Symposium on Women in Physics​: Networking, Innovation, Opportunity and Equity (SWPNIOE)

Session

High Energy Physics

11 Sept 2026, 11:40

G210 A (Chair - Arindam Chatterjee )

53. Precision Tests as Windows to New Physics: From Anomalies to Rare Higgs Decays

Mamta Dahiya (DU)

11/09/2026, 11:40

Precision measurements provide a powerful indirect probe of physics beyond the Standard Model, since new particles can modify electroweak and Higgs observables through quantum e>ects even when they are not directly observed. The evolving picture of the muon anomalous magnetic moment and the (W)-boson mass illustrates how the interpretation of precision tests changes as experimental and...

54. Connecting the Missing Dots: From Neutrinos to the Dark Universe

Manimala Mitra (IoP)

11/09/2026, 12:00

The Standard Model of particle physics provides an extraordinarily successful description of the fundamental particles and their interactions, yet several important observations point towards physics beyond it. The origin of neutrino masses and mixings, the nature of dark matter, the observed matter-antimatter asymmetry of the universe, and the connection between particle physics and the early...

55. Unraveling Non-standard Physics via Neutrino Oscillations

Moon Moon Devi (TU)

11/09/2026, 12:20

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Neutrino oscillations are among the most sensitive tools for exploring physics beyond the Standard Model (BSM). Three such well-motivated BSM scenarios are Scalar Non-Standard Interactions (SNSI), dark Non-Standard Interactions (dark NSI), and Lorentz Invariance Violation (LIV). SNSI is the interaction of neutrinos with environmental fermions, mediated by a scalar particle [1]. One of the most...

62. Mapping the phase diagram of Quantum Chromodynamics via heavy-ion collisions

Maneesha Sushama Pradeep (IISc, Bengaluru)

11/09/2026, 12:40

Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) at high temperatures and baryon densities is expected to exhibit a rich phase structure. A central open question is whether the QCD phase diagram contains a critical point
at finite baryon density, marking the termination of a first order phase transition line. While lattice QCD has established that the transition from hadronic matter to the quark-gluon plasma is...