This line of research studies the intrinsic properties of neutrinos. It investigates the phenomenon of oscillations between neutrino families by measuring the parameters that define these oscillations and tries to elucidate the nature of the neutrino, i.e. whether it is a Dirac fermion or a Majorana fermion. IFIC is leading the NEXT experiment to search for double beta decays without neutrino production, the detection of which would imply that the neutrino is a Majorana particle. It is also involved in several neutrino oscillation experiments with accelerators: the T2K experiment, which is being carried out in Japan, and the next-generation DUNE experiment in the United States. In addition, the IFIC neutrino group develops advanced nuclear instrumentation, which could have important industrial applications, in particular in medical physics and nuclear proliferation control.
- Demonstration of the Majorana nature of the neutrino in experiments searching for double beta decays without neutrino emission.
- Discovery of CP violation in the leptonic sector in accelerator neutrino oscillation experiments.
- Astroparticle physics in large neutrino detectors: discovery of proton decay, detection of neutrinos of astrophysical origin and search for physics beyond the Standard Model of particle physics.
- Neutrino physics at the DUNE experiment
Physics of neutrino and astroparticle oscillations with liquid argon detectors (DUNE experiment).
- Neutrino physics at the NEXT experiment
Search for neutrinoless double beta decay in the Xe-136 isotope with gaseous xenon detectors (NEXT experiment).
- YAHLALI HADDOU, NADIA
- PDI-Titular d'Universitat
- Secretari/a de Departament
- DIAZ MEDINA, JOSE
- PDI-Catedratic/a d'Universitat
Burjassot/Paterna Campus
Science ParkC/ Catedrático José Beltrán, 2
46980 Paterna (Valencia)
