Physics

Head of Department

Dr. Tribedi Bora
Ph.D(IIT Guwahati)

E-mail:
hod.ph@nitm.ac.in

Faculty

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Research Interest

Dark Matter, Lorentz Violation

Education Qualification

Ph.D : IIT Kanpur

Areas of interests

 Very special relativity, Constraining dark matter properties using 21 cm global absorption signal, Dark matter inside neutron star and its implications


Work Experience


Sl No
Institute
Position held
From
To
1
NIT Meghalaya
Assistant Professor
16-10-2019
till date
2
Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad
Post Doctoral Fellow
01-03-2018
30-09-2019


Vidwan Profile

https://nitmeghalaya.irins.org/profile/447710

Sponsored Project


Sl. No.
Title
PI
Funding Agency
Sanctioned amount
From
To
Status
1
Bound on sterile neutrino decay width and mixing angle with active neutrino using global 21-cm absorption signalDr. Alekha C. Nayak
SERB- DSTRs. 11,27,522
14-12-2021
13-12-2023
Completed


Workshop Organized


Sl No.
Name of the workshop
Place
Funding agency
From
To
1
TEQIP-III sponsored worshop on astro-particle physics and cosmologyNIT Meghalaya
TEQIP-III
12th March, 2021
16th March 2021


Publications

15) Dark matter admixed neutron star properties in the light of gravitational wave observations: a two fluid approach, Arpan Das, Tuhin Malik, and Alekha C. Nayak, Phys.Rev.D 105 (2022) 12, 123034

14) Bounds on sterile neutrino lifetime and mixing angle with active neutrinos by global 21 cm signal, Pravin Kumar Natwariya and Alekha C. Nayak, Phys.Lett.B 827 (2022) 136955

13) Constraining Spinning Primordial Black Holes With Global 21 cm Signal,  Pravin Kumar Natwariya, Alekha C. Nayak, and Tripurari Srivastava, Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 510 (2021) 4236

12) Very special relativity induced phase in neutrino oscillation, Alekha C. Nayak. Int.J.Mod.Phys.A 36 (2021) 13, 2150079

11) Impact of ELKO fermion on Higgs mass, Alekha C. Nayak & Tripurari Srivastava, Eur.Phys.J.ST 229 (2020) 11, 2035-2041 (Invited)

10) Prospects of charged lepton flavor violation in very special relativity,  Tripurari Srivastava & Alekha C. Nayak , Eur.Phys.J.Plus 135 (2020) 8, 679

9) Baryon-Dark matter interaction in presence of magnetic fields in light of EDGES signal, Jitesh R. Bhatt, Pravin Kumar Natwariya  Alekha C.Nayak & Arun K. Pandey, Eur.Phys.J.C 80 (2020) 4, 334

8) Viscous dark matter and 21 cm cosmology, Jitesh R. Bhatt, Arvind K. Mishra, and Alekha C. Nayak, Phys.Rev.D 100 (2019) 6, 063539

7) Confronting nuclear equation of state in the presence of dark matter using GW170817 observation in relativistic mean-field theory approach,  Arpan Das, Tuhin Malik, and Alekha C. Nayak, Phys.Rev.D 99 (2019) 4, 043016

6) Cosmological dark matter in a conformal model, Prasenjit Sanyal, Alekha C. Nayak, Gopal Kashyap and Pankaj Jain, Phys.Rev.D 100 (2019) 11, 115032

5) Phenomenological implications of very special relativity, Alekha C. Nayak and Pankaj Jain, Phys.Rev.D 96 (2017) 7, 075020

4) Vector dark matter annihilation with internal bremsstrahlung, Gulab Bambhaniya, Jason Kumar, Danny Marfatia, Alekha C. Nayak and Gaurav Tomar, Phys.Lett.B 766 (2017) 177-180

3) Effect of VSR invariant Chern-Simon Lagrangian on photon polarization, Alekha C. Nayak,  Ravindra K. Verma and Pankaj Jain, JCAP 07 (2015) 031

2) Elko and mass dimension one field of spin one half: causality and Fermi statistics, Dharam Vir Ahluwalia and Alekha C. Nayak, Int.J.Mod.Phys.D 23 (2015) 14, 1430026

