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Joydeep Chakrabortty
PhD (Harish-Chandra Research Institute)
Professor, Department of Physics
Research Interest
Theoretical Physics, Effective Field Theory, Quantum Field Theory, Spectral Functions, Heat kernel
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Room No. FB-372
Department of Physics,
IIT Kanpur-208016, Uttar Pradesh, India
Specialization
Theoretical Particle Physics, Effective Field Theory, Quantum Field Theory, Representation Theory, Heat-Kernel, Spectral Functions.
Education
PhD, Harish-Chandra Research Institute, 2011PhD thesis title: Some aspects of Grand Unified Theory: gauge coupling unification with dimension-5 operators and neutrino masses in an SO(10) model. PhD thesis supervisor: Professor Amitava Raychaudhuri
M.Sc., Calcutta University, 2006
B.Sc., Burdwan University, 2004
Teaching Area
Group Theory and its application to High Energy Physics
Standard Model and Gauge Theory
Quantum Field Theory I & II
Particle Physics
Introduction to Electrodynamics for UG students
Quantum Mechanics
Mathematical Methods I & II
Effective Field Theory
Selected Publications
Joydeep Chakrabortty, H. Zeen Devi, Srubabati Goswami, Sudhanwa Patra: "Neutrinoless double-β decay in TeV scale left-right symmetric models"Journal of High Energy Physics, August 2012, 2012:8
Supratim Das Bakshi, Joydeep Chakrabortty, Sunando Kumar Patra: "CoDEx: Wilson coefficient calculator connecting SMEFT to UV theory" The European Physical Journal C 79 (2019) 1, 21
Upalaparna Banerjee, Joydeep Chakrabortty, Suraj Prakash, Shakeel Ur
Rahaman: "Characters and group invariant polynomials of (super)fields: road to “Lagrangian” The European Physical Journal C 80 (2020) 10, 938
Joydeep Chakraborttya, Amitava Raychaudhuri: "A note on dimension-5 operators in GUTs and their impact" Physics Letters B, Volume 673, Issue 1, 9 March 2009, Pages 57–62
Upalaparna Banerjee, Joydeep Chakrabortty, Kaanapuli Ramkumar: "Renormalization of scalar and fermion interacting field theory for arbitrary loop: Heat–Kernel approach" European Physical Journal Plus 139 (2024) 8, 714
Joydeep Chakrabortty, Rinku Maji, Stephen F. King: "Unification, Proton Decay and Topological Defects in non-SUSY GUTs with Thresholds" Physical Review D 99 (2019) 9, 095008
Upalaparna Banerjee, Joydeep Chakrabortty, Shakeel Ur Rahaman, Kaanapuli Ramkumar: "One-loop effective action up to dimension eight: integrating out heavy scalar(s)" European Physical Journal Plus 139 (2024) 2, 159
Joydeep Chakrabortty, Janusz Gluza, Radomir Sevillano, Robert Szafron: "Left-right symmetry at LHC and precise 1-loop low energy data" Journal of High Energy Physics, July 2012, 2012:38
Subhaditya Bhattacharya, Joydeep Chakrabortty: "Gaugino mass nonuniversality in an SO(10) supersymmetric grand unified theory: Low-energy spectra and collider signals" Phys. Rev. D 81, 015007 – Published 7 January 2010
Joydeep Chakraborttya, Amol Dighe, Srubabati Goswamic, Shamayita Ray: "Renormalization group evolution of neutrino masses and mixing in the Type-III seesaw mechanism" Nuclear Physics B, Volume 820, Issues 1–2, 11 October 2009, Pages 116–147
Awards & Fellowships
IPPP Distinguished Visiting Academic (DIVA) Award, 2021, Durham, UK.
https://www.ippp.dur.ac.uk/diva-program/
Awarded Visiting Professor position at the Technical University of Munich, Germany, under the TUM Global Visiting Professor Program, 2021.
Member of the Indian National Young Academy of Science (INYAS) for five years from January 2020.
Buti Foundation Award for outstanding contributions in Theoretical Physics, Astrophysics or Biophysics, 2018, Indian Physics Association, India.
Associate of the Indian Academy of Science, Bangalore, India, 2017- 2020.
P. K. Kelkar Young Faculty Research Fellowship (September 2020 - August 2023). Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India.
INSPIRE Faculty Award 2012.
Selected for Marie Curie Actions Fellowship 2011.
Offered Post-Doctoral Fellowship (2011) at Center of Excellence for Particle Physics at the Terascale School of Physics, Monash University, Australia.
Offered Post-Doctoral Fellowship (2013) at Universite Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium. Offered Post-Doctoral Fellowship (2013) at National Institute of Theoretical Physics (NIThep), South Africa.
Qualified the CSIR-UGC (JRF) on the basis of performance in the National En- trance Test (NET) 2006 (Ranked in Top 5 %).
