India-CMS Newsletter Member Institutes/ Universities of India-CMS Vol 1. No. 1, July 2015 1. Nuclear Physics Division (NPD) Bhabha Atomic Research Center (BARC) Mumbai http://www.barc.gov.in/ First volume produced at: 2. Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Department of Physics Pune http://www.iiserpune.ac.in Panjab University Sector 14 Chandigarh - 160014 3. Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bhubaneswar Bhubaneswar http:// www.iitbbs.ac.in 4. Department of Physics Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay Mumbai http://www.iitb.ac.in/en/education/academic-divisions 5. Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras Chennai https://www.iitm.ac.in 6. School of Physical Sciences National Institute of Science Education and Research (NISER), Edited and Compiled by: Bhubaneswar http://physics.niser.ac.in/ Manjit Kaur Department of Physics 7. Department of Physics Panjab University Panjab University Chandigarh Chandigarh http://physics.puchd.ac.in/ [email protected] 8. Division of High Energy Nuclear and Particle Physics Ajit Mohanty Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics (SINP) Director Kolkata http://www.saha.ac.in/web/henppd-home Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics (SINP) Kolkatta 9. Department of High Energy Physics [email protected] Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai http://www.tifr.res.in/ ~dhep/ Abhimanyu Chawla Department of Physics 10. Department of Physics & Astrophysics Panjab University University of Delhi Chandigarh Delhi http://www.du.ac.in/du/index.php?page=physics-astrophysics [email protected] 11. Visva Bharti Santiniketan, West Bengal 731204 http://www.visvabharati.ac.in/Address.html 1 2 Contents Message ........................................................................................................................................................ 3 Message ........................................................................................................................................................ 5 Message ........................................................................................................................................................ 6 India-CMS Constitution ................................................................................................................................. 7 India-CMS Constitution and Guidelines ................................................................................................ 7 Annexure - I ........................................................................................................................................... 8 Annexure - II .......................................................................................................................................... 9 Section A: .............................................................................................................................................. 9 Section B: ............................................................................................................................................ 10 Guidelines for Evaluating the Proposal from a New Group ........................................................................ 11 Section A: ............................................................................................................................................ 11 Section B: ............................................................................................................................................ 11 Regarding Budget ................................................................................................................................ 11 India-CMS Logo Competition ...................................................................................................................... 12 Fabrication, Testing and Installation of CMS Detector Components by Indian Groups ............................. 13 I. HO Electronics ...................................................................................................................................... 13 II. Hadron Calorimeter (HCAL) Upgrade .................................................................................................. 14 III. Resistive Plate Chambers (RPCs) ........................................................................................................ 15 IV. Future Hardware Activities ................................................................................................................ 16 The GEM upgrade for the high eta region for the Long Shut Down -2 (2017-2020) .......................... 16 India-CMS in CMS Phase II Tracker Upgrade ...................................................................................... 16 Tier2 Center of India for the CMS Experiment............................................................................................ 17 Publications ............................................................................................................................................. 18 Contribution of Indian Groups to CMS Physics ........................................................................................... 18 Awards / Achievements / Distinctions (under the India-CMS umbrella) .................................................... 25 Students who completed Ph.D. from 2010-2015 (During LHC 7-8 TeV) ..................................................... 26 Students currently enrolled for Ph.D. ......................................................................................................... 27 New Faculty / Institutes .............................................................................................................................. 50 Contact Information for India-CMS Members ............................................................................................ 51 Election of India-CMS Spokesperson for the term 2015 – 2017 ................................................................. 55 3 Announcement of India-CMS Spokesperson and Deputy Spokesperson ................................................... 55 4 Message Prof. S. N. Ganguli India-CMS Spokesperson (1998 - 2002) email: [email protected] The Indian participation in accelerator based experiments has grown over the last three decades or so starting with the L3 experiment at the Large Electron Positron (LEP). LEP collider at CERN, Geneva, in the early 1980s, the D Zero experiment at the Tevatron accelerator of the Fermilab in the early 1990s and heavy-ion collision based experiments in the mid 1980s at CERN and RHIC. So far the Standard Model of particle physics based on electroweak theory and QCD has been able to describe very successfully high energy particle interactions. But the Standard Model implies the existence of a scalar particle called Higgs boson which is expected to give mass to elementary particles. Direct searches at LEP led to a lower limit on the Higgs mass as 114 GeV. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN is constructed to explore higher mass region with two very high energy proton beams colliding head-on at four designated locations surrounded by huge detectors. Two of them CMS and ATLAS are general purpose detectors to study proton-proton as well as lead-lead collisions. The proposal for the LHC machine was made in 1984 and the project was approved in 1994 by the CERN council along with two major detectors CMS and ATLAS. Five Indian groups joined the CMS experiment during 1993-1994: two groups from TIFR (EHEP and HECR) and one group each from BARC, Delhi University and Panjab University (IOP, Bhubaneswar, was initially a member of this collaboration, but later they joined ALICE) . A two day meeting was organized at TIFR in November 1994 to discuss strategy of Indian participation in the CMS; many particle and nuclear physicists also attended the meeting. It resulted in the formation of India-CMS collaboration with the following steering committee members: S. N. Ganguli, S. K. Kataria, J. M. Kohli, V. S. Narasimham and R. K. Shivpuri. The Indian groups desired to participate in three sub-detectors of CMS: Hadron Barrel Calorimeter Outer (HBO), pre shower silicon detector and MSGC. Task of drafting this proposal was carried out by A. Gurtu. The proposal was presented to our funding agencies DAE and DST; these meetings were chaired by Dr. R. Chidambaram, Chairman of AEC. Finally, the Indian participation was confined to HBO and preshower silicon detector. A detailed R&D on these two sub-detectors started with technical coordinators as: N. K. Mondal for HBO and S. K. Kataria for the pre- shower silicon. Modules of pre-production prototype were rigorously beam tested at CERN, and then only the collaboration went for the production phase. K. Sudhakar took over as the technical coordinator for HBO in the production phase. The other aspects of the experiment – detector simulation and participation in the creation of a global computing infrastructure GRID and the preparation for physics analyses – also progressed steadily. It took nearly fifteen years to complete the LHC and the CMS as well as the ATLAS detector. Let us end by acknowledging the outstanding performance of the LHC machine which delivered nearly 30 fb-inverse of data by the year 2012 at 8 TeV collision energy leading to the discovery of the Higgs by the two experiments CMS and ATLAS. 5 6 Message Prof. Atul Gurtu India-CMS Spokesperson (2003 - 2011) Dear Friends, It really gives me immense pleasure to see that India-CMS is going to bring out a newsletter twice a