Neutrino phenomenology in long baseline experiments

• Grant number: 15/23303-4
• Support Opportunities: Research Grants - Visiting Researcher Grant - International
• Start date: February 29, 2016
• End date: March 20, 2016
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Physics - Elementary Particle Physics and Fields
• Principal Investigator: Orlando Luis Goulart Peres
• Grantee: Orlando Luis Goulart Peres
• Visiting researcher: Pilar Coloma
• Visiting researcher institution: Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), United States
• Host Institution: Instituto de Física Gleb Wataghin (IFGW). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The neutrinos oscillate! It was probed in many different experiments that neutrinos oscillate. One exciting research area is to understand some basic neutrino properties that we did not the answer yet. One is the possibility of neutrinos violate the CP symmetry and another one is to understand the pattern of neutrino masses by the determination of the neutrino hierarchies. Both topics can be studied in a new series of neutrino experiments called long baseline neutrino experiments. These experiments projected to discover the CP violation and neutrino hierarchy can unveil other neutrino properties. A few example that we are proposing in this project are the possibility that neutrinos decay, the possibility of violation of quantum mechanics with neutrinos and the existence of very light neutrino states. (AU)