Quantum GRavity seArches with Neutrino Telescopes

MSCA (Marie Skłodowska-Curie)HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-PF-EFID: 101068013
EC Contribution
€1,897
Consortium Size
1 orgs
Start Year
2022
Summary

The Standard Model of particle physics and General Relativity are expected to merge into a new theory of Quantum Gravity (QG) at energies approaching the Planck scale. However, none of the proposed QG approaches has been validated to date. In this context, several signatures of QG effects in accessible energy regimes, known as Windows on Quantum Gravity, have been postulated. In particular, quantum decoherence (QD) or QG-induced violation of Lorentz invariance (LIV), could cause modifications in neutrino oscillation patterns accessible to observation with neutrino telescopes. With QGRANT, I propose a global and novel search for QG effects with the IceCube, ANTARES and KM3NeT neutrino telescopes. The expected results will allow to probe QD and LIV parameters regions not accessible to date. Moreover, the phenomenon of QD will provide new possibilities to investigate the neutrino nature as a Dirac or Majorana particle as well as to trace possible violations of CPT symmetry in neutrino oscillations. Such a phenomenon represents a totally new scenario where to test the real nature of neutrinos. Within QGRANT, I will analyse the huge amount of data collected by IceCube, ANTARES and KM3NeT, Europe's most ambitious project of a high energy neutrino telescope, whose effective mass, angular resolution and wide energy coverage, will make it an ideal instrument to further this research area. The proposed analysis will provide unprecedented sensitivity to QG effects and it will open uncharted territory for new discoveries. A planned cooperation with experts on QG will reinforce the theoretical impact of QGRANT in terms of QG models. The Erlangen Centre for Astroparticle Physics, with its globally unique situation of hosting IceCube and ANTARES/KM3NeT groups, together with the Quantum Gravity institute, represents the perfect host institution for my proposed research and my development as an independent physicist.

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Project Results (9)

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Publications (7)
Combined search for Lorentz invariance violation with ANTARES, IceCube, and KM3NeT
Proceedings of 39th International Cosmic Ray Conference — PoS(ICRC2025)· 2025DOI
Lukas Hennig, Alba Domi, Carlos Argüelles-Delgado, null null, null null, null null
Physics of the Dark Universe
Physics of the Dark Universe· 2025DOI
