2017 Progress Report
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PROGRESS REPORT Report covering the period from Nov 2016 to Sep 2017 INFRE HEPNET INDOFRENCH HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS NETWORK 2 Table of Contents I GENERAL INFORMATION ............................................................................................................................. 3 A. Highlights of the previous report presented in Nov 2016. ...................................................................... 6 B. Main highlights of this report .................................................................................................................. 7 II WORK REPORT ............................................................................................................................................. 8 A. Summary of the project ........................................................................................................................... 8 1. Original objectives ............................................................................................................................... 8 2. Report on the project work done ........................................................................................................ 9 3. Budgetary Matters and Issues ........................................................................................................... 16 4. References/Publications of the Network ........................................................................................... 18 B. Plan of work for the remaining period of the project ............................................................................ 20 III ASSESSMENT .............................................................................................................................................. 22 IV ADDITION OF NEW MEMBERS ................................................................................................................... 23 V List of all Current Members .…………………………………………………………………………………………………………..28 2 3 I GENERAL INFORMATION Project No. Started on Ends on IFC/Network2 21 Jan 2016 22 Jan 2019 TITLE OF THE PROJECT INFRE-HEPNET Indo-French High Energy Physics Network French Collaborator(s) Indian Collaborator(s) Name & Address of Principal Network Name & Address of Principal Network Co-ordinator Co-ordinator Fawzi Boudjema Sudhir Kumar Vempati LAPTh (Laboratoire d’Annecy-le-Vieux de Centre for High Energy Physics, Physique Théorique) Indian Institute of Science, CNRS, Chemin de Bellevue, Bangalore 560012, F-74941, Annecy-le-Vieux, France India Other Network Coordinators and Members of Other Network Coordinators and Members of the Network the Network Node 1: Annecy Node 1: Bangalore LAPTh, Annecy / LPSC, Grenoble IISc (Bangalore) / IMSc (Chennai) G.Belanger, F.Boudjema, D.Guadagnoli, S.Vempati (IISc), B.Bhattacherjee (IISc), J.Ph.Guillet, B.Herrmann and P.Serpico S.Gopalakrishna (IMSc), (LAPTh), S. Kraml (LPSC) Jyosthna Komaragiri (IISc), Somnath Choudhury (IISc) Node 2: Lyon Node 2: Mumbai IPN Lyon TIFR, Mumbai / IISER (Pune) A.Arbey, G.Cacciapaglia, A.Deandrea, Rajeev Bhalerao (TIFR), Rajiv Gavai (TIFR), N.Mahmoudi, Susan Gascon-Shotkin, Maxime Monoranjan Guchait (TIFR), Sourendu Gouzevitch, Patrice Verdier Gupta(TIFR), Sreerup Raychaudhuri (TIFR), K.Sridhar (TIFR), Seema Sharma (IISER), Sourabh Dube (IISER), Gobinda Majumder (IISER) Node 3: Paris-Ecole Node 3: Delhi LPTOrsay / CPhT Ecole Polytechnique HRI (Allahabad)/ Delhi Uni. A.Djouadi, U.Ellwanger, A.Falkowski, B. Mukhopadhyaya (HRI, Allahabad), Y. Mambrini, G. Moreau (LPTOrsay), Debajyoti Choudhury, Naveen Gaur (Delhi U.) E.~Dudas (CPhT) 3 4 Node 4: Paris-Saclay Node 4: Kolkata CEA, Saclay SINP/ IACS/IISER, Kolkata; NISER/Bhubaneswar J.P.Blaizot, F.Gelis, E.Iancu, J.Y. Ollitraut, Gautam Bhattacharyya (SINP), Dilip Ghosh Amina Zghiche, Phileppe Gras, Marc (IACS), Ritesh K. Singh (IISER), Satyaki Besancon, Stephane Lavignac Bhattacharaya (SINP), Prolay Mal (NISER), Bedangadas Mohanty (NISER) Original objectives of the project Salient achievements in 5 points this year 1 The main objective of the project is to increase collaboration between 1 This year has seen significant India and France in High Energy acceleration of the collaboration with Physics. almost all nodes involved actively in collaboration and work commencing in 2 To conduct collaborative meetings most of the working groups identified. between the French and Indian scientists and foster strong 2 We are planning a second collaboration partnerships between Indian and meeting around the last week of Feb French Scientific counterparts. 