Prof. Mihai Horoi, Tests of fundamental symmetries in low-energy nuclear physics

Thursday 23 Jul 2015, 15:00 → 16:00 Europe/Bucharest

Low-energy nuclear physics can provide relevant information regarding
physics beyond theStandard Model of particle physics by investigating
processes that could violate fundamental symmetries. For example,
neutrinoless double-beta decay, if observed, would signal physics beyond the
Standard Model that could be discovered at energies significantly lower than
those at which the relevant degrees of freedom could be excited. Therefore,
it could be challenging to further use the neutrinoless double-beta decay
observations to distinguish between many beyond Standard Model competing
mechanisms to this process. Accurate nuclear structure calculation of the
nuclear matrix elements necessary to analyze the decay rates could be
helpful to narrow down the list of competing mechanisms, and to better
identify the more exotic properties of the neutrinos. In my talk I will
present an up-to-date analysis of this process, and I will identify other
similar direction of research.