Tejas Rana
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Tejas Rana

MS student · Experimental Particle Physics

About

I am a master’s thesis student with the Belle II group at the Max Planck Institute for Physics (Munich) and a final-year BS-MS physics student with a minor in data science. My research interests are in applying computational and statistical techniques to experimental particle physics, with a focus on precision measurements and searches that test the Standard Model (SM) and look for evidence of physics beyond the Standard Model (BSM).

My master thesis measures quantum decoherence in the semi-leptonic decay channel \(B^0 \to D^{*-}\,\ell^+\,\nu_{\ell}\), via the \(\Upsilon(4S)\to B^0\bar{B}^0\) resonance. For this project I have generated and reconstructed $500\ fb^{-1}$ Monte Carlo samples, applied selection optimisation and background suppression, and performed both binned and unbinned fits using pyhf and zfit. A detailed summary of the work is available on the Master Thesis page.

Outside the thesis, I completed a reading project on Fermilab’s muon g-2 experiment and learned detector-level simulation methods with Geant4. I also implemented three-flavour neutrino oscillations using the PMNS formalism and built demonstration circuits on IBM Qiskit (QasmSimulator).

I am applying to PhD programs in experimental particle physics for Fall 2026/spring 2027, with focus on analysis and precision-measurement work at large experiments (ATLAS, CMS, LHCb, ALICE) and other major laboratories.

On this website you can find my CV and a detailed description of my thesis.

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