Department of Physics,Indian Institue of Technology Roorkee

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Arumugam Paramasivan

Arumugam Paramasivan Professor aruphfph[at]iitr.ac.in 8979890366 Website

Areas of Interest

Theoretical Nuclear Physics, Hot and rotating nuclei, Proton emission, Neutron stars

Professional Background

From	To	Designation	Organisation
17/12/2019	Till Date	Professor	IIT Roorkee
04/04/2014	16/12/2019	Assosiate Professor	IIT Roorkee
24/07/2008	03/04/2014	Assistant Professor	IIT Roorkee
2005	2008	Post Doctoral Fellow (FCT)	CFIF, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon, Portugal
2003	2005	Post Doctoral Fellow	Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar
2001	2003	Senior Research Fellow (CSIR)	M.S. University, Tirunelveli
1998	2001	Junior Research Fellow (DST)	M.S. University, Tirunelveli

Administrative Background

From	To	Designation	Organisation
2020	Till Date	Dean (International Relations)	IITR
2018	2020	Associate Dean (International Relations)	IITR
2012	Ongoing	OC Computer Lab	Department of Physics, IITR
2017	2017	Cordinator, Thomso 2017	IITR
2016	2016	Co-Cordinator, Thomso 2016	IIT Roorkee
2011	On Going	Member, Reports & Website Committee	Department of Physics, IITR
2009	2011	Deputy OC, Computer Lab	Department of Physics, IITR
2010	2011	OC Placement & Training	Department of Physics, IITR
2011	2011	Course Coordinator (PH-201)	Department of Physics, IITR

Topic	Funding Agency	Year
Warm and rotating nuclei near the limits of stability	Department of Science and Technology	2012
Microscopic description of triaxially deformed odd-odd Proton emitters	CSIR	2015
Mapping the low temperature and low spin phase diagram of atomic nuclei	SERB, DST	2015
Decay spectroscopy of exotic nuclei	CERN	2011
Exotic decays with relativistic microscopic interactions	FCT, Portugal	2010
Search for neutron emission in exotic nuclei	FCT Portugal	2007
Single-particle and collective aspects of nuclei at extremes of iso-spin, spin and temperature	FCT, Portugal	2007
Nuclear Physics beyond the drip-lines	FCT, Portugal	4
Effect of excitation on giant dipole resonance	CSIR, Govt of India	2002

Title	Course Code	Class Name	Semester
Nuclear Physics and its Applications	PH 308	P.G.(including Pre Phd Course)	Spring
Simulation and Computer Application	PH 615 & P	P.G.(including Pre Phd Course)	Autumn
Physics II (Modern Physics)	PH 201	U.G.	Autumn

Title of Project	Names of Students
Hexadecapole deformations in excited nuclei	A. Sivagami Sundari
Clustering aspects in heavy nuclei	E. Kumar
Macroscopic description of giant dipole resonance	R. Swarnalatha
Systematics in the depth of Woods-Saxon potential studied using proton emission data	Jasmine Sethi
Neutron Star and Equation of State	Shabnam I.S.
Giant Quadrupole Resonance	Aarti Malhotra
Quark-Hadron Phase Transition in Neutron Stars	Bhumika Thakur
Fission in rapidly rotating nuclei	Vinay Suram
Clustering in Atomic Nuclei	Anu Kundu
Towards a formal description of pairing in giant dipole resonance	Garima Arora
Microscopic description of giant dipole resonance	Rajiv G Pereira
A qualitative study of rotating neutron stars	Ankit Kumar

Topic	Scholar Name	Status of PHD	Registration Year
Relativistic Mean Field Description of Exotic Phases in Neutron Star	Neha Gupta	A	2009
Proton emission from two quasiparticle states	Monika Patial	A	2009
Giant Resonances Built on Excited States of Nuclei	Rhine Kumar A.K.	A	2010
Triaxially deformed nuclei near the proton drip line	Swati Modi	A	2013
To be decided	Pooja	O
To be decided	Abhishek	O
To be decided	Ankit Kumar	O
To be decided	Jaikhomba Singha	O
To be decided	Shivam Gakkhar	O

