Raghuveer Garani Ramesh Curriculum Vitae

Personal Data
email: rgaranir@ulb.ac.be

Research Interests
Stellar probes of Dark Matter, Dark Matter Direct and Indirect Detection, Dark Matter Halos,
Quantum field theory and critical phenomena, Supersymmetry and Lepton Flavour Violation.

Employment
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Service de Physique Théorique,
Université Libre de Bruxelles 10.2017-09.2020

Graduate research fellow, Physikalisches Institut,

Universität Bonn 10.2012-09.2017

Education
Ph.D., Universität Bonn 12.2013 - 10.2017
Thesis Title: Phenomenology of Dark Matter Annihilations in the Sun
Advisers: Prof. Manuel Drees and Prof. Sergio Palomares-Ruiz
Grade: Magna cum Laude

M.Sc. in Physics, Universität Bonn 10.2011 - 12.2013

Thesis Title: Systematic Uncertainties Induced by Halo Triaxiality
in WIMP Dark Matter Searches
Advisor: Prof. Manuel Drees

B. Tech., National Institute of Technology, Karnataka, India 07.2006 - 05.2010

Thesis Title: Simulation of Electrokinetically Driven Mixing
Advisers: Prof. Saidutta Maloor B. and Prof. G. Umesh

Scholarships
Bonn Cologne Graduate School- Honours Branch Scholarship 2015-2017
(Additional Stipend of 4000 Euros/year)
Publications

1. “Constraints on Dark Matter from the Moon”

Raghuveer Garani and Peter Tinyakov
Phys.Lett.B 804 (2020) 135403
2. “ Dark matter interactions with muons in neutron stars”
Raghuveer Garani and Julian Heeck
Phys.Rev. D100 (2019) no.3, 035039
3. “New Analysis of Neutron Star Constraints on Asymmetric Dark Matter “
Raghuveer Garani, Yoann Genolini and Thomas Hambye
JCAP 1905 (2019) 035
4. “Dark matter in the Sun: scattering off electrons vs nucleons”
Raghuveer Garani and Sergio Palomares-Ruiz
JCAP 1705 (2017) 007
5. “ Sgoldstino search at the LHC”
Masaki Asano and Raghuveer Garani
arXiv:1701.00829
6. “Systematic Uncertainties in Dark Matter Searches due to Halo Asphericity”
Nicolás Bernal, Jaime E. Forero-Romero, Raghuveer Garani and Sergio Palomares-Ruiz
JCAP 1409 (2014) 004
7. “SuSeFLAV : A program for calculating supersymmetric spectra and lepton flavor viola-
tion”
Debtosh Chowdhury, Raghuveer Garani and Sudhir K Vempati
Comput.Phys.Commun. 184 (2013) 899-918
8. “Flavored Co-annihilations”
Debtosh Chowdhury, Raghuveer Garani and Sudhir K Vempati
JHEP 1206 (2012) 014

Conference Proceedings
1. “Systematic Uncertainties in Dark Matter Searches due to Halo Asphericity”
Nicolás Bernal, Jaime E. Forero-Romero, Raghuveer Garani and Sergio Palomares-Ruiz
Nucl. Part. Phys. Proc. 267-269 (2015) 345.
 2. “ SuSeFLAV: A Program for calculating supersymmetric spectra and lepton flavor viola-
tion”
Debtosh Chowdhury, Raghuveer Garani and Sudhir K Vempati
Pramana 79, 887 (2012)
3. “ Flavoured Coannihilations”
Debtosh Chowdhury, Raghuveer Garani and Sudhir K Vempati
Pramana 79, 849 (2012)

Posters Presented
1. “Accretion of Dark Matter in the Sun”
at the Bonn-Cologne Graduate School Symposium, Oct 2016 - Bonn
2. “Systematic Uncertainties in Dark Matter Searches due to Halo Asphericity”
at Helmholtz Alliance for Astroparticle Physics midterm evaluation meeting, 4th Nov,
2014 - KIT, Karslruhe
3. “Systematic Uncertainties in Dark Matter Searches due to Halo Asphericity”
at the summer school: ’ISAPP 2014: Multi-wavelength and multi-messenger investigation
of the visible and dark Universe’, 21-30th July, 2014 - Belgirate, Italy.

