Educational and Professional Background

Dr. Sujit Tandel obtained his doctoral degree in Physics from the University of Mumbai, India. He was a Lecturer in Physics at the University of Mumbai from 1998-2002. His research area is the spectroscopy of high-spin states in nuclei, with a focus on K isomers in the actinides and rare-earths. He has authored numerous articles, which have been published in Physical Review Letters and other international journals. He has also been an invited speaker at various research conferences.

Publications:

First author

• K-isomers in 254No: probing single particle energies and pairing strengths in the heaviest nuclei, S.K. Tandel, T.L. Khoo, D. Seweryniak, G. Mukherjee, I. Ahmad, B. Back, R. Blinstrup, M.P. Carpenter, J. Chapman, P. Chowdhury, C.N. Davids, A.A. Hecht, A. Heinz, P. Ikin, R.V.F. Janssens, F.G. Kondev, T. Lauritsen, C.J. Lister, E.F. Moore, D. Peterson, P. Reiter, U.S. Tandel, X. Wang, S. Zhu, Physical Review Letters 97, 082502 (2006)
• High-K isomers and rotational structures in 174W, S.K. Tandel, P. Chowdhury, E.H. Seabury, I. Ahmad, M.P. Carpenter, S.M. Fischer, R.V.F. Janssens, T.L. Khoo, T. Lauritsen, C.J. Lister, D. Seweryniak, Y.R. Shimizu, Physical Review C 73, 044306 (2006)
• Rotational bands and non-collective structures in 85Zr, S.K. Tandel, S.R. Kore, S.B. Patel, S. Muralithar, R.P. Singh and R.K. Bhowmik, Physical Review C 65, 054307 (2002)
• Spectroscopy of the neutron deficient 107In, S.K. Tandel, S.B. Patel, P. Joshi, G. Mukherjee, R.P. Singh, S. Muralithar, P. Das and R.K. Bhowmik, Physical Review C 58, 3738 (1998)
• Alignments and new band structures in the doubly odd nucleus 80Rb, S.K. Tandel, S.B. Patel, R.K. Bhowmik, A.K. Sinha, S.Muralithar and N. Madhavan, Nuclear Physics A 632 (1998) 3
• Identification of Delta_nu=2 identical bands in the nuclei 78Kr and 80Rb, S.K. Tandel, S.B. Patel, R.K. Bhowmik, A.K. Sinha, S.Muralithar and N. Madhavan, Physical Review C 56, R2358 (1997)
• High spin spectroscopy of 100Pd, S.K. Tandel, S.B. Patel, Pragya Das, R.P. Singh and R.K. Bhowmik, Zeitschrift fur Physik A 357, 3 (1997)

