Project description
New horizons in particle physics
Ten years have passed since the Higgs boson discovery at CERN, a milestone that firmly establishes the Standard Model as the leading theory in particle physics. However, the search for new physics remains elusive. With the support of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions programme, the SNPF project aims to address this challenge. It consists of two parts, both dedicated to improving the theoretical prediction of relevant observables in flavour physics through numerical simulations of lattice quantum chromodynamics, dealing with the complexities of strong interactions and long distance effects in hadronic processes. In essence, SNPF seeks to introduce innovative conceptual and algorithmic approaches that will pave the way for future breakthroughs in flavour physics and our understanding of fundamental particles.
Objective
After ten years from the discovery of the Higgs boson at CERN, which established the Standard Model (SM) of particle physics as the most accurate description of nature at its fundamental level, no direct sign of new physics (NP) beyond the SM has been observed. In order to make further progress in high-energy physics, it is necessary to improve the precision of theoretical SM predictions and search NP effects indirectly by looking for tiny discrepancies with experimental measurements.
This proposal will make use of a combination of formal and numerical tools, in particular methods of numerical lattice quantum chromodynamics (QCD), to achieve this aim in the context of flavour physics. Two projects are proposed, which have the common goal of improving the precision on theoretical predictions of relevant flavour observables and share the difficulty of being dominated by hadronic effects that require non-perturbative lattice calculations.
In the first project, I will study the leading electromagnetic and strong isospin breaking corrections to kaon semi-leptonic decays, providing a method to extract the relevant decay amplitudes from finite-volume (FV) Euclidean correlation functions evaluated on the lattice and computing analytically their FV dependence. This aims to determine the CKM matrix element Vus with sub-percent precision and hence to test the CKM matrix unitarity predicted by the SM. The goal of the second project is instead to obtain a first non-perturbative estimate of long-distance contributions to the mixing of neutral D mesons, which are dominant but poorly known, thus representing a limiting factor in the study of CP violation and NP effects in this process. This will be done by applying advanced reconstruction techniques to FV lattice spectral functions.
This proposal will have a relevant impact on flavour physics and phenomenology, delivering new conceptual and algorithmic methods which will provide the foundations for future scientific progress.
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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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