1 Dr. Shikha Chauhan Department of Physics, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, U. P. India 202001 niharikavatsa21@gmail.com Field of Research: Intermediate energy nuclear physics and particle physics. Research projects carried out/ongoing: 1. UGC Start up grant project (6 lakhs): Ongoing (2015-17) 2. DST Wos-A project (17 lakhs): Completed (2011-14) Research guidance: 1. Phd. Student: One student (Ms. Sidra Khan) enrolled in year 2016. 2. M.Sc. Students: 2 Awarded 2 Ongoing Theory Courses Taught: Optics, Mechanics, Nuclear and particle physics, Electricity and magnetism at undergraduate level. Lab classes: Computing lab of FORTRAN, and general laboratories classes. RESEARCH AND TEACHING POSITIONS Assistant Professor: Joined on 06.02.14. Department of Physics, AMU, Aligarh. Women Scientist; 24.09.11 05.02.14 (WOS-A Scheme, Department of Science & Technology, New Delhi) Neutrino(Antineutrino) induced interactions in nuclei.
2 Research Associate: 02.08.2010 23.09.2011 Nuclear effects in neutrino nucleus reactions relevant for neutrino oscillation experiments in the few GeV energy region. Junior research Fellow (DST Project): March 2003 September 2006 Worked as junior research fellow (JRF) on a project entitled Weak Production of pions at nucelons and nuclei supported by the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India under the grant DST project No. SP/S2K-07/2000. EDUCATION Ph.D., PHYSICS; 2005 2010 Title: Pion Production in Nuclei induced by Electroweak interactions M.Phil., PHYSICS; 2003 2005 Title: Pion-nucleus interactions at intermediate energies, 72% M.Sc., PHYSICS; 2001 2003 Specialization: Nuclear and particle physics, 68 % B.Sc., PHYSICS; 1998 2001 Physics, Chemistry, Maths, 70 % C.S. J. M. University, Kanpur, UP, India.
3 PUBLICATIONS Year 2016 M. Rafi Alam, M. Sajjad Athar, S. Chauhan and S. K. Singh, Weak charged and neutral current induced one pion production off the nucleon, Int. J. Mod. Phys. E 25, no. 02, 1650010 (2016). Year 2015 M.R.Alam, S.Chauhan, M.S.Athar and S.K.Singh, Quasielastic hyperon production in $\bar{\nu }_{\mu }$-nucleus interactions,, J. Phys. G 42, no. 5, 055107 (2015). F. Akbar, M. R. Alam, M. S. Athar, S. Chauhan, S. K. Singh and F. Zaidi, Electron and Muon production cross sections in quasielastic anti(neutrino) - Nucleus scattering for E < 1GeV, Int. J. of Mod. Phys. E24, 1550079 (2015). Year 2013 M.R.Alam, S.Chauhan, M.S.Athar and S.K.Singh, $\bar{\nu}_l$ induced pion production from nuclei at $\sim{1}$ GeV, Phys. Rev. D 88, no. 7, 077301 (2013). Year 2011 ; Neutral current neutrino induced reactions in Nuclei at Supernova neutrino energies ; American Institute of Physics (AIP) Conf. Proc. 1405 (2011). Year 2010 ; Nuclear effects in neutrino oscillation experiments ; American Institute of Physics (AIP) Conf. Proc. 1382, 38 (2010).
4 ; Nuclear effects in atmospheric and accelerator neutrino experiments ; American Institute of Physics (AIP) Conf. Proc. 1304, 349 (2010). The CC1pi to CCQE cross section ratio at accelerator energies ; J. Phys. G 37, 015505 (2010). Theoretical study of lepton events in the atmospheric neutrino experiments at Superk ; Eur. J. Phys. A 43, 209 (2010). Year 2009 M. Sajjad Athar, S. Chauhan, S. K. Singh and M. J. Vicente Vacas; Neutrino nucleus cross sections ; Int. J. Mod. Phys. E 18, 1469 (2009). Year 2008 Neutral current induced ח production and neutrino magnetic moment ; Phys. Rev. D 78, 037301 (2008). Quasielastic and inelastic neutrino reactions in C-12 at K2K energies arxiv:nucl-th/0808.2103v1 (2008). AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND RECOGNITIONS Women Scientist Award; 24.09.11 05.02.2014 (WOS-A Scheme, Department of Science & Technology, New Delhi) Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Fund(JNMF) Scholarship for Doctoral studies Feb. 2007 to Jan. 2009.
