DHEP Annual Meeting, 2016

7 Apr 2016, 09:30 → 8 Apr 2016, 18:30 Asia/Kolkata

TIFR

Sudeshna Banerjee (Department of High Energy Physics, TIFR)

Thursday, 7 April

09:30 → 10:05 Opening Remarks by Director and Overview talk by S. Banerjee, Chair, DHEP

Speaker: Prof. Sudeshna Banerjee (Department of High Energy Physics, TIFR)

Slides DHEP_introduction_v1.pdf

10:05 → 10:40 High Tea

10:40 → 11:40 TIFR-CMS A (T. Aziz)

Convener: Prof. S.K Gupta (TIFR)

10:40 A Broad Overview of CMS

Speaker: Prof. Tariq Aziz (TIFR)

Slides CMS-LHC-Aziz-April-2016.pdf

10:55 Standard Model with CMS

Speaker: Prof. Shashikant Raichand Dugad (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research)

Slides Shashi_DHEP_CMS_Annual_Meet_08_April_2016.pdf

11:10 New Physics with CMS

Speaker: Prof. Gagan Mohanty (DHEP)

Slides CMS-talk.pdf

11:30 Search for SUSY at CMS

Speaker: Mr Mahakud Bibhuprasad (TIFR)

Slides TIFRdepartTalk_Bibhuprasad.pdf

11:40 → 13:00 TIFR-CMS B (K. Mazumdar)

11:40 Physics at LHC

Speaker: Dr Monoranjan Guchait (TIFR, Mumbai, India)

Slides DHEP-AnnualMeet-2016.pptx

12:02 Physics with CMS detector

Speaker: Prof. Gobinda Majumder (TIFR)

Slides april16_dhep_cms.pptx

12:22 Physics analyses with CMS data

Speaker: Kajari Mazumdar (DHEP, TIFR)

Slides KAJARI.pdf

12:42 Upgrade of HCAL front end electronis

Speaker: Mrs Mandakini Patil (TIFR Mumbai)

Slides DHEP_RVW_meeting_f.pdf

12:52 Grid computing at LHC

Speaker: Mr Brij K Jashal (TIFR)

Slides Brij-slides-DHEPmeeting.pdf

13:00 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:00 BELLE (G. Mohanty)

Convener: Prof. B.S Acharya (TIFR)

14:00 Overview of Belle and Belle-II

Speaker: Prof. Gagan Mohanty (DHEP)

Slides Belle-talk.pdf

14:20 Probing rare B-meson decays

Speaker: Dr Vipin Gaur (TIFR)

Slides GAUR.pdf

14:40 CP violation in radiative charm decays

Speaker: Mr Varghese Babu (TIFR)

Slides VargheseDeptTalk_v2.pdf

14:55 Belle II Physics Analysis Center

Speaker: Mr Prashant D Shingade (TIFR)

Slides Belle_II_Physics_Analysis_center_TIFR_Department_Report_2016.pptx

15:00 → 16:15 GRAPES-3 (S. Gupta)

15:00 Current status of the GRAPES-3 experiment

Speaker: Prof. S.K. Gupta (TIFR)

Slides SKG-7Apr16.pdf

15:30 GRAPES-3 detector development, past, present, and future

Speaker: Mr Atul Jain (TIFR)

Slides Atul_Detector_Development.pptx

Video GRAPES-3_twisters.mp4

15:53 Physics from GRAPES-3, and future outlook

Speaker: Dr Pravata K Mohanty (TIFR)

Slides dhep-annualtalk-pkmohanty.pdf

16:15 → 18:30 Poster session (including Tea Break)

16:15 A new method to determine TDCZero

Speaker: Mr Hari Haran B (TIFR)

16:15 Associated Production of Single Top Quark in Association with Higgs boson

Speaker: Ms Pallabi Das (TIFR)

Slides poster-1.pdf

16:15 Atmospheric effects in muon rate

Speaker: Dr Arun Babu K.P (TIFR)

16:15 Correlation of shower rate with atmospheric parameters

Speaker: Mr Meeran Zuberi (TIFR)

16:15 Effects of atmospheric electric field on muon intensity observed in GRAPES-3

Speaker: Mr Hari Haran B (TIFR)

16:15 GRAPES-3 communication interface upgrade

Speaker: Mr Pankaj Rakshe (TIFR)

16:15 GRAPES-3 computer cluster

Speaker: Mr Hari Haran B (TIFR)

16:15 GRAPES-3 muon pre-analysis visualisation of CR trajectories

Speaker: Mr Samuel Morris (TIFR)

16:15 Joint CMS-CALICE Test Beam 2015 Analysis

Speaker: Ms Sandhya Jain (TIFR)

Slides TBPoster_Departmental.pdf

16:15 Measurement of EAS direction in GRAPES-3 for gamma ray studies

Speaker: Ms Jhansi Bhavani Vuta (TIFR)

16:15 Muon angular distribution at GRAPES-3

Speaker: Mr Anuj Chandra (TIFR)

16:15 Present status of fabrication of proportional counter

Speaker: Mr Ramesh Kaviti (TIFR)

