Rare Event Searches in Particles Physics
A special issue of Particles (ISSN 2571-712X).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2021) | Viewed by 741
Special Issue Editors
Interests: neutrino physics; low temperature detectors; rare events research
- Physik-Department and Excellence Cluster Universe, Technische Universität München, 85747 Garching, Germany
Interests: dark matter; neutrino physics; low temperature detectors; detector R&D
- INFN Sezione di Milano - Bicocca, 20126 Milano, Italy
Interests: high-energy physics; exotic particles searches; Higgs physics; electroweak processes; timing detectors
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
All experiments searching for events with elusive rates are united by the need to tackle very high background levels so as to identify feeble signals. Each experiment addresses this challenge differently, depending on the type of process scrutinized and the detector technology employed. However, they all have the common goal of minimizing the background level while maximizing detector exposure.
This Special Issue aims to collect contributions for a broad range of discussions on the theoretical and experimental aspects of rare event searches. The scope is to describe the state-of-the-art and perspectives of rare event searches in (but not limited to) neutrino physics, high-energy physics, and astroparticles.
Some examples of topics of interest include searches for sterile neutrinos, neutrino coherent scattering, neutrinos from supernovae, new physics with atmospheric neutrinos, double-beta decay, solar axion investigations, direct dark matter detection and dark matter directional searches, and various modes of nucleon decay. In the high-energy physics realm, topics of interest comprise the search for rare and exotic states at colliders, including dark matter candidates, investigations of the Higgs mechanism through the search for double Higgs production, and the study of vector boson scattering and other rare processes.
We invite original research articles, reviews, and new experimental proposals on the above-described topics to contribute to this Special Issue.
Dr. Luca Gironi
Dr. Luca Pattavina
Dr. Federico De Guio
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- neutrino physics
- high-energy physics
- astroparticles
- particle detectors
- rare events search
- underground experiments
- low-background physics
