HEP Colloquia 2023

by Dr Martina Gerbino (INFN Ferrara)

Monday 15 May 2023, 14:30 → 16:30 Europe/Rome

Sala Consiliare (Department of Physics)

The Light (particles) of the Past

The intersection of the cosmic and neutrino frontiers is a rich field where much discovery space still remains. Cosmology is an independent window to the physics of light relics – active neutrinos and other light massive particles that may populate the cosmological plasma - and allows to probe their behaviour over cosmological times and scales, something unachievable via terrestrial laboratory searches. In this talk I will discuss how observations of the cosmic microwave background and the large-scale structure of the Universe can be used to constrain the properties of neutrinos and other light relics. I will focus on "new physics" scenarios (e.g. beyond-standard-model properties, axion-like particles....). I will further discuss detection prospects from forthcoming cosmological observations.

The Seminar will be held as both in-person event, in Sala Consiliare at Department of Physics, Cittadella di Monserrato, Cagliari University and also online on Zoom.

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