DHEP Annual Meeting
16 Mar 2026, 08:30
→
17 Mar 2026, 18:00
Asia/Kolkata
AG66 (Lecture Theatre) (TIFR, Mumbai)
AG66 (Lecture Theatre)
TIFR, Mumbai
Gagan Mohanty
(
TIFR, Mumbai
)
Monday, 16 March
Mon, 16 Mar
Tue, 17 Mar
09:30
→
10:00
Opening Session
AG66 (Lecture Theatre)
AG66 (Lecture Theatre)
TIFR, Mumbai
09:30
Inauguration by the Director
5m
Speaker
:
Prof.
Jayaram N Chengalur
09:35
Welcome address by Dean-NSF
5m
Speaker
:
Prof.
Shankar Ghosh
09:40
Overview of activities of DHEP
20m
Speaker
:
Gagan Mohanty
(
DHEP, TIFR
)
10:00
→
10:30
High Tea
West canteen terrace
West canteen terrace
10:30
→
13:05
Astroparticle Physics
AG66 (Lecture Theatre)
AG66 (Lecture Theatre)
TIFR, Mumbai
10:30
Overview of GRAPES-3 Activities
25m
Speaker
:
Dr
Pravata K Mohanty
(
TIFR
)
10:55
Updates on Thunderstorm Studies
20m
Speaker
:
Dr
Hari Haran B
(
CRL, TIFR, OOTY
)
11:15
Characterization of thunderstorm induced muon events
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Pranaba Nayak
(
TIFR
)
11:30
Searches for gamma-ray sources with GRAPES-3
15m
Speaker
:
Mr
Mohan Karthik G
(
TIFR
)
11:45
A GNN-based geometric graph node converter for PMT nonlinearity correction in GRAPES-3
15m
Speaker
:
Mr
Sambit Sarkar
(
TIFR
)
12:00
Introduction to the Gamma Ray Activities
20m
Speaker
:
Dr
Atreyee Sinha
(
TIFR, Mumbai
)
12:20
First data from the SiPM camera
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Bharat Singh
(
TIFR
)
12:35
Introduction to the IceCube Activities
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Mohamed Rameez
(
TIFR
)
12:50
Neutrino signals from the Cygnus region
15m
Speaker
:
Mr
Ashish Narayan
(
TIFR
)
13:05
→
14:00
Lunch
HBA Cafeteria area
HBA Cafeteria area
14:00
→
15:55
Instrumentation for HEP: Part I
AG66 (Lecture Theatre)
AG66 (Lecture Theatre)
TIFR, Mumbai
14:00
FPGA-based backend electronics for GRAPES-3 muon telescopes
15m
Speaker
:
Mr
Suresh Kumar R
(
TIFR
)
14:15
Electronics upgrade of the GRAPES-3 scintillator array
15m
Speaker
:
Jagadeesan Paranjothi
(
SCIENTIFIC OFFICER
)
14:30
Ongoing activities on SiPM camera commissioning
15m
Speaker
:
Sandeep Duhan
(
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai
)
14:45
SiPM Camera control Software
10m
Speaker
:
Mr
Mano Ranjan
(
TIFR
)
15:10
Development of Si detector modules for the CMS HGCAL
15m
Speaker
:
Mr
Kameshwar Rao
(
TIFR
)
15:25
Development of the QA/QC protocols for HGCAL Si modules
15m
Speaker
:
Mr
Simon Pereira
(
TIFR
)
15:40
Overview of development of CMS HGCAL backend electronics
15m
Speaker
:
Mr
Irfan Mirza
(
TIFR
)
8_DHEP_Annual_Meeting_2026_1_irfan.pdf
15:55
→
16:25
Tea Break
HBA Cafeteria area
HBA Cafeteria area
16:25
→
18:10
Instrumentation for HEP: Part II
AG66 (Lecture Theatre)
AG66 (Lecture Theatre)
TIFR, Mumbai
16:25
Overview of group activities
15m
Speaker
:
Gobinda Majumder
(
TIFR
)
16:40
Development of CMVD backend electronics, firmware and a capacitive charge injection board
30m
Speaker
:
Mandar Saraf
(
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
)
17:10
Upgrade of frontend electronics of C217 RPC stack
10m
Speaker
:
Mr
Ravindra Shinde
(
TIFR
)
17:20
