Speaker:

Dr. Innes Bigaran
Postdoctoral Scholar
Northwestern University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, and Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

Abstract: The era of precision neutrino physics will be complemented by advances in our understanding of charged-lepton physics. The presence of nonzero neutrino masses implies that physics Beyond the Standard Model must yield violation of lepton flavour, and observable flavour violation in the charged-lepton sector can be a smoking gun of new physics. In this talk, I will discuss some ways to exploit present and future searches for lepton flavour violation to expand the yield of these searches. Notably, I will focus on complementarity between SM and BSM physics in searches for flavour-violating new physics at the Near Detector of DUNE, and the possibility of employing time-binned analyses of flavour-violation data to improve the discovery reach for ultralight flavour-violating dark matter.