137-844X
ekata@vecc.gov.in
Contact Number
033 2318 2426
Designation
Scientific Officer (E)
Qualifications
- Ph.D. in Physics, Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre (VECC), Homi Bhabha National Institute (HBNI), India (2023)
- M.Sc. in Physics, The University of Burdwan, India, (2012)
- B.Sc. in Physics, Burdwan Raj College, University of Burdwan, India, (2010)
Field of Work
- Experimental High-Energy Physics and Heavy-Ion Collisions
- CBM Experiment at FAIR: Muon Detection, Detector Optimization, Low Mass Vector Mesons and Quarkonia Physics
- ALICE Experiment at CERN: Quarkonia and Di-Muon Physics
- Phenomenological Studies of Particle Production and Correlations in Heavy-Ion Collisions
- Detector R&D and High-Rate Detector Performance: mini-CBM and GIF++
Publications
(1) “Impact of Baryon anti-Baryon annihilation on hyperon (Λ,Λ ¯) production and apparent strangeness enhancement in Λ ¯/ ¯p in heavy ion collisions at SPS energy”, Ekata Nandy and Subhasis Chattopadhyay, The European Physical Journal A, 58 (2022) 10, 199.
(2) "Searching for initial state fluctuations in heavy ion collisions at FAIR energy using principal component analysis", Ekata Nandy & Subhasis Chattopadhyay, The European Physical Journal A 61 (2025) 2, 39.
(3) "Performance of a real-size, low resistivity resistive plate chamber at GIF++ Using self-trigger electronics for the Muon Chamber of the CBM Experiment", S. Chattopadhyay. A. Agarwal, Ekata Nandy, et.al., JINST 20 (2025) 03, P03009.
(4) "Intrinsic coupling between transverse spherocity and elliptic flow in heavy-ion collisions", S. Choudhury , Ekata Nandy, Phys.Rev.D 114 (2026) 3.
(5) "Commissioning and testing of pre-series triple GEM prototypes for CBM-MuCh in the mCBM experiment at SIS18 facility of GSI”, A. Kumar, A. Agarwal, S. Chatterjee, S. Chattopadhyay, A. K. Dubey, C. Ghosh, Ekata Nandy, et.al, Journal of Instrumentation 16, P09002 (2021) .
Awards / Honours
#Year 2022 : DAE group achievement award, for ”Installation, commissioning and data taking with GEM chambers at the mini CBM experiment at FAIR, Germany”.
#Year 2013 : INSPIRE Fellowship for Ph.D. programme
#Year 2012 : Gold medalist in M.Sc Physics, from The University of Burdwan, Burdwan, India.
#2008–2012 : INSPIRE Scholarship