DAMP Physics, IITB

Contributed by: Sheetal Jain (UTSIP Summer Research Student, 2016) UTSIP stands for University of Tokyo Summer Internship Program. It is a 7 week long internship program that takes place in June-July in the Kashiwa Campus of the University of Tokyo, Japan. Application This program opens as a JAF/IAF via the Placement Cell (PT Cell) for our department. One needs to sign the JAF via the IIT-B portal as a first step (only resume is required). University of Tokyo also hosts a separate online portal for applications, which needs to be filled as well. Requirements/Materials needed Since the internship opens via the PT Cell, it has some CPI cutoffs, which seem to vary from year to year. The materials required for completing the application are:           2-page resume           Latest transcript copy           Two recommenders (they have to upload reference letters directly)     ...

The High Energy Accelerator Research Organisation(KEK), invited 10 sophomores from EP, to work on various projects, for a duration of 3 weeks, beginning 11 May. This cam under the Japanese government’s Sakura Science Program. This came under the KEK has two campuses - one in Tsukuba which is an electron-positron accelerator and the other in Tokai on the east coast. The Tokai campus goes by the name JPARC (Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex). As the name states, JPARC is a proton accelerator. We were invited to the Tsukuba campus which is about 70km from Tokyo. Our airfare was covered and we received a generous amount of money for day to day use. We were divided into 3 groups, with each group working under the supervision of a Professor. 1. Detection of CMB through Radio analysis of the sky spectrum Gurbir, Yashvi, and Viraj worked on this project. The CMB group at KEK had developed KUMoDES, a radio system spinoff of a cosmic microwave background detector, which uses t...

Field: Experimental Particle Physics Over the period of June- July 2017, I worked under the guidance of Prof. Yoshitaka Kuno at Osaka University, on the readout and trigger electronics as part of the multinational COMET Collaboration. WORK   In particular, I worked on the readout for the Cylindrical Drift Chamber, implementing a Bonsai Boosted Decision Tree as a Level-I Trigger to decide which events could match our expected signal. This involved working with the Xilinx Kintex-7 FPGA, which would form the basis for the final design. I implemented the softcore PicoBlaze microprocessor to interface with the PC, the FPGA and the Flash Module. Following this, I used an FPGA-optimized implementation of the Circle Hough Transform to examine the tracks left by the particles, and identify the circular paths which were of interest.   BACKGROUND The prerequisites were primarily a solid background in Digital Electronics, along with rudimentary High  Energy P...