1) ELKO fermions as dark matter candidates, Bakul Agarwal, Pankaj Jain, Subhadip Mitra, Alekha C. Nayak, and Ravindra K. Verma, Phys.Rev.D 92 (2015) 075027


Under Review

1. In Search of Global 21-cm Signal using Artificial Neural Network in light of ARCADE 2, Vivekananda Mohapatra, Johhny J., Pravin K. Natwariya and Alekha C. Nayak(https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.02039)

2. Primordial Magnetic fields in light of dark ages, Vivekananda Mohapatra,  Pravin K. Natwariya and Alekha C. Nayak. (https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.18565)

3. Constraining viscous dark matter in light of CMB spectral distortion. Shibshankar Si, Alekha C. Nayak and Pravin K. Natwariya (https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.13271)

PhD Supervision


Sl No.
Name of the Student
Date of Joining
Research Area
Status
1
Shibshankar Si

July 2021

CMB spectral distortion
Ongoing
2
Vivekananda MahapatraJanuary 2022
21 cm cosmology
Ongoing
3

Hriditi Howlder

July 2022
Dark matter
Ongoing


M.Sc thesis Supervision

  1. Constraint On Dark Matter Interaction Using The EDGES 21cm Signal During Cosmic Dawn Era (Vivekanand Mohapatra, Completed M.Sc Project in June 2021)


  2. Studying The Eect of Dark Matter Inside Neutron Star using Gravitational Wave Observation (Simakhi Borchetia, Completed M.Sc Project in June 2021)


  3. Lepton Flavor Violating W Boson Decay in Very Special Relativity extension of Standard Model (Saikhom Bikash Singh, Completed M.Sc Project in June 2021)

          4. Freeze in production of ELKO fermion Dark matter (Nimish Gupta, Completed M.Sc Project in June 2022)


          5. Constraints on Scalar dark matter Using The EDGES 21cm Signal During Cosmic Dawn Era    (Yashy Bilotia,                         Completed M.Sc Project in June 2022)

         

          6.  21 cm cosmology and artificial neural network (Johnny J. Completed M.Sc Project in June 2023)

      Conference/Workshop/School Attended

      11.Imprints of Dark matter on 21 cm line in Cosmic Dawn era, Cabibi@60, Central University, Karnataka, 16th March 2024.


      10.Imprints of Dark matter on 21 cm line in Cosmic Dawn era, Invited talk at Govt. Women's College, Keonjhar, 2nd June 2024.


      9. Anomalies 2021, IIT Hyderabad,  10-12 November 2021,


      8. One-day National Symposium on High Energy Physics, 1st May, 2021.


      7. Less Travelled Path of Dark Matter: Axions and Primordial Black Holes (ONLINE), ICTS Banglore, 09 November 2020 to 13 November 2020


      6. KEK Theory Meeting on Particle Physics Phenomenology (KEK-PH2018), Japan. From 13th February 2018 to 16th February 2018.


      5. Candles of Darkness, International Centre for Theoretical Sciences, Bengaluru, India. From 05th June 2017 to 09th June 2017


      4. Sangam @ HRI 2016: Instructional Workshop in Particle Physics, Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad, India. From 15th to 19th February 2016.


       3.Workshop on High Energy Physics Phenomenology, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India. From 4th to 13th December, 2015


      2. Winter School on High Energy Physics, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India. From 23rd January to 12th February 2013.


      1.Summer internship programme for Indian students (SIPIS) 2010, National University of Singapore, Singapore, From 17th May to 15th July 2010.


      Administrative Responsibility

      1. CSAB, Cocordinator (17-01-2024 - till date)

      2. Faculty in charge, Literary Club. (July 2022-till date)

      3. Faculty in charge Astronomy Club. (January 2023-till date)

      4. Warden, Umpling Boys Hostel (July 2021-till date)

      5. Faculty Advisor(M.Sc Physics 2020 -22 and 2023 M.Sc 1st year)

      6. Member IQAC committee (September 2023 to present)


      Subject Taught

      1. Nuclear and Particle Physics

      2. Computational Programming

      3. Electromagnetic Theory

      4. Mathematical Physics-II

      5. Physics (PH 101)



      Referee

      1. Proceedings of the Royal Society A

      2. European Physical Journal ST

      3. International Journal of Modern Physics A

      4.  Advances in Applied Clifford Algebras

      5. Modern Physics Letter A