Selected Talks
1. “Neutron Star Constraints on Dark Matter”
Invited speaker at the conference “BLV 2019” , Oct. 21-24 2019, Madrid, Spain
2. “Neutron Star Constraints on Dark Matter”
Invited speaker at the GGI conference “Next Frontiers in the Search for Dark Matter”,
Sept. 2019, Florence, Italy
3. “Dark Matter interactions with muons in Neutron stars”
Seminar at the topical GGI workshop, Sept. 2019, Florence, Italy
4. “Neutron Star Constraints on Dark Matter”
Seminar at CERN theory Department, Sept. 2019, Geneva, Switzerland
5. “Neutron Star Constraints on Asymmetric Dark Matter”
Parallel talk at DESY theory Workshop, Sept. 2018, Hamburg, Germany
6. “Neutron Star Constraints on Asymmetric Dark Matter”
Parallel talk at the conference SUSY-2018, July, Barcelona, Spain
 7. “Strong constraints on Dark Matter interactions with Electrons”
Talk at BeH-2018, March, Ghent, Belgium
8. “Constraining Dark Matter interactions with Electrons”
Seminar at ULB, Nov. 2017 Belgium
9. “Dark matter in the Sun: scattering off electrons vs nucleons”
Talk at the Forschergruppe “New Physics at the LHC” meeting , May 2017, Bonn, Ger-
many
10. “Dark matter in the Sun: scattering off electrons vs nucleons”
Talk at the workshop Open Questions in Particle Physics and Cosmology, April 2017,
Göttingen, Germany
11. “Phenomenology of WIMP Dark Matter interactions with electrons in the Sun”
Talk at the 8th Bethe Workshop ”Particle Physics meets Cosmology”, 10th Oct-14th Oct,
2016 - Bad Honnef, Bonn
12. “Constraining Dark Matter interactions with Electrons”
Parallel talk at PLANCK 2017, Warsaw, Poland
13. “Systematic Uncertainties in Dark Matter Searches due to Halo Asphericity”
25th International Workshop on Weak Interactions and Neutrinos (WIN2015) June 8–13,
2015, MPIK Heidelberg, Germany

14. “Systematic Uncertainties in Dark Matter Searches due to Halo Asphericity”

Theory Seminar, February 2015, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

Teaching

Winter Semester 2012/13 Tutor: Advanced Quantum Theory with Prof. H. Kroha (U.
Bonn)
Summer Semester 2013 Tutor: Advanced Theoretical Particle Physics with Prof. M. Drees
(U. Bonn)
Winter Semester 2013/14 Tutor: Group Theory with Prof. S. Förste (U. Bonn)
Summer Semester 2014 Tutor: Advanced Theoretical Astro-Particle Physics with
Prof. H. Dreiner and Dr. L. Ubaldi (U. Bonn)
Winter Semester 2014/15 Head tutor: Advanced Quantum Theory with Prof. M. Drees (U.
Bonn)
Summer Semester 2015 Head tutor: Advanced Theoretical Astro-Particle Physics with
Prof. M. Drees (U. Bonn)
Winter Semester 2015/16 Tutor: Theoretical Particle Physics with Prof. M. Drees (U. Bonn)
 Winter Semester 2016/17 Head tutor: Group Theory with Prof. S. Förste (U. Bonn)
Summer Semester 2019 Tutor: Cosmology with Prof. T. Hambye (U. Libre Brussels)
Summer Semester 2020 Tutor: Cosmology with Prof. T. Hambye (U. Libre Brussels)

Supervision of Summer Students

Summer Semester 2014 Student: George Terrence
(U. Bonn) Topic: Production of Dark Matter in the Early Universe
Summer Semester 2015 Student: Saikat Bera
(U. Bonn) Topic: Indirect detection of Dark Matter using AMS-02 data
Summer Semester 2018 Student: Thomas Tuloup
(ULB) Topic: Constraining Dark Matter Properties with Neutron Stars

Computer Skills
System Administration:
Programming Languages:
Scripting:
Scientific Packages:
Simulation:
Linux · Unix · Mac OS
FORTRAN · C++ · Python
Latex · HTML · Perl
Mathematica · Pythia · DarkSusy · WimpSim
· SARAH · CalcHEP · FeynArts · FormCalc · SecDec
MadGraph · GEANT

Languages

Fluent: English, Kannada (Mothertongue) and Hindi

Intermediate: German
Elementary: French

Referee
Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics since 2018