Tapan K. Nayak

Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata - 700064

Phone: +91 9836893945   or  at CERN: +41 76 487 2171

Email: nayak@mail.cern.ch / nayak@vecc.gov.in


The primary goal of my field of research is the search and study of a new state of matter, called the Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP) which existed in the first tens of microseconds after the birth of our Universe.

At present I am involved in two major experiments dedicated for the QGP study: (1) the ALICE experiment at CERN and (2) the STAR experiment at Brookhaven National Laboratory, New York which has been taking data since the year 2000. In addition, some analyses for the now completed WA98 experiment and the old experiments E802/E859/E866 still continues.

- Convenor of Quark Matter 2008 Conference
- ICPAQGP-2010 Conerence at Goa: December 6-10, 2010

Article in RHIC News on Search for the QCD Critical Point at RHIC: First Experience with Au-Au Collisions at 9.2 GeV

 

   ALICE-PMD installation at CERN    July 13, 2009:  PMD on the Move

ALICE PMD on move


Recent Activities:

Frequently used links:
ALICE Projects:

In STAR:

  • RHIC energy scan to search for the QCD Critical point
  • Event-by-event physics and fluctuation
  • Photon Multiplicity Detector
  • Forward physics

In WA98:

  • Search for Disoriented Chiral Condensates
  • Event-by-event fluctuation
  • Measurement of photon multiplicity

Past collaborations:

  • PHENIX experiment at BNL
    • Responsible for Time-of-Flight detector
  • E802 Collaboration (E859 and E866) at BNL
    • HBT correlations

 
 

Recent Presentations:

Lecture notes from the QGP School at Jammu, May 2005: Lecture 1, Lecture 2, Lecture 3, Lecture 4

 

A short CV:

  • Scientist: VECC, Department of Atomic Energy, India since 1997
  • CERN Scientific Associate: 2005-2007
Recent Publications:
Greetings:

 

This site was last updated May 2010