Di Valentino, Eleonora; Levi Said, Jackson; Riess, Adam; Pollo, Agnieszka; Poulin, Vivian; Gómez-Valent, Adrià; Weltman, Amanda; Palmese, Antonella; Huang, Caroline D; van de Bruck, Carsten; Saraf, Chandra Shekhar; Kuo, Cheng-Yu; Uhlemann, Cora; Grandón, Daniela; Paz, Dante; Eckert, Dominique; Teixeira, Elsa M; Saridakis, Emmanuel N; Colgáin, Eoin Ó; Beutler, Florian; Niedermann, Florian; Bajardi, Francesco; Barenboim, Gabriela; Gubitosi, Giulia; Musella, Ilaria; Banik, Indranil; Szapudi, Istvan; Singal, Jack; Cases, Jaume Haro; Chluba, Jens; Torrado, Jesús; Mifsud, Jurgen; Jedamzik, Karsten; Said, Khaled; Dialektopoulos, Konstantinos; Herold, Laura; Perivolaropoulos, Leandros; Zu, Lei; Galbany, Lluís; Breuval, Louise; Visinelli, Luca; Escamilla, Luis A; Anchordoqui, Luis A; Sheikh-Jabbari, M.M; Lembo, Margherita; Dainotti, Maria Giovanna; Vincenzi, Maria; Asgari, Marika; Gerbino, Martina; Forconi, Matteo; Cantiello, Michele; Moresco, Michele; Benetti, Micol; Schöneberg, Nils; Akarsu, Özgür; Nunes, Rafael C; Bernardo, Reginald Christian; Chávez, Ricardo; Anderson, Richard I; Watkins, Richard; Capozziello, Salvatore; Li, Siyang; Vagnozzi, Sunny; Pan, Supriya; Treu, Tommaso; Irsic, Vid; Handley, Will; Giarè, William; Murakami, Yukei; Banihashemi, Abdolali; Poudou, Adèle; Heavens, Alan; Kogut, Alan; Domi, Alba; Lenart, Aleksander Łukasz; Melchiorri, Alessandro; Vadalà, Alessandro; Amon, Alexandra; Rivera, Alexander Bonilla; Reeves, Alexander; Zhuk, Alexander; Bonanno, Alfio; Övgün, Ali; Pisani, Alice; Talebian, Alireza; Abebe, Amare; Aboubrahim, Amin; Morán, Ana Luisa González; Kovács, András; Lymperis, Andreas; Papatriantafyllou, Andreas; Liddle, Andrew R; Paliathanasis, Andronikos; Borowiec, Andrzej; Yadav, Anil Kumar; Yadav, Anita; Sen, Anjan Ananda; William, Anjitha John; Davis, Anne Christine; Shajib, Anowar J; Walters, Anthony; Idicherian Lonappan, Anto; Chudaykin, Anton; Capodagli, Antonio; da Silva, Antonio; de Felice, Antonio; Racioppi, Antonio; Soler Oficial, Araceli; Montiel, Ariadna; Favale, Arianna; Bernui, Armando; Velasco, Arrianne Crystal; Heinesen, Asta; Bakopoulos, Athanasios; Chatzistavrakidis, Athanasios; Khanpour, Bahman; Sathyaprakash, Bangalore S; Zgirski, Bartek; L'Huillier, Benjamin; Famaey, Benoit; Jain, Bhuvnesh; Zhang, Bing; Karmakar, Biswajit; Dragovich, Branko; Thomas, Brooks; Correa, Carlos; Boiza, Carlos G; Marques, Catarina; Escamilla-Rivera, Celia; Tzerefos, Charalampos; Zhang, Chi; de Leo, Chiara; Pfeifer, Christian; Lee, Christine; Venter, Christo; Gomes, Cláudio; de Bom, Clecio Roque; Moreno-Pulido, Cristian; Iosifidis, Damianos; Grin, Dan; Blixt, Daniel; Scolnic, Dan; Oriti, Daniele; Dobrycheva, Daria; Bettoni, Dario; Benisty, David; Fernández-Arenas, David; Wiltshire, David L; Sanchez Cid, David; Tamayo, David; Valls-Gabaud, David; Pedrotti, Davide; Wang, Deng; Staicova, Denitsa; Totolou, Despoina; Rubiera-Garcia, Diego; Milaković, Dinko; Pesce, Dominic W; Sluse, Dominique; Borka, Duško; Yusofi, Ebrahim; Giusarma, Elena; Terlevich, Elena; Tomasetti, Elena; Vagenas, Elias C; Fazzari, Elisa; Ferreira, Elisa G.M; Barakovic, Elvis; Dimastrogiovanni, Emanuela; Holm, Emil Brinch; Mottola, Emil; Özülker, Emre; Specogna, Enrico; Brocato, Enzo; Jensko, Erik; Enriquez, Erika Antonette; Bhatia, Esha; Bresolin, Fabio; Avila, Felipe; Bouchè, Filippo; Bombacigno, Flavio; Anagnostopoulos, Fotios K; Pace, Francesco; Sorrenti, Francesco; Lobo, Francisco S.N; Courbin, Frédéric; Hansen, Frode