Dr. Mansoor Ur Rehman

Education

• Ph.D. – University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, USA, 2011
  Dissertation: "Realistic Inflation Models and Primordial Gravity Waves"
  Advisor: Professor Qaisar Shafi
• M.Phil. – High Energy Physics, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan, 2003
  Dissertation: "Parton Distributions and Their Symmetries"
  Advisor: Professor Pervez Hoodbhoy
• M.Sc. – Physics, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan, 2001

Research Interests

• Inflationary Cosmology
• Gravitational Waves
• Cosmic Strings
• Primordial Black Holes
• Dark Matter
• Supersymmetry and Supergravity
• Grand Unified Theories (GUT)
• Proton Decay
• Reheating and Leptogenesis
• Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation

Additional Information

• HEC Approved Supervisor
• Visiting Scientist at the National Center for Physics, Islamabad, Pakistan, 2011
• Postdoctoral Researcher at Universität Basel, Switzerland, 2011-201

Recent Publications

  1. “Probing Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background from SU(5)×U(1)χ Strings in Light of NANOGrav 15-Year Data”

      Waqas Ahmed, Mansoor Ur Rehman, and Umer Zubair

      JCAP 01 (2024) 049, [arXiv: 2308.09125 [hep-ph]]

2.“New Inflation in Waterfall Region”

      Niamat Ullah Khan, Nadir Ijaz, and Mansoor Ur Rehman,

     Phys. Rev. D 108, 123545 (2023), [arXiv: 2309.06953 [hep-ph]]

 3. “Observable proton decay and gauge coupling unification in IMDM75”

      Maria Mehmood and Mansoor Ur Rehman,

    Phys. Rev. D 108 (2023) 7, 075030, [arXiv: 2305.00611 [hep-ph]]

  4. “μ-hybrid Inflation, Gravitino Dark Matter and Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background from Cosmic Strings”

    Adeela Afzal, Waqas Ahmed, M. U. Rehman, and Q. Shafi

   Phys. Rev. D 105 (2022) 10, 103539, [arXiv: 2202.07386 [hep-ph]].

 5. “Sneutrino Tribrid Inflation, Metastable Cosmic Strings, and Gravitational Waves”

   M. Atif Masoud, M. U. Rehman, and Q. Shafi

  JCAP 11 (2021) 022, [arXiv: 2107.09689 [hep-ph]].

 6. “Realistic Inflation in No-Scale U(1) R Symmetric Flipped SU(5)”

    M. M. A. Abid, M. Mehmood, M. U. Rehman and Q. Shafi,

   JCAP 10 (2021) 015, [arXiv: 2107.05678 [hep-ph]].

 7. “Shifted mu-hybrid inflation, gravitino dark matter, and observable gravity waves”

   G. Lazarides, M. U. Rehman, Q. Shafi and F. K. Vardag,

   Phys. Rev. D 103 (2021) 3, 035033, [arXiv:2007.01474 [hep-ph]].

 8. “Observable Proton Decay in Flipped SU(5)”

   M. Mehmood, M. U. Rehman and Q. Shafi,

  JHEP 02 (2021) 181, [arXiv:2010.01665 [hep-ph]].

 9.“Proton Decay in Supersymmetric SU(4)c x SU(2)L x SU(2)R”

  George Lazarides, Mansoor Ur Rehman, and Qaisar Shafi

  JHEP 20, 085 (2020) [arXiv:2007.15317 [hep-ph]].

 10. “New Inflation in Supersymmetric SU(5) and Flipped SU(5) GUT Models”

​    M. U. Rehman, M. M. A. Abid and A. Ejaz,

   JCAP 11 (2020) 019, [arXiv:1804.07619 [hep-ph]].

 11. “Pseudosmooth Tribrid Inflation in SU(5)”

   Muhammad Atif Masood, Mansoor Ur Rehman, and Qaisar Shafi

  JCAP 04 (2020) 041, arXiv:1910.07554v2 [hep-ph]