Name: Exploring the Positronium Frontier: Precision Tests, New Physics, and Entanglement
Start: 2026-02-12T09:30:00+05:30
End: 2026-02-14T14:30:00+05:30
Location: TIFR, Mumbai

Exploring the Positronium Frontier: Precision Tests, New Physics, and Entanglement

from Thursday, 12 February 2026 (09:30) to Saturday, 14 February 2026 (14:30)

Monday, 9 February 2026
Tuesday, 10 February 2026
Wednesday, 11 February 2026
Thursday, 12 February 2026

09:30

09:30 - 10:00
Room: TIFR Guest house seminar room
10:00 Goals of the workshop
Goals of the workshop
10:00 - 10:45
Room: TIFR Guest house seminar room
Contributions

10:00 Welcome address by the Dean-NSF and the Director

10:05 Introduction by the chairs (DTP, DNAP and DHEP)

10:20 Goals of the workshop - Rudrajyoti Palit (TIFR)

10:35 Information about Logistics - Shilpi Jain (TIFR, Mumbai)
10:45 High Tea
High Tea
10:45 - 11:30
Room: TIFR Guest house seminar room
11:30
11:30 - 13:00
Room: TIFR Guest house seminar room
Contributions

11:30 Basics of Positronium Physics and Entanglement in Positronium system - Pawel Moskal

12:00 New Physics with the Positronium system: a theory perspective - Tuhin Roy (TIFR)

12:30 Discussion
13:00

13:00 - 14:00
Room: TIFR Guest house seminar room
14:00
14:00 - 15:30
Room: TIFR Guest house seminar room
Contributions

14:00 A most versatile scintillation detector and its application in various fields - Mohit Tyagi (BARC) Shaswati Sen (BARC)

14:30 Crystal Growth of Technologically Advanced Materials - Sarguna RM (IGCAR)

15:00 Towards pico second timing - Rohith Saradhy (University)
15:30

15:30 - 16:00
Room: TIFR Guest house seminar room
16:00
16:00 - 18:00
Room: TIFR Guest house seminar room
Contributions

16:00 The FERS family of readout systems : CAEN - Carlo Tintori (CAEN spa) Massimo Venaruzzo (CAEN s.p.a.)

16:30 The CALOROC ASIC for multi-channel SIPM readout - Damien Thienpont

17:00 Low noise preamplifiers for detectors in nuclear physics - Akhil Jhingan (Inter University Accelerator Centre (IUAC))

17:30 Discussion
Friday, 13 February 2026
09:30
09:30 - 11:00
Room: TIFR Guest house seminar room
Contributions

09:30 A Leap from Isotopes to Reactors: Path to High-Intensity Positron Beams - Sudarshan Kathi (BARC)

10:00 JPET for the study of antimatter, space, gravitation - Sushil Sharma (Jagiellonian University)

10:30 Discrete Multimode Annihilation Resonances in Positron-Molecule Bound States - Soumen Ghosh (Ahmedabad University, Navrangpura, Ahmedabad 380009, Gujarat, India)
11:00

11:00 - 11:30
Room: TIFR Guest house seminar room
11:30
11:30 - 13:00
Room: TIFR Guest house seminar room
Contributions

11:30 Nuclear Physics Applications - Rudrajyoti Palit (TIFR)

12:00 Performance Evaluation and Recent Advancements in Nuclear Medicine Detectors - Ashish Jha (TMC)

12:30 Discussion
13:00

13:00 - 14:00
Room: TIFR Guest house seminar room
14:00
14:00 - 16:10
Room: TIFR Guest house seminar room
Contributions

14:00 Development of multichannel scintillator + SiPM systems - Gobinda Majumder (TIFR)

14:30 Sscience of Pettawatt - MK Krishanmurthy (TIFR Hyderabad)

15:00 Pettawatt facility in TIFR H - Prashant Kumar Singh (TIFR)
16:00 ASET Colloquium : "What Time is it?" by Prof Roger Rusack
ASET Colloquium : "What Time is it?" by Prof Roger Rusack
16:00 - 17:00
Room: TIFR Guest house seminar room
Saturday, 14 February 2026
10:00
10:00 - 12:00
Room: TIFR Guest house seminar room
Contributions

10:00 Simulations with GEANT4 - Chetan Agrawal (IISER-P)

10:30 Summary of the workshop - Seema Sharma (IISER-Pune)

11:00 Discussion and Closeout
12:00

12:00 - 13:00
Room: TIFR Guest house seminar room