DHEP Annual Meeting -2018

8 May 2018, 09:30 → 9 May 2018, 20:00 Asia/Kolkata

AG66

Tuesday, 8 May

09:30 → 09:50 Opening Remarks

09:30 Remarks by the Chair, DHEP

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

Slides DHEP_overview_Annual_Meeting2018.pdf DHEP_overview_Annual_Meeting2018.pptx

09:50 → 10:30 Session on Silicon Photomultipliers

Convener: S. K. Gupta (TIFR)

09:50 Introduction to Group Activities

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

Slides Shashi_DHEP_Annual_Meeting_SiPM_20180508_v02.pdf

10:05 Development of SiPM, Characterization, Associated Instrumentation & Applications

Speaker: Raghunandan A Shukla (TIFR)

Slides DHEP_Meet2018_SiPM_v1_final.pdf DHEP_Meet2018_SiPM_v1_final.pptx

10:30 → 11:00 TEA BREAK

11:00 → 11:40 Session on Belle

Convener: Sudeshna Banerjee (Department of High Energy Physics, TIFR)

11:00 Moving from Belle to Belle II

Speaker: Gagan Mohanty (DHEP, TIFR)

Slides Gagan-talk-v1.pdf Gagan-talk-v1.pptx

11:10 Building the Layer 4 of Belle II SVD

Speaker: K Kameshwar Rao (TIFR)

Slides dhep-8May2018_v1.pdf dhep-8May2018_v1.pptx

11:25 Getting Ready for Belle II

Speaker: K. P PRASANTH KRISHNAN (TIFR)

Slides Prasanth_Annual_Meeting.pdf

11:40 → 13:00 Session on CMS B

Convener: Tariq Aziz (TIFR)

11:40 Physics Analysis and Results from the CMS Experiment

Speaker: Monoranjan Guchait (TIFR, Mumbai, India)

Slides DHEP-CMSB.pdf

12:10 Phase 1 Upgrade of CMS Hadron Calorimeter

Speaker: Mandakini Patil (TIFR Mumbai)

Slides DHEPAnnual2018_MRP-new.pdf

12:30 Grid Computing Facility at TIFR

Speaker: Puneet Kumar Patel (TIFR)

Slides puneet-slides.pdf

12:45 Phase 2 Trigger Upgrade of CMS Experiment

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

Slides PhaseII_Trigger_AnnualMeeting.pdf PhaseII_Trigger_AnnualMeeting.pptx

13:00 → 14:00 LUNCH BREAK

14:00 → 15:00 Session on CMS A

Convener: Rajiv V. Gavai (DTP, TIFR)

14:00 Current Activities and Future Plans

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

Slides Shashi_DHEP_Annual_Meeting_CMS_A__20180507.pdf

14:15 Looking for Elusive Leptoquarks and Supersymmetry

Speaker: Gagan Mohanty (DHEP, TIFR)

Slides Gagan-talk-v1.pdf

14:30 Searching for Charged Higgs Bosons at CMS

Speaker: R Verma (TIFR)

Slides Ravindra_TIFR_DHEP_Annual_Meet_8thMay_2018.pdf

14:45 Development of PCIe-IPBus Framework and Hardware for Phase 2 Upgrade

Speaker: Irfan R Mirza (TIFR)

Slides PCIe-IPBus_ControlInfrastructure_Development_final.pdf PCIe-IPBus_ControlInfrastructure_Development_final.pptx

15:00 → 16:00 Special Session on Outstanding Technology: Theme: Approaches to High Performance Computing

Convener: N. Krishnan (TIFR)

15:00 How to Build an Inexpensive, Low-Maintenance and Scalable Supercomputing Cluster?

Speaker: B Hariharan (TIFR)

Slides computer_cluster.pdf

15:30 Computing in High Energy Physics

Speaker: Brij Jashal (TIFR DHEP)

Slides Computing_in_High_Energy_Physics_-_upload.pdf

16:00 → 18:30 TEA & Poster Session 1

16:00 Determination of Shower front Curvature by GRAPES-3 experiment

Speaker: Jhansi Bhavani V

16:05 GRAPES-3 Shower Reconstruction

Speaker: Saswat Mishra

16:10 GEANT4 simulation of GRAPES-3 scintillator detector

Speaker: Saswat Mishra

16:15 Search for gamma rays produced in thunderstorms by NaI detectors

Speaker: Diptiranja Pattnaik

16:20 Measurement of electric potential in thunderstorm using GRAPES-3 muon telescope

Speaker: B. Hari Haran

16:25 GRAPES-3 data analysis framework

Speaker: B. Hari Haran

16:30 GRAPES-3 Computer Cluster

Speaker: B Hari Haran

16:35 Modelling of Geomagnetic storms by GRAPES-3

Speaker: Meeran Zuberi

16:40 Selection of Time Delay Range in Air Shower Data

Speaker: Hrushikesh Mahapatra

16:45 A Novel Encoder-Micrometer Controller

Speaker: Simon M. Pereira

16:50 Gauribidanur Thermal Control System -- New Developments

Speaker: A Vaidyanathan

16:55 The Stiffening of Gauribidanur Mechanical Structures

Speaker: B. S Mallikarjuna

17:00 Hardware developments for CMS Phase-2 upgrade

Speaker: Raghunathan A Shukla

17:05 Microscopic scanning of the HO and HE Hybrid Photo Detectors (HPD) with Micron Resolution Optical Scanner (MROS)

