The Higgs boson, discovered in 2012 at the Large Hadron Collider, is a breakthrough in our knowledge of nature's fundamental interactions. However, our understanding is still at a very early stage and many open questions remain. I will discuss the state of the art and prospects for further discovery, in the context of my own research at previous, current, and future colliders.
Machine Learning (ML) has been successfully applied across various domains, including
medical image analysis, remote sensing, computer vision, and engineering. Recently, the
astroparticle physics community has started employing ML algorithms for a wide range of
tasks. Among the most challenging is event selection, which entails distinguishing among
different species of cosmic rays detected by...
Just as galaxies in the Universe display a wild variety of colours, shapes and chemistry, science is built by people encompassing a wide spectrum of identities and experiences. LGBTQ+ individuals face unique challenges in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), including physics and astronomy, due to strongly heteronormative and male-dominated cultures and structural barriers...
In this talk, I present a dark matter model that couples to the standard model through a one-loop interaction with neutrinos, where the mediator particles also generate neutrino masses. We perform a global fit that incorporates dark matter relic abundance, primordial nucleosynthesis, neutrino mass, collider and indirect detection constraints. Thanks to the loop suppression, large couplings are...
There are many stellar phenomena that are not well understood yet, one of these processes is the Type I X-ray bursts (XRBs). These explosions happen at the surface of neutron stars accreting material from a lower-mass companion. The physical observable in such events is the light curve, i.e., the time evolution of the emitted x-ray intensity. Due to the huge mass of the neutron star, no matter...
