Hossain Ahmed, St. Francis Xavier University

Latest funding

Sustaining Canada's Leading Dark Sector Physics Program at Belle II during High Luminosity Operations in 2025 and Beyond
NSERC · 2025 · Co-investigator
$149,382
The Belle II and Chiral Belle projects
NSERC · 2023 · Co-investigator
$1,260,000
The Belle II experiment
NSERC · 2019 · Principal investigator
$20,291

Sustaining Canada's Leading Dark Sector Physics Program at Belle II during High Luminosity Operations in 2025 and Beyond

Co-investigatorNSERC2025Subatomic Physics Envelope - Research Tools and Instruments

Principal investigators: Longo, Savino

Keywords: particle collider; dark sector physics; tau physics; intensity frontier; high performance computing; neutron monitoring; accelerator beam background; b physics; charge parity violation; dark matter

$149,382

The Belle II and Chiral Belle projects

Co-investigatorNSERC2023Subatomic Physics Envelope - Project

Principal investigators: Hearty, Christopher

Keywords: collider; b physics; dark sector; tau physics; polarization; calorimeter; intensity frontier; computing; cp violation; electroweak

$1,260,000

The Belle II experiment

Principal investigatorNSERC2019Subatomic Physics Envelope - Project

Principal investigators: Ahmed, Hossain

$20,291

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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Subject: Prospective PhD student Dear Professor Ahmed, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. Your research connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] I also saw your NSERC-funded project "The Belle II experiment" (2019), and I would be glad to contribute to work in that direction. Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]