Co-author

• Anomalous Isomeric Decays in 174Lu as a Probe of K mixing and Interactions in Deformed Nuclei, G.D. Dracoulis, F.G. Kondev, G.J. Lane, A.P. Byrne, T.R. McGoram, T. Kibedi, I. Ahmad, M.P. Carpenter, R.V.F. Janssens, T. Lauritsen, C.J. Lister, D. Seweryniak, P. Chowdhury, S.K. Tandel, Physical Review Letters 97, 122501 (2006)
• Multiple band structures in 169Ta, D.J. Hartley, W.H. Mohr, J.R. Vanhoy, M.A. Riley, A. Aguilar, C. Teal, R.V.F. Janssens, M.P. Carpenter, A.A. Hecht, T. Lauritsen, E.F. Moore, S. Zhu, F.G. Kondev, M.K. Djongolov, M. Danchev, L.L. Riedinger, G.B. Hagemann, G. Sletten, P. Chowdhury, S.K. Tandel, W.C. Ma, S.W. Odegard, Physical Review C 74, 054314 (2006)
• Decay modes of 250No, D. Peterson, B.B. Back, R.V.F. Janssens, T.L. Khoo, C.J. Lister, D. Seweryniak, I. Ahmad, M.P. Carpenter, C.N. Davids, A.A. Hecht, C.L. Jiang, T. Lauritsen, X. Wang, S. Zhu, F.G. Kondev, A. Heinz, J. Qian, R. Winkler, P. Chowdhury, S.K. Tandel, U.S. Tandel, Physical Review C 74, 014316 (2006)
• Systematics of the shears mechanism in silver isotopes, A.Y. Deo, S.B. Patel, S.K. Tandel, S. Muralithar, R.P. Singh, R. Kumar, R.K. Bhowmik, S.S. Ghugre, A.K. Singh, V. Kumar, Amita, Physical Review C 73, 034313 (2006)
• Observation of states beyond band termination in 156,157,158Er and strongly deformed structures in 173,174,175Hf, M.A. Riley, M.K. Djongolov, A.O. Evans, D.J. Hartley, R.V.F. Janssens, E.S. Paul, A. Pipidis, J. Simpson, A.A. Aguilar, D.E. Appelbe, C.R. Bingham, D.B. Campbell, M.P. Carpenter, P. Chowdhury, P.T.W. Choy, R.M. Clark, M. Cromaz, M. Cromaz, D.M. Cullen, M. Danchev, G.D. Dracoulis, P. Fallon, A. Gorgen, G.B. Hagemann, D.T. Joss, J. Goon, R.A. Kaye, T.L. Khoo, F.G. Kondev, R.W. Laird, K. Lagergren, T. Lauritsen, A.O. Macchiavelli, B. McClain, E.F. Moore, G. Mukherjee, E. Ngijoi-Yogo, P.J. Nolan, H.I. Park, L.L. Riedinger, G. Sletten, S.K. Tandel, P.M. Walker, D. Ward, I. Ragnarsson, F. Saric, Jing-ye Zhang, Physica Scripta T125 (2006) 123
• Detailed high-spin spectroscopy and the search for the wobbling mode in 171Ta, D.J. Hartley, W.H. Mohr, J.R. Vanhoy, M.A. Riley, A. Aguilar, C. Teal, R.V.F. Janssens, M.P. Carpenter, A.A. Hecht, T. Lauritsen, E.F. Moore, S. Zhu, F.G. Kondev, M.K. Djongolov, M. Danchev, L.L. Riedinger, G.B. Hagemann, G. Sletten, P. Chowdhury, S.K. Tandel, W.C. Ma, S.W. Odegard, Physical Review C 72, 064325 (2005)
• Wobbling excitations in strongly deformed Hf nuclei?, D.J. Hartley, M.K. Djongolov, L.L. Riedinger, G.B. Hagemann, R.V.F. Janssens, F.G. Kondev, E.F. Moore, M.A. Riley, A. Aguilar, C.R. Bingham, D.B. Campbell, M.P. Carpenter, P. Chowdhury, M. Cromaz, D.M. Cullen, M. Danchev, G.D. Dracoulis, P. Fallon, J. Goon, R.A. Kaye, T.L. Khoo, R.W. Laird, T. Lauritsen, A.O. Macchiavelli, B. McClain, G. Mukherjee, E. Ngijoi-Yogo, H.I. Park, G. Sletten, S.K. Tandel, P.M. Walker, J.-Y. Zhang, Physics Letters B 608, 31 (2005)
• Structure of two-, four-, and six-quasiparticle isomers in 174Yb and K-forbidden decays, G.D. Dracoulis, G.J. Lane, F.G. Kondev, A.P. Byrne, T. Kibedi, H. Watanabe, I. Ahmad, M.P. Carpenter, S.J. Freeman, R.V.F. Janssens, N.J. Hammond, T. Lauritsen, C.J. Lister, G. Mukherjee, D. Seweryniak, P. Chowdhury, S.K. Tandel, Physical Review C 71, 044326 (2005)
• Lifetime measurements in 112Sb, A.Y. Deo, S.K. Tandel, S.B. Patel, P.V. Madhusudhana Rao, S. Muralithar, R.P. Singh, R. Kumar, R.K. Bhowmik, Amita, Physical Review C 71, 017303 (2005)
• Identification of yrast high-K isomers in 177Lu and characterization of 177mLu, G.D. Dracoulis, F.G. Kondev, G.J. Lane, A.P. Byrne, T. Kibedi, I. Ahmad, M.P. Carpenter, S.J. Freeman, R.V.F. Janssens, N.J. Hammond, T. Lauritsen, C.J. Lister, G. Mukherjee, D. Seweryniak, P. Chowdhury, S.K. Tandel, R. Gramer, Physics Letters B 584, 22 (2004)
• K-Mixing and fast decay of a seven-quasiparticle isomer in 179Ta, F.G. Kondev, G.D. Dracoulis, G.J. Lane, I. Ahmad, A.P. Byrne, M.P. Carpenter, P. Chowdhury, S.J. Freeman, N.J. Hammond, R.V.F. Janssens, T. Kibedi, T. Lauritsen, C.J. Lister, G. Mukherjee, D. Seweryniak, S.K. Tandel, European Physical Journal A 22, 23 (2004)

 Recent invited talks:

• Spectroscopy of K isomers in shell-stabilized trans-fermium nuclei, Fourth International Conference on Fission and Properties of Neutron-Rich Nuclei, November 11-17, 2007, Sanibel, Florida.
• Competing shapes and alignments in neutron-rich hafnium nuclei, Gordon Research Conference on Nuclear Chemistry, June 3-8, 2007, New London, New Hampshire.
• Multi-quasiparticle states in 254No: K-conservation, single-particle energies and pairing strengths , Nuclear Structure '06, July 24-28, 2006, Oak Ridge, Tennessee.