K; Sloan, Greg; Farrugia, Gabriel; Lynch, Gabriel; Garcia-Arroyo, Gabriela; Raimondo, Gabriella; Lambiase, Gaetano; Anand, Gagandeep S; Poulot, Gaspard; Leon, Genly; Kouniatalis, Gerasimos; Nardini, Germano; Csörnyei, Géza; Galloni, Giacomo; Fanizza, Giuseppe; Gohar, Hussain; Antoniadis, Ignatios; Gialamas, Ioannis D; Lehnert, Kay; Izzo, Luca; Najafi, Mahdi; Regis, Marco; Marengo, Massimo; Pinto, Miguel A.S; Sabogal, Miguel A; Ghodsi, Mina; Borghi, Nicola; Deiosso, Nicola; Fornengo, Nicolao
Potential of neutrino telescopes to detect quantum gravity-induced decoherence in the presence of dark fermions
Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics· 2025DOI
Alba Domi, Thomas Eberl, Dominik Hellmann, Sara Krieg, Heinrich Päs
White paper and roadmap for quantum gravity phenomenology in the multi-messenger era
Classical and Quantum Gravity· 2025DOI
Batista, R. Alves; Amelino-Camelia, G.; Boncioli, D.; Carmona, J. M.; di Matteo, A.; Gubitosi, G.; Lobo, I.; Mavromatos, N. E.; Pfeifer, C.; Rubiera-Garcia, D.; Saridakis, E. N.; Terzić, T.; Vagenas, E. C.; Moniz, P. Vargas; Abdalla, H.; Adamo, M.; Addazi, A.; Anagnostopoulos, F. K.; Antonelli, V.; Asorey, M.; Ballesteros, A.; Basilakos, S.; Benisty, D.; Boettcher, M.; Bolmont, J.; Bonilla, A.; Bosso, P.; Bouhmadi-López, M.; Burderi, L.; Campoy-Ordaz, A.; Caroff, S.; Cerci, S.; Cortes, J. L.; D'Esposito, V.; Das, S.; de Cesare, M.; Demirci, M.; Di Lodovico, F.; Di Salvo, T.; Diego, J. M.; Djordjevic, G.; Domi, A.; Ducobu, L.; Escamilla-Rivera, C.; Fabiano, G.; Fernández-Silvestre, D.; Franchino-Viñas, S. A.; Frassino, A. M.; Frattulillo, D.; Garay, L. J.; Gaug, M.; Gergely, L. Á.; Guendelman, E. I.; Guetta, D.; Gutierrez-Sagredo, I.; He, P.; Heefer, S.; Jurić, T.; Katori, T.; Kowalski-Glikman, J.; Lambiase, G.; Said, J. Levi; Li, C.; Li, H.; Luciano, G. G.; Ma, B-Q; Marciano, A.; Martinez, M.; Mazumdar, A.; Menezes, G.; Mercati, F.; Minic, D.; Miramonti, L.; Mitsou, V. A.; Mustamin, M. F.; Navas, S.; Olmo, G. J.; Oriti, D.; Övgün, A.; Pantig, R. C.; Parvizi, A.; Pasechnik, R.; Pasic, V.; Petruzziello, L.; Platania, A.; Rasouli, S. M. M.; Rastgoo, S.; Relancio, J. J.; Rescic, F.; Reyes, M. A.; Rosati, G.; Sakallı, İ.; Salamida, F.; Sanna, A.; Staicova, D.; Strišković, J.; Cerci, D. Sunar; Torri, M. D. C.; Vigliano, A.; Wagner, F.; Wallet, J-C; Wojnar, A.; Zarikas, V.; Zhu, J.; Zornoza, J. D.
Data reconstruction and classification with Graph neural networks in KM3NeT/ARCA
Proceedings of 38th International Cosmic Ray Conference — PoS(ICRC2023)· 2023DOI
"Francesco Filippini; \\""Eleni Androutsou\\""; \\""Alba Domi\\""; \\""Bernardino Spisso\\""; \\""Evangelia Drakopoulou\\"""
Lorentz Invariance Violation with KM3NeT/ORCA115
Proceedings of 38th International Cosmic Ray Conference — PoS(ICRC2023)· 2023DOI
Domi, Alba
Understanding gravitationally induced decoherence parameters in neutrino oscillations using a microscopic quantum mechanical model
Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle PhysicsDOI
A. Domi et al
Deliverables (2)