Speaker
Heinrich Päs
Description
Quantum gravitational effects are expected to reveal themselves at extreme energies, cosmological distances, in a break-down of standard quantum mechanics, or in the breaking of global symmetries. Neutrinos offer a unique potential to probe such effects: they are perfect quantum probes, their masses may be related to lepton number or flavor and thus global symmetry breaking and extra-galactic neutrinos have been observed at energies up to the PeV scale. We discuss Lepton Number Violation, Quantum-Gravitational Decoherence, Altered Dispersion Relations, Holographic Scaling and Entanglement Measures and assess the future perspectives of such experimental probes of quantum gravity.
Primary author
Heinrich Päs
