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Sanjay.Padhi@cern.ch
Research Areas :
- Supersymmetry and Beyond Standard Model Physics
- Jets and Missing Transverse Momentum
- Current activities at CERN - Talks
- Past activities at
DESY
- Charm Jets in Photoproduction at HERA (A4) (letter) The thesis provides:
- First direct evidence for the existence of charm originating from the photon.
- First measurement of the charm fragmentation function at HERA.
Selected Publications :
(Detailed list of publication can be obtained from INSPIRES HEP and/or CMS Document Server) along with citation indices.
- Squark and gluino production cross sections in pp collisions at \sqrt(s) = 13, 14, 33 and 100 TeV, C. Borschensky et. al., arXiv:1407.5066, Published in Eur.Phys.J. C74 (2014) 12, 3174
- Other NLO+NLL plots for SUSY colored sector can be found here
- SUSY Simplified Models at 14, 33, and 100 TeV Proton Colliders, T. Cohen et. al., arXiv:1311.6480, Published in JHEP 1404 (2014) 117
- Search for new physics in events with same-sign dileptons and jets in pp collisions at sqrt(s)=8 TeV, arXiv:1311.6736, Published in JHEP 1401 (2014) 163
- Les Houches 2013: Physics at TeV Colliders: Standard Model Working Group Report, J. Butterworth et. al., arXiv:1405.1067, May 2014
- New Particles Working Group Report of the Snowmass 2013 Community Summer Study, Y. Gershtein et. al., arXiv:1311.0299, Nov. 2013
- A Comparison of Future Proton Colliders Using SUSY Simplified Models:A Snowmass Whitepaper, T. Cohen et. al., arXiv:1310.0077, SNOW13-00193, Sept. 2013
- Electroweakino Searches: A Comparative Study for LHC and ILC (A Snowmass White paper), A. Berggren, T. Han, J. List, S. Padhi, et. al. arXiv:1309.7342, SNOW13-00173, Sept. 2013
- Electroweakinos in the Light of the Higgs Boson, T. Han, S. Padhi and S. Su, arXiv:1309.5966, Published in Phys.Rev. D88 (2013) 115010, Sept. 2013
- Snowmass Energy Frontier Simulations, arXiv:1309.1057, SNOW13-00138, Sept. 2013
- Methods and Results for Standard Model Event Generation at $\sqrt{s}$ = 14 TeV, 33 TeV and 100 TeV Proton Colliders (A Snowmass Whitepaper), arXiv:1308.1636, SNOW13-00167, Aug. 2013
- Snowmass Energy Frontier Simulations using the Open Science Grid (A Snowmass 2013 whitepaper), arXiv:1308.0843, SNOW13-00168, Aug. 2013
- Search for new physics in events with same-sign dileptons and b jets in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 8 TeV, arXiv:1212.6194, Published in JHEP 1303 (2013) 037
- Search for supersymmetry in events with same-sign dileptons, CMS-PAS-SUS-12-017, July 2012
- Supersymmetry production cross sections in pp collisions at sqrt{s} = 7 TeV, M. Kramer, A. Kulesza, R. Leeuw, M. Mangano, S. Padhi, T. Plehn, X. Portell, arXiv:1206.2892, June 2012
- Search for new physics with same-sign isolated dilepton events with jets and missing energy , arXiv:1205.6615, Published in Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 071803 (2012)
- Details of the approved plots can be found here
- Search for new physics in events with same-sign dileptons, b-tagged jets and missing energy , arXiv:1205.3933, Published in JHEP 08 (2012) 110.
- Details of the approved plots can be found here
- Searches for supersymmetry in final states with leptons or photons and missing energy, S. Padhi, CERN CMS CR-2011/271, arXiv:1111.2733, Published in PoS EPS-HEP2011 (2011) 271
- Interpreting LHC SUSY searches in the phenomenological MSSM, S. Sekmen, S. Kraml, J. Lykken, F. Moortgat, S. Padhi, L. Pape, M. Pierini, H.B. Prosper, M. Spiropulu
arXiv:1109.5119, Published in JHEP 02 (2012) 075.
- Search for new physics with same-sign isolated dilepton events with jets and missing energy, CMS PUBLIC Note: PAS SUS-11-010, July 2011.
