MACROS 2026

Session

BSM Physics

23 Apr 2026, 11:05

Energy and Environment Lab Room 189 (Penn State )

8. The Cosmic Neutrino Background, Dark Matter and Neutrino Telescopes

Dr Gonzalo Herrera (MIT / Harvard)

23/04/2026, 11:05

The Cosmic Neutrino Background (CnuB) is the oldest relic population of Standard Model particles in the Universe, carrying information from about one second after the Big Bang. Its detection would be a major milestone for cosmology and astroparticle physics. Here I will discuss a detection strategy based on the scattering of cosmic rays off relic neutrinos over cosmological distances, which...

2. The Sun as a Dark Matter Laboratory: The Neutrino Messenger

Thong Nguyen (Stockholm University)

23/04/2026, 13:00

9. Fundamental Physics with Ultrahigh Energy Neutrinos

Dr Bei Zhou (Fermilab & KICP, UChicago)

23/04/2026, 13:40

Neutrinos provide a unique window into the extreme Universe and physics beyond the Standard Model: their nonzero masses already indicate new physics, and their weak interactions allow them to probe extreme energies, cosmic distances, and the dark sector. In this talk, I will present an interdisciplinary approach to neutrino physics, in particular, UHE neutrinos. I will first present neutrino...