Development of an SiPM power supply and trigger boards
10m
Speaker
:
Mr
Prajjalak Chattopadhyay
(
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai
)
Prajjalak_DHEP_annual_meeting_2026.pdf
17:30
Muon flux measurement using miniICAL data
10m
Speaker
:
Mr
Pethuraj S
(
TIFR
)
17:40
Commissioning of the scintillator-based cosmic muon veto detector
10m
Speaker
:
raj shah
(
India-Based Neutrino Observatory, TIFR
)
17:50
Mechanical Design of a Threshold Cherenkov Detector
10m
Speaker
:
Mr
Piyush Verma
(
TIFR
)
18:00
Performance of a Charge Injection Board to Test the Connectivity of CMS HGCAL frontend boards
10m
Speaker
:
Jasmine Chhikara
(
Tata Inst. of Fundamental Research(IN)
)
Annual meeting 2026.pdf
Tuesday, 17 March
Mon, 16 Mar
Tue, 17 Mar
09:30
→
11:00
Collider Physics: Part I
AG66 (Lecture Theatre)
AG66 (Lecture Theatre)
TIFR, Mumbai
09:30
Overview of activities at the CMS and Belle II experiments
25m
Speaker
:
Dr
Shilpi Jain
(
TIFR, Mumbai
)
09:55
TIme-dependent CP violation study in B0 → Ks pi0 gamma decays at Belle II
15m
Speaker
:
Rishabh Mehta
(
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
)
10:10
ML-based optimization to improve luminosity delivery to Belle II
15m
Speaker
:
Mr
Sarthak Tripathy
(
TIFR
)
10:25
Search for supersymmetry in events with a photon, a lepton, and missing transverse momentum in proton-proton collisions
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
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
15m
Speaker
:
Ms
Riya Pramanik
(
TIFR
)
11:00
→
11:30
Tea Break
West canteen terrace
West canteen terrace
11:30
→
12:35
Collider Physics: Part II
AG66 (Lecture Theatre)
AG66 (Lecture Theatre)
TIFR, Mumbai
11:30
Test of lepton flavor universality in W boson decays using top quark pair events
15m
Speaker
:
Mr
Pruthvi Suryadevara
(
TIFR
)
11:45
A GNN based energy correction for electrons and photons in CMS
15m
Speaker
:
Avik Das
(
TIFR Mumbai
)
12:00
Measurement of collider-independent asymmetries in the semileptonic final state of top quark pair events
20m
Speaker
:
Mr
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
15m
Speaker
:
Mr
Anirban Bala
(
TIFR
)
12:35
→
13:05
Future DHEP Projects: Positronium
AG66 (Lecture Theatre)
AG66 (Lecture Theatre)
TIFR, Mumbai
12:35
An end-end physics program with the positronium system
15m
Speaker
:
Dr
Rajdeep Chatterjee
(
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
)
12:50
A novel application of quantum dots for future detectors
15m
Speaker
:
Mr
Santanu Mahata
(
TIFR
)
13:05
→
14:00
Lunch
HBA Cafeteria area
HBA Cafeteria area
14:00
→
15:45
Poster Session
HBA foyer area
HBA foyer area
HBA foyer area
15:45
→
16:00
Tea Break
HBA Cafeteria area
HBA Cafeteria area
16:00
→
16:15
Instrumentation for HEP: Part III
AG66 (Lecture Theatre)
AG66 (Lecture Theatre)
TIFR, Mumbai
16:00
CMS level-1 trigger upgrades for the HL-LHC
15m
Speaker
:
Mandakini Patil
(
TIFR Mumbai
)
Mandakini-TriggerUpgrade_annualmeet2026.pdf
16:15
→
16:50
Summary and Closeout
AG66 (Lecture Theatre)
AG66 (Lecture Theatre)
TIFR, Mumbai
16:15
Feedback from the external expert
30m
Speaker
:
Prof.
James Libby
(
IITM
)
16:45
Vote of Thanks
5m