Employee Name
Kaushik Banerjee
Official Address
Experimental Nuclear Physics Division
Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre
1/AF, Bidhannagar, Kolkata
India.
ORCID: 0000-0002-7731-8389
kaushik@vecc.gov.in
Contact Number
+91 33 2318 2311
Designation
Scientific Officer (H)
Qualifications
- PhD (2013): Homi Bhaba National Institute
- Post MSc (2003) BARC Training School (46th Batch)
- Post MSc (2002): UGC DAE Consortium for Scientific Research
Field of Work
- Low energy nuclear Reaction
- Nuclear Level Density & its astrophysical implications
- Neutron spectroscopy and Nuclear Instrumentation
Publications
1. Mechanisms Suppressing Superheavy Element Yields in Cold Fusion Reactions, K. Banerjee, D.J. Hinde, M. Dasgupta, E.C. Simpson, D.Y. Jeung, C. Simenel, B.M.A. Swinton-Bland, E. Williams, I.P. Carter, K.J. Cook, H.M. David, Ch.E. Dllmann, J. Khuyagbaatar, B. Kindler, B. Lommel, E. Prasad, C. Sengupta, J.F. Smith, K. Vo-Phuoc, J. Walshe, and A. Yakushev Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 232503 (2019)
2. Isospin dependence of nuclear level density at A~ 120 mass region R. Shil, K. Banerjee, Pratap Roy, J. Sadhukhan, T.K. Rana, G. Mukherjee, S. Kundu, T.K. Ghosh, S. Manna, A. Sen, R. Pandey, A. Chakraborty, Deepak Pandit, S. Mukhopadhyay, Debasish Mondal, D. Paul, C. Bhattacharya, S. Bhattacharya, Physics Letters B 831 (2022) 137145
3. The FRENA accelerator and its beam energy calibration A. Banerjee, K. Banerjee, R. Shil, Pratap Roy, P. Pant, C. Basu, G. Mukherjee, T.K. Ghosh Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A 1072, (2025) 170179
4. Global optimization of nuclear level density parameters using Bayesian analysis R. Shil, G. Banerjee, K. Banerjee, J. Sadhukhan, Pratap Roy, and A. Chakraborty Phys. Rev. C 112, 044609 (2025)
5. Depth-Dependent Background Neutron Distribution at the Deep Underground Laboratory Sujoy Chatterjee, K. Banerjee, S. Dawn, Arijit Sen, S. Manna, A. K. Bakshi, Pratap Roy, V. N. Jha, R. Datta, B. K. Sapra Phys. Lett. B 875 (2026) 140337
Awards / Honours
- Indian Physics Association S N Sesadri Memorial Instrumentation Award 2014,
- DAE Scientific & Technical Excellence Award 2017
- Australian National University postdoctoral Research Fellowship 2017-19