REDD research Lab
REDD stands for Readout Electronics and Detector Development. The focus of the lab is on the Experimental High Energy Physics and its application to the society.
Principal Investigator
Dr. Vishal Bhardwaj (Ph. D.)
Assistant Professor, Department of Physical Sciences,
4F4, Academic Block 1, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Mohali,
Sector 81, Knowledge City, SAS Nagar (Mohali),
Punjab, 140306 (India).
Focus of REDD Lab
The true benefit to society lies not in achieving great feats, but in addressing the small yet crucial issues often overlooked by even the greatest minds
We are engaged in two major experimental High Energy Physics (HEP) collaborations:
Belle II – Conducting precision measurements in flavor physics, CP violation, and exploring potential new physics beyond the Standard Model. The experiment is located at KEK, Japan.
CMS (Compact Muon Solenoid) – A key experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), CERN, Switzerland, focused on studying fundamental particles, including Higgs boson properties, dark matter searches, and probing new physics phenomena.
Our focus is on tackling problems that are missed by most, applying ideas and technologies—both software and hardware-based—from the High Energy Physics (HEP) community for the betterment of society.
Our work includes:
Software development to enhance data analysis and processing.
Physics analysis and data reduction for improved insights.
Detector development.
Beyond High Energy Physics, we leverage the tools and expertise we develop—such as Artificial Intelligence (AI)—to contribute to diverse fields such as forensic science and medical imaging.
Current Lab members
Dr. Soureek Mitra
Post-doctoral researcher
Physics Interests: High Energy Physics, Higgs, SUSY, top physics
Focus: Physics Analysis, AI based optimizations and algorithms, Detector development and characteristics study (CMS experiment)
Other Interests: Travel, Computing, Electronics
Sourabh Chutia
Ph.D. researcher
Physics Interests: High Energy Physics, Gravitation.
Focus: Physics Analysis, Detector development and characteristics study (Belle and Belle II collaboration)
Other Interests: Travel, Food, Computing
Ph.D. researcher
Physics Interests: Experimental High Energy Physics in charm sector, study the physics in high intensity frontier region, and study of rare decay.
Focus: Currently focused on finding possibility for dark matter and rare decay study of Ds meson using Belle and Belle II experiment data.
Other Interests: Reading, Running Marathons and tinkering with electronics.
Ph.D. researcher
Physics Interests: Experimental High Energy Physics, Charm Physics
Focus: Currently working on the precise measurements of branching fractions of the strange charmed mesons with the Belle II experiment.
Other Interests: Travel, Badminton
Previous Lab members
Thesis title: Search for B → Y(4260) K decay with belle detector at KEK B-factory
Ph.D. Completion: August, 2021 (Panjab University)
Currently at: Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), USA
Physics interests: High energy physics: Flavor physics, Hadron spectroscopy, Astrophysics
Focus: Currently working on rare charm decays, dE/dx calibration.
Other interests: Travel, Yoga, programming
Thesis title: Study of rare decays & exotic states in quarkonium at Belle
Ph.D. Completion: October, 2022 (IISER Mohali)
Currently at: University of Louisville, USA stationed at KEK, Japan
Physics interests: Searches of new physics phenomena in the flavor sector. Software and networking part of different HEP detectors.
Focus: Tau physics, LFV decays and detector physics
Other interests: Running, cycling, table tennis, cooking, etc
Ex-Post-doctoral researcher
Physics Interests: Experimental High Energy Physics: B and Charm Physics.
Focus: "Basic building blocks of matter", new sources of CP violation beyond the SM. Rare B-meson decays, study of rare and hadronic B to charm decay modes .
Other Interests: Reading, Music, Machine learning
Currently at: Research staff at Haryana Forensic Department.