Name: Dr. Debashis Sahoo
Current position: Postdoctoral Fellow
Current postdoctoral Supervisor: Prof. Biplab Dey
Address: Department of Atomic Physics,
Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), Budapest
Lágymányos Campus, Northern Building 4.119
Mobile: +36-205320579
Email: sahood@staff.elte.hu , debashis.sahoo@cern.ch
Biography: I am an experimentalist currently working on the LHCb experiment at CERN. My research interests focus on searching for next-generation physics using elementary particles such as b-quarks and tau leptons. Previously, I worked on the Belle and Belle II experiments at KEK, Japan.
Job Experience:
Postdoctoral Researcher, ELTE, Hungary (2023-present)
Postdoctoral Researcher, Iowa State University, USA (2021 –2022)
Education:
PhD in Physics, Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, India (2016-2022)
PhD defense date: 17th December 2021
and JRF/SRF at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Mumbai, India, during PhD
MSc in Physics, Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, India (2014-2016)
Awards and Scholarships:
2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics winner as a part of the LHCb Collaboration
Young Scientists grant from LA THUILE 2024 conference, Italy
Grant for poster presentation by J-PARC 2019 symposium, Japan
Junior and Senior Research Fellowship, TIFR, Mumbai during PhD
Best Merit Scholarship by the Department of Physics, Utkal University during M.Sc
Selected Recent Talks:
"Performance of LHCb in Early Run 3" at LA THUILE 2024, Italy
"Searching for New Physics in Lambda_b decays at LHCb " at Brookhaven Forum 2023 (Online), BNL, USA
"Tau physics at B-factories" at FPCP 2021, (Online), Fudan University, Shanghai, China
"Test of lepton family universality and search for lepton flavor, lepton and baryon number violating tau decays at Belle" at ICHEP 2020, (Online), Prague, Czech Republic
Publications: Link to ORCiD
Selected publications of recent years:
R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration), Analysis of $\Lambda_{b}^{0} \to p K^- \mu^+ \mu^- $ decays, arXiv:2409.12629 [hep-ex] (2024)
R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration), Amplitude analysis of the radiative decay $B_{s}^{0} \to K^+ K^- \gamma$, JHEP 08(2024) 093
R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration), Search for the $B_{s}^{0} \to \mu^+ \mu^- \gamma$ decay, JHEP 07 (2024) 101
I. Adachi et al. (Belle II Collaboration) Measurement of $CP$ Violation in $B^0\to K_{S}^{0}\pi^0$ Decays at Belle II, Phys. Rev. Lett. 131 (2023) 11, 111803
K. Adamczyk et al. (Belle II SVD Collaboration), The design, construction, operation and performance of the Belle II silicon vertex detector, JINST 17 (2022) 11, P11042
D. Sahoo et al. (Belle Collaboration), Search for lepton-number- and baryon-number-violating tau decays at Belle, Phys. Rev. D 102, 111101(R)(2020)
Role in the scientific community:
Weekly Meeting Convener, LHCb Collaboration, Jul – Dec 2025
Reviewer at American Physical Society, Physical Review Letters (PRL), and Physical Review D (PRD) journals
LHCb Rare Decay group Superliason in 2023
LHCb Rare Decay working group analysis reader
Institutional reader of papers at LHCb