Rahul Malhotra's Homepage
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Rahul Malhotra
The University of Texas at Austin
Department of Physics
1 University Station C1600
Austin, TX 78712-0264
U.S.A.
E-mail address: rahul@physics.utexas.edu
Office: RLM 9.210
Phone: 512-471-3792 (Off.) 512-476-2774 (Res.)
I am a doctoral student in the Center for Particle Physics working with
Prof. Duane Dicus.
I will graduate in December 2004.
Teaching
I am teaching discussion sessions for
Phy 317K
in Fall 2004. Session timings are Tuesday 5-7pm and Thursday 6-8pm
in RLM 5.126. Please note that office hours are by appointment only.
Research
My thesis research is on Higgs phenomenology in
supersymmetric (SUSY) field theories.
I have worked on prediction of SUSY Higgs
observables at Run II of the
Fermilab
Tevatron and the upcoming
Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at
CERN. I have also worked
on phenomenology of low energy supersymmetry scenarios.
My other research
interests are in theories with large extra dimensions, little Higgs models,
neutrino physics, non-commutative field theories, unitarity of gauge
theories, effective field theories and other topics in high energy physics.
This summer I attended the Theoretical Advanced Study Institute (TASI) at
Boulder, CO and this fall, gave a talk at the PASCOS conference in Boston.
Computing
I am familiar with C, FORTRAN, Neural Networks and high energy physics
software such as CompHEP, MCFM, MADGRAPH,
PYTHIA/JETSET. I am also conversant with parallel high
performance super-computing using
Parallel Virtual Machine (PVM)
and
Message Passing Interface (MPI).
Publications/Preprints
Fun Physics Stuff
-
SPIRES HEP Literature Database: Searchable archive of
preprints and publications in HEP.
- CERN:
This is the world's largest particle physics laboratory
straddling France and Switzerland, home to half the
world's particle physicists. The Large Hadron Collider will have a
center-of-mass energy of 14 Tera Electron-Volts (TeV). Due to the
high energy, there has been some
concern /
optimism
that tiny black holes might be produced there. Here is an
aerial view of CERN's giant particle collider.
-
Exploratorium (Origins): A great site setup by CERN and the
"Exploratorium" science museum of San Francisco on particle
physics, with cool pictures. Learn about
giant particle colliders, and
cutting-edge ideas of modern science such as anti-matter,
the big bang and Higgs bosons.
- Super-String Theory:
Enter the world of bizarre "super" strings. Perhaps string theory is
the answer to everything - the final theory that explains all. But one
wonders - can string theory explain why string theory exists?
Some Artwork
Sorry, other artwork is yet to be uploaded...still all thanks to the students who were willing to patronize me :)
Pics
- At PASCOS in Boston. I'm a bit hard to find being surrounded by famous people. But if you look I'm the 14th guy from the right in the top row.
This section is heavily under construction!
