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What Is the Nature of Neutrinos? Institute of Physics Slovak Academy of Sciences Bratislava, 18.05. 2018 RECFA meeting for Slovakia „Neutrino physics in Slovakia: Advances and Challenges “ Fedor Šimkovic Comenius University and JINR Dubna ne nt 5/17/2018 Fedornm Šimkovic 1 Content 1. Neutrino physics nowadays 2. Slovak neutrino physics groups 3. Theoretical neutrino physics research in Slovakia 4. Slovak participation in NEMO-SuperNEMO experiments 5. Slovak participation in Baikal GVD experiment 6. Slovak participation in JUNO experiment 7. Organization of Pontecorvo summer schools 8. Funding of neutrino physics in Slovakia 9. Conclusions and Outlook 5/17/2018 Fedor Šimkovic 2 1. Neutrino physics nowadays 5/17/2018 Fedor Šimkovic 3 Importance of Neutrino physics nowadays 5/17/2018Figure of Werner Rodejohan presentedFedor Šimkovic at Trento workshop in March, 2018 4 Stockholm, October 6, 2015 5 The Nobel Prize in Physics 1988 Leon M. Lederman, Melvin Schwartz and Jack Steinberger "for the neutrino beam method and the demonstration of the doublet structure of the leptons through the discovery of the muon neutrino" n m n n n n n n n n n n n The Nobel Prize in Physics 1995 n n "for pioneering experimental contributions to lepton physics" n n Martin L. Perl n n "for the discovery of the tau lepton" n Frederick Reines n e "for the detection of the neutrino" The Nobel Prize in Physics 2002 n n e Raymond Davis Jr. and Masatoshi Koshiba "for pioneering contributions to astrophysics, in particular for the detection n of cosmic neutrinos" The Nobel Prize in Physics 2015 n e ,n m q q Takaaki Kajita and Arthur B. McDonald 12 , 23 "for the5/17/2018 discovery of neutrino oscillations,Fedor Simkovic which shows that neutrinos have6 mass" Atomic nucleus is a laboratory to study After 59 years Fundamental properties of neutrinos No answer yet we know • Are n Dirac or • 3 families of light Majorana? (V-A) neutrinos: •Is there a CP violation n , n , n e m t in n sector? • n are massive: • Are neutrinos stable? we know mass • What is the magnetic squared differences n moment of n? • relation between properties • Sterile neutrinos? flavor states • Statistical properties and mass states of n? Fermionic or (neutrino mixing) partly bosonic? Currently main issue Nature, Mass hierarchy, CP-properties, sterile n The observation of neutrino oscillations has opened a new excited era in neutrino physics and represents a big 5/17/2018 step forward in our knowledgeFedor Simkovic of neutrino properties 7 The answer to the question whether neutrinos are their own antiparticles is of central importance, not only to our understanding of neutrinos, but also to our understanding of the origin of mass. What is the nature of neutrinos? GUT’s Symmetric Theory of Electron and Positron Nuovo Cim. 14 (1937) 171 Only the 0νββ-decay can answer this fundamental question Analogy with Analogy with 5/17/2018 Fedor Simkovic p 8 kaons: K0 and K0 0 Symmetric Theory of Electron and Positron Nuovo Cim. 14 (1937) 171 5/17/2018 Fedor Simkovic 9 I ragazzi di via Panisperna 1968 Gribov, Pontecorvo [PLB 28(1969) 493] oscillations of neutrinos - a solution 5/17/2018 Fedorof deficit Simkovic of solar neutrinos in Homestake10 exp. Beyond the Standard model physics (EFT scenario) 5/17/2018 BeyondFedor Simkovic the SM physics 11 S.M. Bilenky, Minimal SM + EFT Phys.Part.Nucl.Lett. 12 (2015) 453-461 The absence of the right-handed neutrino fields in the Standard Model is the simplest, most economical possibility. In such a scenario Majorana mass term is the only possibility for neutrinos to be massive and mixed. This mass term is generated by the lepton number violating Weinberg effective Lagrangian. L ≥ 1015 GeV c Heavy Majorana leptons Ni (Ni=N i) N singlet of SU(2)LxU(1)Y group Yukawa lepton number violating int. The three Majorana neutrino masses are suppressed by the ratio of the electroweak scale and a scale of a lepton-number violating physics. The discovery of the ββ-decay and absence of transitions of flavor neutrinos into sterile states would be evidence in favor of this minimal 5/17/2018 Fedor Simkovic 12 scenario. 2. Slovak neutrino physics groups 5/17/2018 Fedor Šimkovic 13 Slovak neutrino physics groups and physicists F. Šimkovic T. Blažek R. Dvornický P. Maták D. Štefánik V.