Project description
Theoretical tool for experimental advancement of particle physics
Scientists have used the world’s largest particle collider to make huge discoveries, but they still have not explained the biggest mysteries in the universe. We still do not know why neutrinos have mass or why the universe is made of matter instead of antimatter. Low-energy experiments are crucial for exploring these issues, though they require precise theoretical calculations for interpretation. The ERC-funded CRUNS project aims to develop theoretical tools that will vastly improve the theoretical accuracy of the most promising high-precision observables. The project will use effective field theory, superallowed beta-decay measurements, extremely rare double-weak decays of atoms, among others, to ensure accurate and efficient tools.
Objective
Particle physics is at a crossroads. The largest collider ever built so far has found no evidence for physics beyond the Standard Model leaving us with major open problems such as the absence of antimatter in our universe and the origin of nonzero neutrino masses. While plans for new colliders with extreme collision energies are being pursued, an alternative way to find new clues is through low-energy precision experiments that can detect subtle quantum effects from beyond-the-Standard-Model physics. The experimental prospects are great, but their interpretation requires high-precision theoretical calculations of particle physics effects on complex systems such as neutrons, atomic nuclei, and molecules.
My goal is to develop new theoretical tools based on effective field theory to greatly improve the theoretical accuracy of the most promising high-precision observables. I will focus on superallowed beta decay measurements (the Common), extremely rare double-weak decays of atoms (the Rare), and yet-to-be-discovered neutrinoless double beta decay and permanent electric dipole moments (the UNSeen). These observables are targeted by an intense worldwide experimental program and have the potential to unravel the nature of neutrino mass, to break the Standard Model pattern of quark mixing, and to find the origin of the universal matter-antimatter asymmetry. Doing so requires the new tools and methods developed in this proposal to improve the theoretical accuracy to record levels and to connect low-energy experiments to mysteries in high-energy particle physics and cosmology.
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- natural sciences physical sciences theoretical physics particle physics neutrinos
- natural sciences physical sciences theoretical physics particle physics particle accelerator
- natural sciences physical sciences theoretical physics particle physics quarks
- natural sciences physical sciences astronomy physical cosmology
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HORIZON.1.1 - European Research Council (ERC)
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