Project description
Investigating neutrinos, hidden particles and dark matter using advanced detection technology
Understanding the nature of neutrinos and dark matter is a major challenge in modern physics. With the support of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions programme, the neutrinoSPHERE project will address this by exploiting the potential of advanced spherical proportional counters (SPCs) developed by the NEWS-G Collaboration. These ultra-sensitive, large gaseous detectors will explore phenomena like neutrino magnetic moments and boosted sub-GeV dark matter signals from cosmic rays and supernova neutrinos. A key innovation is the development of NEWS-ML – a simulation framework based on machine learning that models rare signals from dark matter, neutrinos, dark photons and axion-like particles in SPCs. The project will open new frontiers in astroparticle physics, investigating hitherto unexplored regions in physics beyond the Standard Model.
Objective
neutrinoSPHERE, following a multidisciplinary synergic approach, will comprehensively investigate the wider aspects of astroparticle physics. It will exploit the potential of Spherical Proportional Counters (SPC) developed by NEWS-G Collaboration and will develop novel tools based on Machine-Learning (ML) techniques to conclusively respond to long-standing puzzles in particle physics such as the nature of neutrinos and the existence of dark matter (DM). The ultra low-threshold capabilities of SPCs are ideal to explore neutrino magnetic moments through coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CEvNS), and sub-GeV boosted-DM signatures induced by: cosmic rays, Diffuse Supernova Neutrino Background and solar reflection. Furthermore, neutrinoSPHERE will open new directions expanding the scientific programme and physics reach of NEWS-G to additional components of the dark sector via the dark boson portal: dark photons, dark scalars, and axion-like particles.
To address these challenges, neutrinoSPHERE will develop NEWS-ML, a novel simulation framework based on ML, offering rapid and fully validated state-of-the-art simulations of CEvNS, DM and hidden sector signals in SPCs. The performance of NEWS-ML will be accelerated with GPU technology and MPI-parallelisation, facilitating statistical inference and accurate constraints extraction. neutrinoSPHERE offers the ideal template to achieve the required breakthroughs in astroparticle physics by investigating previously-unexplored regions of BSM scenarios, in which existing rare-event searches have limited sensitivity, thus complementing them.
The research team has diverse expertise, ranging from instrumentation and detector R&D to beyond the Standard Model phenomenology. The scientific results will be disseminated in different target groups through journal publications, conference announcements, public talks, outreach activities and social media.
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- natural sciences physical sciences theoretical physics particle physics neutrinos
- natural sciences physical sciences theoretical physics particle physics photons
- natural sciences physical sciences astronomy stellar astronomy supernova
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HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
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HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-PF-EF - HORIZON TMA MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
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20148 Hamburg
Germany
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