5 CONFERENCES / PRESENTATIONS / ABSTRACT PUBLISHED 10th International workshop on neutrino nucleus interactions in the few GeV energy region (NuInt 2015), 16-21 November 2015, (Osaka University, Japan) Revisiting muon anti(neutrino) and electron anti(neutrino) induced quasielastic scattering from nuclei in sub-gev energy region F. Akbar, M. R. Alam, M. S. Athar, S. Chauhan, S. K. Singh and F. Zaidi, JPS Conference Proceedings: Proceedings of NuInt2015 (2016) e-print: arxiv:1602.06061 [nucl-th]. 10th International workshop on neutrino nucleus interactions in the few GeV energy region (NuInt 2015), 16th -21st November 2015, (Osaka University, Japan) Pion production off the nucleon M. R. Alam,, JPS Conference Proceedings: Proceedings of NuInt2015 (2016) e-print: arxiv:1602.06066[hep-ph]. CETUP, 2014, 22nd -31st Jul 2014 (Lead/Dead Wood, South Dakota, USA ) Weak Quasielastic Production of Hyperons and Threshold Production of Two Pions. S. K. Singh, M. Sajjad Athar, M. Rafi Alam, S. Chauhan, E. Hernández, J. Nieves, M. Valverde and M. J. Vicente Vacas American Institute of Physics(AIP) Conference Proceedings, Vol. 1680 (2015) 020012. DAE-BRNS Symposium on Nuclear Physics, 26 th - 30 th Physics, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, A. P., India) Monte Carlo Generators vs Nuclear Models ; S. Chauhan, F. Zaidi, H. Haider, R. Alam and M. Sajjad Athar Dec.- 2011 (Department of Nuclear DAE BRNS Nuclear Physics on Nuclear Physics, Vol. 55 2010, 20 th - 24 th Dec. - 2010 (Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani, Rajasthan, India) Neutral current neutrino induced reactions in nuclei at supernova neutrino energies ;
6 CARPATHIAN SUMMER SCHOOL OF PHYSICS 2010 - Exotic Nuclei, Nuclear and Particle Physics "From nuclei to stars" 20 th June -3 July -2010 ( Horia Hulubei National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering (IFIN-HH) and Horia Hulubei Foundation (FHH), Bucharest- Magurele, Romania). Workshop towards Neutrino Technologies 13 th - 17 th Jul. -2009 (The Abdus Salam International center for theoretical physics(ictp), Trieste, Italy). International DAE-BRNS Symposium on Nuclear Physics, 8 th - 12 th Dec.- 2009 (Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, India); Neutrino nucleus cross section at MiniBooNE Energies ; M. Sajjad Athar, S. Chauhan and S. K. Singh. International DAE-BRNS Symposium on High Energy Physics, 14 th - 18 th Dec. - 2008 (Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India) Nuclear Effects in the atmospheric neutrino experiments at SuperK ; M. Sajjad Athar, S. Chauhan and S. K. Singh DAE-BRNS Symposium on Nuclear Physics, 11 th - 15 th Dec. 2007 (Sambalpur University, Burla, Orissa, India) Neutrino magnetic moment effects in neutral current weak production of ; ח DAE-BRNS Symposium on Nuclear Physics, 11 th - 15 th Dec. 2007 (Sambalpur University, Burla, Orissa, India) Neutral current induced coherent pion production ; DAE-BRNS Symposium on Nuclear Physics, Vol.46B, 320 (2004), 20 th - 25 th Dec. - 2004 (Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India). Inelastic lepton production induced by neutrinos relevant for MiniBooNE energies ;
7 National Workshop on Simulation Techniques in Physics, 20 th - 25 th Mar.-2006 (Department of Physics, AMU, Aligarh, India) Indian Neutrino Observatory training school Phase I, 10 th -25 th Apr- 2006 (Harish - Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad, India) Indian Neutrino Observatory training school Phase II, 1 st -13 th May - 2006 (Variable Energy Cyclotron Center Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata. DAE-BRNS Workshop on Physics and Astrophysics of Hadrons and Hadronic Matter, 6 th -11 th Nov.- 2006 (Department of Physics, Visva-Bharti, India).