CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS

Currently, I am actively involved in research work on computational physics, physics education, and computer simulations to improve science and engineering curriculum. I have also started collaboration research work in computer simulation and pattern recognition with Dr. K. Siddiqui, Department of Computer and Information Sciences, SUNY at Fredonia, NY. Our collaboration has produced one research paper, which was presented in Conference on Instructional Technologies (CIT), Genesee Community College, Batavia, NY, May 27 – 30, 2008 and has been published in the Journal of Educational Technology Systems (JETS), Vol. 34, No. 4, 2009. In computational physics and physics education research work, my main emphasis to investigate the projectile motion under several different boundary conditions. I am actively involved in the simulations of projectile trajectories in frictionless media and work on projectile trajectories in media with friction is in progress.

I have done extensive research work in the field of nuclear Astrophysics, and hadron-nucleus, nucleus-nucleus collisions at intermediate and high energies and computer modeling. My main areas of research are: (i) formation of unusual form of matter like a Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP),  (ii)  low mass direct lepton production, (iii) analysis of erraticity moments,  (iv) critical exponents of a liquid-gas phase transition, (v) determination of non-statistical fluctuations through multi-fractals and intermittency, (vi) collective flow of nuclear matter using the transverse-momentum technique, (vii) electromagnetic dissociation of relativistic projectiles, (viii) short-range correlations among produced hadons, and (ix) projectile and target multi-fragmentation in nucleus-nucleus, and (x) proton-nucleus and muon-nucleus interactions at relativistic energies. (xi) Origin and propagation of medium energy cosmic ray nuclei (Astronomy and Cosmology) in galaxy. (xii) Radiation damage detection caused by heavily ionization particles in plastics like CR-39.  (xiii) Computer modeling using Monte Carlo techniques on high performance computers. (xiv) Computational Physics, computational Biology, computer science and physics education. The QGP production in heavy-ion collisions can provide important clues about the early formation of the Universe (big bang). In all these research projects solid state nuclear track detectors (emulsions and plastics) were employed simultaneously as a target and detector of charged particles. I am also collaborating in my research work with Dr. Amitabha Mukhopadhyay of the Department of Physics, University of North Bengal, Siliguri, India and Dr. B. K. Singh, Department of Physics, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India. In genetics research, I am collaborating with Dr. Satpal Singh, Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Buffalo, State University of New York, Buffalo NY, 14214. A part of this work has been published in the Proceedings: International Conference on Applications of Computer and Information Sciences to Nature Research (ACISNR-10) held at SUNY Fredonia on May 5-7, 2010. Very recently, our collaboration research paper entitled "Modeling Mendel's Laws on Inheritance in Computational Biology and Medical Sciences", has been accepted for publication in the summer issue of the Journal of Educational Technology Systems (volume 39, number 1), 2010. I always like an active involvement of juniors and seniors in my research projects.

My Ph.D. is in Experimental Nuclear Astrophysics, and for my Ph.D. work I developed a new experimental technique to record and measure the heavy-ion tracks of charge Z = 6-30 in plastics like CR-39, Cellulose Nitrate and Cellulose Acetate Butyrate. As a Post Doctoral Fellow, I collaborated with Panjab University, Chandigarh and Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Bombay, India to explore a new frontier on the search of Charm-Quarks produced in proton-nucleus interactions at 400 GeV in an Experiment conducted at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL. In Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, India I was primarily doing research in the field of radiation physics using solid state nuclear track detectors (SSNTD's) such as CR-39, Macrofol Polycarbonate and Apatites. As Assistant Professor Research and Post Doctoral Research Associate at SUNY/Buffalo, I have been actively involved in several important experiments performed at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (LBL), Berkeley, CA; the Alternating Gradient Synchrotron (AGS) at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY; the Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) at the European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland. Experiment No. EMU08 from the CERN SPS concerned with the interactions of ³²S projectile at 200A GeV and ¹⁶O ions at 60 and 200A GeV. Two BNL AGS Experiments, one on the ²⁸Si beam at 14.5A GeV (Expt No. 847) and the other one on a ¹⁹⁷Au projectile at 10.6A GeV (Expt. No. 875) dealt with the investigation of nucleus-nucleus collisions in nuclear emulsions. Currently, I am engaged on the ²⁰⁷Pb induced emulsion collisions at 160A GeV in an EMU11 experiment performed at the CERN SPS. One important aspect of this work is lepton (mostly low energy electron-positron) pair production, which has already been completed and a research paper on this project has recently been published in Journal of Physics G: Nucl. Part. Phys. 34, 177 -193 (2007).

Very recently, I have been conferred with a very prestigious the Robert W. Kasling Lecture Award 2007 by SUNY Fredonia due to an outstanding research work done by me in the area of non-statistical fluctuations of produced hadrons and missing mass in our universe through experiments conducted at CERN energies.