Research Projects

1. Indian participation in the ALICE experiment at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
   (Funding Agency: DST, Govt. of India: Rs. 5.325 Crores (2021-2026))

2. ALICE Experiment @ LHC, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
   (Funding Agency: DST, Govt. of India: Rs. 81 Lakhs (2013-14), Rs. 3.25 Crores (2014-2020))

   • Dr. Raghunath Sahoo: Principal Investigator and Team Leader

3. Study of High-multiplicity Proton+Proton Collisions at the LHC Energies using Event Shape Method
   [Funding Agency: DAE-BRNS, Govt. of India: Rs. 25.03 Lakhs (2019-22)]

   • Dr. Raghunath Sahoo: Principal Investigator

4. Compressed Baryonic Matter Experiment (CBM) @ FAIR, GSI, Darmstadt, Germany
   (Funding Agency: FAIR-INDIA, Govt. of India:)

   • Dr. Raghunath Sahoo: Principal Investigator

5. Grid Computing in ALICE @ LHC
   (Funding Agency: DAE-DST, Govt. of India: Rs. 56 Lakhs (XII Plan period))

   • Dr. Raghunath Sahoo: Principal Investigator

Research Skills

• Faculty, IX DST SERC School on Experimental High Energy Physics, IIT Madras, December 2013.


• Convener, Correlations and Fluctuations Physics Analysis Group, ALICE- India.


• Member, ALICE Collaboration Board at LHC, CERN, Switzerland.


• Member, CBM Collaboration Board at FAIR Experiment, GSI, Germany.


• Established High Energy Experimental Group at IIT Indore with highest external funding. Establishment of a Tier-2 Center for Computing, at IIT Indore in pipeline.


• Registering Authority, Indian Grid Certification Authority (IGCA) for GARUDA Grid.


• More than 375 publications in experimental high energy nuclear physics.


• More than 55 publications in High Energy Phenomenology.


• Co-authored a Book Chapter on Quark-Gluon Plasma published by Springer-Verlag publications.


• Guided 7-PhD, 10 postdocs and 31 MSc/BTech/Interns. Presently guiding 5-Ph.D. students, 3-Project students.


• Have received INFN-Italy, CNRS-France Research Fellowships, Feinberg Fellowship, Israel and UGC-CSIR NET qualified for Physical Sciences (Physics).


• An active researcher in international collaborations like STAR at RHIC, Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA and ALICE at LHC, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland.


• Made presentations (more than 40) in major national and international conferences.


• Expertise on detector fabrication (PMD-gas detector for photon measurement in heavy ion collisions).


• Expertise in detector R&D, fabrication, operation, data analysis, software development for large scale experiments including detectors like Photon Multiplicity Detector (PMD), Time Projection Chamber (TPC), Barrel Electromagnetic Calorimeter (BEMC), Silicon Strip Detector (SSD) and Silicon Pixel Detector (SPD).


• 20+ years of experience in programming with Linux and C++.


• 18+ years of experience in data taking as a detector operator in STAR and ALICE Experimental control rooms.


• 18+ years of experience in monitoring of data quality and data analysis in heavy-ion collisions both at Brookhaven National Laboratory(BNL), USA and LHC, CERN experiments.