Arka Santra
Associate Professor ‘E’,
High Energy Nuclear & Particle Physics Division,
Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics
Sector - 1, Block - AF,
Bidhannagar,
Kolkata-700064, India.
Personal Details
MARITAL: SINGLE
NATIONALITY: AMERICAN
MARITAL: SINGLE
NATIONALITY: AMERICAN
EXPERIENCE
Associate Professor ‘E’
High Energy Nuclear & Particle Physics division, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata, India.
August 2024 onwardsAssistant Professor in Physics
Assistant professor in the Department of Physics, Institute of Science, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India
MAR 2024 TO JUL 2024Postdoctoral Researcher
Researched on a. searching for clockwork gravity model, b. strong field quantum electrodynamics experiment (LUXE) and c. building solid-state particle detectors at the Department of Particle Physics and Astrophysics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel, with Prof. Noam Tal Hod
from 2020 to 2024Postdoctoral Researcher
Searched for supersymmetry and magnetic monopoles at the Institute de Fisica Corpuscular, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain under Dr Vasiliki Mitsou.
from 2017 to 2020Selected Talks/Presentations
The 30th International Conference on Supersymmetry and Unification of Fundamental Interactions (SUSY 2023), on behalf of the LUXE Collaboration, July 21, 2023, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK.
Lake Louise Winter Institute, on behalf of the ATLAS Collaboration, February 21,2022, Lake Louise, Canada.
on behalf of the ATLAS and CMS collaborations, Corfu2018, September 7, 2018, Corfu, Greece.
On behalf of the MoEDAL and LHCf collaborations, Sixth Annual Conference on Large Hadron Collider Physics (LHCP 2018), June 7, 2018, Bologna, Italy.
Education
PhD (2013 to 2016) in Experimental Particle Physics
Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, USA
- Dissertation title: A search for supersymmetry with two photons and missing transverse energy at CMS at a center of mass energy of 13 TeV [Link].
- Advisor: Professor Andrew Askew
MS in Physics (2011 to 2013)
Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, USA.
MSc (2009 to 2011) in Physics
Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India
- MSc project: “Extra-ordinary transmission of microwave and to enhance microwave using various structures made on copper plate”
- Advisor: Professor H Wanare
BSc (2006 to 2009), Physics (Honours)
Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India
Awards/Achievements
Dean of Faculty Fellowship, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel (2020).
Postdoctoral Fellowship from Generalitat Valenciana (Grant Acronym:GV-APOSTD), Generalitat Valenciana (Government of Valencia), Valencia, Spain (2020).
[Rejected in order to join Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel]
Anna Runyan Graduate Endowment Award based on academic merit, Department of Physics, Florida State University (2016).
The Universities Research Association (URA) Visiting Scholars Award Program at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (2014).
Academic Excellence Award in the Master of Science (2 Year) Programme in Physics, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India (2010).
KVPY Fellowship (Stream: basic science), Department of Science and Technology, Government of India (2006).
Mamraj Agarwal Rashtriya Purashkar, Mamraj Agarwal Foundation (2004).
Awarded for securing all West Bengal rank – 10 (among 600,000 students) in Madhyamik Examination (Final school leaving examination in the state of West Bengal, India in Class X).
Anadicharan Nanibala Memorial Silver Medal, awarded by the West Bengal Board of Secondary Education for scoring 100% in mathematics in Madhyamik Examination, West Bengal (2004)
SKILLS & LANGUAGE
Bengali: native
English: advanced- Hindi: advanced
Spanish: basic
Hebrew: basic
selected papers
Author list: Aad, G.,Abbott,B., …, Santra, A. et al. (ATLAS Collaboration)
Journal details: J. High Energ. Phys. 2023, 79 (2023)
DOI link: https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP10(2023)079
Arxiv identifier:
2305.10894 [hep-ex]
Author list: Z. Bai, T. Blackburn, O. Borysov, O. Davidi, A. Hartin, B. Heinemann, T. Ma, G. Perez, A. Santra, Y. Soreq and N. Tal Hod (alphabetical order)
Journal details: Phys. Rev. D, 106, no.11, 115034 (2022)
DOI link: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.106.115034
Arxiv identifier: 2107.13554 [hep-ph]
Author list: Acharya, B., Alexandre, J., Benes, P., …, Santra, A. et al. (MoEDAL Collaboration)
Journal details: Nature 602, 63–67 (2022)
DOI link: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-04298-1
Arxiv identifier: 2106.11933 [hep-ex]
Author list: B. Acharya, …, A. Santra et al. (MoEDAL Collaboration)
Journal details: Phys. Rev. Lett., 126, 071801 (2021)
DOI link: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.126.071801
Arxiv identifier:2002.00861 [hep-ex]
Author list: B. Acharya, …, A. Santra et al. (MoEDAL Collaboration)
Journal details: Phys. Rev. Lett.,123, 021802 (2019)
DOI link: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.021802
Arxiv identifier: 1903.08491 [hep-ex]