I have been studying astro-particle physics, with a focus on neutrino physics specifically. I investigated the possibilities of CP violation and octant degeneracy at long baseline neutrino experiments throughout my doctoral studies. I have also investigated various new physics possibilities at neutrino experiments during my post-doc. On addition to continuing my work on neutrino physics, I'm attempting to investigate the literature on dark matter and collider physics.
Standard model of Particle physics is one of the most successful theories. But yet, it is not complete and have several inadequacies. The discovery of neutrino oscillations has already proven that neutrinos are massive, indicating that we must investigate beyond the Standard Model (BSM). There are various well-motivated BSM frameworks, such as the seesaw mechanism, which entails the insertion of heavy fermions in the theory, to explain the non-zero but low neutrino mass. Currently, we focus on different new physics scenarios to explain the present data available to us.
Neutrino physics is currently one of the most fascinating fields of study. Experiments like NOvA and T2K are taking data and there are a few upcoming experiments which will be able to address many important issues such as CP violation, neutrino mass hierarchy, octant degeneracy etc with good precision. The planned short baseline experiments will help the community to understand the confusions with the sterile neutrinos, and so on.
Zannatun Firdowzy Dey who was working under my supervision completed her PhD on December 2024. She was a research scholar at Assam Don Bosco University.
Himanshu Bora, Assistant Professor, Kamrup College, Chamata