HEP@IITG

Autumn 2023

From Autumn 2023 Semester, the HEP and Gravity Journal Clubs are going to run in alternate weeks on Friday 5:15 PM IST and Wednesday 5:15 PM IST respectively.  The venue is usually the seminar room of the physics department unless otherwise specified.

HEP Journal Club Schedule (Autumn 2023)

• Pulak Banerjee (August 18, Topic: Evidence of intrinsic charm quarks inside the proton,  Journal reference: Nature 608, 483-487 (2022) )

• Shailesh Pincha (September 1, Topic:  The absolute neutrino mass measurement with the DUNE experiment, Journal reference: PRL 129, 121802 (2022))

• Debasish Borah (October 6, Topic: Can LIGO detect non-annihilating dark matter?, arxiv:2302.07898 )

• Avik Sarkar (November 3, Topic: Stringent bounds on HWW and HZZ anomalous couplings with quantum tomography at the LHC, arXiv:2304.02403 )

• Soumitra Nandi (November 17, Topic: Precision muon related observables as a tool to constrain new physics models, arXiv:2310.06642 )

Gravity Journal Club Schedule (Autumn 2023)

• Sreetama Das Choudhury (August 9, Topic: The X-ray corona in the black hole binary GRO J1655-40 from the properties of non-harmonically related quasi-periodic oscillations , arxiv:2307.15486)

• Harpreet Singh (August 30, Topic: Experimental black hole analogues, arxiv:1809.00913 )

• Debaprasad Maity (September 6, Topic: Constraining Axion and ALP dark matter from misalignment during Reheating, arxiv:2308.15322)

• Dipankar Barman (September 27, Topic: Cavity optimization for Unruh effect at small accelerations, arxiv:2107.00049 )

• Bibhas Ranjan Majhi (October 11, Topic: Symmetry behavior at finite temperature and in accelerated frame, References: arxiv:1207.3677 , arxiv:2303.04039 , Phys. Rev. D 9, (1974) 3320  )

• Rajesh Mondal (November 10, Topic: WIMPs during Reheating, References:arxiv:2209.07546 )

Student Secretary of HEP and Gravity Journal Club (2023-24)

• Dipendu Bhandari (HEP)

• Camelia Jana (Gravity)

Spring 2023

From Spring 2023 Semester, the HEP and Gravity Journal Clubs are going to run in alternate weeks on Thursday at 5:15 PM IST.  The venue is usually the seminar room of the physics department unless otherwise specified.

HEP Journal Club Schedule (Spring 2023)

• Sovan Chakraborty (January 12, Topic: Where are Milky Way's hadronic Pevatrons?, arxiv:2209.03970)

• Lipika Kolay (February 2, Topic: B anomalies, the U1 leptoquark and dark matter, arxiv:2206.11305 )

• Nayan Das (February 23, Topic: A seesaw model for large neutrino masses in concordance with cosmology, arxiv:2211.01729 , arxiv:1510.02201 )

• Prantik Sarmah (March 16, Topic: On ALP scenarios of GRB221009A, arxiv:2211.02010 )

• Subhaditya Bhattacharya (March 30, Topic: New freeze-out mechanism for strongly interacting dark matter, arxiv:2002.04038 )

• Arunansu Sil (April 27, Topic: Baryon asymmetry of the universe from lepton flavour violation, arxiv:2111.03082 )

• Niloy Mondal (May 11, Topic: Dark matter from exponential growth, arxiv:2103.16572 )

Gravity Journal Club Schedule (Spring 2023)

• Sayan Chakrabarti (January 19, Topic: Holography of the photon ring , arxiv:2205.05064)

• Sumit Dey (March 2, March 23, Topic: Boundary and corner terms in the action of General Relativity, arxiv:1612.00149 , arxiv:1609.00207 , arxiv:1501.01053 )

• Banashree Baishya (April 6, April 20, Topic: Chaotic strings in AdS/CFT, arxiv:1709.01052 )

• Seshadri Majumder (April 20, Topic: The evolving properties of the corona of GRS 1915+105: a spectral-timing perspective through variable-comptonisation modelling, arxiv:2204.13279 )

• Samik Mitra (May 4, Topic: The role of strong magnetic fields in stabilising highly luminous thin disks, arxiv:2209.03317 )

• Subhasis Maiti (May 18, Topic: Constraining axion inflation with gravitational waves across 29 decades in frequency, arxiv:1909.12843 )

Student Secretary of HEP and Gravity Journal Club (2022-23)

• Soumen Kumar Manna (HEP)

• Banashree Baishya (Gravity)

HEP Seminar Series 

From Autumn 2021 onward, online HEP seminar series has been initiated. The seminar is usually given by a speaker from outside IIT Guwahati. Talks are scheduled tentatively on every alternate Fridays at 5 PM. 

List of speakers (Autumn 2021):

• Dr. Bhavesh Chauhan, TIFR, Mumbai (August 5, Title:  A deuterated liquid scintillator for supernova neutrino detection)

• Dr. Jagdish Joshi, Nanjing University, China (August 20, Title: Cosmic Ray Interactions and Transport in our Galaxy and Nearby Starburst Galaxies )

• Chandramouli Chowdhury, ICTS Bangalore (September 17, Title: The Principle of Holography of Information in Gravity )

• Dr. Gaurav Tomar, Technical University of Munich, Germany (October 8, Title: Squeezing the parameter space of dark matter)

• Dr. Rome Samanta, Institute of Physics, Prague, Czech Republic (October 22, Title: Leptogenesis and gravitational waves)

Upcoming HEP Seminars:

• TBA

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