Dr Chiara Lastoria - Neutrino telescopes, as a bridge between multi-messenger astronomy and neutrino oscillation physics

Wednesday 4 Feb 2026, 12:00 → 15:00 Europe/London

610 (G.O. Jones Bulding)

https://cern.zoom.us/j/68995045975?pwd=fdpw3jZ4ZPU61gbaTtDASbS03qKbf4.1

 

About the speaker: 

Based on experimental particle physics foundations, Chiara specialized her research toward neutrino physics, with her Ph.D. and postdocs. 

She has initially worked for the long-baseline liquid argon accelerator DUNE experiment and, presently, for the water Cherenkov KM3NeT
neutrino telescope. Over the years, she worked on data analysis on different levels, both dedicated to exploiting the detector performance and in neutrino oscillations analyses.
Thanks to the cross-cutting nature of her skills, she is currently Data Quality convener of the KM3NeT Collaboration.

13:30 → 14:00 Biscuits/Coffee/Socialization

14:00 → 15:00 Neutrino telescopes, as a bridge between multi-messenger astronomy and neutrino oscillation physics

Neutrino telescopes have become essential tools at the intersection of astrophysics and particle physics. Originally conceived to provide insights into some of the most energetic and distant phenomena in the Universe, these large-scale detectors will also contribute to the precision measurement of the oscillation parameters.

This seminar will focus on KM3NeT, which has recently uncharted the PeV energy territory with the detection of the most energetic neutrino ever observed so far. At the same time, its design also allows probing atmospheric neutrinos to reveal some of the remaining unknowns in neutrino physics, such as their mass ordering. Therefore, special attention will be given to KM3NeT/ORCA and its contribution to validating the three-neutrino flavor paradigm while testing the non-unitarity of the neutrino mixing matrix. The resolution of this open question remains one of the most exciting, as it allows the exploration of new physics scenarios beyond the Standard Model.

Convener: Dr Chiara Lastoria (Université de Caen Normandie)