SCHOOL OF NATURAL SCIENCES AND MEDICINE
ILIA STATE UNIVERSITY

Direction:Physics and Mathematics (elementary particle physics and cosmology)
Position:Associate Professor





In 1993 graduated from I. Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Department of Physics. In 1999 got PhD in Elementary Particle Physics, at E. Andronikashvili institute of Physics. Within different periods worked and done research at following places.1996-1998: INFN section of Ferrara, Italy;
2001-2004: Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of Heidelberg, Germany;2004-2006: CERN Theory Division, Geneva, Switzerland; 2006-2009: Oklahoma State University, USA, High Energy Group;1993-2011: Andronikashvili Institute of Phys. Tbilisi,. Georgia 20120-present: Ilia State University

Scientific interests / research interests

Elementary Particle Physics

  • Physics Beyond the Standard Model;
  • Grand Unification, Supersymmetry, Supergravity;
  • Problem of fermion flavor, Neutrino Physics;
  • Cosmology: Inflation, Baryon asymmetry og the Universe;
  • Extra dimensions.

Featured publications

  • Z. Tavartkiladze, “SM extension with a gauged flavor U(1)F symmetry,” Phys. Rev. D 106, no.11, 115002 (2022); doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.106.115002
  • Z. Tavartkiladze, “Higgs-Squark-Slepton Inflation from the MSSM,” Phys. Rev. D 101, no.5, 055027 (2020); doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.101.055027 [arXiv:1912.07694 [hep-ph]].
  • Z. Tavartkiladze, “Chaotic Inflation from the MSSM Along Flat $D$-Term Trajectory,” Phys. Rev. D 100, no.9, 095027 (2019); doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.100.095027
  • Z.Tavartkiladze, “Light Pseudo-Goldstone Higgs Boson from $SO(10)$ GUT with Realistic Phenomenology,” Phys. Rev. D 98, no.1, 015013 (2018); doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.98.015013
  • K.S. Babu, B. Bajc, M. Nemevcek and Z. Tavartkiladze, “Trinification at the TeV scale,”AIP Conf. Proc. 1900, no.1, 020002 (2017); doi:10.1063/1.5010106
  • Achelashvili and Z. Tavartkiladze, “Leptonic CP violation and leptogenesis,” AIP Conf. Proc. 1900, no.1, 020012 (2017); doi:10.1063/1.5010116
  • Achelashvili and Z. Tavartkiladze, “Texture Zero Neutrino Models and Their Connection with Resonant Leptogenesis,” Nucl. Phys. B 929, 21-57 (2018); doi:10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2018.02.001
  • Achelashvili and Z. Tavartkiladze, “Calculable Cosmological CP Violation and Resonant Leptogenesis,” Phys. Rev. D 96, no.1, 015015 (2017); doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.96.015015
  • L. Megrelidze and Z. Tavartkiladze, “Soft See-Saw: Radiative Origin of Neutrino Masses in SUSY Theories,” Nucl. Phys. B 914, 553-576 (2017); doi:10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2016.11.019
  • Achelashvili and Z. Tavartkiladze, “Neutrino mass matrices from two zero 3×2 Yukawa textures and minimal d = 5 entries,” Int. J. Mod. Phys. A 31, no.13, 1650077 (2016); doi:10.1142/S0217751X16500779
  • F. PaccettiCorreia, M. G. Schmidt and Z. Tavartkiladze, ”Natural Inflation from 5D SUGRAand Low Reheat Temperature,” Nucl. Phys. B 898 (2015) 173.
  • Z. Tavartkiladze, ”SU(5) × SU(5)′ unification and D2 parity: Model for composite leptons,”Phys. Rev. D 90 (2014) 1, 015022.
  •  Z.Tavartkiladze,“Three Family SU(5) GUT and Inverted Neutrino Mass Hierarchy,”Phys. Rev. D87 (2013) 075026.
  • K. S. Babu, B. Bajc and Z. Tavartkiladze, “Realistic Fermion Masses and Nucleon Decay Ratesin SUSY SU(5) with Vector-Like Matter,” Phys. Rev. D 86 (2012) 075005.
  • Z. Tavartkiladze, “New Flavor U(1)F Symmetry for SUSY SU(5),” Phys. Lett. B 706 (2012)398.
