Name: DHEP Annual Meeting
Start: 2026-03-16T08:30:00+05:30
End: 2026-03-17T18:00:00+05:30
Location: TIFR, Mumbai

DHEP Annual Meeting

from Monday, 16 March 2026 (08:30) to Tuesday, 17 March 2026 (18:00)

Monday, 16 March 2026
09:30
09:30 - 10:00
Room: AG66 (Lecture Theatre)
Contributions

09:30 Inauguration by the Director - Jayaram N Chengalur

09:35 Welcome address by Dean-NSF - Shankar Ghosh

09:40 Overview of activities of DHEP - Gagan Mohanty (DHEP, TIFR)
10:00

10:00 - 10:30
Room: West canteen terrace
10:30
10:30 - 13:05
Room: AG66 (Lecture Theatre)
Contributions

10:30 Overview of GRAPES-3 Activities - Pravata K Mohanty (TIFR)

10:55 Updates on Thunderstorm Studies - Hari Haran B (CRL, TIFR, OOTY)

11:15 Characterization of thunderstorm induced muon events - Pranaba Nayak (TIFR)

11:30 Searches for gamma-ray sources with GRAPES-3 - Mohan Karthik G (TIFR)

11:45 A GNN-based geometric graph node converter for PMT nonlinearity correction in GRAPES-3 - Sambit Sarkar (TIFR)

12:00 Introduction to the Gamma Ray Activities - Atreyee Sinha (TIFR, Mumbai)

12:20 First data from the SiPM camera - Bharat Singh (TIFR)

12:35 Introduction to the IceCube Activities - Mohamed Rameez (TIFR)

12:50 Neutrino signals from the Cygnus region - Ashish Narayan (TIFR)
13:05

13:05 - 14:00
Room: HBA Cafeteria area
14:00 Part I
Part I
14:00 - 15:55
Room: AG66 (Lecture Theatre)
Contributions

14:00 FPGA-based backend electronics for GRAPES-3 muon telescopes - Suresh Kumar R (TIFR)

14:15 Electronics upgrade of the GRAPES-3 scintillator array - Jagadeesan Paranjothi (SCIENTIFIC OFFICER)

14:30 Ongoing activities on SiPM camera commissioning - Sandeep Duhan (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai)

14:45 SiPM Camera control Software - Mano Ranjan (TIFR)

15:10 Development of Si detector modules for the CMS HGCAL - Kameshwar Rao (TIFR)

15:25 Development of the QA/QC protocols for HGCAL Si modules - Simon Pereira (TIFR)

15:40 Overview of development of CMS HGCAL backend electronics - Irfan Mirza (TIFR)
15:55

15:55 - 16:25
Room: HBA Cafeteria area
16:25 Part II
Part II
16:25 - 18:10
Room: AG66 (Lecture Theatre)
Contributions

16:25 Overview of group activities - Gobinda Majumder (TIFR)

16:40 Development of CMVD backend electronics, firmware and a capacitive charge injection board - Mandar Saraf (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research)

17:10 Upgrade of frontend electronics of C217 RPC stack - Ravindra Shinde (TIFR)

17:20 Development of an SiPM power supply and trigger boards - Prajjalak Chattopadhyay (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai)

17:30 Muon flux measurement using miniICAL data - Pethuraj S (TIFR)

17:40 Commissioning of the scintillator-based cosmic muon veto detector - raj shah (India-Based Neutrino Observatory, TIFR)

17:50 Mechanical Design of a Threshold Cherenkov Detector - Piyush Verma (TIFR)

18:00 Performance of a Charge Injection Board to Test the Connectivity of CMS HGCAL frontend boards - Jasmine Chhikara (Tata Inst. of Fundamental Research(IN))
Tuesday, 17 March 2026
09:30 Part I
Part I
09:30 - 11:00
Room: AG66 (Lecture Theatre)
Contributions

09:30 Overview of activities at the CMS and Belle II experiments - Shilpi Jain (TIFR, Mumbai)

09:55 TIme-dependent CP violation study in B0 → Ks pi0 gamma decays at Belle II - Rishabh Mehta (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research)

10:10 ML-based optimization to improve luminosity delivery to Belle II - Sarthak Tripathy (TIFR)

10:25 Search for supersymmetry in events with a photon, a lepton, and missing transverse momentum in proton-proton collisions - Tribeni Mishra (Postdoctoral Fellow)

10:40 Measurement of cross-section and a search for anomalous neutral triple gauge coupling in the photon + MET using CMS Run 3 data - Riya Pramanik (TIFR)
11:00

11:00 - 11:30
Room: West canteen terrace
11:30 Part II
Part II
11:30 - 12:35
Room: AG66 (Lecture Theatre)
Contributions

11:30 Test of lepton flavor universality in W boson decays using top quark pair events - Pruthvi Suryadevara (TIFR)

11:45 A GNN based energy correction for electrons and photons in CMS - Avik Das (TIFR Mumbai)

12:00 Measurement of collider-independent asymmetries in the semileptonic final state of top quark pair events - Mukund Shelake (TIFR)

12:20 A search for exotic decays of the Higgs boson to a pair of pseudo-scalars in bbGG final state in Run 2 - Anirban Bala (TIFR)
12:35 Positronium
Positronium
12:35 - 13:05
Room: AG66 (Lecture Theatre)
Contributions

12:35 An end-end physics program with the positronium system - Rajdeep Chatterjee (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research)

12:50 A novel application of quantum dots for future detectors - Santanu Mahata (TIFR)
13:05

13:05 - 14:00
Room: HBA Cafeteria area

14:00

14:00 - 15:45

15:45

15:45 - 16:00
Room: HBA Cafeteria area
16:00 Part III
Part III
16:00 - 16:15
Room: AG66 (Lecture Theatre)
Contributions

16:00 CMS level-1 trigger upgrades for the HL-LHC - Mandakini Patil (TIFR Mumbai)
16:15
16:15 - 16:50
Room: AG66 (Lecture Theatre)
Contributions

16:15 Feedback from the external expert - James Libby (IITM)

16:45 Vote of Thanks