2024-12-16
Thesis
SA2_NEXT
Research Area
Since the beginning of the 20th century, huge breakthroughs have been made in the field of physics. But many mysteries are still waiting to be revealed. In astrophysics and cosmology, dark matter is one of the great unknowns that remains today. It escapes the Standard Model, and is estimated to account for more than 80% of the matter that exists in the entire Universe. However, we can only “see” it through the gravitational effects it causes, as it does not emit any electromagnetic radiation.
In this context, the observation of neutrinos, a very evasive particle, can be a key tool to understand the true nature of dark matter. The IGFAE is involved, through the design of software and detectors, in some of the international experiments aimed at improving the understanding of neutrinos, such as NEXT (at the Canfranc Underground Laboratory in the Aragonese Pyrenees); DUNE (a project extending over 1,000 km from Illinois to South Dakota in the United States), and Hyper Kamiokande (a huge under-construction facility, that will cross the main island of Japan from east to west).
Principal investigator
Diego González Díaz
Initial date
2024-09-01
Final date
2027-08-31
Principal investigator
José Angel Hernando Morata
Initial date
2022-09-01
Final date
2025-08-31
Principal investigator
José Angel Hernando Morata
Initial date
2021-01-01
Final date
2025-12-31
Principal investigator
Diego González Díaz
Initial date
2019-10-01
Final date
2021-06-30
Agency
CERN - RD-51
Principal investigator
Diego González Díaz
Initial date
2019-09-01
Final date
2022-08-31
Agency
AEI - Agencia Estatal de Investigación