  • K. S. Babu, J. C. Pati and Z. Tavartkiladze, “Constraining Proton Lifetime in SO(10) withStabilized Doublet-Triplet Splitting,” JHEP 1006 (2010) 084.
  • K. S. Babu, S. Nandi and Z. Tavartkiladze, “New Mechanism for Neutrino Mass Generationand Triply Charged Higgs Bosons at the LHC,” Phys. Rev. D 80 (2009) 071702.
  • Z. Murdock, S. Nandi and Z. Tavartkiladze, “Perturbativity and a Fourth Generation in theMSSM,” Phys. Lett. B 668 (2008) 303.
  • B. Stech and Z. Tavartkiladze, “Generation Symmetry and E6 Unification,” Phys. Rev. D 77(2008) 076009.
  • K. S. Babu, A. G. Bachri and Z. Tavartkiladze, “Predictive Model of Inverted Neutrino MassHierarchy and Resonant Leptogenesis,” Int. J. Mod. Phys. A 23 (2008) 1679.
  • K. S. Babu, I. Gogoladze and Z. Tavartkiladze, “Missing partner mechanism in SO(10) grandunification,” Phys. Lett. B 650 (2007) 49.
  • Z. Tavartkiladze, “Proton stability in supersymmetricSU(5),” Phys. Rev. D 76 (2007) 055012.
  • F.PaccettiCorreia, M.G.Schmidt, Z.Tavartkiladze,“4D superfield reduction of 5-D orbifold SUGRA and heterotic M-theory,”Nucl. Phys. B 751, 222 (2006).
  • F. PaccettiCorreia, M. G. Schmidt and Z. Tavartkiladze, “ Superfield approach to 5D conformalSUGRA and the radion”, Nucl. Phys. B 709 (2005) 141.
  • B. Stech and Z. Tavartkiladze, “ Fermion masses and coupling unification in E6: Life in thedesert”, Phys. Rev. D 70 (2004) 035002..
  • Q. Shafi and Z. Tavartkiladze, “SU(4)c × SU(2)L × SU(2)R model from 5D supersymmetricSU(4)c × SU(4)L+R”, Phys. Rev. D 66 (2002) 115002.
  • F. PaccettiCorreia, M. G. Schmidt and Z. Tavartkiladze, “Gauge coupling unification andphenomenology of selected orbifold 5D N = 1 SUSY models”, Nucl. Phys. B 649 (2003) 39.
  • Z. Tavartkiladze, “Naturally light neutrinos and unification in theories with low scale quantumgravity”, Phys. Lett. B 528 (2002) 97.
  • Q. Shafi and Z. Tavartkiladze, “Anomalous flavor U(1): Predictive texture for bi-maximalneutrino mixing”, Phys. Lett. B 482 (2000) 145.
  • Q. Shafi and Z. Tavartkiladze, “Bi-maximal neutrino mixings and proton decay in SO(10) withanomalous flavor U(1)”, Phys. Lett. B 487 (2000) 145.
  • Q. Shafi and Z. Tavartkiladze, “Neutrino mixings and fermion masses in supersymmetricSU(5)”, Phys. Lett. B 451 (1999) 129.
  • Z. Berezhiani and Z. Tavartkiladze, “More missing VEV mechanism in supersymmetricSO(10)model”, Phys. Lett. B 409 (1997) 220.
  • Z. Berezhiani and Z. Tavartkiladze, “Anomalous U(1) symmetry and missing doublet SU(5)model”, Phys. Lett. B 396 (1997) 150 [arXiv:hep-ph/9611277].
  • G.Dvali, Z. Tavartkiladze and J. Nanobashvili, “Biased discrete symmetry and domain wallproblem”, Phys. Lett. B 352 (1995) 214 [arXiv:hep-ph/9411387].
  •  A. Achelashvili and Z. Tavartkiladze, “Texture Zero Neutrino Models and Their Connection with Resonant Leptogenesis,” To be published in Nucl. Phys. B (2018); arXiv:1710.10955 [hep-ph].
  •  A. Achelashvili and Z. Tavartkiladze, “Calculable Cosmological CP Violation and Resonant Leptogenesis,”Phys. Rev. D 96 (2017) no.1, 015015; doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.96.015015
  •  L. Megrelidze and Z. Tavartkiladze, “Soft See-Saw: Radiative Origin of Neutrino Masses in SUSY Theories,” Nucl. Phys. B 914 (2017) 553; doi:10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2016.11.019
  • A. Achelashvili and Z. Tavartkiladze, “Neutrino mass matrices from two zero 3 × 2 Yukawa textures and minimal d = 5 entries,” Int. J. Mod. Phys. A 31 (2016) no.13, 1650077; doi:10.1142/S0217751X16500779
  • Z. Tavartkiladze, “Twin-unified SU(5) × SU(5)′ GUT and phenomenology,” Pramana 86 (2016) no.2, 281; doi:10.1007/s12043-015-1148-8

