Physics of particles and fields: standard model and its extensions
Challenges in the 21st century in neutrino physics and astrophysics
| Grant number: | 15/16809-9 |
| Support type: | Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Doctorate |
| Effective date (Start): | October 31, 2015 |
| Effective date (End): | October 30, 2016 |
| Field of knowledge: | Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Physics - Elementary Particle Physics and Fields |
| Principal Investigator: | Orlando Luis Goulart Peres |
| Grantee: | Pedro Simoni Pasquini |
| Supervisor abroad: | Jose Wagner Furtado Valle |
| Home Institution: | Instituto de Física Gleb Wataghin (IFGW). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil |
| Research place: | Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Spain |
| Associated to the scholarship: | 14/05133-1 - Flavor physics, BP.DR |
Abstract The dynamics of flavor physicsconstitutes one of the main unknown in particle physics: whatprinciple should predict the pattern of masses and mixing angles, aswell as flavor replication. These issues lie beyond the Standard Model(SM). An important physical concept that is closely related to flavorphysics are mass generating mechanisms. Special ones are necessary tounderstand why neutrinos are so light compared to other fermions.This project presents a plan of study of neutrino mass models andmixing parameters and their implications for new physics, such as newinteractions that may be observable in neutrino oscillationexperiments: DUNE, Super-Kamiokande, No$\nu$a, SNO+. We propose twolines of research that are interconnected and take what is best inboth the Brazilian and Spanish groups. (I) Analysis and tests ofpossible unitarity violation of the PMNS matrix, related to futureexperiments and (II) Study of renormalization of neutrino parametersin the context current neutrino mass models. | |