Particle Physics Seminar: Dr. Innes Bigaran, Fermilab and Northwestern University

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Location: 415 Nieuwland Science (View on map )

"Getting more juice for the squeeze": maximally utilizing lepton flavour experiments

 Dr. Innes Bigaran
Fermilab and Northwestern University

The era of precision neutrino physics will be complemented by advances in our understanding of charged-lepton physics. The presence of nonzero neutrino masses implies that physics Beyond the Standard Model must yield violation of lepton flavour, and observable flavour violation in the charged-lepton sector can be a smoking gun of new physics. In this talk, I will discuss some ways to exploit present and future searches for lepton flavour violation to expand the yield of these searches. Notably, I will focus on complementarity between SM and BSM physics in searches for flavour-violating new physics at the Near Detector of DUNE, and the possibility of employing time-binned analyses of flavour-violation data to improve the discovery reach for ultralight dark matter.