Bedangadas Mohanty is an Indian physicist specialising in experimental high energy physics, and is affiliated to National Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhubaneswar.
14 Facts About Bedangadas Mohanty
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Bedangadas Mohanty has been awarded the Infosys Prize in Physical Sciences for 2021 that was announced on 2 December 2021.
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Bedangadas Mohanty was awarded the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology in 2015, the highest science award in India, in the physical sciences category.
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Bedangadas Mohanty has been elected as the fellow of the Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi, Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore and National Academy of Sciences, India.
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Bedangadas Mohanty was the co-founder of the Beam Energy Scan Program at RHIC to study the QCD Phase Diagram.
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Bedangadas Mohanty joined NISER in 2012 as an associate professor.
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Bedangadas Mohanty was the chairperson of School of Physical Sciences from 2013 to 2018.
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Dr Bedangadas Mohanty has contributed to the establishment of the quark-hadron transition and first direct comparison between experimental high energy heavy-ion collisions data and QCD calculations.
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Bedangadas Mohanty has very successfully led the beam energy scan physics program in this direction to publish important scientific papers in Physical Review Letters related to the QCD Critical Point.
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Bedangadas Mohanty was instrumental in pushing for such a program at Quark Matter 2009.
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Bedangadas Mohanty has made significant contribution to the discovery of the Quark Gluon Plasma in the laboratory.
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Dr Bedangadas Mohanty has several significant papers on signatures that experimentally confirm the existence of QGP, related to observation of strangeness enhancement in heavy-ion collisions, jet quenching effect, and partonic collectivity.
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Towards this goal and since neutral pion readily decays to photons, Dr Bedangadas Mohanty has put in several years of dedicated efforts from his side to establish the photon production in heavy-ion collisions using a detector built in India and search for the signature of the chiral phase transition.
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Bedangadas Mohanty is the lead author of the Physical Review Letters paper on inclusive photon production in heavy-ion collisions using the Indian detector.