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Dr. Newton Nath

Assistant Professor
Department of Physics, IIT (BHU)
Email:
nnath.phy@iitbhu.ac.in
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Personal Website
https://inspirehep.net/authors/1489287?ui-citation-summary=true
Area of Interest:
Neutrino Physics, Dark Sector Particles, and Physics Beyond the Standard Model
  • B.Sc.: 2007 - 2010, GC College, Silchar, Assam, India.
  • M.Sc.: 2010 - 2012, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India.
  • Ph.D.: 2012 - 2017, Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, India.

 

  • Assistant Professor: Dec. 2024 -  Present, IIT (BHU) Varanasi, India.
  • Postdoctoral Fellow: Nov. 2023 - Dec. 2024, IFIC Valencia, Spain.
  • Postdoctoral Fellow: Oct. 2021 - Sep. 2023, INFN Bari, Italy.
  • Postdoctoral Fellow: Sep. 2019 - Sep. 2021, IFUNAM Mexico City, Mexico.
  • Postdoctoral Fellow: Sep. 2017 - Aug. 2019, IHEP Beijing, China.

 

 

My primary research interests lie in high-energy particle physics, focusing on neutrino phenomenology

and its interplay with dark sector particles, including axions, axion-like particles, dark matter, and dark photons.

  • Neutrino Physics
  • Dark Sector Particles (Dark Matter, Axion, Dark Photon)

List of publications can be found:

 

  • 2012 Bhagat Saran Agarwal Memorial Medal:   For securing first Rank in MSc Physics (Gold medal)
  • 2012 CSIR-JRF: AIR 99 in Physical Sciences.
  • 2013 JEST:  AIR 34 in Physics.
  • 2019 Dirección General de Asuntos del Personal Académico: Post-doctoral fellowship by IFUNAM, Mexico City.
  • 2020 NACIONAL DE INVESTIGADORES (SNI): Scholarship by Government of Mexico for "Candidato a Investigador Nacional" level.
  • 2021 INFN Fellowship: Post-doctoral fellowship by INFN Italy.
  • 2023 PROMETEO program for excellent research groups: Post-doctoral fellowship by the University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain

Courses taught :

  • PHY101: Physics-I Classical, Quantum & Relativistic Mechanics (B.Tech)
  • PHY304: Foundations of Quantum Technologies (IDD)
  • PHY401: Nuclear and Particle Physics (M.Sc. & IDD)
  • PYM527: Advanced Nuclear Physics  (IDD, M.Sc. & Ph.D.)

Research Scholar:

  • Ashish Shrivastava 

Master Student:

  • Tousib Ahmed 
  • Sahil Singh

Internships:

  • Akhil Tripathi (M.Sc. Physics, NIT Hamirpur) / Summer Intern, 2025
  • Deepak Verma (M.Sc. Physics, NIT Rourkela) / Summer Intern, 2025
  • Riddhi Dakhole  (BS-MS, IISER Tirupati ) / Summer Intern, 2025
  • Tousib Ahmed (M.Sc. Physics, IIT BHU) / Summer Intern, 2025