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ESR PhD position at CNRS (Montpellier L2C) (France) - Theory

Project period: 
Thu, 01/09/2016 - Sun, 01/09/2019
Months: 
36
Open: 
Finished

ESR position at IPPP, Durham University (UK)

Project period: 
Fri, 01/09/2017 - Sun, 01/09/2019
Months: 
24
Months Extra: 
12
Open: 
Finished

ESR PhD position at IPPP, Durham University (UK) - Theory

Project period: 
Thu, 01/09/2016 - Sun, 01/09/2019
Months: 
36
Open: 
Finished

ESR position at Madrid UAM and/or IFT (Spain)

Project period: 
Fri, 01/09/2017 - Sun, 01/09/2019
Months: 
24
Months Extra: 
12
Open: 
Finished

ESR PhD position at Madrid UAM and/or IFT (Spain) - Theory

Project period: 
Thu, 01/09/2016 - Sun, 01/09/2019
Months: 
36
Open: 
Finished

ANTARES and IceCube: a joint search for cosmic neutrino sources in the Southern sky

December 4, 2015 by tiinatimonen

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Introduction: 
The first combined search for neutrino point sources has been performed by the ANTARES and IceCube collaborations. The result of this joint analysis has been submitted to the Astrophysical Journal as well as to the ArXiv (hep-ex/1511.02149v1). No source has been identified, but the complementarity of the two experiments improves the sensitivity to point sources, thus allowing for more stringent upper limits on the neutrino flux from the sources considered in the analysis.

Neutrinos as cosmic rays

 

Postdoctoral Fellow in High Energy Physics at the Center for Fundamental Physics (CFP)

December 2, 2015 by tiinatimonen

Wed, 02/12/2015
Wed, 02/12/2015
Interested candidates should send their curriculum vitae, list of publications, and research statement to CFP@zewailcity.edu.eg. Please use job code “CFP2015-4” in the subject line. Applicants should also arrange for three reference letters. Applications should be sent no later than January 31, 2016.
 

Invisibles15 Workshop Proceedings Now Available

October 28, 2015 by tiinatimonen

Wed, 28/10/2015
Wed, 28/10/2015
The Invisibles15 Workshop was the fourth thematic workshop organised in the context of the FP7 funded INVISIBLES ITN (FP7-PEOPLE-2011-ITN, PITN-GA-2011-289442-INVISIBLES), which focuses on Neutrino, Dark Matter and Dark Energy phenomenology and their connection, and more in general on physics beyond the Standard Model of Particle Physics.
 
The Workshop took place 22-26 June 2015 at the Institute for Theoretical Physics (IFT) UAM-CSIC and Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, in Madrid, Spain.
 

Non-thermal cosmic neutrino background

October 15, 2015 by tiinatimonen

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Introduction: 
The Cosmic Neutrino Background (CNB) is a solid prediction of the Standard Models of Particle Physics and Cosmology. In the early universe, neutrinos were formed as part of the thermal bath, a hot plasma filling the universe (thermal production). As the universe expanded and cooled down to MeV temperatures, the neutrinos decoupled from the thermal bath, traveling freely through space ever since. Neutrinos are very weakly interacting particles, which makes the detection of this neutrino background very challenging and so far experimentally inaccessible. However, on the other hand, this same property implies that once we succeed in measuring the cosmic neutrino background, we can not only learn something about the properties of neutrinos but also the CNB is a window to the very early universe, back to the times of the formation of light elements in Big Bang Nucleosynthesis (BBN), when the neutrinos decoupled from the thermal bath at about two minutes after the “Big Bang”. For comparison, the cousin of the CNB, the better-known Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), consisting of background photons instead of neutrinos, had lead to major breakthroughs in modern cosmology. This window however only leads back to temperature around 1 eV, nearly 400,000 years later than the CNB window. This paper discusses how physics beyond the standard model, in particular non-thermally generated right-handed neutrinos, can modify the CNB predictions.

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2015_ Takaaki Kajita

October 6, 2015 by Anónimo

Tue, 06/10/2015
Tue, 06/10/2015

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2015 to Takaaki Kajita (Super-Kamiokande Collaboration, University of Tokyo, Japan) and to Arthur B. McDonald (Sudbury Neutrino Observatory Collaboration, Canada) “for the discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows that neutrinos have mass”… “for their key contributions to the experiments which demonstrated that neutrinos change identities. This metamorphosis requires that neutrinos have mass.