Conveners
Plenary: D1-S1
- Gagan Mohanty (TIFR)
Plenary: D2-S2
- Jasjeet Bagla
Plenary: D2-S3
- Satyajit Jena (IISER Mohali)
Plenary: D3-S4
- Harleen Dahiya
Plenary: D4-S5
- Suman Bala Beri
Plenary: D4-S6
- Manjit Kaur (Panjab University, Centre of Advanced Study in Physics)
Plenary: D5-S6
- Harvinder Kaur Jassal
The Large Hadron Collider beauty (LHCb) detector is a single-arm forward spectrometer at the LHC, designed for the study of heavy flavour physics. In this review, an overview of the detector performance and a few recent results in the field of beauty and charm physics are presented. The LHCb experiment has also undergone a major upgrade in preparation for Run 3 of LHC, the talk will also...
In this talk I review the most important developments in string theory research over the last decade or so.
A Higgs boson was discovered by the ATLAS and CMS experiments at the LHC in 2012. Since then, the LHC experiments have made significant progress in precision studies with the data recorded during LHC Run-1+2 to establish the nature of the observed scalar particle as well as to look for indirect evidence for physics beyond the Standard Model. The latest LHC results from precision studies of the...
Over the past two decades, it has been increasingly clear that cosmological observations are homing on to a concordance ‘standard' model
of Cosmology model with increasingly precise determination of cosmological parameters. The observations of cosmic microwave background (CMB), most recently, the exquisite ESA Planck measurements have not only spearheaded this transition, but also allow ...
The exercise of producing the "Mega Science Vision 2035" document for India, coordinated by the Office of the PSA, is in progress. The current status of the Nuclear Physics and High Energy Physics documents will be presented.
The past decade has seen the opening of two new windows to the Universe - high energy neutrinos and gravitational waves. Leveraging data from other astrophysical messengers, two extragalactic candidate sources have been identified for the high energy neutrinos - TXS 0506+056 and NGC 1068. The existence of this flux enables the testing of fundamental particle physics at energies far beyond the...
The GRAPES-3 experiment located in Ooty, Tamil Nadu is the major cosmic ray observation facility in India. It operates 24x7 with an array of 400 plastic scintillator detectors of 1 m$^2$ area each and a 560 m$^2$ area large muon telescope to sample the electromagnetic and muonic components of cosmic ray showers respectively. It allows us to study high energy phenomena from 10 TeV to 10 PeV...
This presentation will review recent advances in detectors by taking into account the needs for present and future experiments. It will discuss some selected directions of targeted detector development. It will also explore some interesting areas of blue sky research.
I will take an overview of the latest progress in theory model space of dark matter candidates. I will in particular concentrate on new class of dark matter theories, where dark matter is a composite particle arising through confinement in a secluded non-Abelian confining sector. I will sketch the principles behind construction of such theories, demonstrate the usage of lattice computations...
There is an overwhelming evidence of the existence of dark matter (DM) from observations at different scales, from galaxies to the whole Universe, supporting that a large fraction of the
mass and energy budget cannot be explained within the standard cosmological model. Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) have been proposed to be most interesting DM candidates. Different complimentary...
Understanding the thermodynamics of strongly interacting matter described by Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) lies at the core of explaining, for e.g., the formation of an overwhelming fraction of the visible matter in the universe and the dense baryon matter that exists at the core of the neutron stars. Lattice QCD techniques have provided some spectacular results in this field, specially in the...
Although an integral part of the Standard Model, neutrinos still remain the least understood of all known fundamental particles. There are many open questions in neutrino physics, starting from their very nature to their mass generation, their mixing and oscillation patterns. In this talk, I will cover the current theoretical understanding of neutrinos and the various open questions that...
With the establishment of the oscillation phenomena, neutrino physics is entering a precision era, although there are still several unknowns, such as the neutrino mass ordering, possible CP violation in neutrino physics, amongst others. In this talk, I will review the current experimental status of neutrino physics and the planned experiments at least in the next two decades which will enable...
Future colliders are necessary to understand the Higgs boson at percent level precision. Any deviations at percent level in the Higgs sector points to new physics at 10 TeV scale. Natural choice made by the world community calls for a plan to build an electron-positron Higgs factory followed by a 10-TeV scale collider, using 100-TeV center-of-mass proton-proton collider or a 10-TeV muon...
In 2020 the US Department of Energy announced its intention to build the Electron Ion Collider (EIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory. Immediately, an EIC project team consisting of scientists from BNL and Jefferson Laboratory was formed and project moved forward. It has gone through important critical decisions and evaluations since then and poised to start construction in 2025 culminating...
The two B-factory experiments (Belle at KEKB, BaBar at PEPII) observed the first large signals for CP violation (matter-antimatter asymmetries) in the B meson sector in 2001. These results demonstrated Kobayashi and Maskawa's hypothesis for the origin of the CP violation is correct and provided the experimental foundation for their 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics. Belle II, the first super...
The Standard Model (SM) theory of Particle Physics has been very successful in explaining a large number of physics processes.
However, the theory is incomplete as it doesn't address the problems such as neutrino masses, dark matter, dark energy, and many more.
This requires us to look at the physics processes beyond SM. The two general-purpose detectors at LHC, namely CMS and ATLAS,...
