Mohammad Sajjad Athar

Biography

In recent years the need for a better understanding of nucleon dynamics in the nuclear medium has been emphasized in order to precisely estimate the lepton event rates using the Monte Carlo generators. These generators are being used in the analysis of neutrino oscillation experiments. Most of these experiments are using neutrino and antineutrino beams of a few GeV, to which neutrino oscillation parameters are sensitive. The experiments use heavy nuclear targets in order to obtain significant numbers of events. For a neutrino interacting with a nucleon bound inside a nucleus, a good knowledge of nuclear medium effects becomes a necessity in order to make a precise estimate of the cross section. I am working with GENIE group(Scientists from USA, Europe and Japan) to get a common Monte Carlo generator to be used in the prediction of neutrino event rates. I am collaborating with the scientists at INSTITUTO DE F�?SICA CORPUSCULAR (IFIC), University of Valencia, Spain on the understanding on neutrino reactions off the nucleon targets. I am collaborating with the scientists at The Institute for Cosmic Ray Research (ICRR), University of Tokyo on the precise determination of atmospheric neutrino flux for the proposed experiment in India( INO), South Pole and Finland. Scientific community of the MINERvA collaboration at Fermi Lab, U.S.A. are interested in our work on the deep inelastic neutrino/antineutrino reactions in nuclei and we are working on the problems of their experimental interest. I am a member of the India-based neutrino observatory(INO)-collaboration, a mega science project, approved by the Govt. of India. I am also a member of DUNE Collabn., Fermi Lab.,USA I have published around 60 papers in journals and 50 papers in the conferences. I have completed three D.S.T. projects and given several talks in national and international conferences.

Research Interest

Nuclear and Particle Physics, Neutrino Physics