Participation in the development of new acceleration techniques for future hadron colliders (HL-LHC, FCC) and e+e- (ILC, CLIC) and their possible applications in medicine.
The physics of neutrinos, antimatter and dark matter in astrophysics is explored. More specifically, solar neutrinos and the solar composition problem, the origin of positrons in our galaxy, and possible axion signals as dark matter candidates.
Extensions of the standard model are studied to explain the origin of the matter-antimatter asymmetry observed in the Universe, as well as its possible implications for experiments.
Search for candidates for the bulk of the non-luminous matter in the Universe. Theoretical study of different models providing dark matter candidates and their signals in direct or indirect detection experiments, as well as in cosmological observables.
Analysis of ATLAS and LHCb data at the LHC accelerator and physics studies for future linear accelerators.
Development of new detection techniques and systems for particle physics based on silicon detectors (micro-bands and pixels) for the new colliders, HL-LHC and the future linear collider (ILC).
Development of distributed computing using GRID techniques.
Within the ATLAS-CERN collaboration: design and development of data acquisition systems for nuclear and high energy physics applications. Use of digital technologies based on microprocessors, signal processors (DSP) and reconfigurable logic devices (FPGA).
Analysis of data from the ANTARES and KM3NeT neutrino telescopes: study of cosmic neutrino sources, indirect search for dark matter and measurement of the neutrino mass hierarchy. Participation in the construction of KM3NeT: time calibration and design of the data acquisition control cards.
The associated phenomena of flavour-changing processes and CP symmetry violation have profound implications for our knowledge of the Universe and, in particular, are related to the observed large asymmetry between matter and antimatter.
Aims of study: Study of extended models with tau dipole moment. Properties of the dipole moments. Precise determination and how it can be measured at LHC. H/A interferometry of quasi-degenerate Higgs bosons with opposite CP. H/A mixing: CP violation effects.
Study of the properties of baryons and mesons by means of quark models and phenomenological interactions.
This line studies the interactions between hadrons and between hadrons and the nuclear medium, using effective theories, constructed from QCD symmetries, perturbative and non-perturbative methods. Special emphasis is given to topics related to the scientific programme of the FAIR laboratory.
Study of hadron spectra and hadron-hadron interaction using potential models for the interaction between quarks. Relation of phenomenological results to Quantum Chromodynamics.
Study of the quark-quark interaction through the analysis of the hadron spectrum and its application to the search for exotic multi-quark states.
The formulation of quantum field theories in a space-time lattice allows them to be solved from first principles by means of numerical simulations. Our aim is to apply this method to hadronic physics in QCD and to theories with dynamical symmetry breaking.
The aim is to study the properties of extensions of the Standard Model in more than 3+1 dimensions and the possibility of constructing phenomenologically viable models.
In this line we investigate particle physics models beyond the Standard Model that generate the mass and mixing structure of neutrinos, in particular those inspired by large- or small-scale see-saw models, with or without unification, radiative or supersymmetric models.
The aim is to design and optimise strategies to determine the neutrino mass matrix and to test models beyond the Standard Model with massive neutrinos.
Physics of neutrino and astroparticle oscillations with liquid argon detectors (DUNE experiment).
Search for neutrinoless double beta decay in the Xe-136 isotope with gaseous xenon detectors (NEXT experiment).
Global analysis of data from solar, atmospheric, reactor and accelerator neutrino experiments. Experimental consequences of the existence of non-standard interactions. Neutrinos as probes in astrophysics (Sun, supernovae) and cosmology (CMB, LSS), neutrino astronomy.
Measurements of cosmic microwave radiation, the large-scale structure of the Universe and the abundance of light elements allow valuable information to be extracted about neutrinos and other relics of the Big Bang, which may be related to dark matter and dark energy.
Phenomenology of extended models, in particular supersymmetric ones, in particle accelerators and in particular the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. Model-driven data prediction and analysis, looking for specific signals of new particles.
We construct and analyse the phenomenological consequences of theoretical models that solve some open problems of the Standard Model, for example the nature of dark matter. In particular supersymmetric models.
Analysis and interpretation of the structure and properties of baryons and glueballs from the perspective of constituent models supported by the theory of strong interactions at high energies, temperatures and densities.
The LHC is specially designed to investigate the spontaneous breaking of the electroweak symmetry responsible for the generation of the masses of all particles. The theoretical consistency of the Standard Model requires the existence of a new scalar force field.
Targets of study: dark matter. Detection of wims by inelastic collision with nuclei. Shared leptonic asymmetry between leptons and sleptons may be relevant for leptogenesis. Phenomenology of supersymmetric models at LHC. Study of flavour theories in supersymmetry.
The top quark is the heaviest known elementary particle and plays a fundamental role in many extensions of the Standard Model. In a hadronic environment like the LHC it is essential to control the effects of the strong interaction (QCD), hence complex calculations in perturbation theory.
