Neeraj Amin

Contact Information

Institute: Institute for Astroparticle Physics
Room: 105
Building: 425 (CN)
Phone(ext): 22535
Email: Neeraj.Amin@kit.edu

Research Project

Preliminary title: Measurement of the nuclear fragmentation cross section for intermediate mass nuclei with NA61/SHINE

  NA61/SHINE is a multipurpose fixed target experiment, used to study hadron-hadron and hadron-nucleus interaction. My research project concerns with the measurement of the production cross section for nuclei like Li, Be, and B by impinging a ¹²C beam on fixed targets like polyethylene and graphite. These light nuclei are well known secondary cosmic ray species produced from the nuclear fragmentation of primary cosmic ray particles (for eq. ¹²C, ¹⁶O) when they interact with the InterStellar Medium (ISM).
 Hence a precise lab measurement of their production cross section along with secondary-to-primary cosmic ray flux will aid in understanding cosmic ray propagation in the galaxy.

Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Ralph Engel, Prof. Dr. Ulrich Husemann
Scientific Advisor: Dr. Michael Unger

Teaching Activities

• Summer Semester, 2021
  Course: Programming for Physicists
• Winter Semester, 2021
  Course: Astroparticle Physics-2

Conferences

• DPG Conference 2019, Aachen
  Talk Title: Study of the Fermi GeV excess using Fermi-LAT diffuse gamma ray data.
• 37^th International Cosmic Ray Conference 2021, Berlin
  Poster Title: Results from a Pilot Study on the Measurement of Nuclear Fragmentation with NA61/SHINE at the CERN SPS: ¹¹C Production in C+p Interactions at 13.5 A GeV/c.
• DPG Spring Conference 2022, Heidelberg
  Talk Title: Results from a Pilot Study on Measurement of Fragmentation of Intermediate Mass Nuclei with NA61/SHINE at CERN
• DPG Spring Conference 2023, Dresden
  Talk Title: Measurement of Cross-sections of Intermediate Mass Nuclei with NA61/SHINE at CERN
• 38^th International Cosmic Ray Conference 2023, Nagoya
  Talk Title: Measurement of Production Cross-section of Boron Isotopes in 12 C+p Interactions at NA61/SHINE

Publications

• Results from a Pilot Study on the Measurement of Nuclear Fragmentation with NA61/SHINE at the CERN SPS: ¹¹C Production in C+p Interactions at 13.5 A GeV/c PoS(ICRC2021)102 (Presented at the 37^th ICRC 2021, Berlin)
• Pilot Study on the Measurement of the Production of Boron Isotopes in C+p reactions at 13.5A GeV/c with NA61/SHINE, PoS(ICRC2023)075 (Presented at the 38^th ICRC 2023, Nagoya)

Other Publications

• K_S⁰meson production in inelastic p+p interactions at 158 GeV/c beam momentum measured by NA61/SHINE at the CERN SPS
  
• Measurements of Ξ(1530)⁰ and Ξ(1530)⁰ proton-proton interactions at $\sqrt{\mathrm{<b>s_NN</b>}}$=17.3 GeV in the NA61/SHINE experiment

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