Neutrino Cosmology

• Grant number: 07/04323-8
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants
• Start date: October 01, 2007
• End date: September 30, 2009
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Physics - Elementary Particle Physics and Fields
• Principal Investigator: Pedro Cunha de Holanda
• Grantee: Pedro Cunha de Holanda
• Host Institution: Instituto de Física Gleb Wataghin (IFGW). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The recent publication of high-precision cosmological data has provided us a standard cosmological model. In this model, ~25% of all the energy in the universe is in the form of a non-relativistic dark matter, and ~70% in the form of of a dark energy. The line of research that tries to create a link between particle physics and these forms of energy is very wide. This project is intended to study some research lines where this link comes from new physics in the neutrino sector, like sterile neutrinos and non-standard couplings with scalars. (AU)