16:15 Space weather studies with GRAPES-3

Speaker: Dr Arun Babu K.P (TIFR)

16:15 Sudden variation in cosmic ray flux during thunderstorms

Speaker: Dr Pranaba Nayak (TIFR)

Friday, 8 April

09:30 → 10:25 HAGAR (V. Chitnis)

Convener: Prof. Tariq Aziz (TIFR)

09:30 Ground Based Gamma Ray Astronomy with Cherenkov Telescopes

Speaker: Dr Varsha Chitnis (T.I.F.R)

Slides vrc_hagar.pdf

09:45 G-APD characterisation

Speaker: Mr Bharat Singh (TIFR)

Slides dhep_bbs_white.pdf

09:55 G-APD based camera electronics

Speaker: Mr S S Upadhya (TIFR)

Slides GAPD_CAMERA_Electronics_20160407_SSUpadhya.pdf

10:10 Calibration device for CTA

Speaker: Mr Bharat Singh (TIFR)

Slides cbox_dhep.pdf

10:15 Software development for CTA

Speaker: Mr Kiran S Gothe (TIFR)

Slides CTA_Software_Kiran-2.pdf

10:25 → 11:20 SiPM Detector Development (S. Dugad)

10:25 Hardware Contributions to HCAL-CMS

Speaker: Prof. Shashikant Raichand Dugad (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research)

Slides Shashi_DHEP_SiPM_Annual_Meet_08_April_2016.pdf

10:45 Progress on SiPM fabrication

Speaker: Dr Venu Gopal Achanta (DCMP&MS,TIFR)

Slides DHEP_AnnualMeet.pptx

11:00 Development of Micron Resolution Scanner and SiPM associated Electronics

Speaker: Mr Raghunandan A Shukla (TIFR)

Slides DHEP_MEET_RAS.pptx

11:20 → 11:50 Tea

11:50 → 12:45 Gravity Studies (C S Unnikrishnan)

Convener: Prof. J.S Yadav (TIFR)

11:50 Overview of research, results and next steps: Atoms, Light, Gravity and Relativity

Speaker: Prof. C S Unnikrishnan (TIFR)

Slides DHEP-Annual-Unni.pptx

12:25 Vacuum in quantum optics: Progress on a plan

Speaker: Mr Ninad Jetty (TIFR)

Slides DHEP_2016_NRJ.pdf

12:35 A versatile FPGA photon counter and correlator

Speaker: Mr P V Sudersanan (TIFR)

Slides pvs_dhep_2016.pptx

12:45 → 13:45 Lunch Break

13:45 → 14:40 Gravity Studies (N. Krishnan)

Convener: Prof. Rajiv V. Gavai (DTP, TIFR)

13:45 Gauribidanur Equivalence Principle Experiment and some of our developments of Technique

Speaker: Dr Nadathur Krishnan (TIFR)

Slides DHEP_2016Mtg_Krishnan.ppt

14:15 Torsion Balance Experiments: MotionControl System and Calibration System for Autocollimator

Speaker: Mr Simon M Pereira (TIFR)

Slides SMP_DeptM2016.pptx

14:40 → 15:35 INO (G. Majumder)

14:40 Progress in INO project

Speaker: Prof. Gobinda Majumder (TIFR)

Slides april16_dhep_ino.pptx

14:55 RPC Production status for EM and Madurai Stack

Speaker: Mr S Kalmani (TIFR)

Slides Status_of_RPC_work_at_Saint_GobainV1.pptx

15:10 Development of DAQ and Trigger system for INO

Speaker: Dr Satyanarayana Bheesette (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, INDIA)

Slides ICAL_Electronics,_trigger_and_DAQ_systems.pdf ICAL_Electronics,_trigger_and_DAQ_systems.pptx

15:35 → 16:10 Summary Talk (A. Dighe)

slides amol-summary.pdf

16:10 → 18:30 Poster Session (Including Tea Break)

16:10 Active Thermal Control System at Gauribidanur -- Generating Millidegree Stability in a Room- sized Volume

16:10 Analog front-end solutions for ICAL RPCs

16:10 Design and Development of Nanosecond Light Flasher for CTA Telescope

Speaker: Mr Bharat Singh (TIFR)

16:10 Design validation and Performance Of Close Loop Gas Recirculation System

16:10 Development of OFHC Copper Wire Gasket for UHV Sealing

16:10 Entangled Photon Source and FPGA-Based Multi-Channel Counter and Correlator

Speaker: Mr Ninand Jetty

16:10 Front-end data acquisition and control module for ICAL RPCs

16:10 Global services and calibration system for the INO-ICAL detector

16:10 Monitoring of absolute pressure and estimation of leak of an RPC gas gap

16:10 Multilevel and configurable trigger system for INO-ICAL experiment

16:10 Network scheme and distributed data processing system of ICAL experiment

16:10 Optical position sensor with magnetic feedback actuator for gravitational wave detectors

Speaker: Mr P.G. Rodrigues (TIFR)

16:10 Performance Parameters for G-APD based Camera

Speaker: Ms Sonal Patel (TIFR)

16:10 Pixel cluster Module for GAPD Based Imaging Camera

Speaker: Ms Shobha K Rao (TIFR)