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Manibrata Sen

Assistant Professor

Manibrata Sen

Phone: (022)-2576-7596

Email: manibrata[at]iitb[dot]ac[dot]in

Phone No Extn: 7596

Office: 304 A

Research Interests

Theoretical astroparticle physics:

  • Neutrinos
  • Dark Matter
  • Early Universe Cosmology
  • Compact Objects

For more details, please check out my webpage and CV.
 


Grants and Acknowledgement:

1) ANRF PM Early Career Grant (2025-2028)

2) Head of Max Planck Partnergroup between IIT Bombay and MPIK Heidelberg (2026 - 2031)

 

Group:

1) Undergraduate  - Soham Sahasrabuddhe (2025 onwards), Sumit Kumar Adhya (2025 onwards)

2) PhD - Shamik Niyogi (2025 onwards), Sayan Maity (2026 onwards)

3) Postdoc - Sadashiv Sahoo (2025 onwards), Soumen Kumar Manna (2025 onwards), Purushottam Sahu (2025 onwards) 

P.S: There are currently no internship options available within the group. Please do not email regarding the same. You will probably not receive any reply. 
 

Courses Taught:

1) Elementary Particle Physics (Spring 2024, 25)

2) Advanced Topics in Astroparticle Physics (Autumn 2025)

3) Quantum Mechanics III (Autumn 2026)
 

Selected Publications:

For a detailed list of publications, check Inspire-HEP or arXiv. Selected publications:

  1. 2017

    Fast neutrino flavour conversions near the supernova core with realistic flavour-dependent angular distributions, 

    JCAP 02 (2017) 019, 

    Basudeb Dasgupta, Alessandro Mirizzi, and Manibrata Sen.

  2. 2019

    Collisional triggering of fast flavor conversions of supernova neutrinos, 

    Phys. Rev. Lett. 122 (2019) 091101, 

    Francesco Capozzi, Basudeb Dasgupta, Alessandro Mirizzi, Manibrata Sen and Gunter Sigl.

  3. 2020

    The Dodelson-Widrow Mechanism in the Presence of Self-Interacting Neutrinos, 

    Phys. Rev. Lett. 124 (2020) 081802, 

    André de Gouvêa, Manibrata Sen, Walter Tangarife, and Yue Zhang.

  4. 2021

    Intimate Relationship between Sterile Neutrino Dark Matter and ΔNeff, 

    Phys. Rev. Lett. 127 (2021) 041101, 

    Kevin J. Kelly, Manibrata Sen and Yue Zhang.

  5. 2020

    Fundamental physics with the diffuse supernova background neutrinos, 

    Phys. Rev. D 102 (2020) 123012, 

    André de Gouvêa, Ivan Martinez-Soler, Yuber F Perez-Gonzalez and Manibrata Sen.

  6. 2024

    Refractive neutrino masses, ultralight dark matter and cosmology, 

    JCAP 01 (2024) 040, 

    Manibrata Sen and Alexei Smirnov.