IFIC Seminar: Beyond Standard Model Searches at Neutrino Telescopes: Now and in the Future

por Sr. Jeff Lazar (UW Madison & Harvard University)

martes 5 abr. 2022 12:00 → 13:00 Europe/Madrid

1001-Primera-1-1-1 - Paterna. Seminario (Universe)

Despite the Standard Model’s (SM) success at explaining phenomenon in the strong and electromagnetic sectors, the weak sector, specifically neutrinos, pose some challenges to it. Furthermore, the observation of dark matter (DM) among other observations heavily implies that we must expand the particle content of the SM. These facts combined have made neutrino observatories a popular setting for searches for beyond SM particles; however, no such search has found conclusive evidence of new physics so far. With a new generation of neutrino detectors being designed, it is important to understand how design decisions affect sensitivity to different BSM models so that we can optimize this next generation to find new physics. In this seminar, I will show the results of IceCube’s most recent solar DM search, as well as introduce a new tool, Prometheus, which allows for open-source simulation of neutrino telescopes which may help guide the next generation of telescopes.

 

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