Dr. Alka Upadhya
Associate Professor
Physics & Materials Science
Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology
India
Biography
Education Ph.D: M.S. University of Baroda(2006) Thesis Title: Some Aspect of Low Energy Properties of Nucleon M.Sc: M.S. University of Baroda (2000) B.Sc: Delhi University, (1998) Experience Associate Professor: School for Physics and Material Science, Thapar University, Patiala Period of stay: June 2014 – Continue Assistant Professor: School for Physics and Material Science, Thapar University, Patiala Period of stay: July 2008 – June2014 Postdoctoral Fellow: Physical Research Laboratory, Theoretical Physics Department : April 2008 to July 2008 Postdoctoral Fellow: Centre for High Energy Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore: March 2006 to April 2008 Doctorate : M.S. University of Baroda, Vadodara, Thesis Supervisor: Dr. J.P. Singh : May 2002 to March 2006.
Research Interest
Research Interest QCD phenomenology, Standard Model, Nucleonic properties at low energy. Chiral Symmetry Breaking in Pion Nucleon Coupling Constant. Heavy Hadron Chiral Perturbation Theory and Effective Field Theory. Masses and decays of Heavier Mesons. Neutrino Physics/Oscillations.
Publications
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Detailed Balance and Spin Content of Λ using Statistical Model, M. Batra, A. Upadhyay, IJMPA 28(15) (2013)1350062. Phenomenology of neutrino oscillation in vacuum and matter, ISRN-HEP, Vol. 2013, Article ID 206516,(2013).
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Strange and non-strange sea quark-gluon effects in nucleons, M. Batra, A. Upadhyay, Nuclear Physics A, 922, (2014)126–139. Strange Mass Corrections to Hyperonic Semi-Leptonic Decay in Statistical Model Upadhyay, M. Batra, Eur. Phys. J. A (2013) 49: 160.
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Eta prime gluonic contribution to the nucleon self-energy in an effective theory, Alka Upadhyay, J.P. Singh, Advance in High Energy Physics(2014).
