Tanmay Maji
2022- present: Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, NIT Kurukshetra, Haryana, India.
2022: National Postdoctoral Fellow (NPDF), IIT Hyderabad, and Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB).
2018- 2021: Postdoctoral, Institute of Modern Physics, Fudan University, Shanghai
2018: Postdoctoral, Department of Physics, IIT Bombay, Mumbai 400076, INDIA
2012-2018: PhD, Department of Physics, IIT Kanpur, 208016, INDIA
2010-2012: M. Sc. (Dual) in Physics, IIT Kanpur, 208016, INDIA
2007-2009: B.Sc (Hons.) in Physics, The University of Burdwan, Burdwan, INDIA
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Theoretical high energy physics(HEP), Quantum Chromodynamics(QCD).
Jet Event shapes, Soft-Collinear Effective Theory (SCET), Event Shapes in DIS for future EIC. Angularity in Higgs decay.
Hadronic structures phenomenology, Light-front Quark-diquark model, Form factors, Transverse momentum dependent parton distributions(TMDs), Wigner distributions, Single Spin Asymmetry(SSA).
PUBLICATIONS
[1] D. Chakrabarti, N. Kumar, T. Maji and A. Mukherjee, “Sivers and Boer–Mulders GTMDs in light-front holographic quark–diquark model,” Eur. Phys. J. Plus 135 no.6, 496 (2020).
[2] Tanmay Maji, D. Chakrabarti and A. Mukherjee, “Sivers and cos 2 Asymmetries in Semi-inclusive Deep Inelastic Scattering in Light-front Holographic Model,” Phys. Rev. D 97, no. 1, 014016 (2018); [arXiv:1711.02930 [hep-ph]].
[3] Tanmay Maji, D. Chakrabarti and O. V. Teryaev, “Model predictions for azimuthal spin asymmetries for HERMES and COMPASS kinematics,” Phys. Rev. D 96, no. 11, 114023 (2017); [arXiv:1711.01746 [hep-ph]].
[4] Tanmay Maji and Dipankar Chakrabarti, “Transverse structure of a proton in a light-front quark-diquark model,” Phys. Rev. D 95, no. 7, 074009 (2017); [arXiv:1702.04557 [hep-ph]].
[5] Tanmay Maji, C. Mondal and Dipankar Chakrabarti, “Leading twist generalized parton distributions and spin densities in a proton,” Phys. Rev. D 96, no. 1, 013006 (2017); [arXiv:1702.02493].
[6] Dipankar Chakrabarti, Tanmay Maji, C. Mondal and A. Mukherjee, “Quark Wigner distributions and spin-spin correlations,” Phys. Rev. D 95, no. 7, 074028 (2017); [arXiv:1701.08551].
[7] Tanmay Maji and Dipankar Chakrabarti, “Light front quark-diquark model for the nucleons,” Phys. Rev. D 94, no. 9, 094020 (2016); [arXiv:1608.07776 [hep-ph]].
[8] Dipankar Chakrabarti, Tanmay Maji, C. Mondal and A. Mukherjee, “Wigner distributions and orbital angular momentum of a proton,” Eur. Phys. J. C 76, no. 7, 409 (2016); [arXiv:1601.03217].
[9] Tanmay Maji, C. Mondal, Dipankar Chakrabarti and O. V. Teryaev, “Relating transverse structure of various parton distributions,” JHEP 1601, 165 (2016); [arXiv:1506.04560 [hep-ph]].
CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
[1] D. Kang and T. Maji, PoS LC2019 (2019), 061 doi:10.22323/1.374.0061 [arXiv:1912.10656 [hep-ph]].
[2] D. Chakrabarti, T. Maji, A. Mukherjee and O. V. Teryaev, “Azimuthal Spin Asymmetries in SIDIS,” Few Body Syst. 59, no. 2, 12 (2018); (Light-Cone’17).
[3] Tanmay Maji, Dipankar Chakrabarti and O. V. Teryaev, “Leading twist TMDs in a light-front quarkdiquark model for proton Content”; Accepted and going to be published in Few-Body Systems - Springer (Light-Cone’17).
[4] C. Mondal, T. Maji, D. Chakrabarti, X. Zhao “Leading twist GPDs and transverse spin densities in a proton,” Accepted and going to be published in Few-Body Systems - Springer (Light-Cone’17).
[5] Tanmay Maji and Dipankar Chakrabarti, “Proton structure in a light-front quark-diquark model: Collins asymmetry,” PoS DIS 2017, 193 (2018); [arXiv:1801.01707 [hep-ph]]; (DIS’17).
[6] Tanmay Maji and Dipankar Chakrabarti, “Parton distribution functions of proton in a light-front quarkdiquark model,” arXiv:1801.01718 [hep-ph]; Accepted and going to be published in Springer (XXII DAEBRNS High Energy Physics Symposium 2016).
