Saptaparna Bhattacharya

Assistant Professor

Physics

Email

saptaparnab@smu.edu

Office Location

151 Fondren Life Science Building

Phone

214-768-2495

Website

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Education

Ph.D., Physics, Brown University
M.A., Physics, Indian Institute of Technology
B.S., Physics, St. Xavier's College

Area of Expertise

Scientific Computing
Multiboson physics and effective field theory analysis
AI-aware detectors for the next generation of experiments

Courses Taught

PHYS 3306
PHYS 7363

Research Interests

Experimental high energy physics
Detector Physics
Machine Learning
Multiboson physics
Future Colliders

Selected Publications

  • Energy-scaling behavior of intrinsic transverse momentum parameters in Drell-Yan simulation, Phys. Rev. D 111 (2025) 072003

  • HEP Software Foundation, The Critical Importance of Software for HEP, https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.01050

  • J Choi, S Bhattacharya, Accelerating CMS Matrix-Element Event Generation for Drell-Yan and Top Pair Production with Madgraph4GPU, EPJ Web of Conferences 337, 01315 (2025) https://www.epj-conferences.org/articles/epjconf/abs/2025/22/epjconf_chep2025_01315/epjconf_chep2025_01315.html

  • Search for new physics in triple boson production at 13 TeV using the effective field theory approach: https://cms-results.web.cern.ch/cms-results/public-results/preliminary-results/SMP-24-017/index.html

  • S. Bhattacharya et al., LHC EFT WG Note: SMEFT predictions, event reweighting, and simulation, SciPost Phys. Comm. Rep., November 2024.

Saptaparna Bhattacharya