Speaker: Irfan R Mirza

17:10 Search for Charged Higgs Boson, Decaying into cs quarks at √ s =13 TeV, In Lepton +Jets Channel with 2016 Data

Speaker: Ravindra Kumar Verma

17:15 Search for Lepton flavor violating tau decays at BELLE

Speaker: Debashis Sahoo

17:20 Timing Calibration of HAGAR Telescope

Speaker: Bharat Singh (TIFR)

17:25 Temporal Study and Estimation of Jet Parameters for Ton 599

Speaker: Shobha K. Rao

17:30 Prototype Back End Electronics for G-APD Based Imaging Camer

Speaker: Sandeep Duhan (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai)

17:35 A Compact Cosmic Muon Veto Detector

Speaker: Neha Panchal

17:40 Measurement of Azimuthal dependence of cosmic muon flux using 2mx2m RPC stack at IICHEP Madurai

Speaker: S Pethuraj

17:45 Expected tracking performance of miniICAL

Speaker: Apoorva Bhat

17:50 Feasibility study for development of a PET device based on Multi-gap Resistive Plate Chambers

Speaker: Mohammad Nizam

17:55 Charge track multiplicities in 2mx2m RPC stack at IICHEP Madurai

Speaker: Surayanarayan Mondal

18:00 BSM Higgs at the LHE

Speaker: Arvind

18:05 Study of Anti-kt reconstructed jets for semi-leptonic decay of top quark in CMS experiment

Speaker: Murli K Maurya

Wednesday, 9 May

09:30 → 10:25 Session on HAGAR

Convener: Shashikant Raichand Dugad (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research)

09:30 Ground-based Gamma Ray Astronomy with Cherenkov Telescopes: An Update

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

Slides vrc_hagar_ann_meeting_2018.pdf

09:40 Progress on G-APD-based Imaging Camera for ACT

Speaker: S. S. Upadhya (TIFR)

Slides Progress_of_G-APD_based_Imaging_Camera_SSU.pdf

10:00 Status of Back-end Electronics for Imaging Camera

Speaker: Sandeep Duhan (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai)

Slides Back-end_Status_DHEP2018.pdf

10:10 VHE Measurements of Crab Nebula with HAGAR Telescope System

Speaker: Bharat Singh (TIFR)

Slides crab_nebula_dhep_2018.pdf

10:20 Common Discussion Time

10:25 → 10:55 TEA BREAK

10:55 → 12:10 Session on GRAPES-3

Convener: B. S. Acharya (T.I.F.R.)

10:55 An Overview of the GRAPES-3 Experiment

Speaker: S. K. Gupta (TIFR)

11:20 A New Muon Detector: Challenges & Perspectives

Speaker: Atul Jain (TIFR)

Slides Atul_DHEP_2018.pptx

11:45 New Results from GRAPES-3 spanning a Large Energy Range

Speaker: P. K. Mohanty (TIFR)

Slides pkmohanty-dhep-annualtalk2018.pdf

12:10 → 13:00 Session on Gravity – 1

Convener: V. M. Datar (TIFR)

12:10 Lighting Micro-cavities with Microfibres

Speaker: M. Gaira (TIFR)

Slides Meenakshi_DM_2018.pdf

12:20 A Cold-Atom Interferometer for Metrology

Speaker: S. Sankaranarayanan (TIFR)

Slides Annual_meeting_2018_-_Sankar.pptx

12:30 Gravitational Waves, Optics, Relativity and High Energy Condensed Matter Physics

Speaker: C. S. Unnikrishnan (TIFR)

Slides DHEP-Annual_2018-Unni.pptx

13:00 → 14:00 LUNCH BREAK

14:00 → 14:45 Session on Gravity-2

Convener: Kajari Mazumdar (DHEP, TIFR)

14:00 Overview of Activity on the Gauribidanur Experiment

Speaker: N Krishnan (TIFR)

Slides DHEP_2018Mtg_Krishnanv2.ppt

14:15 FEM Studies of the Gauribidanur EP Apparatus

Speaker: B. S Mallikarjuna (Gravitation Laboratory, Gauribidanur)

Slides AnnualMeet_Mallikarjuna.pptx

14:45 → 15:30 Session on INO

Convener: Amol Dighe (TIFR)

14:45 Mini-ICAL Status and Feasibility of Shallow Depth ICAL

Speaker: V. M. Datar (TIFR)

Slides mini-ICAL_and_CRVD_DHEP_9-5-2018_final.pdf

15:05 Development of INO Electronics

Speaker: S. S. Upadhaya (TIFR)

Slides MiniICALatMadurai_SSU.pdf

15:25 Common Discussion Time

15:30 → 16:00 Vote of Thanks; Break, then Reconvene at 4 pm for the Special Colloquium

16:00 → 17:00 Special Colloquium: Fundamental Physics at the Technology Frontier

Speaker: Tariq Aziz (TIFR)

17:00 → 18:30 TEA & Poster Session 2