CONFERENCE & WORKSHOPS
o World SCET 2021: conference held from April 19-23, 2021.
o World SCET 2020: conference held from June 8-12, 2020. Talk delivered on ” Angularity event shapes in DIS at the NNLL accuracy.”
o QCD with Electron-Ion Collider (QEIC): conference held from January 04-07, 2020 at IIT Bombay. Talk delivered on ”Toward precision jet event shape for future Electron-Ion Collider.”
o Light-Cone 2019: QCD on the light-cone: from hadron to heavy ion held from September 16-20, 2019 at Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France. Talk delivered on "Toward precision Jet event shapes for future Electron-Ion-Collider"
o 18th National Conference on high energy nuclear physics: held from June 21-25, 2019 at Hunan University, Changsha, China. Talk delivered on "Precision Jet event shapes for future Electron-Ion-Collider".
o SCET2019: Soft-Collinear Effective Field Theory Conference held from March 25-28, 2019 at University of California San Diego, USA.
o Light-Cone 2018: held from May 14, 2018 to May 18, 2018 at the Jefferson Lab, Newport News, Virginia, USA. Talk delivered on "Wigner distributions and generalised transverse momentum dependent distribution in the LFQDM."
o Light-Cone 2017: Frontiers in Light Front Hadron Physics held from September 18, 2017 to September 22, 2017 at University of Mumbai, Mumbai, India. Talk delivered on ”Leading twist TMDs in a light-front quark-diquark model for proton”
o HISS 2017: The Helmholtz International Summer School ”Hadron Structure and Hadronic Matter, and Lattice QCD” held from October 20, 2017 to September 02, 2017 at BLTP, JINR, Russia. Poster presented on ”Single Spin Asymmetries in a light-front quark-diquark model”
o DIS 2017: 25th International Workshop on Deep Inelastic Scattering and Related Topics held from April 3, 2017 to April 7, 2017 at University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom. Talk delivered on ”Proton structure in light-front quark diquark model: Single Spin Asymmetry”
o GIAN Course: Introduction to Light-Front Hadron Physics held from September 11, 2017 to September 16, 2017 at University of Mumbai, Mumbai, India.
o DAE 2016 (HEP): DAE-BRNS High Energy Physics Symposium held from December 12-16, 2016 at University of Delhi, INDIA. Talk delivered on ”Light front quark-diquark model for the nucleons”
o WHEPP 2015: Workshop on High Energy Physics Phenomenology held during December 4-13, 2015 at IIT Kanpur, Kanpur, INDIA Talk delivered on ”Relating transverse structure of various parton distributions”
o International workshop on frontiers of QCD held during December 2-5, 2014, held at IIT Bombay, Mumbai, INDIA
ACCOLADES:
[1] ”Gary McCartor Award 2018” — given by the international Light Cone Advisory Committee and Jefferson lab, VA, USA, to the young scientists to devolop their expertise and contribute to forefront physics research.
[2] ”Young Researcher Award 2019” — A research grant (of amount Rs. 12 lakh) given by the China Postdoctoral Science Fondation, China under Grant No. KLH1512104.
[3] Awarded ”Best poster award” and a travel grant in the Helmholtz Interntional Summer School 2017 on ”Hadron Structure, Hadronic matter, Lattice QCD” held in the Joint institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia.
[4] Awarded travel grant (Full fare: Rs.116436/-) by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) to attend the Internal Conference ”Light Cone 2018”.
[5] Awarded travel grant (Rs. 111248/-) by the Science Engineering Research Board (SERB), DST, to attend the DIS2017: 25th International Conference on Deep-Inelastic Scat- tering and related topics held at Birmingham, United Kingdom.
[6] Awarded travel grant by the Dean of Research and Development (DoRD), IIT Kanpur, to attend the International Light Cone Conference 2017, held in Mumbai, India.
[7] Qualified JAM 2010: AIR 68, National Level examination for Joint admission to M.Sc and PhD(Dual) at IITs.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
Graduate Teaching Assistant(TA) in Physics for B.Tech and integrated M.Sc.
PH407: Mathematical Method in Physics, IIT Bombay, July-Nov 2018
PHY526: Nuclear and Particle Physics, IIT Kanpur, Jan 2017 - May 2017
PHY681: Quantum Field Theory, IIT Kanpur, Jan 2016 - May 2016
PHY523: Atomic and Nuclear Physics, IIT Kanpur, Jan 2013 - July 2013
PHY103: Physics-II, IIT Kanpur, July 2016 - May 2016
PHY102: Physics-I, IIT Kanpur, Jan 2016- May 2016
Experiments: taught 3-hour laboratory sessions once a week to B.Tech students. Measurement of speed of light and determination of unknown refractive index. PHY101 Lab, IIT Kanpur, July 2013 - Dec 2015.