Physics and astrophysics of neutrinos

• Grant number: 04/00220-1
• Support Opportunities: Research Projects - Thematic Grants
• Start date: September 01, 2004
• End date: August 31, 2010
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Physics - Elementary Particle Physics and Fields
• Principal Investigator: Marcelo Moraes Guzzo
• Grantee: Marcelo Moraes Guzzo
• Host Institution: Instituto de Física Gleb Wataghin (IFGW). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil
• Pesquisadores principais: Vicente Pleitez
• Associated research grant(s): 10/10497-1 - Multi-messenger approach (photons, cosmic rays and neutrinos) for astrophysical sources and neutrinos mixings scenarios, AV.EXT; 09/06019-0 - International Workshop on Neutrino Factories, Superbeams and Beta Beams, AR.EXT; 06/56149-9 - Corrections to the neutrino oscillation parameters and their energy dependence in the intermediate wave packet approach, AR.EXT
• Associated scholarship(s): 09/17924-5 - Neutrino phenomenology in neutrino telescopes, BP.PD; 07/06012-0 - Searching new phenomena with massive neutrinos, BP.MS

Abstract

In this research project we analyze the phenomenological consequences of the experimental evidence of conversion of taste of neutrinos, deriving from observations of solar neutrinos, atmospheric neutrinos and those produced in nuclear accelerators and reactors. Such evidence raises countless questions about the electroweak structure of the standard Model of elementary particles which should be investigated in the light of the results of the new generation that recently became active. The investigation of these results could raise leads on Physics beyond the standard Model and test fundamental laws of nature, the mixtures and the phenomenological structure of quantum oscillations. (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)

BERNARDINI, A. E.; GUZZO, M. M.; NISHI, C. C.. Quantum flavor oscillations extended to the Dirac theory. FORTSCHRITTE DER PHYSIK-PROGRESS OF PHYSICS, v. 59, n. 5-6, p. 372-453, MAY 2011. (04/00220-1, 09/11309-7)