Dr. Arghya Choudhury

Dr. Arghya Choudhury
Asst. Professor
Ph.D, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata (IISER Kolkata)
Ph: +91-612-302 8113
arghya[*AT]iitp.ac.in
Research Areas
  • Particle Physics, Collider Physics, Physics beyond the Standard Model, Supersymmetry, Higgs Physics, Dark Matter.
Courses taught at IIT P
  • Particle Physics : PH-525/ MSc. (Autumn-2018,2019,2020) Quantum Mechanics II : PH- 420/ MSc. (Spring-2019,2020,2021) Quantum Mechanics and Statistical Mechanics : PH-703/ PhD(Spring-2019,2020,2021)
Professional Experience
  • Assistant Professor: Department of Physics, IIT Patna (2018 – Present). Assistant Professor: Department of Physics, Jogamaya Devi College, Kolkata, India (2017 – 2018). Post Doctoral Research Associate in “The Lancaster-Manchester-Sheffield Consortium for Fundamental Physics", University of Sheffield & University of Manchester, United Kingdom (2015 – 2017). Post Doctoral Fellow at Harish-Chandra Research Institute (HRI), India (2014 – 2015). Ph.D., Department of Physical Sciences, IISER Kolkata, India (2008 -2013).
Awards & Honours
  • Visiting Research Associate, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom (2017-2020). Lancaster-Manchester-Sheffield Consortium for Fundamental Physics Fellowship, United Kingdom (2015-2017). CSIR-UGC NET (2007,2008) & GATE (2007) National Scholarship (1999,1997)
Publications / Journals / Conferences
  • Publication links from INSPIRE HEP database:

    1. "Electroweakino searches at the HL-LHC in the baryon number violating MSSM" ,Rahool Kumar Barman, Biplob Bhattacherjee, Indrani Chakraborty,Arghya Choudhury, Najimuddin Khan
      _Phys.Rev.D_ 103 (2021) 1, 015003 arXiv:2003.10920 [hep-ph]
    2. "Scope of strongly self-interacting thermal WIMPs in a minimal U(1)D extension and its future prospects", Rahool Kumar Barman, Biplob Bhattacherjee, Arindam Chatterjee, Arghya Choudhury, Aritra Gupta, JHEP 1905 (2019) 177 arXiv:1811.09195
    3. Current status of MSSM Higgs sector with LHC 13 TeV data”, Rahool Kumar Barman, Biplob Bhattacherjee, Arghya Choudhury, Debtosh Chowdhury, Jayita Lahiri, Shamayita Ray , Eur.Phys.J.Plus 134 (2019), 150arXiv:1608.02573 .
    4. Impact of LHC data on muon g-2 solutions in a vectorlike extension of the constrained MSSM”, Arghya Choudhury, Soumya Rao, Leszek Roszkowski; Phys. Rev. D 96, 075046, (2017) doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.96.075046; arXiv:1708.05675
    5. “Blind Spots for Direct Detection with Simplified DM Models and the LHC”, Arghya Choudhury, Kamila Kowalska, Leszek Roszkowski, Enrico Maria Sessolo, Andrew J. Williams; Universe 3 (2017) No. 2, 41 doi: 10.3390/universe3020041 ; arXiv:1705.04230
    6. Muon g-2 and related phenomenology in constrained vector-like extensions of the MSSM”, Arghya Choudhury, Luc Darme, Leszek Roszkowski, Enrico Maria Sessolo, Sebastian Trojanowski; JHEP 05 (2017) 072 10.1007/JHEP05(2017)072 ; arXiv:1701.08778
    7. Study of MSSM heavy Higgs bosons decaying into charginos and neutralinos”, Rahool K. Barman, Biplob Bhattacherjee, Amit Chakraborty, Arghya Choudhury; Phys. Rev. D 94, 075013 (2016) 10.1103/Phys Rev D.94.075013 ; arXiv:1607.00676
    8. “The role of leptonic cascades in B_c → B_s at the LHC”, Arghya Choudhury, Anirban Kundu, Biswarup Mukhopadhyaya; arXiv:1606.08402 .
    9. “Revisiting the Exclusion Limits from Direct Chargino-Neutralino Production at the LHC”, Arghya Choudhury, Subhadeep Mondal; Phys. Rev. D 94, 055024, (2016) 10.1103/Phys Rev D.94.055024 ; arXiv:1603.05502 .
    10. “Di-photon resonance around 750 GeV: shedding light on the theory underneath”, Joydeep Chakrabortty, Arghya Choudhury, Pradipta Ghosh, Subhadeep Mondal, Tripurari Srivastava, arXiv:1512.05767 .
    11. “Less-simplified models of dark matter for direct detection and the LHC”, Arghya Choudhury, Kamila Kowalska, Leszek Roszkowski, Enrico Maria Sessolo, Andrew J. Williams; JHEP 04 (2016) 182 10.1007/JHEP04(2016)182 ; arXiv:1509.05771 .
    12. “Reduced LHC constraints for higgsino-like heavier electroweakinos”, Manimala Chakraborti, Utpal Chattopadhyay, Arghya Choudhury, Amitava Datta, Sujoy Poddar; JHEP 11, 050 (2015), 10.1007/JHEP11(2015)050;  arXiv:1507.01395.
    13. Status of MSSM Higgs Sector using Global Analysis and Direct Search Bounds, and Future Prospects at the HL-LHC”, Biplob Bhattacherjee, Amit Chakraborty, Arghya Choudhury; Phys. Rev. D 92, 093007 (2015)10.1103/PhysRevD.92.093007 ; arXiv:1504.04308  .
