Probing physics beyond the standard model in neutrino experiments

• Grant number: 18/21745-8
• Support type: Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctorate
• Effective date (Start): August 01, 2019
• Status: Discontinued
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Physics - Elementary Particle Physics and Fields
• Principal researcher: Orlando Luis Goulart Peres
• Grantee: Zahra Khajeh Tabrizi
• Home Institution: Instituto de Física Gleb Wataghin (IFGW). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 14/19164-6 - Challenges in the 21st century in neutrino physics and astrophysics, AP.TEM

Abstract

Over the past decades, the Standard Model (SM) of particle physics has been an extremely successful theory, providing an excellent description of most of the phenomena of particle physics. Yet, there are fundamental physics phenomena that the SM does not explain adequately: for instance, the origin of neutrino masses, Dark Matter, matter-antimatter asymmetry in the universe. To solve these problems and go further, we must look for evidence for physics beyond the Standard Model. This research proposal, described below, is mainly founded based on these two pillars: both on experimental results and theoretical motivation.

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)

FALKOWSKI, ADAM; GONZALEZ-ALONSO, MARTIN; TABRIZI, ZAHRA. Consistent QFT description of non-standard neutrino interactions. Journal of High Energy Physics, n. 11, NOV 11 2020. (18/21745-8)

DE GOUVEA, ANDRE; MACHADO, PEDRO A. N.; PEREZ-GONZALEZ, YUBER F.; TABRIZI, ZAHRA. Measuring the Weak Mixing Angle in the DUNE near-Detector Complex. Physical Review Letters, v. 125, n. 5, JUL 29 2020. (18/21745-8)