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Dr Mathew Arun Thomas
Assistant Professor Grade I (Physics)
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  mathewthomas@iisertvm.ac.in

Beyond Standard Model of Particle Physics

Extra dimensions

Baryon number violation

Effective Field Theory 

Low-energy physics and Flavour Physics

Recent Research Work: 

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A) The study of effective field theory operators in 4k+2 dimensions revealed interesting Baryon number violation (BNV) processes, where Dark Matter (DM) acts as a catalyst. This predicts new phenomena like DM-assisted Hydrogen-antihydrogen oscillation and DM-assisted Proton decay, which could lead to observable effects at the center of galaxies. If detected, it would not only mark a significant milestone but also provide an explanation for the lack of BNV events observed in terrestrial experiments. Further, we showed that a six-dimensional orbifolded torus geometry offers an effective explanation for the observation of 11 neutron-antineutron oscillation events at Super-Kamiokande while naturally suppressing proton decay.

 

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B) Though direct detection of confining New Physics is extremely difficult, we showed that in certian models, the effect can be observed in BNV processes that are studied at Super-Kamiokande and upcoming Hyper-Kamiokande, HI-beam/NNbar experiments.

 

 

 

 

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C) From phenomenology of low energy flavour physics physics, we showed that embedding our universe in 4+1 dimensional Little Randall Sundrum model is heavily constrained by charge lepton flavour violations, and its safety requires either brane localized kinetic terms or brane oscillations.

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