Research

The modern theory that describes the properties of elementary particles and their interactions is the Standard Model. However, there are reasons to believe that it is not the whole story; there is an underlying theory. For the last few decades, physicists have been trying to infer the underlying theory, generally called the physics beyond the Standard Model or simply new physics. The Large Hadron Collider at CERN has been searching for new physics models like supersymmetry, extra-dimension, etc. 

In the last few years, I have primarily worked on the properties of some hypothetical particles called Leptoquarks that appear in different new physics models. Leptoquarks are the carriers of a new type of interaction. They are mysterious particles with both baryon and lepton numbers. As a result, they can interact with quarks (and gluons) and leptons (like the electron, the muon, neutrinos, etc.). If Leptoquarks exist, they can solve various puzzles (anomalies, like the muon anomalous magnetic moment or the ones seen in some decays of the B-meson) that have been hanging around for some time.

Apart from Leptoquarks, I have also worked with other types of hypothetical particles called vector-like quarks appearing in the Randall–Sundrum Model (a type of extra-dimension model).