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Prof. Mohammad Sajjad Athar
  • DEPARTMENT_STAFF.QUALIFICATION

    Ph. D.

  • DEPARTMENT_STAFF.DESIGNATION

    Professor

  • DEPARTMENT_STAFF.THRUST_AREA

    Nuclear and Particle Physics, Neutrino Physics

  • DEPARTMENT_STAFF.ADDRESS

    002, Phase-II, Ohud Residency, Dodhpur, Aligarh-202002 INDIA.

  • DEPARTMENT_STAFF.MOBILE

    9634990796

  • DEPARTMENT_STAFF.EMAIL

    sajathar@gmail.com

  • DEPARTMENT_STAFF.TIME_TABLE

    Time Table

DEPARTMENT_STAFF.COMPLETE_CV
      1. Invited to become a member of the International Advisory Committee of the 15th International Workshop on Neutrino-Nucleus Interaction to be held in Mainz, Germany during 6-11 October 2025.

      2. Invited to become a member of "Particle Physics Group and the European Strategy Group" to draft the European Particle Physics Strategy 2026.

      3. Invited member of the "Nuclear Physics European Collaboration Committee," contributing to the "Long Range Plan for Nuclear Physics in Europe".

      4. Invited member of the Snowmass Collaboration on Neutrino Physics contributing to the "Long Range Plan for Neutrino Physics in the United States".

      5. Member of the NuSTEC(Neutrino Scattering Theory-Experimental Collaboration) Board, an Inter- national Collaboration of about 40 scientists(only one from Indian subcontinent). https://nustec.fnal.gov/.

      1. Member of the Expert Panel of the "Indian Mega Science Vision(MSV)-2035 Report in Nuclear Physics" nominated by the Principle Scientific Advisor to the Govt. of India for finalising the MSV-2035 (Nuclear Physics) Draft Report.

      1. Member, Neutrino Panel of International Union of Pure and Applied Physics(IUPAP) (only one from the Indian subcontinent). The term of the appointment was of three years 2019-22. This panel, which included a Nobel laureate, Directors of institutes/laboratories was to promote international cooperation in the development of neutrino physics and we published "Neutrino-Panel IUPAP White Paper Report," in Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics 124 (2022) 103947. It has received more than 100 citations. https://www.iupapneutrinopanel.org/

      2. Member Neutrino Scattering Theory Experiment Collaboration (NuSTEC). https://nustec.fnal.gov/

      3. Member MINERvA Collaboration, Fermilab, USA. https://minerva.fnal.gov/

      4. Invited by the Editor-in-Chief of the Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics (Impact Factor 17.9, Elsevier), the highest impact journal in the combined field of Nuclear and Particle Physics to write a review article on the “Neutrino and their interactions with matter”. The article is now published: Prog. Part. Nucl. Phys. 129 (2023) 104019, 185 Print Pages. It has received more than 50 citations in 2 years.

      5. For the past 14 years, I have had the privilege of working with 2015 Nobel Laureate in Physics, Prof. Takaaki Kajita. This collaboration began when he invited me to be a Visiting Professor at the University of Tokyo to assist experimentalists in understanding Neutrino Interactions and theoretically predict atmospheric neutrino flux. Together, we have co-authored several papers on atmospheric neutrinos. I have made three visits to the University of Tokyo since 2008.

      6. Edited on volume on Neutrino Interactions in the Intermediate and High Energy Region (Springer).

      7. Member, DUNE Collaboration, USA.

      8. Member, Scientific Management Board of INO, DAE-DST Nominated Commottee, Govt. of India.

      9. Review Editor on the Editorial Board of High-Energy and Astroparticle Physics.

      10. Member, Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) Committee to monitor Indian contribution towards India-DUNE Collaboration.


      I work in the area of (i) Neutrino Physics and their Interactions with Matter (ii) Hadron physics (iii) Physics with electromagnetic probes.

      Neutrinos are among the fundamental particles of the Universe. Looking back at the origin of the neutrino studies and the development of neutrino physics over the last 90 years(first conjectured by W. Pauli in 1930), we see that neutrino physics has truly become an interdisciplinary subject involving particle physics, nuclear physics, cosmology, and astrophysics. The understanding of neutrino physics is not only to resolve the mysteries of this elusive particle but also to explore and examine many puzzles regarding which any information can only be obtained through the observation of neutrinos. 


      The study of neutrinos and their interactions with matter has made many important contributions to our present knowledge of physics, which are highlighted by the fact that ten Nobel Prizes have been awarded for Physics discoveries in topics either directly in the field of neutrino physics or in the topics in which the role of neutrino physics has been very crucial.


