Education
Kuntal Ghosh
Education Completed:
Master Of Philosophy in Physics
Department of Physics, Indian Institute Of Technology, Bombay
Project Thesis: Exploring The Groundwork For The Study Of Dark Energy By Studying A Case Of The Impact Of A Cosmological Phase Transition On Cosmic Power Spectrum And Studying High Density Quark Matter Superconductivity Along With A Case Of A Strongly Correlated Fermion System Which Might Implicitly Be At The Basis Of Such A Phase Transition
Project Advisor: Professor Urjit A. Yajnik, Indian Institute Of Technology, Bombay
Date of Joining as a Research Scholar (Ph.D.) student: July, 2010
Date of converting the Ph.D. to an M.Phil degree: December, 2014
Date of M. Phil. Defense: 10th March, 2015
Date of receiving the degree award: 8th August, 2015
Master Of Science in Physics
Department of Physics, Indian Institute Of Technology, Bombay
Duration of the program: 2008 - 2010
Score: 8.38 CPI (Cumulative Percentile Index) out of 10.00
Date of passing and receiving the degree: 8th August, 2010
Project Thesis: Probing Quark Gluon Plasma Through Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions
Project Advisor: Professor R. Varma, Indian Institute Of Technology, Bombay
Bachelor Of Science In Physics with Honors
Department Of Physics, Serampore College, University Of Calcutta, India
Score: 67.87 percent
Duration of the program: 2005 - 2008
Date of passing: July, 2008
Higher Secondary Education (12th Grade)
Don Bosco School, Liluah, Howrah, West Bengal (India)
Score: 87.67 percent
Date of passing: May, 2005
Secondary Education (10th Grade)
Don Bosco School, Liluah, Howrah, West Bengal (India)
Score: 88.67 percent
Date of passing: May, 2003
Research Experiences
Master Of Philosophy in Physics Project Thesis on 'Exploring The Groundwork For The Study Of Dark Energy By Studying A Case Of The Impact Of A Cosmological Phase Transition On Cosmic Power Spectrum And Studying High Density Quark Matter Superconductivity Along With A Case Of A Strongly Correlated Fermion System Which Might Implicitly Be At The Basis Of Such A Phase Transition'
Indian Institute Of Technology, Bombay, India
Duration or Year: 2010-2015
I joined Dr Urjit A. Yajnik as a Research Scholar in Physics for Ph.D. but later on I converted my Ph.D. program into an M.Phil program owing to a lot of sad reasons which I had explicitly described in my Statement Of Purpose. The intial proposed research plan was envisaged as "Investigating open problems in cosmology such as Dark Matter, Dark Energy and the mechanisms of Inflation within the context of new symmetries in the Standard Model of High Energy Physics."
I started the above program with reading about Suppersymmetry from the paper 'Supersymmetry, A Modern Primer', by S. Martin and also from the papers of Romesh Kaul. I studied BCS (Bardeen Cooper Scrieffer) theory of superconductivity from a book written by Ibach and Luth. I was studying the paper 'On infrared and ultraviolet diversences of cosmological perturbations' by G. Marozzi, M. Rinaldi and R Durrer. We hoped that supersymmetric extensions with new gauge forces will provide a broad set of candidate theories that will explain the diverse open problems in cosmology. We were also thinking of a possibility of an ultra-light hidden sector and wanted to explore that.
I had to study Cosmological Inflation, Cosmological Phase Transitions (CPT) due to the Spontaneous Breaking Of Symmetry (SBS) leading to the formation of Domain walls and the Cosmological Power Spectrum (CPS). I made an exrensive study from the book, 'The Early Universe' by Kolb & Turner. We had studied the inflationary regime in the GUT era which bears semblance with the late matter dominated era at around z<~1 and also the Renormalization Group (RG) approach in color superconductivity in high density quark matter. One needs to explore the possibility of applying the RG technique to strongly correlated fermion systems in the era of z<~1, which might have an implicit impact on the CPT influencing the CPS which sheds light on all the phenomenarelated to the dynamics of Dark Energy. The deviations in the CPS serve as a tool to distinguish Dark Energy dynamics and we were trying all things out but unfortunately the program could not be completed due to unbearable cirmcumstances which I had explicitly described in my Statement Of Purpose.
