DHEP Annual Meeting, 2016

chaired by Sudeshna Banerjee (Department of High Energy Physics, TIFR)

from Thursday, April 7, 2016 at 09:30 to Friday, April 8, 2016 at 18:30 (Asia/Kolkata)
at TIFR

Homi Bhabha Road, Mumbai 400 005, India

Go to day

Thursday, April 7, 2016

09:30 - 10:05 Opening Remarks by Director and Overview talk by S. Banerjee, Chair, DHEP 35' ( AG-66 )

Speaker:	Prof. Sudeshna Banerjee (Department of High Energy Physics, TIFR)
Material:	Slides

10:05 - 10:40 High Tea

10:40 - 11:40 TIFR-CMS A (T. Aziz)

Convener:

Prof. S.K Gupta (TIFR)

10:40 A Broad Overview of CMS 15'

Speaker:	Prof. Tariq Aziz (TIFR)
Material:	Slides

10:55 Standard Model with CMS 15'

Speaker:	Prof. Shashikant Raichand Dugad (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research)
Material:	Slides

11:10 New Physics with CMS 20'

Speaker:	Prof. Gagan Mohanty (DHEP)
Material:	Slides

11:30 Search for SUSY at CMS 10'

Speaker:	Mr. Mahakud Bibhuprasad (TIFR)
Material:	Slides

11:40 - 13:00 TIFR-CMS B (K. Mazumdar)

Location:

AG-66

11:40 Physics at LHC 22'

Speaker:	Dr. Monoranjan Guchait (TIFR, Mumbai, India)
Material:	Slides

12:02 Physics with CMS detector 20'

Speaker:	Prof. Gobinda Majumder (TIFR)
Material:	Slides

12:22 Physics analyses with CMS data 20'

Speaker:	Kajari Mazumdar (DHEP, TIFR)
Material:	Slides

12:42 Upgrade of HCAL front end electronis 10'

Speaker:	Mrs. Mandakini Patil (TIFR Mumbai)
Material:	Slides

12:52 Grid computing at LHC 8'

Speaker:	Mr. Brij K Jashal (TIFR)
Material:	Slides

13:00 - 14:00 Lunch ( Near auditorium )

14:00 - 15:00 BELLE (G. Mohanty)

Convener:	Prof. B.S Acharya (TIFR)
Location:	AG-66

14:00 Overview of Belle and Belle-II 20'

Speaker:	Prof. Gagan Mohanty (DHEP)
Material:	Slides

14:20 Probing rare B-meson decays 20'

Speaker:	Dr. Vipin Gaur (TIFR)
Material:	Slides

14:40 CP violation in radiative charm decays 15'

Speaker:	Mr. Varghese Babu (TIFR)
Material:	Slides

14:55 Belle II Physics Analysis Center 5'

Speaker:	Mr. Prashant D Shingade (TIFR)
Material:	Slides

15:00 - 16:15 GRAPES-3 (S. Gupta)

Location:

AG-66

15:00 Current status of the GRAPES-3 experiment 30'

Speaker:	Prof. S.K. Gupta (TIFR)
Material:	Slides

15:30 GRAPES-3 detector development, past, present, and future 23'

Speaker:	Mr. Atul Jain (TIFR)
Material:	Slides Video

15:53 Physics from GRAPES-3, and future outlook 22'

Speaker:	Dr. Pravata K Mohanty (TIFR)
Material:	Slides

16:15 - 18:30 Poster session (including Tea Break)

Location:

Homi Bhabha Auditorium foyer

16:15 Joint CMS-CALICE Test Beam 2015 Analysis 2h15'

Speaker:	Ms. Sandhya Jain (TIFR)
Material:	Slides

16:15 Associated Production of Single Top Quark in Association with Higgs boson 2h15'

Speaker:	Ms. Pallabi Das (TIFR)
Material:	Slides

16:15 Correlation of shower rate with atmospheric parameters 2h15'

Speaker: Mr. Meeran Zuberi (TIFR)
16:15 Sudden variation in cosmic ray flux during thunderstorms 2h15'

Speaker: Dr. Pranaba Nayak (TIFR)
16:15 GRAPES-3 muon pre-analysis visualisation of CR trajectories 2h15'

Speaker: Mr. Samuel Morris (TIFR)
16:15 Space weather studies with GRAPES-3 2h15'

Speaker: Dr. Arun Babu K.P (TIFR)
16:15 Atmospheric effects in muon rate 2h15'

Speaker: Dr. Arun Babu K.P (TIFR)
16:15 Present status of fabrication of proportional counter 2h15'

Speaker: Mr. Ramesh Kaviti (TIFR)
16:15 Measurement of EAS direction in GRAPES-3 for gamma ray studies 2h15'

Speaker: Ms. Jhansi Bhavani Vuta (TIFR)
16:15 Muon angular distribution at GRAPES-3 2h15'

Speaker: Mr. Anuj Chandra (TIFR)
16:15 GRAPES-3 communication interface upgrade 2h15'

Speaker: Mr. Pankaj Rakshe (TIFR)
16:15 A new method to determine TDCZero 2h15'

Speaker: Mr. Hari Haran B (TIFR)
16:15 GRAPES-3 computer cluster 2h15'

