PhD Student, IIT Kharagpur Department Of Physics
Prime Minister Research Fellow, Research Intern at TRIUMF.
ABOUT ME
I am pursuing my Ph.D. at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur(IIT KGP), India. My broad area of research is on High Energy Astrophysics. Presently I am working on the very energetic and brightest electromagnetic explosion in the Universe that is the Gamma-ray burst. My other topic of concern is neutrino physics, for which I am jointly working with the Hyper-K IWCD software analysis group and WatChMal Machine learning group. I believe my work would help to explore the laws of physics in severe conditions.
I have almost 3 years of experience in conducting various astronomical experiments, 4 months in Observational work independently & in the team. I conducted different astronomical experiments along with various numerical & computational analyses using languages like Python & Matlab throughout my working tenure as a visiting researcher. My Master's dissertation was on "Differential Photometry on Star Clusters".
To get update about my research work you can check my ResearchGate profile..
EDUCATION
Jan 2020 to Present
Ph.D at Indian institute Of Technology Kharagpur
July 2018 to Nov 2019
Visiting Researcher at Dept. Of Physics, St. Xavier's College Kolkata
2016-2018
Master’s of Science (M.Sc.) in Physics From St. Xavier's College Kolkata (Calcutta University)
2015
Bachelor of Science (Hons) in Physics From University Of Calcutta
2012
Higher Secondary (H.S) From West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education
2010
Secondary/Madhyamik From West Bengal Board Of Secondary Education
WORK EXPERIENCE
May 2022 to August 2022
Research Intern at TRIUMF, Canada's Particle accelerator centre
July 2018 to Nov 2019
Visiting Researcher at Dept. Of Physics, St. Xavier's College Kolkata
RESEARCH
One of my primary research areas is modeling the Gamma-ray Burst Afterglow phase at a very high energy regime.
It was indeed a significant breakthrough in the entire field of high energy gamma-ray astronomy when on 20th July 2018,
High Energy Stereoscopic System (HESS) detected a faint afterglow emission from GRB 180720B, the flux of the spectrum
ranges from 100 to 440 GeV(Abdalla et al., 2019). Finally, on 14th January 2019, the MAGIC( Major Atmospheric Gamma Imaging
Cherenkov) telescope first detected a long-duration GRB event, named GRB 190114C, where the resulting photons in the afterglow
phase reached the TeV energy(MAGIC Collaboration, 2019) regime within the first 10s of analysis. This unambiguous discovery of
TeV photons is still an elusive fact. I am developing a framework to explain GRB afterglow emission at very high energy(VHE).
Another part of my research revolving around high-energy astroparticle physics is the neutrino. It is a very light
particle and having a small cross-section its hardly interacts with matter. In Standard Model, it is assumed that
this sub-atomic particle has no mass. More recently, in 2015, the Nobel Prize was awarded for discovering neutrino
oscillations using data taken by the Super-Kamiokande (Super-K) and the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory collaborations.
This discovery has the profound implication that neutrinos have non-zero but tiny masses and also measured different
neutrino oscillation parameters. Hyper-Kamiokande (Hyper-K) is a large volume next-generation underground water
Cherenkov detector (Proto-Collaboration et al., 2018), the frontier of neutrino measurements, has been proposed to
measure some neutrino oscillation parameters with higher precession and sensitivity. I am in collaboration with
IWCD software analysis group to measure electron neutrino cross section to improve sensitivity and precession of
CP violation.
The multi-PMT sensors inside the particle detectors of Super-Kamiokande (Super-K) can measure neutrinos(Fukuda et al., 2003) by providing
detailed images of Cherenkov light from particles which produced in the complicated neutrino interactions occurring in the water. These images need to be analyzed to
determine the type of neutrino and estimate its energy and direction, parameters that affect neutrino. For the many-particle reconstruction
problem and classifying the particles, Deep Learning segments the entire image. Machine learning also determines the properties of all
the particles, contributing to the light observed at each pixel. For this specific work, I am also working with another Hyper-KWatChMal
international Machine learning group for water Cherenkov detector to classify complex images, accomplish Particle type identification and to
separate & reconstruct single and multi-ring events.
Supervisor Details:- Sonjoy Majumder
Associate Professor, Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur; E-Mail: sonjoym@phy.iitkgp.ernet.in Debanjan Bose
Ramanujan Fellow, Department of Astrophysics and Cosmology, S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences; E-Mail: debaice@gmail.com
Publication and Poster Presentaion
Publication Details:-
Tanima Mondal, Suman Pramanick, Lekshmi Resmi, Debanjan Bose, Probing gamma-ray burst afterglows with the Cherenkov Telescope Array, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 522, Issue 4, July 2023, Pages 5690–5700, https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad1388
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Mondal, T., Resmi, L., & Bose, D. (2023). Modeling of Gamma Ray Burst (GRB) Afterglow at Very High Energy (VHE) regime. Proceedings of 38th International Cosmic Ray Conference — PoS(ICRC2023), 444, 600. https://doi.org/10.22323/1.444.0600
K. Abe, P. Adrich, [...], T. Mondal et al, 2021 ApJ 916 15. (2021), “Supernova Model Discrimination with Hyper-Kamiokande”; DOI 10.3847/1538-4357/abf7c4
S. Chakraborty, T. Mondal, A. Debnath & S. Roychowdhury, A multiresolution approach to enhance small telescope data under non-ideal conditions.
