DEPARTMENT.FACULTY
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- DEPARTMENT_STAFF.QUALIFICATION
Ph.D.
- DEPARTMENT_STAFF.DESIGNATION
Assistant Professor
- DEPARTMENT_STAFF.THRUST_AREA
Soft condensed matter physics, Radiational effects on liquid crystals
- DEPARTMENT_STAFF.ADDRESS
Department of Physics, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh - 202002 (U.P.)
- DEPARTMENT_STAFF.MOBILE
9720010170
- DEPARTMENT_STAFF.EMAIL
niharikavatsa21@gmail.com
- DEPARTMENT_STAFF.TIME_TABLE
2021 - 22 Semester I2021 - 22 Semester II2020 - 21 Semester I2020 - 21 Semester II
Dr. Shikha Chauhan is serving as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh since Feb 2014. She did her B.Sc. from CSJM University, Kanpur in 2001, M.Sc. in Physics from Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh in 2003. She completed her M.Phil. and Ph.D. degree in Intermediate energy nuclear physics from Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh in 2005 and 2010, respectively. After completing her doctoral studies she worked as Research Associate from Aug. 2010 to Sept. 2011 on a Department of Science and Technology (DST), Govt of India, funded research project. In the year 2011, she has been awarded Women Scientist award under the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Govt of India [DST(WOS-A)] scheme. She worked as Women Scientist from Sept. 2011 to Feb. 2014 at Department of Physics, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh. During her doctoral research, she performed theoretical calculations for anti(neutrino) - nucleus interaction cross sections in low as well as in intermediate energy region using FORTRAN Programming and MATHEMATICA software. She has published her research works in several refereed journals of International repute. Presently, she is involved in under-graduate level teaching. She is teaching courses like Nuclear, Particle and Astrophysics, Optics, Electricity & Magnetism, Mechanics, Thermal Physics, Optoelectronics etc.
- Publications
1. Sidra Khan, Jai Prakash, Shikha Chauhan, Amit Choudhary and A. M. Biradar, “Partially unwound helical mode in surface stabilized ferroelectric liquid crystal geometry”, J. Mol. Liq. 325, 114705 (2021).
2. Sidra Khan, Jai Prakash, Shikha Chauhan, Amit Choudhary, and A. M. Biradar, “Bismuth ferrite nanoparticles for modulation of helical structure at the interface of ferroelectric liquid crystal and substrate”, J. Appl. Phys. 127, 074102 (2020).
3. Jai Prakash, Sidra Khan, Shikha Chauhan and A. M. Biradar, “Liquid crystals and metal oxide-nanoparticles composites: A review of recent progress”, J. Mol. Liq. 297, 112052 (2020).
4. Sidra Khan, Shikha Chauhan, Achu Chandran, Micha? Czerwi?ski, Jakub Herman, Ashok M. Biradar and Jai Prakash, “Enhancement of dielectric and electro-optical parameters of a newly prepared ferroelectric liquid crystal mixture by dispersing nano-sized copper oxide” Liq. Cryst. 47, No. 2, 263, (2020).
5. F. Akbar, M. R. Alam, M. S. Athar, S.Chauhan and S. K. Singh, “Study of Hyperon Polarization at T2K, MicroBooNE and MINERVA”, Springer Proc. Phys. 203, 475 (2018).
6. S. Chauhan, M. Sajjad Athar and S. K. Singh, “Neutrino-nucleus cross-sections at supernova neutrino energies” Int. J. Mod. Phys. E 26, no. 7, 1750047 (2017).
7. M. Sajjad Athar, F. Akbar, M. Rafi Alam, S. Chauhan, S. K. Singh and F. Zaidi, “Lepton production cross sections in quasielastic neutrino/antineutrino ? A scattering”, [arXiv:1611.07166 [nucl-th].
8. M. Sajjad Athar, F. Akbar, M. Rafi Alam, S. Chauhan and S. K. Singh, “Weak Quasielastic Production of Hyperons”, [arXiv:1611.07159 [hep-ph].
9. 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).
10. F. Akbar, F. Zaidi, S. Chauhan, M. R. Alam, M. S. Athar and S. K. Singh' Effect of second class currents in the few GeV energy region, DAE Symp.Nucl.Phys. 60, 684 (2015).
11. M.R.Alam, S.Chauhan, M.S.Athar and S.K.Singh, “Quasielastic hyperon production in muon antineutrino-nucleus interactions,”, J. Phys. G 42, no. 5, 055107 (2015).
12. 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).
13. M.R.Alam, S.Chauhan, M.S.Athar and S.K.Singh,Lepton antineutrino induced pion production from nuclei at ~ 1 GeV, Phys. Rev. D 88, no. 7, 077301 (2013).
14. S. Chauhan, M. Sajjad Athar and S. K. Singh; “Neutral current neutrino induced reactions in Nuclei at Supernova neutrino energies”; American Institute of Physics (AIP) Conf. Proc. 1405 (2011).
15. S. Chauhan, M. Sajjad Athar and S. K. Singh; “Nuclear effects in neutrino oscillation experiments”; American Institute of Physics (AIP) Conf. Proc. 1382, 38 (2010).
16. S. Chauhan, M. Sajjad Athar and S. K. Singh; “Nuclear effects in atmospheric and accelerator neutrino experiments”; American Institute of Physics (AIP) Conf. Proc. 1304, 349 (2010).
17. M. Sajjad Athar, S. Chauhan and S. K. Singh; “The CC1pi to CCQE cross section ratio at accelerator energies”; J. Phys. G 37, 015505 (2010).
18. M. Sajjad Athar, S. Chauhan and S. K. Singh; “Theoretical study of lepton events in the atmospheric neutrino experiments at Superk”; Eur. J. Phys. A 43, 209 (2010).
19. 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).
20. M. Sajjad Athar, S. Chauhan and S. K. Singh; “Neutral current induced ? production and neutrino magnetic moment”; Phys. Rev. D 78, 037301 (2008).
21. M. Sajjad Athar, S. Chauhan and S. K. Singh; “Quasielastic and inelastic neutrino reactions in C-12 at K2K energies” arXiv:nucl-th/0808.2103v1 (2008).
- Video lecture on transport phenomena in ideal gaseshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NhzsaXYwA4