Beyond the standard model in neutrino experiments

• Grant number: 22/08954-2
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants
• Start date: January 01, 2023
• End date: December 31, 2024
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Physics - Elementary Particle Physics and Fields
• Agreement: Universidad de Antioquia (UdeA)
• Principal Investigator: Orlando Luis Goulart Peres
• Grantee: Orlando Luis Goulart Peres
• Principal researcher abroad: Diego Alejandro Restrepo Quintero
• Institution abroad: Universidad de Antioquia (UdeA), Colombia
• Host Institution: Instituto de Física Gleb Wataghin (IFGW). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil
• Associated researchers: Adriano Lana Cherchiglia ; Ettore Segreto ; Fabian Andres Castaño Usuga ; Jaime Alberto Osorio Vélez ; Jorge Hernan Lopez Botero ; Oscar Alberto Zapata Noreña ; Vicente Pleitez
• Associated scholarship(s): 23/01367-7 - Development of light collection using advanced tools, BP.TT

Abstract

We propose to search beyond the standard model signals in neutrino experiments associated with non-standard neutrino interactions (NSI). Based on a recent proposal to parameterize the NSI in terms of Wilson coefficients of effective field theories, we want to check the predictions of specific BSM models in neutrino experiments. In particular, we will review the change in neutrino production associated with BSM models with new heavy mediators and the possible production of other lighter states like dark photons. In addition, the photon detection system in experiments like DUNE needs to be improved to reach enough sensitivity. Therefore, a very important contribution of this collaboration is the joint study of improvement in the photon detection system by Colombian and Brazilian researchers. (AU)

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

CHERCHIGLIA, ADRIANO; SANTIAGO, JOSE. DUNE potential as a new physics probe. Journal of High Energy Physics, v. N/A, n. 3, p. 38-pg., 2024-03-04. (22/08954-2)