Research:

My research interests are in field theory and theoretical nuclear physics. Field theory provides a consistent framework for the standard model (SM), which has been touted to be in exquisite agreement with experiments. However, little is known about the scalar sector that breaks the electroweak (EW) symmetry. Presently, a single scalar field is hypothesized to provide the EW breaking mechanism. Although the idea is economical, it suffers from its inability to explain the observed baryon/antibaryon asymmetry.

In anticipation of the new high energy experiments to be conducted at CERN in Switzerland, I am currently studying the phenomenology of the SM with an extended scalar sector. The model can be viewed as the low energy effective theory of a grand unified theory. Importantly, its scalar sector is able support the needed 1st order phase transition (from the unbroken to broken electroweak phases) to give rise to the baryon/antibaryon asymmetry.

Recent Papers:

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Link to personal page: http://www.physics.wisc.edu/people/students/hpatel/