Universe Colloquium: Nobel Prize in Physics 2015 and beyond: Low scale seesaw and neutrinoless double beta decay

by Emiliano Molinaro (DIAS, U Southern Denmark)

Wednesday 14 Oct 2015, 16:30 → 17:30 Europe/Berlin

seminar room (Excellence Cluster Universe, Boltzmannstrasse 2, Garching)

Very recently, the Nobel Prize in Physics 2015 was awarded for the discovery of neutrino oscillations and the fact that neutrinos have mass. This feature tells us that there is new physics beyond the Standard Model of particle physics. Emiliano will review the mechanism of generation of neutrino masses in simple extensions of the Standard Model. In particular, he will focus on one-loop corrections to the light neutrino mass matrix in the context of low scale type I seesaw scenarios and their implications in experimental searches for neutrinoless double beta decay. The Universe Colloquium is followed by a social gathering with wine and cheese.