PhD (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Mumbai)
Email: akelkar[AT]iitk.ac.in
Office Phone: 0512-259-7985
Associate Professor, Department of Physics
Specialization
Accelerator based atomic and molecular physics.
Research Interest
Low and medium energy heavy ion collisions with atomic/molecular and cluster targets, Fullerenes. Accelerator physics.
Education
PhD (Physics), Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (Mumbai), 2009. PhD thesis title: Interaction of fast heavy ions with C60 fullerene and giant dipole plasmon resonance. PhD thesis supervisor: Prof. Lokesh C. Tribedi
M.Sc., (Physics), Devi Ahilya University (Indore), 2002
Role of projectile coherence in close heavy ion-atom collision, K. Schneider, M. Schulz, X. Wang, A. Kelkar, M. Grieser, C. Krantz, R. Moshammer, J. Ullrich, and D. Fischer; Phys. Rev. Lett 110, 113201 (2013)
Energy and angular distributions of the low energy electron emission in collisions of 4 MeV/u bare F-ions with He atoms, Deepankar Misra, A. H. Kelkar, P. D. Fainstein and L. C. Tribedi; J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys. 45 225201 (2012)
Single and Multiple ionization of C60 fullerenes and collective effects in collisions with highly charged C, F and Si ions with energy 3 MeV/u, A. H. Kelkar, U. Kadhane, D. Misra, L. Gulyas and L. C. Tribedi; Phys. Rev. A 82, 043201 (2010)
Effect of multiple plasmon excitation on single, double and multiple ionization of C60 in collisions with fast highly charged Si ions, A. H. Kelkar, U. Kadhane, D. Misra, Ajay Kumar and L. C. Tribedi; J. Phys. B: At. Mol. and Opt. Phys. 40, 2481 (2007)
Thermodynamics of the Lee-Wick partners: An alternative approach, published in Physical Review D, Vol. 84, 045023 (8 pages), (2011). arXiv:1108.0483 [hep-ph]