Master on Science in Physics Project Thesis on 'Probing Quark Gluon Plasma Through Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions (RHIC)'
Indian Institute Of Technology, Bombay, India
Duration: 2009-2010
It was a compulsory M.Sc. project for me and I did a one year project work under Professor Raghava Varma. Here, I basically studied the ultra-relativistic collisions of several nuclei to form a possible highly dense, hot fireball-like QGP (Quark Gluon Plasma). The properties of QGP is controlled by its EOS (Equation Of State). I also studied the Glauber Model in quite detail, which gives us a first hand account of Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions. I also got glimpses on the variations of pseudo-rapidity distributions, obtained from the collision data of the RHIC, SPS and AGN. I thoroughly studied the book 'Introduction to elementary particles' by 'David J. Griffiths' during this time. Most of the time was also spent in reviewing various papers.
Summer research internship project on 'Mass Varying Neutrinos And Neutrino Oscillations'
Saha Institute Of Nuclear Physics, Calcutta, West Bengal (India)
This was my first taste of Summer Internship program in my life. I worked under Professor Debasish Majumdar. Here, I basically got a glimpse of several neutrino puzzles, one involving the possible relationship of Dark Energy and mass varying neutrinos. Subsequently, I had to study neutrino oscillations involving mass induced flavor change of neutrinos. I learned about the phenomenon of lepton-mixing, vacuum oscillations and mass eigenstates of neutrinos. I verified the probability of neutrino flavor change in 2-flavor and 3-flavor cases. I also studied several papers describing the physics of neutrino oscillations like the one written by N. Akhmedov. I learned about the importances of the CNB (Cosmic Neutrino Background). I also studied a bit of cosmology, about Freidman-Robertson- Lemaitre-Walker (FLRW) metric, redshifts, fractional densities and cosmological fluid equations of state.
Master Of Philosophy in Physics
Department of Physics, Indian Institute Of Technology, Bombay
Project Thesis: Exploring The Groundwork For The Study Of Dark Energy By Studying A Case Of The Impact Of A Cosmological Phase Transition On Cosmic Power Spectrum And Studying High Density Quark Matter Superconductivity Along With A Case Of A Strongly Correlated Fermion System Which Might Implicitly Be At The Basis Of Such A Phase Transition
Project Advisor: Professor Urjit A. Yajnik, Indian Institute Of Technology, Bombay
Date of Joining as a Research Scholar (Ph.D.) student: July, 2010
Date of converting the Ph.D. to an M.Phil degree: December, 2014
Date of M. Phil. Defense: 10th March, 2015
Date of receiving the degree award: 8th August, 2015
Master Of Science in Physics
Department of Physics, Indian Institute Of Technology, Bombay
Duration of the program: 2008 - 2010
Score: 8.38 CPI (Cumulative Percentile Index) out of 10.00
Date of passing and receiving the degree: 8th August, 2010
Project Thesis: Probing Quark Gluon Plasma Through Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions
Project Advisor: Professor R. Varma, Indian Institute Of Technology, Bombay
Bachelor Of Science In Physics with Honors
Department Of Physics, Serampore College, University Of Calcutta, India
Score: 67.87 percent
Duration of the program: 2005 - 2008
Date of passing: July, 2008
Higher Secondary Education (12th Grade)
Don Bosco School, Liluah, Howrah, West Bengal (India)
Score: 87.67 percent
Date of passing: May, 2005
Secondary Education (10th Grade)
Don Bosco School, Liluah, Howrah, West Bengal (India)
Score: 88.67 percent
Date of passing: May, 2003
Research Experiences
Master Of Philosophy in Physics Project Thesis on 'Exploring The Groundwork For The Study Of Dark Energy By Studying A Case Of The Impact Of A Cosmological Phase Transition On Cosmic Power Spectrum And Studying High Density Quark Matter Superconductivity Along With A Case Of A Strongly Correlated Fermion System Which Might Implicitly Be At The Basis Of Such A Phase Transition'
Indian Institute Of Technology, Bombay, India
Duration or Year: 2010-2015
I joined Dr Urjit A. Yajnik as a Research Scholar in Physics for Ph.D. but later on I converted my Ph.D. program into an M.Phil program owing to a lot of sad reasons which I had explicitly described in my Statement Of Purpose. The intial proposed research plan was envisaged as "Investigating open problems in cosmology such as Dark Matter, Dark Energy and the mechanisms of Inflation within the context of new symmetries in the Standard Model of High Energy Physics."