Speaker: Mr. Hari Haran B (TIFR)
16:15 Effects of atmospheric electric field on muon intensity observed in GRAPES-3 2h15'

Speaker: Mr. Hari Haran B (TIFR)

Friday, April 8, 2016

09:30 - 10:25 HAGAR (V. Chitnis)

Convener:	Prof. Tariq Aziz (TIFR)
Location:	D-406

09:30 Ground Based Gamma Ray Astronomy with Cherenkov Telescopes 15'

Speaker:	Dr. Varsha Chitnis (T.I.F.R)
Material:	Slides

09:45 G-APD characterisation 10'

Speaker:	Mr. Bharat Singh (TIFR)
Material:	Slides

09:55 G-APD based camera electronics 15'

Speaker:	Mr. S S Upadhya (TIFR)
Material:	Slides

10:10 Calibration device for CTA 5'

Speaker:	Mr. Bharat Singh (TIFR)
Material:	Slides

10:15 Software development for CTA 10'

Speaker:	Mr. Kiran S Gothe (TIFR)
Material:	Slides

10:25 - 11:20 SiPM Detector Development (S. Dugad)

Location:

D-406

10:25 Hardware Contributions to HCAL-CMS 20'

Speaker:	Prof. Shashikant Raichand Dugad (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research)
Material:	Slides

10:45 Progress on SiPM fabrication 15'

Speaker:	Dr. Venu Gopal Achanta (DCMP&MS,TIFR)
Material:	Slides

11:00 Development of Micron Resolution Scanner and SiPM associated Electronics 20'

Speaker:	Mr. Raghunandan A Shukla (TIFR)
Material:	Slides

11:20 - 11:50 Tea

11:50 - 12:45 Gravity Studies (C S Unnikrishnan)

Convener:	Prof. J.S Yadav (TIFR)
Location:	D-406

11:50 Overview of research, results and next steps: Atoms, Light, Gravity and Relativity 35'

Speaker:	Prof. C S Unnikrishnan (TIFR)
Material:	Slides

12:25 Vacuum in quantum optics: Progress on a plan 10'

Speaker:	Mr. Ninad Jetty (TIFR)
Material:	Slides

12:35 A versatile FPGA photon counter and correlator 10'

Speaker:	Mr. P V Sudersanan (TIFR)
Material:	Slides

12:45 - 13:45 Lunch Break ( Near auditorium )

13:45 - 14:40 Gravity Studies (N. Krishnan)

Convener:	Prof. Rajiv V. Gavai (DTP, TIFR)
Location:	AG-66

13:45 Gauribidanur Equivalence Principle Experiment and some of our developments of Technique 30'

Speaker:	Dr. Nadathur Krishnan (TIFR)
Material:	Slides

14:15 Torsion Balance Experiments: MotionControl System and Calibration System for Autocollimator 25'

Speaker:	Mr. Simon M Pereira (TIFR)
Material:	Slides

14:40 - 15:35 INO (G. Majumder)

Location:

AG-66

14:40 Progress in INO project 15'

Speaker:	Prof. Gobinda Majumder (TIFR)
Material:	Slides

14:55 RPC Production status for EM and Madurai Stack 15'

Speaker:	Mr. S Kalmani (TIFR)
Material:	Slides

15:10 Development of DAQ and Trigger system for INO 25'

Speaker:	Dr. Satyanarayana Bheesette (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, INDIA)
Material:	Slides

15:35 - 16:10 Summary Talk (A. Dighe)

Location:	AG-66
Material:	slides

16:10 - 18:30 Poster Session (Including Tea Break)

Location: Homi Bhabha Auditorium foyer
- 16:10 Pixel cluster Module for GAPD Based Imaging Camera 2h20'
  
  Speaker: Ms. Shobha K Rao (TIFR)
- 16:10 Performance Parameters for G-APD based Camera 2h20'
  
  Speaker: Ms. Sonal Patel (TIFR)
- 16:10 Design and Development of Nanosecond Light Flasher for CTA Telescope 2h20'
  
  Speaker: Mr. Bharat Singh (TIFR)
- 16:10 Development of OFHC Copper Wire Gasket for UHV Sealing 2h20'
- 16:10 Active Thermal Control System at Gauribidanur -- Generating Millidegree Stability in a Room- sized Volume 2h20'
- 16:10 Analog front-end solutions for ICAL RPCs 2h20'
- 16:10 Front-end data acquisition and control module for ICAL RPCs 2h20'
- 16:10 Multilevel and configurable trigger system for INO-ICAL experiment 2h20'
- 16:10 Global services and calibration system for the INO-ICAL detector 2h20'
- 16:10 Network scheme and distributed data processing system of ICAL experiment 2h20'
- 16:10 Monitoring of absolute pressure and estimation of leak of an RPC gas gap 2h20'
- 16:10 Design validation and Performance Of Close Loop Gas Recirculation System 2h20'
- 16:10 Entangled Photon Source and FPGA-Based Multi-Channel Counter and Correlator 2h20'
  
  Speaker: Mr. Ninand Jetty
- 16:10 Optical position sensor with magnetic feedback actuator for gravitational wave detectors 2h20'
  
  Speaker: Mr. P.G. Rodrigues (TIFR)