- Details of the approved plots can be found here
- Search for Same-Sign Top-Quark Pair Production at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV and Limits on Flavor Changing Neutral Currents in the Top Sector
arXiv:1106.2142, Published in JHEP 1108 (2011) 005. - Details of the approved plots can be found here
- Simplified Models for LHC New Physics Searches, arXiv:1105.2838, Published in J.Phys. G39 (2012) 105005
- Search for new physics with same-sign isolated dilepton events with jets and missing transverse energy at the LHC,
arXiv:1104.3168, Published in JHEP 1106 (2011) 077. - Details of the approved plots can be found here
- Search for supersymmetry with sneutrino as the LSP:CMS public/conference result, March 2011
- Performance of Methods for Data-Driven Background Estimation in SUSY Searches, PAS SUS-10-001, July 2010
- The CMS physics reach for searches at 7 TeV, CMS PUBLIC Note 2010/008 , May 2010
- Jet Energy Scale: In-situ Calibration Strategies , Author & Co-Editor, ATL-PHYS-PUB-2009-015, April 2009
- Measurement of missing transverse energy, Author & Co-Editor, ATL-PHYS-PUB-2009-016,, April 2009
- Expected Performance of the ATLAS Experiment - Detector, Trigger and Physics, arXiv:0901.0512, Dec. 2008
Invited Keynotes & Events :
- Plenary talk at BSM Higgs Workshop @ LPC, Batavia, Fermilab, Chicago, 3-5 Nov 2014
- Invited talk on Next steps in the Energy Frontier, Fermilab Wine & Cheese, Joint Experimental-Theoretical Physics Seminar, FNAL, Chicago, 29 Aug. 2014
- Invited experimental talk at Nature Guiding Theory Workshop, Fermilab, Chicago, 21-23 Aug. 2014
- Physics Prospects at High Luminosity LHC , DOE Visit @LPC, Fermilab, Chicago, 7-8 May, 2014
- Invited talk at Institute for Advanced Study, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, 26-28 Feb. 2014
- Invited plenary speaker at: 1st CFHEP Symposium on Circular Collider Physics, IHEP, Beijing, China, 23-25 Feb. 2014
- High Energy Physics Seminar, The Nature of Our Universe at Short Distances, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, 03 Feb. 2014
- Plenary talk at: LPC meeting on future 100 TeV proton collider, FNAL, Chicago, 31 Jan. 2014
- Invited plenary speaker at: International Conference on What Next at LHC, WNL 2014, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai, India, 6-8 Jan 2014
- Plenary speaker (Special Invited Session) for the ATLAS and CMS Collaborations at: PASCOS 2013: 19th International Symposium on Particles, Strings and Cosmology, Taipei, 20-26 Nov 2013
- Invited plenary speaker at: SEARCH 2013 Workshop , Stony Brook, New York, August 20-22, 2013
- Invited plenary speaker at: Snowmass Energy Frontier Workshop, University of Washington, Seattle, June 30 - July 3rd, 2013
- Joint LHC-ILC Studies at Snowmass Energy Frontier Workshop, University of Washington, Seattle, June 30 - July 3rd, 2013
- Invited plenary speaker at: Snowmass Energy Frontier Workshop, Brookhaven National Laboratory, New York, April 03-06, 2013
- Invited speaker at: Snowmass Energy Frontier Workshop, Brookhaven National Laboratory, New York, April 03-06, 2013
- Invited speaker for Special LPC Topic of the Week (with Prof. Raman Sundrum), LHC Physics Center, Fermilab, Chicago, 5th Nov. 2012.
- The Quest for Naturalness in Supersymmetry
- The Quest for Naturalness in Supersymmetry - Experimental perspective
- Invited plenary speaker at: The International Conference on Flavor Physics and Cosmophysics (ICFPC), ICFPC 2012, Weihai, China, August 08-12, 2012
- Invited plenary speaker at: USCMS 2012 Meeting at the University of Colorado Boulder, May 16-19, 2012
- Invited speaker for Topic of the week, LHC Physics Center, Fermilab, Chicago, IL, 14 May 2012.
- Invited plenary speaker at Chicago 2012 workshop on LHC physics, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 2-4 May 2012.
- Invited plenary talk at SEARCH 2012: SUSY, Exotics And Reaction to Confronting the Higgs, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, March 17-19, 2012.
- Invited speaker for Joint Theory-LPC Topic of the Week, LHC Physics Center, Fermilab, Chicago, 5th Oct. 2011
- Laboratory for Particle Physics and Cosmology (LPPC) Seminar, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 28th Sept. 2011
- High Energy Physics Seminar, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 27th Sept. 2011.
- Plenary talk at International Conference on Beyond the Standard Model: results with the 7 TeV LHC Collision Data, International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste, 19-23 Sep 2011.
- Plenary talk at International Conference on Implications of LHC: Implications of LHC results for TeV-scale physics, CERN, Geneva, 29 Aug-2 Sep 2011.
