Annual Program Review Abstracts
Publications
Dang J, Karur R, Sen S: "Gauge field flow for chiral gauge theories on a slab". preprint. June 2026, https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.05306
Dang J, Karur R, Sen S: "Gauge field flow for chiral gauge theories on a disk". preprint. June 2026, https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.05306
Francis A, Fritzsch P, Karur R, Kim J, Pederiva G, Pefkou D, Rago A, Shindler A, Walker-Loud A, Zafeiropoulos S: "Moments of parton distributions functions of the pion from lattice QCD using gradient flow". Phys Rev. D., March 2026, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/vw4v-nyvw
Francis A, Fritzsch P, Harlander R, Karur R, Kim J, Kohnen Jonas, Pederiva G, Pefkou D, Rago A, Shindler A, Walker-Loud A, Zafeiropoulos S: "Gradient flow for parton distribution functions: first application to the pion". Phys. Rev. Lett. March 2026, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/z3wr-zk8n
Francis A, Fritzsch P, Karur R, Kim J, Pederiva G, Pefkou D, Rago A, Shindler A, Walker-Loud A, Zafeiropoulos S: "Probing higher moments of pion parton distribution functions". PoS Lattice 2024, arXiv:2412.01750
Born S, Karur R, Knapen S, Shelton J: "Scouting for dark showers at CMS and LHCb". Phys
Rev D (Aug 2023) https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.04167
Karur R, Amin M, Mocz P, Jain M: "Small-scale structure in vector dark matter". JCAP (Aug
2022) arXiv:2203.11935
2026 Nuclear Science Division Review, Rohith Karur, Dimitra Pefkou, "Parton distribution functions from lattice QCD using gradient flow", UC Berkeley, May 27
2021 Meeting of the Division of Particles and Fields of the American Physical Society
(DPF 21): "A measurement of the satellite decay channel as pertaining to the production of a W
boson in association with a charm quark in collisions with the ATLAS detector"
Link: https://indico.cern.ch/event/1034469/contributions/4432641/
2021 Gulf Coast Undergraduate Research Symposium: "Solitons in Vector Dark Matter"
2021 IRIS-HEP Fellows Talks 18 October 2021
ANNs for ACTS: "Efficient particle tracking at the LHC with similarity hashing algorithms"
Link: https://iris-hep.org/fellows/rkarur.html
Awards
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Prize, UC Berkeley, Fall 2022 - 2025
Highest Distinction, UC Berkeley College of Letters and Sciences, 2021
Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society, Spring 2021-present
Gulf Coast Undergraduate Research Symposium: Best Speaker Award, October 2021
Isidore Pomerantz Endowment Award, UC Berkeley, 2019-2020