Non-standard Interactions in a ultraviolet complete model

• Grant number: 22/10057-9
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Master's degree
• Start date: February 01, 2023
• End date: July 31, 2023
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Physics - Elementary Particle Physics and Fields
• Principal Investigator: Renata Zukanovich Funchal
• Grantee: Antonio Pedrosa Ferreira
• Supervisor: Pedro Accioly Nogueira Machado
• Host Institution: Instituto de Física (IF). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), United States
• Associated to the scholarship: 21/03496-3 - Search for new physics with the JUNO experiment, BP.MS

Abstract

The phenomenological consequences of neutrino non-standard interactions have been intensely investigated in the literature, but the majority of such studies adopt a model independent approach. In this project, we propose to investigate non-standard interactions arising in the simplest of the radiative neutrino mass models, the Zee model, where the addition of new particles in the scalar sector allows Majorana neutrino masses at loop level, and interesting relations between neutrino masses and non-standard interactions arise. We will study the Zee model in light of the precise measurements of the forthcoming JUNO experiment, and also access the future sensitivity of the DUNE experiment on observables of the model. (AU)