2018 at IISER, Pune. 3 A unique feature of this Network collaboration is that both 3 The CMS groups of both India and experimentalists and theorists are France have successfully collaborated members. One of the objectives is to with each other and getting ready to increase interactions between theorists publish an important result. The and experimentalists of both the preliminary result is already available countries at the CMS collaboration web site. Publications with both theorists and experimentalists together started to appear. 4 To collaborate and conduct research at the highest level in the focussed areas 4 Significantly new research results have of BSM physics and QGP. been published. The number of publications from the collaboration now stands at thirteen, with ten more projects in pipeline and two more in commencement. 5 Training of Manpower. Students, Postdocs 5 Large numbers of students and post- docs continue to be trained in this project. This year too most of the projects have been driven by them. Many new students and post-docs will be part of the collaboration from this fall onwards. To facilitate their travel from India to France, we have increased the perdiem for them from Eur 50 to Eur 100. The research objectives have been summarized below in Section-II No. of Publications in SCI journals where IFCPAR/CEFIPRA has been acknowledged: Thirteen papers have explicit acknowledgements to CEFIPRA. About ten other papers have 4 5 been published by the joint collaborations but have been initiated before the collaboration has formally started. Currently, about another ten papers and journal publications are in preparation, with two or more to start in the coming months. No. of PaPers Presented in conference: One No. of Posters in Presentation: None No. of Patents (with details and status), if any: N.A No of exchange visits under taken: India to France- undertaken(number)/approved(number): 5/20. With one more happening in Nov 2017. France to India – undertaken(number)/approved(number): 4/15 upto this year. With one more coming up in the coming months. HRD trained: Indian side: 14 French side: 11 Several students are part of various projects. We only give an approximate number. The detailed list of post docs and students is given in the collaboration web page. There is going to be an updated list at the end of this report. Knowledge Process/Product developed, if any: N.A Potential for knowledge forward chain. If any: N.A 5 6 A. Highlights of the previous report presented in Nov 2016. Though the project officially started in Jan 2016, it really took off from the month of May 2016 when the Kick-off meeting took place in IISc, Bangalore. A summary of the report done for the next five months (officially 9 months) was presented during Nov 2016 at Varanasi. Here we present the highlights of the report presented during Nov 2016. i) The main part of the report was about the Kick-off meeting, which set up the organization of the network. This included the setting up of the collaboration webpage, formation of the working groups, formation of the steering committee, methodology of the visits and other organization details. These were required for the day to day functioning of the network. ii) Scientifically, the formation of the working groups and identification of the discussion leaders associated with them helped to identify specific research areas that would be targeted by the network. This not only brought experts from both the Indian and French sides together with common research goals, but also provided them with a platform to efficiently collaborate with each other. iii) There were more than 3 publications in this short span with explicit acknowledgments to CEFIPRA/Indo-French collaboration and four publications within the framework but started before the formal launch of this network. iv) Within the short span, 2 of the 15 allotted visits were utilized from France to India, where as 0 out of 20 were utilized from India to France. Of the allotted 10L for the conference budget, all the 10L was utilized and further an equal amount was matched up from other resources. v) It was noticed that the driving force of this network collaboration was the young faculty, students and post-docs; who actively sought collaborations from either side. 6 7 B. Main highlights of this report The present report covers the subsequent 11 months from Nov 2016 to Sep 2017. During this period, the organization of the network has really stabilized and many other working groups have also started on collaborations. At this point almost all the Indian as well as French nodes are actively involved in collaborations which are at various stages. We can confidently say that the network is it in its most active period and we hope that this momentum will carry forward for the next coming years. We summarize the main highlights below with the details described in Part-2 of the report. i) Excellent quality research has emerged during the past few months because of the