Friday 19 October, 11:00h, at Nikhef in H331
Speaker: Oleg Ruchayskiy (CERN)
Title: "Searching for sterile neutrinos in lab and in space"
Abstract:
If LHC discovers only the Higgs boson and finds no signatures of new physics (thus confirming the Standard Model) the necessity to explain the observed beyond-the-Standard-Model (BSM) phenomena, in particular neutrino masses, Dark Matter and matter-antimatter asymmetry of the Universe, should largely shape the further development of particle physics. I will describe a unique testable approach that provides the resolution of all these BSM problems. I will outline an experimental programme (combination of accelerator searches for new particles with high intensity proton beams and an X-ray cosmic mission) that is capable of discovering the particles responsible for all three mentioned major BSM phenomena, determining their properties and having non-trivial cross-check between accelerator and cosmic experiments. In the case of negative result the proposed program will rule out the whole model completely.
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