Prasanna Kumar Dhani has obtained an individual Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant to carry out his research at Instituto de F´ısica Corpuscular (IFIC), a joint research centre of Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cient´ıficas (CSIC) and the University of Valencia. This research project, called COLLINEAR-FRACTURE: Towards loop splitting amplitudes and collinear factorisation breaking, is part of Horizon Europe, the European Union’s framework programme for research and innovation.

The aim of the COLLINEAR-FRACTURE project is the study of the soft and collinear, collectively called infrared, singular behaviour of the hard scattering amplitudes describing the interactions between the fundamental constituents of matter known as quarks and gluons in Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD), the quatum theory of the strong force at the sub-nuclear regime. In particular, the project aims to make an in-depth assessment of the validity of the process-independent nature of the factorisation theorems widely assumed in a general kinematics to high perturbative quantum orders and to quantify the effect of collinear factorisation breaking on the precise determination of theoretical predictions at the CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Apart from improving theoretical predictions, this study could reveal hidden quantum structures.

The individual Marie Sklodowska-Curie projects boost the creative and innovative potential of experienced researchers who wish to widen their individual competence in terms of skill acquisition through advanced training and international mobility. They provide opportunities for researchers of any nationality to acquire and transfer new skills and tools in research and innovation in Europe and abroad.

Prasanna Kumar Dhani graduated in physics from the Ravenshaw University, Cuttack, India in 2012 before joining to an integrated Ph.D. programme in theoretical physics at the Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, India. He completed his doctoral degree under the supervision of Prof. V. Ravindran on perturbative QCD with a thesis entitled Higher order corrections and soft gluon resummation in perturbative QCD. After finishing his thesis in 2018, he carried out postdoctoral stays at the INFN section of Florence and Genova (Italy) before joining IFIC in October, 2022.