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 at IISER Mohali 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).

In my master thesis project, I measure the 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 in Belle II. For this project I have generated and reconstructed $50$ million run-dependent signal MC and $2000\ fb^{-1}$ generic MC 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 in CERN, Belle II and other related experiments.

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

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