Speaker
Gabriele Pisacane
(Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
Description
Neutrons can play a crucial role in exploring possible extensions of the Standard Model involving hidden sectors. Among the proposed scenarios, the mirror matter model predicts the existence of mirror neutrons as viable dark matter candidates. In this work, we investigate how neutron–mirror neutron mixing could manifest through two complementary interferometric signatures. The first is a geometric phase acquired by ordinary neutrons, detectable through a dedicated interferometric scheme. The second relies on an alternative setup based on bandpass multilayers, designed to measure intensity variations of the neutron beam.
Author
Gabriele Pisacane
(Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