- CMS SUSY talk at International Europhysics Conference on High Energy Physics (EPS 2011), Grenoble, France, July 21-27 2011.
- Invited Talk at Aspen center for physics workshop "Year One of the LHC", Aspen, 30th June 2011.
- Plenary talk at topical conference on "Status of Higgs and BSM searches at the LHC", LPCC, CERN, Apr 2011
- Plenary talk at Characterisation of new physics at the LHC II, CERN, Geneva, Nov. 2010
- 12th International Symposium on Particles, Strings and Cosmology (PASCOS'06), The Ohio State University, Columbus, Sept. 2006
- Invited talk on Physics at CERN, June, 2006 (Video) Multijet final states
- Physics Workshop (Rome) June, 2005 (Video) New Calibration Studies
- Physics Workshop (Rome) June, 2005 (Video) Narrow resonances
Professional Leadership :
- Co-coordinator of Scientific Computing using AWS CERN, 2015
- Co-Chair/Organizer of Scientific Computing using Amazon, CERN, Feb. 02, 2015
- Co-Chair/Organizer of Next steps in the Energy Frontier - Hadron Colliders, FNAL, 25-28 Aug. 2014
- Chair/Organizer of LPC meeting on future 100 TeV proton collider, FNAL, 31 Jan. 2014
- CMS Coordinator for Physics Simulations for ECFA (European Committee for Future Accelerators) - 2013
- Technical Advisory board member for Energy Frontier activities (detectors and experimentation), Snowmass 2013
- CMS LPC Distinguished Researcher award from Fermilab: 2013 & 2014
- Referee of the Journal of High Energy Physics (JHEP).
- Member of FNAL LPC Event Committee: 2014
- Board member of FNAL LPC Topic of the Week Committee: 2013
- Co-Convenor of CMS MC Generator group, 2012 - 2014
- Co-Chair of joint workshop on Next Steps in Les Houches Event format (LHEF) - joint ATLAS/CMS/LPCC workshop, CERN, Oct. 25th 2013
- Co-Chair of joint workshop on MC generators and future challenges, a joint ATLAS/CMS/LPCC workshop, CERN, Nov. 19-21 2012
- Chair/Organizer of Workshop on Naturalness in Supersymmetry, Fermilab, Nov. 7th, 2012
- Chairman of joint SUSY and Higgs sessions at 20th International Conference on Supersymmetry and Unification of Fundamental Interactions (SUSY12), Peking University, Beijing, China Aug. 13-18, 2012
- CMS Co-Coordinator and Scientific Advisory committee member of international conference on SUSY, Exotics And Reaction to Confronting the Higgs (SEARCH 2012), 16-18 Mar 2012, Maryland, USA
- CMS representative (SUSY) and co-organizer for LHC Physics Centre at CERN (LPCC) workshops on characterization of new physics at the LHC, 2011 - current
- Co-Convenor of joint workshop on Implications of LHC results for TeV-scale physics and Characterization of new physics at the LHC, CERN, Oct.31-Nov.1st 2011
- Experimental Co-Coordinator for LHC SUSY Cross Section Working Group
- CMS Analysis Operations (Responsible for all CMS analysis/CRAB operation activities), 2009-2011.
Professional Academic History :
- Adjunct Associate Professor of Physics, Brown University, Providence, RI. 2015-present.
- Scientist at CERN (2008-present)
- Scientist, University of California, San Diego (UCSD), 2008-present.
- Chancellor's Distinguished Fellow, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2005-2008.
- Research Associate, Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA, 2004-2005.
- Ph.D., Physics, McGill University, Canada, 2004.
Book Review on The Legacy of Albert Einstein, published in CERN Courier, Dec. 2007.
Press Release:
- Excitement, anxiety greet LHC restart, Science, 13 Mar. 2015
- Going larger than the Large Hadron Collider: first steps toward a future machine, Fermilab Today, 01 Oct. 2014
- Snowmass Perspectives, OSG Newsletter, July 2013
- Broken beauty, New Scientist, 10th Dec. 2011
- Search for new physics in events with Same- and Opposite-Charge Di-Leptons, CMS Times, 22nd Aug 2011
- 17th International Conference on Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics 21 - 27 March 2009 Prague, Czech Republic
- Interoperability of Grid Systems, NorduGrid 2007, 24-28 September 2007, Copenhagen
- International Conference on Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics, 2-7 Sept 2007 Victoria, BC Canada
- OSG Consortium, 5-8 March 2007, University of California, San Diego
- International Conference on Computing in High Energy and Nuclear, 27th September - 1st October 2004, Interlaken, Switzerland
- CRONUS, OSG News , Science Grid This Week, SLAC Today