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College / Department

College of Arts and Sciences
Department of Physics

Teaching areas

Theoretical physics

Research areas

My current research focus is in building unified models of particle interactions that utilize mainly the framework of supersymmetric grand unification theory using the gauge group SO (10).

Education

BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ohio University, Athens, 1989
MS in Mathematics, Ohio University, Athens, March 1991
MS in Physics, Ohio University, Athens, March 1997
PhD in Theoretical Particle Physics, Northeastern University, Boston, 2005
Postdoctoral Research, Northeastern University, Boston, 2005-2008

Professional experience

American University of Sharjah, UAE, 2008-present
Visiting Research Associate, Northeastern University, Boston, Jun.-Sep. 2009 to present

Contact

rsyed@aus.edu
+971 6 515 2733

Dr. Raza Syed

Assistant Professor
PhD in Theoretical Particle Physics, Northeastern University, Massachusetts, USA

Raza M. Syed has a deep passion for teaching physics and enjoys pushing his students’ problem-solving and critical thinking skills to the maximum. His current research focus is in building unified models of particle interactions that utilize mainly the framework of supersymmetric grand unification theory using the gauge group SO (10). In his spare time he likes to read as much as possible on his favorite subject outside of physics—human psychology.

Publications

A. S. Alnaser, S. Abdel-Naby, R. M. Syed (et al., editors},“Proceedings, Frontiers in Theoretical and Applied Physics/UAE 2017 (FTAPS 2017): Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, February 22-25, 2017,”J. Phys. Conf. Ser. 869, no. 1 (2017).
P. Nath and R. M. Syed, "An analysis of B - L = - 2 operators from matter-Higgs interactions in a class of supersymmetric SO(10) models," Phys. Rev. D 93, 055005 (2016) [arXiv:hep-ph/1508.00585v2]
K. S. Babu, I. Gogoladze, P. Nath and R. M. Syed, "Variety of SO(10) GUTs with Natural Doublet-Triplet Splitting via the Missing Partner Mechanism," Phys. Rev. D 85, 075002 (2012) [arXiv:hep-ph/1112.5387]
P. Nath and R. M. Syed, "Yukawa Couplings and quark and lepton masses in an SO(10) model with a unified Higgs sector," Phys. Rev. D 81, 037701 (2010) [arXiv:hep-ph/0909.2380]
P. Nath and R. M. Syed, "Suppression of Higgsino mediated proton decay by cancellations in GUTs and strings," Phys. Rev. D 77, 015015 (2008) [arXiv:hep-ph/0707.1332]
K. S. Babu, I. Gogoladze, P. Nath and R. M. Syed, "Fermion mass generation in SO(10) with a unified Higgs sector," Phys. Rev. D 74, 075004 (2006) [arXiv:hep-ph/0607244]
P. Nath and R. M. Syed, "Couplings of vector-spinor representation for SO(10) model building," JHEP 0602, 022 (2006) [arXiv:hep-ph/0511172]
K. S. Babu, I. Gogoladze, P. Nath and R. M. Syed, "A unified framework for symmetry breaking in SO(10)," Phys. Rev. D 72, 095011 (2005) [arXiv:hep- ph/0506312]
P. Nath and R. M. Syed, "Coupling the supersymmetric 210 vector multiplet to matter in SO(10)," Nucl. Phys. B 676, 64 (2004) [arXiv:hep-th/0310178]
P. Nath and R. M. Syed, "Complete cubic and quartic couplings of 16 and $\bar{16}$ in SO(10) unification," Nucl. Phys. B 618, 138 (2001) [arXiv:hep-th/0109116]
P. Nath and R. M. Syed, "Analysis of couplings with large tensor representations in SO(2N) and proton decay," Phys. Lett. B 506, 68 (2001) [Erratum-ibid. B 508, 216 (2001)] [arXiv:hep-ph/0103165]

Conference Presentations

R. M. Syed, "Analysis of SO(2N) couplings of spinor and tensor representations in SU(N) X U(1) invariant forms," Proceedings of 10th International Sympo- sium on Particles, Strings and Cosmology (PASCOS 04 and Pran Nath Fest), Boston, Massachusetts, 16-22 Aug 2004. Themes in Unification-The Pran Nath Festschrift, PASCOS 2004, ed. by G. Alverson and M.T. Vaughn, p. 155-162 (World Scienti_c, Singapore) [arXiv:hep-ph/0411054].

Awards and Honors

CAS Award for Excellence in Teaching, American University of Sharjah, 2011-2012
GAANN Fellowship, US Department of Education, 2000-2001
John Lawrence Award for Excellence in Teaching, Northeastern University, Boston, 1998, 1999, 2000

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