I started the above program with reading about Suppersymmetry from the paper 'Supersymmetry, A Modern Primer', by S. Martin and also from the papers of Romesh Kaul. I studied BCS (Bardeen Cooper Scrieffer) theory of superconductivity from a book written by Ibach and Luth. I was studying the paper 'On infrared and ultraviolet diversences of cosmological perturbations' by G. Marozzi, M. Rinaldi and R Durrer. We hoped that supersymmetric extensions with new gauge forces will provide a broad set of candidate theories that will explain the diverse open problems in cosmology. We were also thinking of a possibility of an ultra-light hidden sector and wanted to explore that.
I had to study Cosmological Inflation, Cosmological Phase Transitions (CPT) due to the Spontaneous Breaking Of Symmetry (SBS) leading to the formation of Domain walls and the Cosmological Power Spectrum (CPS). I made an exrensive study from the book, 'The Early Universe' by Kolb & Turner. We had studied the inflationary regime in the GUT era which bears semblance with the late matter dominated era at around z<~1 and also the Renormalization Group (RG) approach in color superconductivity in high density quark matter. One needs to explore the possibility of applying the RG technique to strongly correlated fermion systems in the era of z<~1, which might have an implicit impact on the CPT influencing the CPS which sheds light on all the phenomenarelated to the dynamics of Dark Energy. The deviations in the CPS serve as a tool to distinguish Dark Energy dynamics and we were trying all things out but unfortunately the program could not be completed due to unbearable cirmcumstances which I had explicitly described in my Statement Of Purpose.
Master on Science in Physics Project Thesis on 'Probing Quark Gluon Plasma Through Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions (RHIC)'
Indian Institute Of Technology, Bombay, India
Duration: 2009-2010
It was a compulsory M.Sc. project for me and I did a one year project work under Professor Raghava Varma. Here, I basically studied the ultra-relativistic collisions of several nuclei to form a possible highly dense, hot fireball-like QGP (Quark Gluon Plasma). The properties of QGP is controlled by its EOS (Equation Of State). I also studied the Glauber Model in quite detail, which gives us a first hand account of Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions. I also got glimpses on the variations of pseudo-rapidity distributions, obtained from the collision data of the RHIC, SPS and AGN. I thoroughly studied the book 'Introduction to elementary particles' by 'David J. Griffiths' during this time. Most of the time was also spent in reviewing various papers.
Summer research internship project on 'Mass Varying Neutrinos And Neutrino Oscillations'
Saha Institute Of Nuclear Physics, Calcutta, West Bengal (India)
This was my first taste of Summer Internship program in my life. I worked under Professor Debasish Majumdar. Here, I basically got a glimpse of several neutrino puzzles, one involving the possible relationship of Dark Energy and mass varying neutrinos. Subsequently, I had to study neutrino oscillations involving mass induced flavor change of neutrinos. I learned about the phenomenon of lepton-mixing, vacuum oscillations and mass eigenstates of neutrinos. I verified the probability of neutrino flavor change in 2-flavor and 3-flavor cases. I also studied several papers describing the physics of neutrino oscillations like the one written by N. Akhmedov. I learned about the importances of the CNB (Cosmic Neutrino Background). I also studied a bit of cosmology, about Freidman-Robertson- Lemaitre-Walker (FLRW) metric, redshifts, fractional densities and cosmological fluid equations of state.