About
Young Scientist (Postdoctoral Researcher) in High Energy Physics at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT), with a focus on Hadron structure and SPD/NICA physics.
Professional Experience
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2025 – Present
Postdoctoral Researcher, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT), Moscow, Russia -
2022 – 2024
Senior Research Fellow (Ph.D.), NIT Jalandhar, Punjab, India -
2019 – 2022
Junior Research Fellow (Ph.D.), NIT Jalandhar, Punjab, India -
2019 – 2024
Teaching Assistant, NIT Jalandhar, Punjab, India
Assisted in B.Tech. theory tutorials and laboratory courses, as well as M.Sc. laboratory sessions. -
July 2019 – February 2021
Head of Design Committee, Physical Science Society, Department of Physics, NIT Jalandhar, Punjab, India -
2018 – 2019
Junior Research Project Fellow, SERB-DST Project “Semi-leptonic Radiative & Non-leptonic Rare B Decays in the Light-Front Quark Model,” NIT Jalandhar, Punjab, India
Research Interests
- Quarkonia production at intermediate energies (SPD/NICA)
- Hadron structure and higher-twist partonic distributions: PDFs, GPDs, TMDs, GTMDs
- Light-front models for non-perturbative QCD
- Advanced computational physics: Python, Mathematica, LaTeX, C++, Fortran
Selected Publications
- S. Puhan, S. Sharma, N. Kumar, H. Dahiya, "Valence quark distribution of rho meson using light-front quark model" [arXiv:2511.10981]
- S. Sharma, A. Aparin, "Probing J/ψ Production Mechanisms in Proton-Proton Collisions at SPD/NICA Energies" [arXiv:2511.03477]
- S. Puhan, S. Sharma, N. Kumar, H. Dahiya, "Understanding the Valence Quark Structure of the Pion through GTMDs" Prog. Theor. Exp. Phys. (2025), doi:10.1093/ptep/ptaf100 [arXiv:2504.14982]
- S. Jain, S. Sharma, H. Dahiya, "Deciphering twist-3 chiral-even GPDs in the light-front quark-diquark model" Phys. Rev. D 110 (9), 094030 (2024), doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.110.094030 [arXiv:2408.07332]
- S. Sharma, S. Jain, H. Dahiya, "Unraveling subleading twist GTMDs of proton using light-front quark-diquark model" Phys. Rev. D 110 (7), 074025 (2024), doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.110.074025 [arXiv:2408.07716]
- S. Sharma, S. Puhan, N. Kumar, H. Dahiya, "TMD Relations: Insights from a Light-Front Quark–Diquark Model" PTEP 2024 (10), 103B05 (2024), doi:10.1093/ptep/ptae150 [arXiv:2405.13727]
- S. Sharma, H. Dahiya, "Exploring twist-4 chiral-even GPDs in the light-front quark-diquark model" Nucl. Phys. B 1001, 116522 (2024), doi:10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2024.116522 [arXiv:2310.03463]
- S. Puhan, S. Sharma, N. Kaur, N. Kumar, H. Dahiya, "T-even TMDs for the spin-0 pseudo-scalar mesons upto twist-4 using light-front formalism" JHEP 02, 075 (2024), doi:10.1007/JHEP02(2024)075 [arXiv:2310.03464]
- S. Sharma, H. Dahiya, "Twist-4 proton GTMDs in the light-front quark–diquark model" Eur. Phys. J. A 59 (10), 235 (2023), doi:10.1140/epja/s10050-023-01156-8 [arXiv:2310.03592]
- S. Sharma, N. Kumar, H. Dahiya, "Sub-leading twist transverse momentum dependent parton distributions in the light-front quark-diquark model" Nucl. Phys. B 992, 116247 (2023), doi:10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2023.116247 [arXiv:2302.07165]
- S. Sharma, H. Dahiya, "Twist-4 T-even proton TMDs in the light-front quark-diquark model" Int. J. Mod. Phys. A 37 (34), 2250205 (2022), doi:10.1142/S0217751X22502050 [arXiv:2301.09536]
Selected Conferences, Workshops & Schools
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Sept 15 – Sept 20, 2025
XXVIth International Baldin Seminar on High Energy Physics Problems it, Dubna, Russia — Participated and Presented work -
July 1 – July 6, 2025
Nucleus 2025 (Ядро), Saint Petersburg, Russia — Participated and Presented work -
May 28 – June 15, 2024
39th Annual Hampton University Graduate Studies (HUGS 2024) Program, Jefferson Lab, USA — Participated and Presented work -
Jan 28 – Feb 9, 2024
International School and Workshop on Probing Hadron Structure at the Electron-Ion Collider, ICTS-TIFR, Bengaluru, India — Participated and Presented work -
Dec 11 – 15, 2023
International School for Strangeness Nuclear Physics 2023, Tohoku University, Japan — Participated and Presented work online -
Oct 16 – 19, 2023
India-JINR Workshop on Elementary Particle and Nuclear Physics, and Condensed Matter Research, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia — Participated and Presented work -
June 5 – 16, 2023
2023 CFNS Summer School on the Physics of the Electron-Ion Collider, Stony Brook University, NY, USA — Participated and Presented work -
May 12, 2023
8th HEPCATS Meeting, NIT Jalandhar, Punjab, India — Participated and Presented work -
Feb 28, 2023
National Science Day, NIT Jalandhar, Punjab, India — Received best poster award -
Jan 16 – 20, 2023
DAE-BRNS Workshop on Hadron Physics 2023, NIT Jalandhar, Punjab, India — Participated and Presented work -
Dec 12 – 16, 2022
XXV DAE-BRNS HEP Symposium 2022, IISER Mohali, Punjab, India — Presented a poster -
Sep 18 – 22, 2020
TEQIP-III Advances in High Energy Physics Course, NIT Jalandhar, Punjab, India — Participated -
Dec 1 – 10, 2019
XVI Workshop on High Energy Physics Phenomenology (WHEPP 2019), IIT Guwahati, Assam, India — Participated -
July 15 – 19, 2019
TEQIP-III Emerging Fields in High Energy Physics Course, NIT Jalandhar, Punjab, India — Participated
News & Updates
- [14-11-2025] Preprint released: "Valence quark distribution of rho meson using light-front quark model" (arXiv)
- [05-11-2025] Preprint released: "Probing J/ψ Production Mechanisms in Proton-Proton Collisions at SPD/NICA Energies" (arXiv)
- [20-09-2025] Attended XXVIth International Baldin Seminar on High Energy Physics Problems (Dubna)—presented work on hadron structure.
- [05-08-2025] See my recent LinkedIn post
Academic updates. For more detail, connect via LinkedIn.
Contact
Email: s.sharma.hep@gmail.com