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Homi Bhabha National Institute Recommendation of the Viva Voce Board As members of the Viva Voce Board, we certify that we have read the dissertation prepared by Victor Roy entitled Dissipative Fluid Dynamics for Ultra-Relativistic Nuclear Collisions and recommend that it may be accepted as fulfilling the dissertation requirement for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Date: Chairman- Prof. D. K. Srivastava
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Date: Convener- Prof. A. K. Chaudhuri
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Date: Member 1- Prof. J. Alam
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Date: Member 2- Prof. M. G. Mustafa Finally approval and acceptance of this dissertation is contingent upon the candidate’s submission of the final copies of the dissertation to HBNI. I hereby certify that I have read this dissertation prepared under my direction and recommend that it may be accepted as fulfilling the dissertation requirement. Date: Place:
STATEMENT BY AUTHOR
This dissertation has been submitted in partial fulfillment of requirements for an advanced degree at Homi Bhabha National Institute (HBNI) and is deposited in the Library to be made available to borrowers under rules of the HBNI.
Brief quotation from this dissertation are allowable without special permission, provided that accurate acknowledgment of source is made. Requests for permission for extended quotation from or reproduction of this manuscript in whole or in part may be granted by the Competent Authority of HBNI when in his or her judgment the proposed use of the material is in the interests of scholarship. In all other instances, however, permission must be obtained from the author.
Victor Roy
DECLARATION
I, hereby declare that the investigation presented in the thesis has been carried out by me. The work is original and has not been submitted earlier as a whole or in part for a degree/diploma at this or any other Institution/University.
Victor Roy
Acknowledgments
I would like to thank my supervisor Dr. A.K. Chaudhuri for his continuous support and careful supervision throughout the PhD period. The second person without whose constant support and inspiration this work would have not been complete is Dr. Bedangadas Mohanty. I would like to express my sincere gratitude to both of them. I was also fortunate to have Dr. Dinesh K. Srivastava (Head Physics Group), Dr. Jan-e Alam, and Dr. M.G. Mustafa as the members of my doctoral committee. I would like to thank them all for helpful suggestions and useful physics discussions. It is also my pleasure to thank the former director Prof. Bikash Sinha and the present director Dr. Rakesh Kumar Bhandari of the Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre (VECC), Dean academics of Homi Bhabha National Institute (HBNI) Dr. Partha Barat, and the head theoretical physics division Dr. Santanu Pal for providing me the opportunity to carry out my research work at VECC.
It was a pleasure to collaborate with the following colleagues at VECC, Dr. Subhasis Chattopadhyay, Dr. Sourav Sarkar, Dr. Sidharth K. Prasad, Mr. Partha P. Bhaduri, Mr. Santosh K. Das, Mr. Sabyasachi Ghosh, and Ms. Payal Mohanty. It was also a pleasure to have following people as friends and colleagues at VECC, Dr. Rupa Chatterjee, Dr. Mriganka M. Mandal, Dr. Saikat Biswas, Dr. Tapasi Ghosh, Dr. Arnomitra Chatterjee, Dr. Umme Jamil, Mr. Prasun S. Chaudhuri, Dr. Sharmishtha Banik, Mr. Jajati K. Nayak, Mr. Haridas Pai, Mr. Prithwish Tribedy, Mr. Pratap Roy, Mr. Amlan Dutta, Mr. Somnath De, Mr. Sudipan De, Mr. Md. Younus, Mr. Nihar R. Sahoo, Mr. Arnab Banerjee, Mr. Manish R. Gohil, Mr. Subhash Singha, v
Mr. Md. Nasim, Mr. Abhishek Mishra, Mr. Amal Giri, Mr. Trambak Bhattacharjee, Ms. Sukanya Mitra, Ms. Surasree Mazumder, Md. Rihan Haque, Mr. Sumit Basu, Mr. Arindam Roy, Mr. Subikash Choudhury, Ms. Maitreyee Mukherjee, Mr. Vishal Srivastava, Mr. Balaram Dey, and Mr. Sanoar Molla.
In the first year of the PhD program at VECC, we went through a one year of detail pre-doctoral course. I am thankful to the teachers of this course for their wonderful teaching. Throughout the whole research period I have extensively used and benefited from the computing facility at VECC provided by the computer and informatics group. I am thankful to the administrative, library, accounts, and canteen/guest house staff of VECC for their co-operation.
During the PhD period, I got the opportunity to attend and deliver a talk at the Berkeley School on Collective Dynamics held at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California. I would like to thank the organizers of the school, specially Dr. Nu Xu, for their support and Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India, for generously providing the funding to attend the school. I have also attended and delivered talks at the International School on High-Energy Nuclear Collisions and the 7th International Workshop on Critical Point and Onset of Deconfinement, Wuhan, China. I would like to thank the organizers of the school/workshop and the Homi Bhabha National Institute, Department of Atomic Energy, India for their kind support. I express my sincere thanks to Professor Sourendu Gupta for inviting me for an academic visit to Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai and to TPSC for the travel support. I presented my first plenary talk at the Workshop on High En-
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ergy Physics and Phenomenology (WHEPP-2012) organized at Mahableswar by TIFR, Mumbai. I would like to thank DAE-SRC project of Dr. Mohanty, project sanction No. 2010/21/15-BRNS/2026 for providing partial travel support. I was fortunate to be able to attend the Quark Matter Conference held at Jaipur, 2008, and ICPAQGP 2010 at Goa, the experience of meeting several scientists of our field at one place was quite unique. I would like to thank the organizers of the conferences for providing me with this opportunity.
Like thousands of physics students, I am inspired by the famous three volumes of the lectures by Professor Richard P. Feynman, to pursue the research in the field of high energy physics. I would like to thank Professor Chirantan Neogy of University of Kalyani for his encouragement to pursue research in physics.
Finally, I would like to express my most sincere thanks to my parents for their constant support throughout the research period.
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