Conference Name	Sponsored By	Date
National Conference on Advances in Physics, IIT Roorkee	DAE-BRNS, CSRI, IIT Roorkee	25-02-2012
SERC School on "Modern trends in Nuclear structure and dynamics, IIT Roorkee	DST-SERC, Govt. of India	06-02-2012
Interaction Meeting on Theoretical Nuclear Physics, IIT-Roorkee	DST, Govt. of India	03-09-2010
School cum workshop on Nuclear Yrast and Near Yrast States, IIT-Roorkee	DAE-BRNS, UDCSR Kolkata	26-10-2009
DAE-BRNS Symposium on Nuclear Physics, Roorkee	DAE-BRNS	22-12-2008
International Conference on Proton Emitting Nuclei and related topics, Lisbon	FCT, FCG, FLA, Portugal	17-06-2007
International AMONET Meeting on Women in Science, Lisbon, Portugal	Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon	16-03-2006
Workshop on Relativistic Mean Field Theory in Nuclear Physics, IOP Bhubaneswar	IOP Bhubaneswar, DAE-BRNS	26-07-2004
DAE-BRNS Symposium on Nuclear Physics, Tirunelveli	DAE-BRNS	26-12-2002

Topic	Organisation	Level
Drip line nuclei	CFIF, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon, Portugal; Univ. Padova, Italy; Univ. Surrey, UK	RP
Quantum coherence in nuclear reactions	NTU Singapore	RP
Relativistic Mean Field Theory, EoS,..	Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar	RP
Giant Dipole Resonance in warm nuclei	RIKEN, Saitama, Tokyo, Japan	RP

(a) Books edited

Proton-Emitting Nuclei and related topics – Editors: L. S. Ferreira and P. Arumugam, AIP Conference Proceedings Vol. 961, 50 (2007). ISBN: 978-7354-0475-5.

(b) Chapters in book

Non-adiabatic quasi-particle model for deformed proton emitters – P. Arumugam, E. Maglione and L. S. Ferreira, “Proton-Emitting Nuclei”, AIP Conference Proceedings Vol. 681, 50 (2007) ISBN: 978-7354-0475-5.
Nuclear properties at high spin and low temperature – P. Arumugam, A. Ganga Deb and S.K. Patra, Nuclear Structure at the Extremes: New Directions, Narosa Pub. House (2008) ISBN: 978-81-7319-897-7.
Halo and cluster structure of light nuclei – B.K. Sharma, P. Arumugam, A. Shukla and S.K. Patra, Nuclear Structure at the Extremes: New Directions, Narosa Pub. House (2008) ISBN: 978-81-7319-897-7.
Giant dipole resonance and shape transitions in medium heavy mass nuclei – A. Ganga Deb, P. Arumugam, and S.K. Patra, Nuclear Structure at the Extremes: New Directions, Narosa Pub. House (2008) ISBN: 978-81-7319-897-7. http://www.narosa.com/books_display.asp?catgcode=978-81-7319-897-7
Giant dipole resonance in hot rotating nuclei – P. Arumugam, A.G. Deb and S.K. Patra, Relativistic Mean Field Theory in Nuclear Physics, Allied Pub. (2006). ISBN:8184240872
Recent developments in relativistic mean field theory – S.K. Patra, B.K. Sharma, P. Arumugam, M. Centelles, and X. Viñas, Relativistic Mean Field Theory in Nuclear Physics, Allied Pub. (2006). ISBN:8184240872. http://www.indianbooks.co.in/books/index.php?productID=86669&picture_id=76605
Effective field theory Lagrangian approach: A complete relativistic nuclear model – P. Arumugam, B.K. Sharma, S.K. Patra, Tapas Sil, M. Centelles, and X. Vinas, Production and utilization of radioactive ion beams from ISOL type facilities, (In Press).
Shell structure, cranking and magnetic phenomena in nuclei – A.K. Jain and P. Arumugam, Mean Field Description of Nuclei, Narosa Pub. House (2006). ISBN: 8173197083. http://www.amazon.com/Mean-Field-Description-Nuclei-Gambhir/dp/8173197083/ref=si3_rdr_bb_product/102-8658780-5110536

Refereed Journal Papers

Letters:

Collective enhancement in nuclear level density
G. Mohanto, A. Parihari, P. C. Rout, S. De, E. T. Mirgule, B. Srinivasan, K. Mahata, S. P. Behera, M. Kushwaha, D. Sarkar, B. K. Nayak, A. Saxena, A.K. Rhine Kumar, A. Gandhi, K Sangita, N. Deb and P. Arumugam
Phys. Rev. C 100, 011602 (Rapid communication) (2019).
Effects of Coriolis and residual neutron-proton interactions in the proton emission from ¹³⁰Eu
Monika Patial, P. Arumugam, A.K. Jain, E. Maglione and L.S. Ferreira,
Phys. Lett. B 718, 979 (2013).
Evidence of antimagnetic rotation in odd-A ¹⁰⁵Cd
D. Choudhury, A. K. Jain, M. Patial, N. Gupta, P. Arumugam, et al,
Phys. Rev. C 82, 061308 (Rapid communication) (2010).
Proton emission, gamma deformation, and the spin of the isomeric state of ¹⁴¹Ho
P. Arumugam, L.S. Ferreira and E. Maglione
Phys. Lett. B 680, 443 (2009).
Fine structure in proton radioactivity: An accurate tool to ascertain the breaking of axial symmetry in ¹⁴⁵Tm
P. Arumugam, L.S. Ferreira, and E. Maglione
Phys. Rev. C 78, 041305(R) (Rapid communication) (2008).
Clustering in superheavy nuclei within the relativistic mean field approach
B.K. Sharma, P. Arumugam, S.K. Patra, P.D. Stevenson, R.K. Gupta, and W. Greiner
J. Phys. G 32, L1 (2006).
Applicability of shape parameterizations for giant dipole resonance in warm and rapidly rotating nuclei
P. Arumugam, A.G. Deb and S.K. Patra
Europhys. Lett. 70, 313 (2005).
Versatility of field theory motivated nuclear effective Lagrangian approach
P. Arumugam, B.K. Sharma, P.K. Sahu, S.K. Patra, T. Sil, M. Centelles and X. Viñas
Phys. Lett. B 601, 51 (2004).

Regular articles:

Signature splitting in the positive parity bands of ¹²⁷Xe
S. Chakraborty, H. P. Sharma, S. S. Tiwary, C. Majumder, P. Banerjee, S. Ganguly, S. Rai, Pragati Popli, Swati Modi, P. Arumugam, Mayank Singh, S. Kumar, A. Kumar, S. S. Bhattacharjee, R. P. Singh, S. Muralithar and R. Palit
Eur. Phys. J. A 56, 50 (2020).
Rotational band on a three-quasineutron isomer in ¹²⁷Xe
S. Chakraborty, H. P. Sharma, S. S. Tiwary, C. Majumder, P. Banerjee, S. Ganguly, S. Rai, Pragati, Swati Modi, P. Arumugam, Mayank, S. Kumar, R. Palit, A. Kumar, S. S. Bhattacharjee, R. P. Singh, and S. Muralithar
Phys. Rev. C 97, 054311 (2018); Phys. Rev. C 98, 059902 (2018).
Study of the Jacobi shape transition in A ≈ 30 nuclei
B. Dey, C. Ghosh, D. Pandit, A.K. Rhine Kumar, S. Pal, V. Nanal, R.G. Pillay, P. Arumugam, S. De, G. Gupta, H. Krishnamoorthy, E.T. Mirgule, Surajit Pal, and P. C. Rout
Phys. Rev. C 97, 014317 (2018).
Decay of ¹⁴⁷Tm and the role of triaxiality studied with a nonadiabatic quasiparticle approach
Swati Modi, M. Patial, P. Arumugam, L. S. Ferreira, and E. Maglione
Phys. Rev. C 96, 064308 (2017).
Giant dipole resonance and shape transitions in hot and rotating ⁸⁸Mo
A. K. Rhine Kumar, P. Arumugam, N. Dinh Dang, and I. Mazumdar
Phys. Rev. C 96, 024322 (2017).
Giant dipole resonance studies in Ba isotopes at E/A≈5MeV
C. Ghosh, A. K. Rhine Kumar, Balaram Dey, V. Nanal, R. G. Pillay, P. Arumugam, K. V. Anoop, N. Dokania, Abhijit Garai, Ghnashyam Gupta, E. T. Mirgule, G. Mishra, Debasish Mondal, S. Pal, M. S. Pose, and P. C. Rout
Phys. Rev. C 96, 014309 (2017)
Triaxiality in the proton emitter 109I
Swati Modi, M. Patial, P. Arumugam, E. Maglione, and L. S. Ferreira
Phys. Rev. C 95, 054323 (2017)
Modified particle-rotor model and low-lying rotational bands in odd-A triaxial nuclei
Swati Modi, M Patial, P. Arumugam, E. Maglione, L.S. Ferreira
Physica Scripta 92, 094002 (2017)
Nonadiabatic quasiparticle approach for rotation-particle coupling in triaxial odd-A nuclei
Swati Modi, M. Patial, P. Arumugam, E. Maglione and L.S. Ferreira,
Phys. Rev. C 95, 024326 (2017).
Reply to “Comment on ‘Thermal shape fluctuation model study of the giant dipole resonance in ¹⁵²Gd’ ”
A.K. Rhine Kumar and P. Arumugam,
Phys. Rev. C 94, 049802 (2016)
Temperature dependence of the giant dipole resonance width in ¹⁵²Gd
C. Ghosh, G. Mishra, A. K. Rhine Kumar, N. Dokania, V. Nanal, R. G. Pillay, Suresh Kumar, P. C. Rout, Sandeep Joshi, and P. Arumugam
Phys. Rev. C 94, 014318 (2016)
Proton emission from the deformed odd-odd nuclei near drip line,
M. Patial, P. Arumugam, A. K. Jain, E. Maglione, and L. S. Ferreira,
J. Physics: Conf. Ser., 665, 012049 (2016).
Thermal shape fluctuation model study of the giant dipole resonance in ¹⁵²Gd,
A.K. Rhine Kumar and P. Arumugam,
Phys. Rev. C, 92, 044314 (2015).
Effects of thermal shape fluctuations and pairing fluctuations on the giant dipole resonance in warm nuclei,
A.K. Rhine Kumar, P. Arumugam and N. Dinh Dang,
Phys. Rev. C 91, 044305 (2015).
Spin gated GDR widths at moderate temperatures,
Ish Mukul, P. Sugathan, J. Gehlot, G. Mohanto, A.K. Rhine Kumar, I. Mazumdar, Maninder Kaur, N. Madhavan, S. Nath, R. Dubey, T. Banerjee, N. Saneesh, D.A. Gothe, P. Arumugam, and A. Roy,
EPJ Web of Conferences 86, 00029 (2015).
Pairing effect in the thermal shape-fluctuation model on the width of the giant dipole resonance
A. K. Rhine Kumar, P. Arumugam, N. Dinh Dang,
Phys. Rev. C 90, 044308 (2014).
Decoupling the effect of temperature on GDR widths in excited compound nucleus ¹⁴⁴Sm
Ish Mukul, A Roy, P Sugathan, J Gehlot, Gayatri Mohanto, S Nath, N Madhavan, R Dubey, T Banerjee, N Saneesh, I Mazumdar, D A Gothe, A K Kumar Rhine, P. Arumugam and Maninder Kaur,
J. Phys. G: Nucl. Part. Phys. 41, 115103 (2014).
Nonadiabatic description of proton emission from the odd-odd nucleus ¹³⁰Eu
Monika Patial, P. Arumugam, A. K. Jain, E. Maglione, and L. S. Ferreira,
EPJ Web of Conferences 66, 02080 (2014).
Nonadiabatic quasiparticle approach for deformed odd-odd nuclei and the proton emitter ¹³⁰Eu
Monika Patial, P. Arumugam, A. K. Jain, E. Maglione, and L. S. Ferreira
Phys. Rev. C 88, 054302 (2013). Highlighted as the editor’s suggestion.
Giant Dipole Resonance in A ~ 144 mass region
Ish Mukul, P. Sugathan, I. Mazumdar, J. Gehlot, G. Mohanto, Maninder Kaur, A. K. Rhine Kumar, N. Madhavan, S. Nath, R. Dubey, D. A. Gothe, P. Arumugam and A. Roy<
EPJ Web of Conferences 63, 01020 (2013).