    14. “Non-universal Gaugino mass models under the lamppost of muon (g-2)”, Joydeep Chakrabortty, Arghya Choudhury and Subhadeep Mondal; JHEP 07, 038 (2015), 10.1007/JHEP07(2015)038 ; arXiv:1503.08703.
    15. “Gluino mass limits with sbottom NLSP in coannihilation scenarios”, Arindam Chatterjee, Arghya Choudhury, Amitava Datta, Biswarup Mukhopadhyaya; JHEP 01, 154 (2015), 10.1007/JHEP01(2015)154 ; arXiv:1411.6467.
    16. “The role of MSSM heavy Higgs production in the self coupling measurement of 125 GeV Higgs boson at the LHC”, Biplob Bhattacherjee and Arghya Choudhury; Phys. Rev. D 91, 073015 (2015), 10.1103/Phys Rev D.91.073015 ; arXiv:1407.6866 .
    17. “The Electroweak Sector of the pMSSM in the Light of LHC - 8 TeV and Other Data”, Manimala Chakraborti, Utpal Chattopadhyay, Arghya Choudhury, Amitava Datta, Sujoy Poddar; JHEP 07, 019 (2014) 10.1007/JHEP07(2014)019 ;  arXiv:1404.4841 .
    18. “Compressed supersymmetry at 14 TeV LHC”, Biplob Bhattacherjee, Arghya Choudhury, Kirtiman Ghosh and Sujoy Poddar; Phys. Rev. D 89, 037702 (2014), 10.1103/Phys Rev D.89.037702 ;   arXiv:1308.1526 .
    19. “Neutralino dark matter confronted by the LHC constraints on Electroweak SUSY signals”, Arghya Choudhury and Amitava Datta; JHEP 09, 119 (2013) 10.1007/JHEP09(2013)119 ;  arXiv:1305.0928 .
    20. “New limits on stop squark NLSP from ATLAS 4.7 f b −1 data", Arghya Choudhury and Amitava Datta; Mod. Phys. Lett. A, Vol. 27, No. 32 (2012) 1250188 10.1142/S021773231250188X;  arXiv:1207.1846.
    21. “Many faces of low mass neutralino dark matter in the unconstrained MSSM, LHC data and new signals”, Arghya Choudhury and Amitava Datta; JHEP 06, 006 (2012) 10.1007/JHEP06(2012)006 ; arXiv:1203.4106 .
    22. “Low mass neutralino dark matter in mSUGRA and more general models  in the light of LHC data”, Nabanita Bhattacharyya, Arghya Choudhury and Amitava Datta; Phys. Rev. D 84, 095006 (2011) 10.1103/PhysRevD.84.095006 ; arXiv:1107.1997 .
    23. “Supersymmetry signals with small and large trilinear couplings at the LHC 7 TeV runs and neutralino dark matter”,  Nabanita Bhattacharyya, Arghya Choudhury and Amitava Datta; Phys. Rev. D 83, 115025 (2011) 10.1103/PhysRevD.83.115025arXiv:1104.0333.
    • International Meeting on High Energy Physics - 2019, IOP, India (2019).
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    • BayesFITS mini-symposium”, National Centre for Nuclear Research, Warsaw, Poland, (2015).
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    • PASCOS 2015 - The 21st International Symposium on Particles, Strings and Cosmology”, ICTP, Trieste, Italy (2015).
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    • Workshop on LHC and Dark Matter (LHCDM)”, IACS, Kolkata, India (2015).
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    • Workshop on Frontiers of New Physics: Colliders and Beyond”,  ICTP, Trieste, Italy (2014).
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    • Workshop on High Energy Physics and Phenomenology 2013 (WHEPP13)” Puri, Odisha, India (2013).
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    • Think Tank on Physics @ LHC”, Rajasthan, India (2011 ).
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    • Leptogenesis & GUT”, University of Calcutta, India (2011).
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    • Physics at early run of the LHC”, IACS, Kolkata, India (2011)
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    • XXVI SERC Main School in Theoretical High Energy Physics”, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India (2011).
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    • XXV SERC Preparatory School in Theoretical High Energy Physics”, IIT Madras, Chennai, India (2009)
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    • Instructional Workshop on LHC Physics”, IISER Kolkata, India (2008).
Presentations
  • “PLANCK 2017: 20th International Conference From the Planck Scale to the Electroweak Scale”, University of Warsaw, Poland (2017). “IOP Joint APP and HEPP Annual Conference”, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom (2017). “Looking for BSM Physics”, CHEP, IISc (2016). “Varying Constants and Fundamental Cosmology – VARCOSMOFUN’16”, University of Szczecin, Poland (2016). “Identification of Dark Matter - IDM 2016”, Master Cutlers Hall, United Kingdom (2016) “Bohr Seminar”, University of Manchester, United Kingdom (2016). “ATLAS-Theory Meeting”, University of Sheffield, UK (2016). “CRAG Seminar”, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom (2016). “Supersymmetry: from M-theory to the LHC”, University of Kent, United Kingdom (2016). “Current Trends in Particle Physics Research (CTPPR-2014)”, University of Kalyani, India (2014). “School on the Future of Collider Physics”, Kavli IPMU, Japan (2013). “DPS Symposium” at IISER-Kolkata, India (2013). “XX DAE-BRNS HEP Symposium” at Visva-Bharati, INDIA (2013).