Chitrasen Jena

Associate Professor
Department of Physics, IISER Tirupati
Email: cjena@iisertirupati.ac.in
Phone: +91 877 2500 445
Google ScholarResearch Interests
Experimental High Energy Physics:
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Quantum ChromoDynamics (QCD) phase diagram
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Signatures of Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP)
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Nuclei production in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions
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Direct search for Dark Matter
Educational and Professional Career
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Associate Professor (Jul 2022 ~ ): Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Tirupati, India
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Assistant Professor (Feb 2017 - Jul 2022): Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Tirupati, India
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Postdoctoral Fellow (Jul 2015 - Jan 2017): National Institute of Science Education and Research (NISER) Bhubaneswar, India
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Postdoctoral Fellow (Apr 2013 - May 2015): Università degli Studi di Padova and INFN Sezione di Padova, Padova, Italy
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Research Associate (Sep 2012 - Apr 2013): National Institute of Science Education and Research (NISER) Bhubaneswar, India
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Ph.D. (2012): Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar, HBNI, India
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Student Assistant (Aug 2008 - Jul 2010): Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, USA
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Diploma in Advanced Physics (2006): Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar, India
Selected Publications
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"Evidence of rescattering effect in Pb–Pb collisions at the LHC through production of K*(892)0and Φ(1020) mesons", Phys. Lett. B 802, 135225 (2020).
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"Role of system size in freeze-out conditions extracted from transverse momentum spectra of hadrons", Phys. Rev. C 98, 064902 (2018).
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"D-meson production in p-Pb collisions at = 5.02 TeV and in pp collisions at =7 TeV", Phys. Rev. C 94, 054908 (2016).
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"Observation of an energy-dependent difference in elliptic flow between particles and anti-particles in relativistic heavy ion collisions", Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 142301 (2013).
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"Elliptic flow of identified hadrons in Au+Au collisions at = 7.7 - 62.4 GeV", Phys. Rev. C 88, 014902 (2013).
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"Observation of the antimatter helium-4 nucleus", Nature 473, 353 (2011).
Teaching
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PHY121: World of Physics II: Waves and Matter (Spring 2017, 2018)
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PHY121: Foundations of Physics II: Waves and Optics (Spring 2019, 2020)
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PHY122: Lab I - Mechanics and Properties of Matter (Spring 2019)
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IDC121: Introduction to Computation (Spring 2017)
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PHY212: Lab II - Electricity, Magnetism and Optics (Monsoon 2017, 2018, 2021)
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PHY335: Advanced Physics Lab I (Monsoon 2017, 2018, 2019)
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PHY415: Advanced Physics Lab III (Monsoon 2021)
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PHY416/716: Experimental Methods in Physics (Monsoon 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022)
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PHY421/721: Nuclear and Particle Physics (Spring 2021, 2022)
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PHY425: Advanced Physics Lab IV (Spring 2022)
Open Positions
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Admission to Ph.D. Program at IISER Tirupati: