Manjit Kaur
Professor
Department of Physics
Panjab University
Chandigarh 160014
India

Email: manjit@pu.ac.in
Phone: +91 172 2534492

CV (July 2016) Dept. of Physics

Educational background

• M.Sc. (Hons. School) Physics, Panjab University, Chandigarh (1975)
• Ph.D. (Science), Panjab University, Chandigarh (1981)
• M.C.A. (Computer Science), Indira Gandhi National Open University (2005)

Professional background

• Research Associate, World Laboratory, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland (1989–1995)
• Lecturer, MCMDAV College (Panjab University), Chandigarh (1980–1984)
• Lecturer (Senior Scale), Dept. of Physics, Panjab University, Chandigarh (1984–1994)
• Reader, Panjab University, Chandigarh (1994–2002)
• Professor, Panjab University, Chandigarh (2002 onwards)
• Invited Scientist, EMFCSC, Erice, Italy (August 2007)
• Invited Scientist, EMFCSC, Erice, Italy (June 2015)
• Visiting Scientist, European Center for Research in Nuclear and Particle Physics (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland (1996–2015)

Important awards and fellowships of academies

• Guilio Racah Fellowship of EMCSC, Erice, Italy (1991)

Main area of work

• Experimental high-energy physics: Participation in international HEP experiments (L3, CMS at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland and ZEUS at DESY, Germany), fabrication and testing of detector parts, front-end and backend electronics
• Physics analysis of the data: Dynamics of high-energy particle interactions, QCD jets, measurements of particle properties, Monte-Carlo simulations

Significant recent publications

1. Distributions of topological observables in inclusive three-and four-jet events in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV
   M. Kaur and co authors V. Khachatryan, et al from CMS collaboration
   Eur.Phys. J. C75, 7, 302 (2015)
2. Subjet multiplicities at LHC energies and the QCD color factor ratio CA/CF
   M. Kaur and Anter P. Kaur
   Advances in High Energy Physics. 2013 (2013) 585809
3. Observation of a new Boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC
   M. Kaur and co-authors from CMS collaboration
   Phys. Lett. B716 (2012) 30
4. Generalized event shape and energy flow studies in e+e- annihilation at sqrt(s) =91 .2-208 0 GeV
   M.Kaur and co-authors from L3 collaboration (P. Achard et al.)
   JHEP 10 (2011) 143
5. Transverse-momentum and pseudorapidity distributions of charged hadrons in pp collisions at √s = 7 TeV
   M. Kaur and co-authors from CMS collaborations
   J. High Energy Phys. 1002 (2010) 041
6. Scaled momentum spectra in deep inelastic scattering at HERA
   M. Kaur and co-authors from ZEUS collaborations
   J. High Energy Phys. 1006 (2010) 009
7. Measurement of the longitudinal proton structure function at HERA
   M. Kaur and co-authors from ZEUS collaborations
   Phys. Lett. B 682 (2009) 8
8. The CMS barrel calorimeter response to particle beams from 2 GeV/c to 350 GeV/c
   M. Kaur and co-authors from USCMS and ECAL/HCAL collaborations
   Eur. Phys. J. C 60 (2009) 359
9. Scaled momentum distributions of charged particles in dijet photoproduction at HERA
   M. Kaur and co-authors from ZEUS collaboration
   J. High Energy Phys. 0908 (2009) 077