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Professor Silvia Pascoli's Outputs (59)

The observational status of Galileon gravity after Planck (2014)
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Barreira, A., Li, B., Baugh, C., & Pascoli, S. (2014). The observational status of Galileon gravity after Planck. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2014(08), Article 059. https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2014/08/059

We use the latest CMB data from Planck, together with BAO measurements, to constrain the full parameter space of Galileon gravity. We constrain separately the three main branches of the theory known as the Cubic, Quartic and Quintic models, and find... Read More about The observational status of Galileon gravity after Planck.

Modified gravity with massive neutrinos as a testable alternative cosmological model (2014)
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Barreira, A., Li, B., Baugh, C., & Pascoli, S. (2014). Modified gravity with massive neutrinos as a testable alternative cosmological model. Physical Review D, 90(2), Article 023528. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.90.023528

We show that, in the presence of massive neutrinos, the Galileon gravity model provides a very good fit to the current cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature, CMB lensing and baryonic acoustic oscillation data. This model, which we dub νGalile... Read More about Modified gravity with massive neutrinos as a testable alternative cosmological model.

The mass-hierarchy and CP-violation discovery reach of the LBNO long-baseline neutrino experiment (2014)
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collaboration, L.-L. (2014). The mass-hierarchy and CP-violation discovery reach of the LBNO long-baseline neutrino experiment. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2014(5), Article 94. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep05%282014%29094

The next generation neutrino observatory proposed by the LBNO collaboration will address fundamental questions in particle and astroparticle physics. The experiment consists of a far detector, in its first stage a 20 kt LAr double phase TPC and a mag... Read More about The mass-hierarchy and CP-violation discovery reach of the LBNO long-baseline neutrino experiment.

Halo model and halo properties in Galileon gravity cosmologies (2014)
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Barreira, A., Li, B., Hellwing, W., Lombriser, L., Baugh, C., & Pascoli, S. (2014). Halo model and halo properties in Galileon gravity cosmologies. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2014(04), Article 029. https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2014/04/029

We investigate the performance of semi-analytical modelling of large-scale structure in Galileon gravity cosmologies using results from N-body simulations. We focus on the Cubic and Quartic Galileon models that provide a reasonable fit to CMB, SNIa a... Read More about Halo model and halo properties in Galileon gravity cosmologies.

Testing atmospheric mixing sum rules at precision neutrino facilities (2014)
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Ballett, P., King, S., Luhn, C., Pascoli, S., & Schmidt, M. (2014). Testing atmospheric mixing sum rules at precision neutrino facilities. Physical Review D, 89(1), Article 016016. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.89.016016

We study the prospects for testing classes of atmospheric mixing sum rules at precision neutrino facilities. Such sum rules, which correlate the atmospheric mixing angle θ23 with the recently measured reactor angle θ13 and the cosine of the oscillati... Read More about Testing atmospheric mixing sum rules at precision neutrino facilities.

Precision measurements of θ12 for testing models of discrete leptonic flavour symmetries (2014)
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Ballett, P., King, S., Luhn, C., Pascoli, S., & Schmidt, M. (2014). Precision measurements of θ12 for testing models of discrete leptonic flavour symmetries. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 598, Article 012014. https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/598/1/012014

Models of leptonic flavour with discrete symmetries can provide an attractive explanation of the pattern of elements found in the leptonic mixing matrix. The next generation of neutrino oscillation experiments will allow the mixing parameters to be t... Read More about Precision measurements of θ12 for testing models of discrete leptonic flavour symmetries.

Modelling redshift space distortions in hierarchical cosmologies (2011)
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Jennings, E., Baugh, C. M., & Pascoli, S. (2011). Modelling redshift space distortions in hierarchical cosmologies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 410(3), 2081-2094. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2966.2010.17581.x

The anisotropy of clustering in redshift space provides a direct measure of the growth rate of large-scale structure in the Universe. Future galaxy redshift surveys will make high-precision measurements of these distortions, and will potentially allo... Read More about Modelling redshift space distortions in hierarchical cosmologies.

AMEND: A model explaining neutrino masses and dark matter testable at the LHC and MEG (2010)
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Farzan, Y., Pascoli, S., & Schmidt, M. A. (2010). AMEND: A model explaining neutrino masses and dark matter testable at the LHC and MEG. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2010(10), Article 111. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep10%282010%29111

Despite being very successful in explaining the wide range of precision experimental results obtained so far, the Standard Model (SM) of elementary particles fails to address two of the greatest observations of the recent decades: tiny but nonzero ne... Read More about AMEND: A model explaining neutrino masses and dark matter testable at the LHC and MEG.

