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Thursday,
11. Dec. 2025 |
Video-Recording for any system with MP4-support - Video.mp4 (ca. 263 Mb) |
15:15 – 16:15 |
"Neutrinos:
Probes of the Early Universe"
Speaker:
Prof. Carlos Peña Garay
(Canfranc Underground Laboratory)
Abstract:
After the discovery of neutrino masses by
the neutrino oscillation experiments,
next frontiers are the discovery of CP
violation on the lepton sector,
the Majorana nature of neutrinos and the
cosmological neutrinos.
I will discuss the current status of the
HyperKamiokande experiment,
including the JPARC neutrino bean, the
ND280+ and IWCD near detectors and
the 220 kton water Cherenkov Far Detector,
with special focus on the
Spanish contributions to the construction
of the gigantic detector.
I will also discuss the physics potential
and challenges of neutrinoless
double decay searches and in the
observation of cosmologal neutrinos.
About the Speaker:
Professor Carlos P. Garay is the Director
of the Canfranc Underground
Laboratory, one of the Singular Scientific
and Technical Installations
in Spain. He earned his PhD in Theoretical
Physics at the University
of Valencia in 2002, after which he became
a Long Term Member at the
Institute for Advanced Studies in
Princeton. He got a faculty research
position at CSIC, the largest research
institution in Spain, in 2006.
His research is focused on neutrino
physics and astrophysics, currently
coordinating the Spanish contribution to
the construction of
HyperKamiokande, a gigantic water
Cherenkov detector combined with the
JPARC neutrino beam, aiming at discovering
CP violation in the lepton
sector. Other research interests include
axion searches with
superconducting circuits and the impact of
(the lack of) radiation
in life underground. Since 2025, Carlos is
serving as the General
Assembly Chair of the AstroParticle
Physics European Consortium, a
funding agencies body with the mandate to
develop a collective European
strategy in Astroparticle Physics.