Dr. Neha Kiritkumar Shah

Dr. Neha Kiritkumar Shah
Asst. Professor
Ph.D, IIT Bombay
Ph: +91 611233615
nehashah[*AT]iitp.ac.in
Research Areas
  • Experimental High Energy Physics Understanding QCD phase diagram with strangness production Understanding strong interactions using femtoscopy Light nuclei, hypernuclei and antimatter production in HIC Exotics particle searches and Hadron spectroscopy
Other Interests
  • Reading, Sketching, Photography
Professional Experience
  • Visiting Professor: Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology, Surat (October, 2017 – May, 2018) CAS-PIFI Post-doctoral Fellow: Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Shanghai (March, 2015 – September, 2017) Post-doctoral Fellow: University of California Los Angeles, California (September, 2010 – July, 2014)
Member of Professional bodies
  • Life Member, Indian Physics Association
Publications / Journals
  • Full list can be found here

    • Searching for enhancement in coalescence of in-jet (anti-)deuterons in proton-proton collisions, Y. Bailung, N. Shah, A. Roy, Phys. Rev. C109 (2024) 044908.
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    • Exploring light nuclei production at RHIC and LHC energies with a multi-phase transport model and a coalescence afterburner, Y. Bailung, N. Shah, A. Roy, Nucl. Phys. A, 1037 (2023) 122701.
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    • Strange hadron production in Au+Au collisions at √sNN = 7.7, 11.5, 19.6, 27 and 39 GeV, Phys. Rev. C. 102 (2020) 04909. (It is selected as a Phys. Rev. C Editors' Suggestion)
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    • The Proton-Omega correlation function in Au+Au collisions at √sNN=200 GeV, Phys. Lett. B 790 (2019) 490.
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    • Beam Energy Dependence of Jet-Quenching Signatures in Au+Au Collisions at STAR, Phys. Rev. Lett. 121 (2018) 032301.
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    • Production of multistrange hadrons, light nuclei and hypertriton in central Au+Au collisions at √sNN =11.5 and 200 GeV, N. Shah, Y. G. Ma, J. H. Chen and S. Zhang, Phys. Lett. B 754 (2016) 6.
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    • Measurement of interaction between antiprotons, Nature 527 (2015) 345.
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    • The Lambda-Lambda Correlation Function in Au+Au collisions at √sNN= 200 GeV, Phys. Rev. Lett. 114 (2015) 022301 (It is selected as a Phys. Rev. Lett. Editors' suggestion.)

     

Presentations
  • Study of Hyperon Interaction from Heavy-Ion Collisions using STAR detector at RHIC, submitted to JPS Conf. Proc. 17 (2017) 031002. Study of ΛΛ correlations and search for the H-dibaryon with the STAR detector at RHIC, Nucl. Phys. A, 914 (2013) 410. Femtoscopy of identified particles at STAR, Nucl. Phys. A 904 (2013) 443. Study of ΛΛ correlations and search for the H-dibaryon with the STAR detector at RHIC, Acta Phy. Pol. B Proc. Supp. 5 (2012) 593. Experimental study of ppη dynamics with WASA-at-COSY, AIP Conf. Proc. 1374 (2011) 402. Physics with the new WASA-at-COSY facility, Himani Bhatt, Kavita Chandwani, Basanta Kumar Nandi, Neha Kiritkumar Shah, Susan Schandmand and Raghava Varma, Indian J. Phys. 84 (12) (2010) 1745.
Invited Talks
    • “Recent femtoscopy measurements from the STAR experiment” EMMI workshop on Bound state and particle interactions in the 21st century, University of Trieste, Italy, July 3-6, 2023 (Invited talk).
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    • “Recent measurements of hadron interactions from the Heavy-Ion Collision Experiments” The 8th Asian Triangle Heavy-Ion Conference (ATHIC 2021), Inha University, Korea, 5-9 November, 2021 (Plenary talk).
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    • “Woman in Science”, Vigyan Jyoti Scheme, Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya Rajgir, Nalanda, 26 October, 2020.
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    • “Recent measurement of hadron interactions from the STAR experiment” an International workshop on Hadron Interactions and Polarization from Lattice QCD, Quark Model, and Heavy Ion Collisions, Kyoto, Japan, March 25-April 5, 2019.
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    • “Search for NW bound state with the STAR detector at RHIC” 13th International Conference on Hypernuclear and Strange Particle Physics (HYP2018), VA, USA, June 24-29, 2018. (plenary talk)
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    • “Overview of Strangeness Production and Baryon-Baryon Interactions from Heavy-Ion Collisions” at the workshop on Exotic hadrons from high-energy collisions, Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University, Japan, March 23 -26, 2016.
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    • “Baryon correlation measurement from Heavy-Ion Collisions” at 6th Asian Triangle Heavy-Ion Conference (ATHIC2016), New Delhi, February 15-19, 2016. (plenary talk)
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    • “Study of Hyperon Interaction from Heavy-Ion Collisions using STAR detector at RHIC” at 12th International Conference on Hypernuclear and Strange Particle Physics (HYP2015), Sendai, Japan, September 7-12, 2015. (plenary talk)
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    • “Measurement of ΛΛ correlation function from STAR experiment” at 11th Workshop on QCD Phase Transition and Relativistic Heavy-ion Physics, Harbin China during August 17-19, 2015.(plenary talk)
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    • “Search for H-dibaryon with STAR experiment” Nuclear physics seminar, Ohio State University, USA, June 6, 2013.
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    • “Study of ΛΛ correlations with the STAR detector at RHIC” at Hyperon-Hyperon Interactions and search for Exotic Di-Hyperons in Nuclear Collisions, RIKEN BNL Research Center Workshop, February 29 – March 2, 2012.
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    • “Experimental study of ppη dynamics with WASA-at-COSY” at the fourth workshop of the American Physical Society Topical group on Hadron Physics at Anaheim, California during April 27-29, 2011.