Černý ... P. Maták L. Fajt JUNO Theory M. Macko NA62 Baikal NEMO GVD P. Povinec R. Breier B. Pastirčák NEMO Baikal 5/17/2018 Fedor Šimkovic GVD14 Team from the Comenius U. „Physics of Massive Neutrinos, Underground Labs. and Nuclear Structure“ have received a recognition „Excellent scientific team“ (the only team from the field of particle and nuclear physics at Slovak universities) Evaluated for the years 2008-2013 5/17/2018 Fedor Šimkovic 15 3. Theoretical neutrino physics research in Slovakia 5/17/2018 Fedor Šimkovic 16 Atomic nucleus – a laboratory to study fundamental Fundamental Symetries, interactions and properties of n (theory) properties of n Measuring mass of neutrinos Cooling of white dwarfs Development of new Many-body methods Detection of relic n Structure of nucleus Nature of n Scattering of low energy n Structure of Neutron stars 5/17/2018 Fedor Šimkovic 17 Nuclear medium effect on the light neutrino mass exchange mechanism of the 0nbb-decay S.G. Kovalenko, M.I. Krivoruchenko, F. Š., Phys. Rev. Lett. 112 (2014) 142503 A novel effect in 0nbb decay related with the fact, that its underlying mechanisms take place in the nuclear matter environment: + Low energy 4-fermion DL ≠ 0 Lagrangian + In-medium Majorana mass of neutrino + 0nbb constraints on the universal scalar couplings Non-standard n-int. discussed e.g., in the context of n-osc. at Sun 3 rSun = 1.4 g/cm 3 rEarth = 5.5 g/cm 14 3 5/17/2018 Fedor Simkovic rnucleus= 2.3 10 g/cm18 Complementarity between b-decay, 0nbb –decay and cosmological measurements might be spoiled IH IH NH NH Area cg1 [eV] _____________ blue -0.05 green 0 5/17/2018 Fedor Simkovic 19 red 1 0n 76 25 T 1/2( Ge) ≥ 3.0 10 yr Exclusion plot 0n 136 25 2 T 1/2( Xe) ≥ 3.4 10 yr in |UeN| – mN plane Faessler, Gonzales, Kovalenko, F. Š., PRD 90 (2014) 096010] 5/17/2018 Fedor Simkovic 20 Left-right symmetric model - see-saw scenario • Interpolating formula • 6x6 PMNS n-mixing matrix Light n mass (mD/mLNV) mD Normal spectrum Inverted spectrum Heavy n mass mLNV 5/17/2018 Fedor Simkovic 21 A. Babič, S. Kovalenko, M.I. Krivoruchenko , F.Š., arXiv 1804.04218 [hep-ph], submitted to PRC Review articles on Double Beta Decay Theory of neutrinoless double-beta decay (Review article) J.D. Vergados, H. Ejiri, F. Šimkovic, Rep. Prog. Phys. 75 (2012) 106310 (52pp) 291 SCI citations (WoS) 282 citations (HEP-spires) Neutrinoless double beta decay and neutrino mass (Review article) J.D. Vergados, H. Ejiri, F. Šimkovic, Int. J. Mod. Phys. E25 (2016) no.11, 1630007. 162 SCI5/17/2018 citations (WoS) Fedor Šimkovic 22 44 citations (HEP-spires) Measuring n-mass with electron-capture of 163Ho - ECHO exp. From n phase space Not much progress in theory for a long period 2 keV/GM= 2keV/13 eV≈ 100 1+2 holes and shake-off effect A. Faessler, Ch. Enss, L. Gastaldo, F.Š., PRC 91, 064302 (2015) (two and 3 holes) A. Faessler, L. Gastaldo, F.Š., PRC 95, 045502 (2017) (shake off) 5/17/2018 Fedor Šimkovic 24 Ocenenie Najlepšia publikácia Scientific awards by publisher „Nauka“ for the year 2012 The first prize for theoretical physics for the year 2012 5/17/2018 Fedor Šimkovic 25 4. Slovak participation in NEMO3/SuperNEMO experiments 5/17/2018 Fedor Šimkovic 26 2nbb 0nbb NEMO3 a SuperNEMO observed ohranič. experiments F. Šimkovic, M. Macko, R. Dvornický P. Povinec, D. Štefánik R. Breier Physical program software, construction 5/17/2018 Fedor Šimkovic 27 NEMO3 a SuperNEMO experiments 2nbb 0nbb observed ohranič. F. Šimkovic, M. Macko, 48Ca, 82Se, 96Zr, 100Mo, 116Cd, 130Te, 150Nd R. Dvornický D. Štefánik Physical program, software, construction Statistical Properties 5/17/2018 of n Fedor Šimkovic 28 M. Macko Laboratoire Souterrain de Modane Nov. 9-10 2018 Super NEMO day Presenten. of Demon- 5/17/2018 Fedor Šimkovic strator 29 Joule agreement (CNRS-CTU-CU) Main hall access to Modane Underground Lab. HPGe room 5/17/2018 Fedor Šimkovic 30 5. Slovak participation in Baikal GVD experiments 5/17/2018 Fedor Šimkovic 31 Neutrino telescopes: Ice Cube, KM3Net, Baikal GVD 2016 we have become a part of the Baikal GVD coll. F. Šimkovic (committee) R. Dvornický, soft. develop. construction of detector L. Fajt (PhD study), time calibration, construction of detector P. Kerenyi (Magister Study) LHC Z. Bardáčová, E. Eckerová CERN (Bachelor study) Collaboration: 9 institutions 1. Institute for Nuclear Research, Moscow, Russia. 2. Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia. 3. Irkutsk State University, Irkutsk, Russia. 4. Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics MSU, Moscow, Russia. 5. Nizhny Novgorod State Technical University, Russia. 6. St.Petersburg State Marine University, Russia. 7. Czech Technical University, Prague, Czech Republic. 8. Comenius5/17/2018 University, Bratislava, FedorSlovakia. Šimkovic 9. EvoLogics Gmbh., Berlin,33 Germany. Consist of 288 Optical Modul. Cluster (OMs) at 8 strings. 3 LED Baikal GVD calibration matrices. Acoustic Consists of 8 clusters (in 2020). In total 2304 OMs. positioning system. 1 seabed Depths 750-1275 m. The first cluster ”Dubna” has electro-optical cable.1 DAQ worked since April 2015. The 2nd cluster in 2017 centre. Distance between and 3rd in 2018. Two new clusters installed every clusters 300m consecutive year. 120 m Depth – 1360 m; flat the lake bed at >3 km from the shore 15 m–DAQ center 1 366 m – from surface to bottom 525 m - height Baikal GVD winter expedition Project time-line Prototyping & construction Data taking Prototype strings 3-rd cluster 2-nd cluster R.
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