Current Courses

Course Catalog

Bachelor’s level

  • Quantum Mechanics 1
  • Universe Structure from Great Scales to Small Distances

Bachelor’s level

  • Quantum Mechanics 2
  • Basics of Quantum Physics. Atomic and Nuclear Physics
  • Quantum Mechanics 1
  • Universe Structure from Great Scales to Small Distances

Master’s level

  • Elementary Particles Theory I – Standard Model

2020-2021 Year

Bachelor’s level

  • Quantum Mechanics 2
  • Basics of Quantum Physics. Atomic and Nuclear Physics
  • Universe Structure from Great Scales to Small Distances
  • Quantum Mechanics 1
  • Universe Structure from Great Scales to Small Distances

Master’s level

  • Elementary Particles Theory II – Applications of Standard Model
  • Introduction to Particles and Fields

2019-2020 Year

Bachelor’s level

  • Basics of Quantum Physics. Atomic and Nuclear Physics
  • Universe Structure from Great Scales to Small Distances
  • Universe Structure from Great Scales to Small Distances

Master’s level

  • Introduction to Particles and Fields

Doctoral level

  • Research Seminar III

2018-2019 Year

Bachelor’s level

  • Quantum Mechanics 2
  • Basics of Quantum Physics. Atomic and Nuclear Physics
  • Universe Structure from Great Scales to Small Distances
  • Quantum Mechanics 1
  • Universe Structure from Great Scales to Small Distances

Master’s level

  • Introduction to Particles and Fields
  • Elementary Particles Theory I – Theoretical Basics of Standard Model

2017-2018 Year

Bachelor’s level

  • Basics of Quantum Physics. Atomic and Nuclear Physics
  • Universe Structure from Great Scales to Small Distances
  • Universe Structure from Great Scales to Small Distances

Master’s level

  • Introduction to Particles and Fields
  • Elementary Particles Theory I – Theoretical Basics of Standard Model

Doctoral level

  • Doctoral Seminar II
  • Doctoral Seminar II

2016-2017 Year

Bachelor’s level

  • Quantum Mechanics 1
  • Universe Structure from Great Scales to Small Distances
  • Basics of Quantum Physics. Atomic and Nuclear Physics
  • Universe Structure from Great Scales to Small Distances

2015-2016 Year

Bachelor’s level

  • Quantum Mechanics 2
  • Basics of Quantum Physics. Atomic and Nuclear Physics
  • Quantum Mechanics 1

Master’s level

  • Elementary Particles Theory I – Theoretical Basics of Standard Model
  • Introduction to Particles and Fields

Doctoral level

  • Doctoral Seminar I

2014-2015 Year

Bachelor’s level

  • Atomic and Nuclear Physics
  • The Mysteries of Micro and Macro world
  • Quantum Mechanics 1

2013-2014 Year

Bachelor’s level

  • Atomic and Nuclear Physics
  • Quantum Mechanics 2
  • The Mysteries of Micro and Macro world
  • Quantum Mechanics 1

2012-2013 Year

Bachelor’s level

  • The Mysteries of Micro and Macro world
  • Basics of Quantum Physics: Atoms and Nuclear Physics

2011-2012 Year

Bachelor’s level

  • The Mysteries of Micro and Macro world

Master’s level

  • Master’s Thesis (Life)

Doctoral level

  • Individual Term Project II
  • Theory of Elementary Particles – Standard Model and Beyond it
  • Individual Term Project I

2010-2011 Year

Master’s level

  • Theory of Elementary Particles II – Applications of Standard Model
  • Elementary Particles Theory I – Theoretical Basics of Standard Model

Doctoral level

  • Individual Term Project II
  • Theory of Elementary Particles – Standard Model and Beyond it
  • Individual Term Project I

2009-2010 Year

Master’s level

  • Physics of Elementary Particles