Effect of angular momentum on giant dipole resonance observables in the ²⁸Si + ¹¹⁶Cd reaction
Ish Mukul, A. Roy, P. Sugathan, J. Gehlot, G. Mohanto, N. Madhavan, S. Nath, R. Dubey, I. Mazumdar, D. A. Gothe, Maninder Kaur, A. K. Rhine Kumar, and P. Arumugam
Phys. Rev. C 88, 024312 (2013).
Impact of hyperons and antikaons in an extended relativistic mean-field description of neutron stars
Neha Gupta and P. Arumugam
Phys. Rev. C 88, 015803 (2013).
Neutron stars with antikaons: Comparison between two ways of extending the relativistic mean field models
Neha Gupta and P. Arumugam
Phys. Rev. C 87, 045802 (2013).
Antikaons in neutron star studied with recent versions of relativistic mean-field models
Neha Gupta and P. Arumugam
J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 420, 012154 (2013).
Theoretical studies of nuclei at the proton drip-line
L.S. Ferreira, E. Maglione and P. Arumugam
J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 420, 012053 (2013).
“Pasta phases” in neutron stars studies with extended relativistic mean field models
Neha Gupta and P. Arumugam
Phys. Rev. C 87, 028801 (2013).
Antikaons and higher order couplings in the relativistic mean-field study of neutron stars
Neha Gupta and P Arumugam
J. Phys. G: Nucl. Part. Phys. 40, 025203 (2013).
Role of higher order couplings in the presence of kaons in relativistic mean field description of neutron stars
Neha Gupta and P. Arumugam
Phys. Rev. C 85, 015804 (2012).
Nuclear Structure Studies at the Borders of Stability
L.S. Ferreira, E. Maglione and P. Arumugam
J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 312, 092024 (2011).
Nuclear sub-structure in ^112–122Ba nuclei within relativistic mean field theory
M. Bhuyan, S.K. Patra, P. Arumugam and R.K. Gupta
Int. J. Mod. Phys. E 20, 1227 (2011).
Nuclear reaction cross sections of exotic nuclei in the Glauber model for relativistic mean field densities
S.K. Patra, R.N. Panda, P. Arumugam, and Raj K. Gupta
Phys. Rev. C 80, 064602 (2009).
Isomeric state in ⁵³Co: A mean field analysis
S.K. Patra, F.H. Bhat, R.N. Panda, P. Arumugam, and Raj K. Gupta
Phys. Rev. C 79, 044303 (2009).
Clusters in light, heavy, super-heavy and super-superheavy nuclei
Raj K Gupta, Sham K. Arun, Dalip Singh, Raj Kumar, Niyti, S.K. Patra, P. Arumugam and B.K. Sharma
Int. J Mod. Phys. E 17, 2244 (2008).
Nonadiabatic quasiparticle description of triaxially deformed proton emitters
P. Arumugam, E. Maglione and L.S. Ferreira
Phys. Rev. C 76, 044311 (2007).
Nuclear reaction studies of unstable nuclei using relativistic mean field formalisms in conjunction with the Glauber model
A. Shukla, B. K. Sharma, R. Chandra, P. Arumugam, and S. K. Patra
Phys. Rev. C 76, 034601 (2007).
Reaction cross-sections for light nuclei on ¹²C using relativistic mean field formalism
B.K. Sharma, S.K. Patra, R.K. Gupta, A. Shukla, P. Arumugam, P.D. Stevenson, and W. Greiner
J. Phys. G 32, 2089 (2006).
Giant dipole resonance and shape transitions in warm and rapidly rotating nuclei
P. Arumugam, A.G. Deb and S.K. Patra
Euro. Phys. J. A 25, 199 (2005).
Relativistic mean field study of clustering in light nuclei
P. Arumugam, B.K. Sharma, S.K. Patra and R.K. Gupta
Phys. Rev. C 71, 064308 (2005).
Giant dipole resonance and shape fluctuations in rapidly rotating hot nuclei
P. Arumugam, A.G. Deb and S.K. Patra
Acta Phys. Pol. B36, 1181 (2005).
Giant dipole resonance and Jacobi transition with exact treatment of fluctuations
P. Arumugam G. Shanmugam and S.K. Patra
Phys. Rev. C 69, 054313 (2004).
Shape change in Hf, W and Os-isotopes: A non-relativistic Hartree-Fock versus relativistic Hartree approximation
Z. Naik, B.K. Sharma, P. Arumugam, T.K. Jha and S.K. Patra
Pramana – J. Phys. 62, 827 (2004).
Inclusion of temperature dependent shell corrections in Landau theory for hot rotating nuclei
G. Shanmugam and P. Arumugam
Pramana – J. Phys. 57, 223 (2001).
Rotational co-existence in selenium isotopes
G. Shanmugam, V. Ramasubramanian and P. Arumugam
Pramana – J. Phys. 53, 457 (1999).

Preprints:

The size of most massive neutron stars may reveal its exotic cores – Neha Gupta and P. Arumugam (arXiv:nucl-th/1302.4586).
Consistency of nuclear mass formulae – S.K. Patra, P. Arumugam and L. Satpathy (arXiv:nucl-th/0504064).
On the stability and the similarity of N = 82 isotones – P. Arumugam, S.K. Patra and A. Abbas (arXiv:nucl-th/ 0309034).
Role of BCS-type pairing in light deformed nuclei: a relativistic mean field approach – P. Arumugam, T.K. Jha and S.K. Patra (arXiv:nucl-th/ 0311091).