Drs. S. Sharma and S. Dube along with the graduate and undergraduate members of the IISER EHEP group celebrated IISER Pune’s joining of CMS in September 2014. (From left to right: S. Sharma, A. Bodas, D. Gadkari, S. Thayil, K. Kothekar, A. Kapoor, V. Srivastava, I. Mathur, S. Dube
Outside the Taj Hotel; members of the IISER EHEP group at the CMS Week in Mumbai, India, in December 2016. (From left to right: S. Pandey, I. Dutta, P. Atmasiddha, D. Gadkari, S. Chauhan, K. Kothekar, A. Kapoor)
PhD student S. Chauhan mentors the undergraduate students working with the IISER EHEP group in summer 2017. (From left to right: S. Chauhan, S. Johnson, E. Swaroop, S. Lomte, R. Patil)
The IISER Pune group has been a member of CMS since 2014. It consists of two faculty members and eight graduate students.
The group is mainly involved in searches for physics beyond the Standard Model. Their interests span final states from multi-jets to multi-leptons, and from Supersymmetry to Seesaw. Understanding jets and missing transverse energy is the heart of the physics programme at a hadron collider. Dr. S. Sharma has been deeply involved in inclusive Supersymmetry searches since early data-taking, and she is now leading efforts for accurate reconstruction and calibration of jets and missing energy at CMS. The group is heavily involved in implementing upgrades of the CMS Tracker in the CMS Fast Simulation. As part of IISER’s emphasis on undergraduate research, over 30 undergraduate students from IISER and institutes across India have worked on short projects in experimental particle physics with the group.
About Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER)
From: India
CMS member since: 2014
Website: http://www.iiserpune.ac.in/~ehep/