Extra Curricular Activities
Football, Tennis and .....
Keywords
Effective Field Theory, Quantum Field Theory, Spectral Functions, Heat kernel
Research Group
High Energy Physics
Professional Experience
Professor : 2023- Since now @ IIT Kanpur, Kanpur
Associate Professor : 2018-2022 @ IIT Kanpur, Kanpur
Assistant Professor : 2015-2018 @ IIT Kanpur, Kanpur
Inspire Faculty : 2013-2015 @ IIT Kanpur, Kanpur
Postdoctoral Fellow: 2011-2013 @ Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedbad
Current Research
I am working on Theoretical Physics, where I use advanced mathematics (e.g., Representation Theory, Function, etc.) to develop suitable and relevant formalisms for the further development of Theoretical Physics.
Invited Lectures
1. Invited lectures on Effective Field Theory at the School for Advanced Topics in Particle
Physics, ICTS Bangalore, 8-19 April 2024.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8XEp726UyU&list=PLpiiCvbngv_b-NZBrNCBwue6UvET3ixWY&index=2&t=3035s
2. Invited lectures on Effective Field Theory at the Department of Physics at the
Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Educational and Research Institute, Belur Math, 8-12
July 2024.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIlmlihXuDQ&list=PLpiiCvbngv_Zox_9tlTydoOamFikAKc2P&index=6
3. Invited Lecture Series (6 lectures) at IACS, Kolkata, on Grand Unified Theory, May-June 2018.
4. Invited Lecture Series (12 lectures) at IIT Guwahati on Particle Physics and Group Theory, June-July 2017.
5. Guest Lecturer for the Group Theory Course at SERC Preliminary School at IISER Bhopal, 2015; and Tezpur Central University, 2013.
Sponsored Project
1. PI of Core Research Grant (31.60L INR), (2024-2027), Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), India.
2. PI of Indo-Polish Bilateral Research Grant, (7.0L INR) (2020-2022), Department of Science and Technology (DST), Ministry of Science & Technology, Government of India and Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange (NAWA), Poland.
3. PI of MATRICS Research Grant, devised for active researchers pursuing Mathematical Sciences (6.0L INR), (2020-2023), Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), India.
4. PI of Early Career Research Award (22.80L INR), (2016-2019), Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB),
India.
5. PI of Initiation Research Grant (25.00L INR), (2016-2019), IIT Kanpur, India.
6. PI of INSPIRE Faculty Award (60.76L INR), (2013-2019), Department of Science & Technology (DST), India.
Thesis
1. Dr Tripurari Srivastava (2016 - 2018): Thesis, titled “Phenomenological and Theoretical aspects of the BSM scalars in the light of low energy constraints”, successfully defended on 20th November 2018. Postdoctoral fellow, Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, June 2018- June 2020. Currently, he is a D.S. Kothari Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Delhi, India.
2. Dr Supratim Das Bakshi (2017 - 2022): His thesis, “On the Automatization of Integration Out of Heavy Fields and Effective Classification of Beyond Standard Models,” was successfully defended on January 5, 2022. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Granada in Spain and is now conducting his second postdoctoral research at Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) in the USA.
3. Dr. Rinku Maji (2016 - 2022): His thesis, “Cosmological and Phenomenological Implications of Grand Unified Theories”, was successfully defended on January 17, 2022. He is pursuing postdoctoral research at the Institute for Basic Science in South Korea.
4. Dr Anisha (2017 - 2021): Her thesis, “Estimating the Impact of Effective Field Theory of the Standard Model and Beyond on Low Energy Observables,” was successfully defended on 14 February 2022. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Glasgow, UK, and is now at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany, for her following postdoctoral research.
5. Dr Himadri Roy (2016 - 2023): Thesis, titled “Leptogenesis: A possible explanation of the baryon asymmetry of the universe”, successfully defended on 02nd May 2023. Currently, a postdoctoral fellow at Central China Normal University, China.
6. Dr Shakeel Ur Rahaman (2018 - 2023): Thesis, titled “An Effective Field Theory Approach to the Inverse Problem in Particle Physics”, defended on 23rd August 2023—currently, a postdoctoral fellow at IPPP, Durham, UK.
7. Dr Suraj Prakash (2019 – 2023): Thesis, titled “Delving deeper into the protocols for operator construction within the EFT paradigm”, defended on 06th December 2023—currently, a postdoctoral fellow at IFIC, Valencia, Spain.
8. Dr Upalaparna Banerjee (2019 - 2024): Thesis, titled “On the Methods of Integrating Out Heavy Fields up to Dimension-Eight and Their Impact”, defended on 7th May 2024. She has joined Mainz, Germany, as a Humboldt Postdoctoral fellow.
9. Debmalya Dey (Since 2023 - till now): Ongoing.
10. Debanjan Balui (Since 2023 - till now): Ongoing.