Dr. Neha Kiritkumar Shah

		Dr. Neha Kiritkumar Shah Asst. Professor Ph.D, IIT Bombay Ph: +91 611233615 nehashah[*AT]iitp.ac.in
Education	:	Ph.D. (2011) Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay M.Sc. (2004) Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Gujarat B.Sc. (2002) Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Gujarat
Research Areas	:	Experimental High Energy Physics
Research Interests	:	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
International Collaborations	:	The STAR Collaboration at RHIC, Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA The ePIC Collaboration at EIC, Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA
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)
Awards and recognitions	:	Post-doctoral fellowship from the Chinese Academy of Science President’s International Fellowship Initiative (CAS-PIFI), Chinese Academy of Sciences, China 2015. Prof. S. K. Shah gold medal for securing highest marks in M. Sc. from the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Gujarat, India 2005.
Member of Professional Bodies	:	Life Member, Indian Physics Association
Teaching	:	Visiting faculty, 2017-2018, S. V. National Institute of Technology, Surat: MP304: Electrodynamics and Plasma Physics, Integrated M. Sc. (third year) ASP102ABC(P): Physics laboratory, B. Tech. (first year) MP101: Physics-I, Integrated M. Sc. (First year) Assistant Professor, 2018-present, Indian Institute of Technology Patna: PH103: Physics-I, B.Tech. (First year) PH421: Mathematical Physics, M. Sc. PH426: Electrodynamics, M. Sc. EP204: Mathematical Physics, B.Tech
Sponsered Research	:	Title:Studying Anisotropy and various observables in Xe-Xe Collisionsat 5.44 TeV Using Simulation Tool PI: Dr. Swatantra Tiwari Co-PI: Dr. Neha Shah Budget: 9.03 lakhs Period: 1 year Funding Agency: TEQIP Collaborative Research Scheme Status: Completed
Current Group Member	:	Mr. Sameer Aslam, Ph.D. 2018 – present Project title: Strange baryon production in Au+Au collisions at √sNN = 19.6 GeV
Former Group Members	:	Mr. Rajat Aggarwal, M. Sc. 2021 Project title: Monte-Carlo simulations for Electron-Ion Collider Currernt Occupation: PhD candidate, Florida State University, USA. Mr. Mohit Mittal, M. Sc. 2022 Project title: Quantum Singular Value Decomposition, Co supervisor: Dr. Rukhsan Ul-Haq, IBM Bengaluru Current Occupation: Employed at Taqbit Labs, Bangalore. Mr. Nitin Nayak, M. Sc. 2022 Project title: Quantum computer simulation of quantum Ising model) Co-supervisor: Dr. Rukhsan Ul-Haq, IBM Bengaluru Current Occupation: PhD candidate at University of Luebeck, Germany. Ms. Projukta Das, M. Sc. 2022 Project title: Feasibility study of exotic hadrons Current Occupation: PhD candidate at IIT Madras
Summer/Winter Interns	:	Mr. Jashwanth, M. Sc. 2022, IIT Patna,Project: Application of variational quantum classifier to data from Cherenkov Telescopes. Collaborators: Dr. Ankhi Roy, IIT Indore, Dr. Sudeep Ghosh and Ms. Kavitha Yograj from IBM Bangaluru.Current Occupation: PhD candidate at University of Grenoble Aples, France Mr. Krishna Kumar, IISER Trivenderum, summer of 2020, Project: Understanding deuteron production in heavy-ion collisions using AMPT Model.
Publications:	:	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. C. 109 (2024) 044908. 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. 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) The Proton-Omega correlation function in Au+Au collisions at √sNN=200 GeV, Phys. Lett. B 790 (2019) 490. Beam Energy Dependence of Jet-Quenching Signatures in Au+Au Collisions at STAR, Phys. Rev. Lett. 121 (2018) 032301. 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. Measurement of interaction between antiprotons, Nature 527 (2015) 345. 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:Conference Proceedings:	:	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). “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). “Woman in Science”, Vigyan Jyoti Scheme, Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya Rajgir, Nalanda, 26 October, 2020. “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. “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) “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. “Baryon correlation measurement from Heavy-Ion Collisions” at 6th Asian Triangle Heavy-Ion Conference (ATHIC2016), New Delhi, February 15-19, 2016. (plenary talk) “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) “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) “Search for H-dibaryon with STAR experiment” Nuclear physics seminar, Ohio State University, USA, June 6, 2013. “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. “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.