      Book: The Physics of Neutrino Interactions, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020 (20 Chapters, 990 Pages)


  1. Publication

    Key Publications 2006 onward

    1. 

    “Hyperon production in quasielastic ? ??nucleon scattering” A. Fatima, M. Sajjad Athar and S K Singh", arXiv: hep-ph/2201.01474, 
    Phy. Rev. D 105 (2022) 073004.

    2. 

    “Status and perspectives of neutrino physics” M. Sajjad Athar et al.,
    1. “Neutrino-Panel IUPAP White Paper Report,”
      Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics 
      124 (2022) 103947 .

    3.Neutrino(antineutrino)-Nucleus Interactions in the Shallow- and Deep-Inelastic Scattering

    M. Sajjad Athar and J. G. Morfin (scientist emeritus, Fermilab, USA) 

    Invited Review Article.   

    J. of Physics G 
    • 48 (2021) 3, 034001
     (99 Print Pages)

    4. Weak structure functions in Neutrino(antineutrino)--N and Neutrino(antineutrino)--Nucleus scattering with non-perturbative and higher order perturbative QCD effects

    F. Zaidi, H. Haider, M. Sajjad Athar, S. K. Singh and I. Ruiz Simo, Phys.Rev. D101 (2020) no.3, 033001.

    5. Reduction of the Uncertainty in the Atmospheric Neutrino Flux Prediction Below 1 GeV Using Accurately Measured Atmospheric Muon Flux,

    M. Honda, M. Sajjad Athar, T. Kajita(Nobel Prize winner 2015), K. Kasa- hara and S. Midorikawa, Phys. Rev. D100, 123022 (2019).

    6. NuSTEC White Paper: Status and Challenges of Neutrino- Nucleus Scattering

    L. Alvarez-Ruso, M. Sajjad Athar et al., Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics 100, 1-68 (2018)(More than 200 citations).

    7. Weak quasielastic electroproduction of hyperons with polar- ization observables

    F. Akbar, M. Sajjad Athar, A. Fatima and S. K. Singh European Physics Journal A 53, 154 (2017).

    8. Physics Potential of the ICAL detector at the India-based Neutrino Observatory (INO)

    S. Ahmed. M. Sajjad Athar, et al. [ICAL Collaboration] (White Paper) Pramana J. of Physics 88, 79 (2017)(More than 200 citations).

    9. Quasielastic production of hyperons and their polarization in antineutrino reactions

    F. Akbar, M. Rafi Alam, M. Sajjad Athar and S. K. Singh. Phys. Rev. D94 (2016) 114031.

    10. Weak charged and neutral current induced one pion production off the nucleon

    M. R. Alam, S. Chauhan, M. Sajjad Athar and S. K. Singh Int. J. of Mod. Phys. E 25 (2016) 1650010. (More than 30 citations).

    11. Atmospheric neutrino flux calculation using the NRLMSISE00 atmospheric model

    M. Honda, M. Sajjad Athar, T. Kajita(Nobel Prize winner 2015), K. Kasahara and S. Midorikawa Phys. Rev. D 92 023004 (2015) (More than 140 citations).

    12. Atmospheric neutrino flux at INO, South Pole and PyhÌasalmi

    M. Sajjad Athar, M. Honda, T. Kajita(Nobel Prize winner 2015), K. Kasa- hara and S. Midorikawa. Phys. Lett. B 718, 1375 (2013) (More than 40 citations).

    13. Nuclear medium effects in Neutrino(antineutrino)--nucleus deep inelastic scattering

    H. Haider, I. R. Simo, M. Sajjad Athar and M. J. V. Vacas. Phys. Rev. C 84, 054610 (2011) (More than 35 citations).

    14. Weak Kaon Production off the Nucleon

    M. Rafi Alam, I. Ruiz Simo, M. Sajjad Athar and M. J. Vicente Vacas. Phys. Rev. D 82, 033001 (2010) (More than 40 citations).

    15. Theoretical study of lepton events in the atmospheric neutrino experiments at SuperK

    M. Sajjad Athar, S. Chauhan and S. K. Singh. Eur. Phys. J. A 43, 209 (2010) (More than 30 citations).

    16. Charged current anti-neutrino reactions from C-12 at Mini-BooNE energies

    M. Sajjad Athar, S. Ahmad and S. K. Singh. Phys. Rev. D 75, 093003 (2007) (More than 30 citations).

    17. Nuclear effects in neutrino induced coherent pion production at K2K and MiniBooNE

    S. K. Singh, M. Sajjad Athar and S. Ahmad. Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 241801 (2006) (More than 70 citations).

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