J Astrophys Astron 43, 22 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12036-022-09807-w
Poster Presentaion Details:-
T. Mondal Modelling very high energy GRB afterglow emission [Abstract ID 532]
at the XXV DAE-BRNS, High Energy Physics Symposium, 12th-16th Dec. 2022, IISER Mohali, India
T. Mondal et al., oral presentation at 38th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2023) on “Modeling of Gamma Ray Burst (GRB) Afterglow at Very High Energy (VHE) regime”, August 2023.
PH60044: High Energy Physics
Taught By: Prof. Utpal Sarkar
TS70006: Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Computing
Taught By: Prof. Bibhas Adhikari and Prof. Sonjoy Majumder
PH60046: Astrophysics and Cosmology
Taught By: Prof. Somnath Bharadwaj
Second Semester
TS62001: Simulation in collider Physics and Cosmology
Taught By: Prof. Somnath Bharadwaj and Prof. Debanjan Bose
TS70007: Advance Mathematical Techniques
Taught By: Prof. S. P. Khastgir, Prof. R. Kannan and Prof. H. S. Mahato
HS63002: English For Technical Writing
Taught By: Prof. B. Lahiri and Prof. D. Piplai
TEACHING ASSISTANT DUTY
External
HIJLI COLLEGE (Sem-VII August 2023): I taught the Elementary ideas of Machine Learning
under Research Methodology in Hijli College.
HIJLI COLLEGE (Sem-VI February 2023): I taught the CC-13:Electromagnetic Theory
in Hijli College following their structured syllabus.
HIJLI COLLEGE (Sem-V August 2022): I taught the Modern Physics
course (Particle physics and Detector for Nuclear Radiations) in Hijli College following their structured syllabus.
HIJLI COLLEGE (Sem-IV March 2022): I taught the Nuclear Physics
course on semester-4 in Hijli College following their structured syllabus.
Internal
Internal TA duty at Dept. Of Physics, IIT Kharagpur
WORKSHOP or SCHOOL ATTENDED
Attended Indo-Japan Workshop on HyperK from 12th to 17th November 2022, organized by VIIT Pune
Attended TRISEP 2022 Summerschool in person at TRIUMF, Canada from 04th to 15th July 2022, organized by TRIUMF, CANADA
PHYSTAT-Systematics workshop from November 01st to 03rd and 10th November.
Online School on Detector Simulation using GEANT4, Hosted by Inter University
Accelerator Centre (IUAC) from 26th to 29th October, 2021.
Online Workshop on Simulation Methods in Scientific Computing hosted by
IIT Kharagpur from June 14-16, 2021.
Joined AI Shiksha DL Course by IIT Goa from from June 2021 to August 2021.
For gathering knowledge regarding my research topics, I joined NTHU/NCTS
Astronomy Winter School on High Energy Astrophysics from January 18th-22nd.
I also joined the XXXIX-th Meeting of the Astronomical Society of India,
from 18-23 February 2021, Hosted jointly by ICTS-TIFR Bengaluru, IISER Mohali,
IIT Indore and IUCAA Pune.
Even I have also joined XXIV DAE-BRNS high energy physics symposium from
December 14 -18, 2020, organized by the National Institute of Science Education
and Research, Jatni, Odisha.
I also attended an online precursor on Physics of the early Universe from 31
August 2020 to 03 September 2020, hosted by ICTS TIFR.
AWARDS & RECOGNITION
Selected for prestigious Prime Minster Research Fellowship on 2021.
Mictac's Globalink Research Award for 'Deep Learning for Water Cherenkov
Particle Detectors - Part 1'
Certificate of Achievement for presenting a Poster in a National Seminar
On Applications of Statistics in Natural Sciences, organized by Dept. of
Statistics and Physics of St. Xavier's Kolkata in collaboration with IUCAA
Centre for Astronomy Research and Development.
Cleared National level Exam GATE-2019.
Cleared All India IIT(ISM) Dhanbad M.Sc Examination in 2016.
Stood 4th in Hooghly district in West Bengal Class IV standard scholarship
(Britti Pariskha) in 2005.Stood 4th in Hooghly district in West Bengal Class
IV standard scholarship (Britti Pariskha) in 2005.
Got prizes for being 4th in VI, 2nd in VII-VIII and 4th in IX standard.
Got a prize and a certificate for achieving the highest marks in the
Science group in school at Secondary exam.
Got MERIT CUM MEAN SCHOLARSHIP for both Secondary and Higher Secondary examination.
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