6th IDPASC/LIP PhD Students Workshop

Session

Session 6

26 Jun 2020, 11:20

Conveners

Session 6

• Jose Maneira (LIP)

43. Measurement of Te130 Two-Neutrino Double Beta Decay Half-life with the SNO+ Experiment: Analysis during the Partial Fill

Ana Sofia Inácio (LIP)

26/06/2020, 11:20

PhD student talk

Searching for the neutrinoless double beta decay (0νββ) is of major interest to understand the fundamental characteristics of neutrinos. If observed, it would prove the Majorana nature of neutrinos, i.e. they are their own anti-particles, and allow the measurement of their effective mass.
SNO+ is a large volume liquid scintillator neutrino experiment that will search for this decay using...

49. Background Characterisation for Water and Scintillator Phases of SNO+

Matthew Cox (LIP & University of Liverpool)

26/06/2020, 11:35

PhD student talk

SNO+ is a liquid scintillator-based experiment located 2km underground at SNOLAB in Canada. The primary motivation of the experiment is the observation of neutrinoless double beta decay; with other aims of detecting: geo and reactor antineutrinos, invisible nucleon decays and low energy solar neutrinos. The detector will operate in 3 main phases, using: ultra pure water, pure scinitllator and...

45. Cosmological and astrophysical applications of modified theories of gravity

João Rosa (Instituto Superior Técnico)

26/06/2020, 11:50

PhD student talk

In this work, we study cosmological and astrophysical applications of the recently proposed generalized hybrid metric-Palatini gravity theory, which combines features of both the metric and the Palatini approaches to the variational method in f(R) gravity. This theory arises as a natural generalization of the hybrid metric-Palatini gravity which has been proven to be the first theory to unify...