The search for heavy majorana neutrinos. (2009)
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Atre, A., Han, T., Pascoli, S., & Zhang, B. (2009). The search for heavy majorana neutrinos. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2009(05), Article 030. https://doi.org/10.1088/1126-6708/2009/05/030

The Majorana nature of neutrinos can be experimentally verified only via lepton-number violating processes involving charged leptons. We study 36 lepton-number violating (LV) processes from the decays of tau leptons and pseudoscalar mesons. These dec... Read More about The search for heavy majorana neutrinos..

Sterile neutrinos in light of recent cosmological and oscillation data: A multi-flavor scheme approach (2009)
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Melchiorri, A., Mena, O., Palomares-Ruiz, S., Pascoli, S., Slosar, A., & Sorel, M. (2009). Sterile neutrinos in light of recent cosmological and oscillation data: A multi-flavor scheme approach. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2009(01), Article 036. https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2009/01/036

Light sterile neutrinos might mix with the active ones and be copiously produced in the early Universe. In the present paper, a detailed multi-flavor analysis of sterile neutrino production is performed. Making some justified approximations allows us... Read More about Sterile neutrinos in light of recent cosmological and oscillation data: A multi-flavor scheme approach.

Leptogenesis and low energy CP-violation in neutrino physics (2007)
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Pascoli, S., Petcov, S., & Riotto, A. (2007). Leptogenesis and low energy CP-violation in neutrino physics. Nuclear Physics B, 774(1-3), 1-52. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2007.02.019

Taking into account the recent progress in the understanding of the lepton flavor effects in leptogenesis, we investigate in detail the possibility that the CP-violation necessary for the generation of the baryon asymmetry of the Universe is due excl... Read More about Leptogenesis and low energy CP-violation in neutrino physics.

On the connection of leptogenesis with low energy CP violation and lepton flavor violating charged lepton decays (2003)
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Pascoli, S., Petcov, S., & Rodejohann, W. (2003). On the connection of leptogenesis with low energy CP violation and lepton flavor violating charged lepton decays. Physical Review D, Particles and fields, 68, https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.68.093007

The biunitary parametrization of the neutrino Dirac mass matrix mD of the seesaw mechanism of neutrino mass generation is considered in detail. Assuming a hierarchical structure of mD and of the heavy Majorana neutrino masses M1,2,3>0, M1≪M2≪M3, with... Read More about On the connection of leptogenesis with low energy CP violation and lepton flavor violating charged lepton decays.

On the CP violation associated with Majorana neutrinos and neutrinoless double-beta decay (2002)
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Pascoli, S., Petcov, S., & Rodejohann, W. (2002). On the CP violation associated with Majorana neutrinos and neutrinoless double-beta decay. Physics Letters B, 549(1-2), 177-193. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0370-2693%2802%2902852-6

Assuming 3-ν mixing and massive Majorana neutrinos, we analyze the possibility of establishing the existence of CP violation associated with Majorana neutrinos in the lepton sector by (i) measuring of the effective Majorana mass |m| in neutrinoless d... Read More about On the CP violation associated with Majorana neutrinos and neutrinoless double-beta decay.

The SNO solar neutrino data, neutrinoless double-beta decay and neutrino mass spectrum (2002)
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Pascoli, S., & Petcov, S. (2002). The SNO solar neutrino data, neutrinoless double-beta decay and neutrino mass spectrum. Physics Letters B, 544(3-4), 239-250. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0370-2693%2802%2902510-8

Assuming 3-nu mixing and massive Majorana neutrinos, we analyze the implications of the results of the solar neutrino experiments, including the latest SNO data, which favor the LMA MSW solution of the solar neutrino problem with tan(2) thetacircle d... Read More about The SNO solar neutrino data, neutrinoless double-beta decay and neutrino mass spectrum.

Majorana neutrinos, neutrino mass spectrum, CP-violation and neutrinoless double beta-decay. I: the three-neutrino mixing case (2001)
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Bilenky, S., Pascoli, S., & Petcov, S. (2001). Majorana neutrinos, neutrino mass spectrum, CP-violation and neutrinoless double beta-decay. I: the three-neutrino mixing case. Physical Review D, Particles and fields, 64(5), https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.64.053010

Assuming three-neutrino mixing and massive Majorana neutrinos, we study the implications of the neutrino oscillation solutions of the solar and atmospheric neutrino problems and of the results of the CHOOZ experiment for the predictions of the effect... Read More about Majorana neutrinos, neutrino mass spectrum, CP-violation and neutrinoless double beta-decay. I: the three-neutrino mixing case.