DHEP Annual Meeting

16 Mar 2026, 08:30 → 17 Mar 2026, 18:00 Asia/Kolkata

AG66 (Lecture Theatre) (TIFR, Mumbai)

Gagan Mohanty (TIFR, Mumbai)

Monday, 16 March

09:30 → 10:00 Opening Session

09:30 Inauguration by the Director

Speaker: Prof. Jayaram N Chengalur

09:35 Welcome address by Dean-NSF

Speaker: Prof. Shankar Ghosh

09:40 Overview of activities of DHEP

Speaker: Gagan Mohanty (DHEP, TIFR)

10:00 → 10:30 High Tea

10:30 → 13:05 Astroparticle Physics

10:30 Overview of GRAPES-3 Activities

Speaker: Dr Pravata K Mohanty (TIFR)

10:55 Updates on Thunderstorm Studies

Speaker: Dr Hari Haran B (CRL, TIFR, OOTY)

11:15 Characterization of thunderstorm induced muon events

Speaker: Dr Pranaba Nayak (TIFR)

11:30 Searches for gamma-ray sources with GRAPES-3

Speaker: Mr Mohan Karthik G (TIFR)

11:45 A GNN-based geometric graph node converter for PMT nonlinearity correction in GRAPES-3

Speaker: Mr Sambit Sarkar (TIFR)

12:00 Introduction to the Gamma Ray Activities

Speaker: Dr Atreyee Sinha (TIFR, Mumbai)

12:20 First data from the SiPM camera

Speaker: Dr Bharat Singh (TIFR)

12:35 Introduction to the IceCube Activities

Speaker: Dr Mohamed Rameez (TIFR)

12:50 Neutrino signals from the Cygnus region

Speaker: Mr Ashish Narayan (TIFR)

13:05 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:55 Instrumentation for HEP: Part I

14:00 FPGA-based backend electronics for GRAPES-3 muon telescopes

Speaker: Mr Suresh Kumar R (TIFR)

14:15 Electronics upgrade of the GRAPES-3 scintillator array

Speaker: Jagadeesan Paranjothi (SCIENTIFIC OFFICER)

14:30 Ongoing activities on SiPM camera commissioning

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

14:45 SiPM Camera control Software

Speaker: Mr Mano Ranjan (TIFR)

15:10 Development of Si detector modules for the CMS HGCAL

Speaker: Mr Kameshwar Rao (TIFR)

15:25 Development of the QA/QC protocols for HGCAL Si modules

Speaker: Mr Simon Pereira (TIFR)

15:40 Overview of development of CMS HGCAL backend electronics

Speaker: Mr Irfan Mirza (TIFR)

8_DHEP_Annual_Meeting_2026_1_irfan.pdf

15:55 → 16:25 Tea Break

16:25 → 18:10 Instrumentation for HEP: Part II

16:25 Overview of group activities

Speaker: Gobinda Majumder (TIFR)

16:40 Development of CMVD backend electronics, firmware and a capacitive charge injection board

Speaker: Mandar Saraf (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research)

17:10 Upgrade of frontend electronics of C217 RPC stack

Speaker: Mr Ravindra Shinde (TIFR)

17:20 Development of an SiPM power supply and trigger boards

Speaker: Mr Prajjalak Chattopadhyay (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai)

Prajjalak_DHEP_annual_meeting_2026.pdf

17:30 Muon flux measurement using miniICAL data

Speaker: Mr Pethuraj S (TIFR)

17:40 Commissioning of the scintillator-based cosmic muon veto detector

Speaker: raj shah (India-Based Neutrino Observatory, TIFR)

17:50 Mechanical Design of a Threshold Cherenkov Detector

Speaker: Mr Piyush Verma (TIFR)

18:00 Performance of a Charge Injection Board to Test the Connectivity of CMS HGCAL frontend boards

Speaker: Jasmine Chhikara (Tata Inst. of Fundamental Research(IN))

Annual meeting 2026.pdf

Tuesday, 17 March

09:30 → 11:00 Collider Physics: Part I

09:30 Overview of activities at the CMS and Belle II experiments

Speaker: Dr Shilpi Jain (TIFR, Mumbai)

09:55 TIme-dependent CP violation study in B0 → Ks pi0 gamma decays at Belle II

Speaker: Rishabh Mehta (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research)

10:10 ML-based optimization to improve luminosity delivery to Belle II

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

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

Speaker: Ms Riya Pramanik (TIFR)

11:00 → 11:30 Tea Break

11:30 → 12:35 Collider Physics: Part II

11:30 Test of lepton flavor universality in W boson decays using top quark pair events

Speaker: Mr Pruthvi Suryadevara (TIFR)

11:45 A GNN based energy correction for electrons and photons in CMS

Speaker: Avik Das (TIFR Mumbai)

12:00 Measurement of collider-independent asymmetries in the semileptonic final state of top quark pair events

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

Speaker: Mr Anirban Bala (TIFR)

12:35 → 13:05 Future DHEP Projects: Positronium

12:35 An end-end physics program with the positronium system

Speaker: Dr Rajdeep Chatterjee (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research)

12:50 A novel application of quantum dots for future detectors

Speaker: Mr Santanu Mahata (TIFR)

13:05 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:45 Poster Session

15:45 → 16:00 Tea Break

16:00 → 16:15 Instrumentation for HEP: Part III

16:00 CMS level-1 trigger upgrades for the HL-LHC

Speaker: Mandakini Patil (TIFR Mumbai)

Mandakini-TriggerUpgrade_annualmeet2026.pdf

16:15 → 16:50 Summary and Closeout

16:15 Feedback from the external expert

Speaker: Prof. James Libby (IITM)

16:45 Vote of Thanks