Neutrino Physics is an area of Particle Physics dedicated to studying neutral leptons, their properties, and their interactions with other particles. These studies include all processes – terrestrial, astrophysical, and cosmological, natural or artificial – that occur from or due to the presence of neutrinos.

In this fundamentally experimental research line, we conduct research and development activities on various fronts, designing and improving detectors, analyzing data, simulating models, and applying statistical tests that allow us to characterize the fundamental properties of neutrinos.

Our group works on experiments that bring together thousands of physicists and engineers, researchers and students, research institutions and companies, forming large collaborations capable of executing experiments on the scale required by neutrinos.

Among them are:

1. Double Chooz (completed experiment, http://doublechooz.in2p3.fr)
2. Neutrinos-Angra (Brazil)
3. SBND (https://sbn-nd.fnal.gov)
4. DUNE (https://www.dunescience.org)

Our students participate in working groups with students from around the world, having the opportunity to interact with international reference laboratories such as Fermilab and CERN.

Current active lines of investigation:

• Scientific Instrumentation:
  • Development of noble gas scintillation light sensors (X-ARAPUCA);
  • Development of new scientific instruments for particle detection;
  • Data acquisition circuits;
• Scientific Computing:
  • Applications of Artificial Intelligence in detector development and operation;
  • Sensor and detector simulations;
  • New algorithms for simulations;
• Phenomenology:
  • Short and long baseline neutrino oscillations;
  • Earth Tomography;
  • Solar and Supernova Neutrinos

Research group at CNPq: http://dgp.cnpq.br/dgp/espelhogrupo/783412

Classes and tutorials: http://youtube.com/@GustavoValdiviesso

Scientific Outreach: http://youtube.com/@Cienplifica