Advances in Nuclear Physics

Evolution of cluster production with fragmentation degree.- New signatures of phase transition from models of nuclear multifragmentation.- Study of isospin effects in heavy-ion collisions at intermediate energies using isospin-dependent quantum molecular dynamics model.- Role of mass asymmetry on the energy of peak intermediate mass production and its related dynamics.- Reaction dynamics for stable and halo nuclei reactions at intermediate energies.- Influence of neutron skin of nuclei on observables.- Nuclear matter at high densities: Squeezing out nuclear matter properties from experimental data.- Studies on hypernuclei and superheavy elements.- Systematic study of Po compound nuclei using evaporation residue, fission cross-section and neutron multiplicity as a probe.- Effective surface properties of light and medium mass exotic nuclei.

Prof. Rajeev K. Puri is working as Professor of Physics at Panjab University, Chandigarh, India. He obtained his Ph.D from Panjab University and then was a post-doctoral fellow at the Institut fur Theoretische Physik, Universitaet Tubingen, Germany and at the Laboratoire de Physique Nucleaire, Universite de Nantes, France. He has around 400 publications in journals and conferences to his credit with citations close to 6500. He has also guided about 25 Ph.D students. He has received prestigious awards like Scientist of the Year; Himachal Excellence Awards, S.N. Satyamurthy Memorial Award and Young Scientist Research award. He is an editor, member of editorial board, referee of about 47 journals. He is also on the board of academic/advisory bodies of about dozen noted universities throughout India. Currently, he is also holding a position of University coordinator of RUSA (National Higher Education Mission), Panjab University.

Prof. Joerg Aichelin is presently serving as Distinguished Scientist (class exceptionnelle) at the University of Nantes, France. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Heidelberg, and did his post-doctoral research at the Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA. He is a pioneer of theoretical nuclear physics at intermediate/high energies and his proposed n-body dynamical approach to identify fragment production in heavy-ion collisions is a benchmark in the field, which is widely used in the field of heavy-ion physics. He has numerous awards and honors to his credit like Fellow of Institute of Physics, London (2004); Member of Academia Europe (2010-), Spokesperson of a European Network of 20 European theoretical laboratories (2003-), Member of the Program Advisory Committee of the Gesellschaft fuer Schwerionenforschung (GSI) Darmstadt (2004-09), President of the Committee for financing the nuclear/high energy theory in France (2012-16) and many more. He has 239 publications in various reputed journals with