Dr. Rituparna Kanungo
Professor of Physics and Affiliate
Scientist, TRIUMF
Astronomy and
Physics
Saint MaryÕs
University
Office : Atrium 312
Email : ritu@triumf.ca, rituparna.kanungo@smu.ca
Research :
Experimental
subatomic physics
--- Exotic forms of nuclear isotopes: halo, skin
--- Change of shell structure in exotic nuclei
--- Nuclear excitations
--- Synthesis of elements in nature
Nuclei, that make up 99% of our body
weight, are the core of all matter around us and the driving
fuel for the stars. I find it fascinating to explore the properties of these
tiny (~10-15 m ) objects that have led to
the creation of our lives. How, why
and where did oxygen, carbon that are necessary for our lives be created in nature ? It turns out that most of the nuclear species that
we find on our earth today were created in the core of exploding stars, like
the supernova. In this creation process are involved nuclei that have very
usual properties than what we find on our earth. My research involves
re-creating these species in our laboratories and inducing further reactions
with them. Accelerated beams of such species are called radioactive ion beams
(RIB).
Reactions with RIB that I pursue at the accelerator
centers are, reactions to determine radii and density of a nucleus that allows
us to discover exotic phenomena such as nuclear halo and skin. Knockout and transfer reactions to study
nucleon arrangements from which we have discovered new magic numbers and a new
view of nucleon arrangement inside nuclei. Inelastic scattering experiments to
study the discover new energy levels and excitation
phenomena. Reaction rates by transfer reactions can provide information
relevant for nucleosynthesis.
Interested students are welcome to contact me.
PUBLICATIONS (click here)
News clips on our research activities
(i) Nobel
Symposium on rare isotope beams
(ii) Nature News and Views, 24O
a doubly magic nucleus,
Nature 459, 1069-1070
(iii) Physics
World highlights : new magic nucleus 24O
(iv) The
Chronicle Herald (front cover news) : CANREB project
(v) Radio
Canada International : CANREB project
(vi) Nova
Scotia Research and Innovation Trust (highlights) :
IRIS project
(v) TRIUMF
news headlines : Isotope project
Accelerator centers where my group
performs experiments:
- TRIUMF
,
Vancouver, Canada (National Laboratory of Canada)
- GSI,
Darmstadt, Germany
- RIKEN, Wako-shi, Japan
Awards/Honors
- Fellow of the American Physical
Society Award 2019
- CAP-TRIUMF Vogt Medal Award
2018
- NSERC, DAS Award 2011
- Named one of most valued
reviewers of 2010, Elsevier Nuclear and High energy Physics,
- Alexander von Humboldt
fellowship 2005
- GSI Exotic Nuclei Community
Award 2003
Research Grants
(Principal Investigator)
- CFI-New Initiatives fund
award - CANREB project @
TRIUMF
- DAS Award
- NSERC Subatomic Physics
Discovery Grant
- NSERC Subatomic Physics Project
Grant
- CFI-New Initiatives fund
award - IRIS Project @ TRIUMF
- Faculty of Graduate Studies and
Research, Saint MaryÕs University,
- RIKEN Strategic Research
Project Grant
Group Members
Post Doctoral
- Dr. Jonas Refsgaard
- Dr. David Walter
- Dr. Soumya
Bagchi
- Dr. Matthias Holl
- Dr. Alfredo Estrade
- Dr. Alisher
Sanetuallev
- Dr. Hicham
Al Falou
Graduate-(Masters/Ph.D.)
- Mathieu Cavenaile
- Orry Workman
- Pranav Subramaniyam
- Mukhwinder Singh
- Preetinder Jassal
- Jaspreet Singh Randhawa
- Amit Kumar
- Satbir Kaur
- Patrick Fortier
Undergraduate
- Aaron Gallant
, Saint MaryÕs University,
2007-2008
- Christopher Perro,
Saint MaryÕs University, 2007-2008
- Jia Dian Chen, Saint MaryÕs
University, 2008-2009
- Masaki Uchida, Saint MaryÕs
University, 2008-2010
- John Burns, St. Francis Xavier
University, 2008-2009
- Darien Niamir,
Stanford University, 2009
- Stephen Campbell, Saint MaryÕs
University, 2010
- Andrew Valencik,
Saint MaryÕs University, 2010-2011
- Gregory Tomney,
Saint MaryÕs University, 2011-
- Joel Atkinson, Saint MaryÕs
University, 2011-
- Pauline McLeod 2012-2013
- Corwin Trottier 2012-2013
- Julia Purcell 2013
- Iymad Mansour 2014-2015
- Matthew Keefe 2013-2015
- Orry Workman 2015-2017
- Jessica Churchill 2017
- Martin Hellmich
2017
- Sebastien Roy-Garand 2018-2019
- Conor Waterfield
2018-2021
- Jacob Hollett
2019-2021
Job openings
Graduate students : Interested students please
contact me.
Undergraduate research program : Interested students please contact me.
Professional
Association/Services
- President, Canadian Institute
of Nuclear Physics 2015-
- Director of International
Affairs, Canadian Association of Physicists 2017-2023
- Chair, CAP-NSERC Liaison
committee 2017-2021
- Editorial Board Member,
Physical Review C
- Editorial Board member, Nuclear
Physics News International 2019-
- Member, Scientific Council of
GANIL, France 2019-
- Steering Committee, TRIUMF Five
Year Plan 2018
- Member, Board of Directors,
Canadian Institute of Nuclear Physics, 2012-
- Member of TRIUMF Policy, Planning and
Advisory Committee, 2008-2011
- Executive committee member of TRIUMF UsersÕ group, 2008-2010
- Judge, DNP Thesis Prize Canada,
2007
- Member Division of Nuclear
Physics, Canadian Association of Physicists
- Super FRS, R3B, EXL projects
in FAIR Collaboration, GSI, Germany
- Active Target – TPC
(AT-TPC) collaboration, NSCL, USA
- EMMA collaboration, TRIUMF
- TIGRESS collaboration, TRIUMF