Matter–Antimatter Asymmetry of the Universe

Explain the matter–antimatter asymmetry of the universe by identifying the physical processes responsible for the observed imbalance between matter and antimatter.

Background

The introduction frames neutrino studies as crucial for addressing foundational questions, including the matter–antimatter asymmetry of the universe. Resolving this asymmetry is a central challenge in modern physics, connecting neutrino properties and interactions to cosmological evolution.

Although the paper’s contribution is methodological—developing om2vec for efficient latent representations of optical module timing data—the enhanced analysis capabilities it enables may support future investigations into phenomena relevant to this asymmetry.

References

Neutrino telescopes search for rare interactions caused by neutrinos, an elusive particle central to many open questions in the Standard Model of particle physics, such as the origin of their masses and the matter anti-matter asymmetry of the universe.

— Learning Efficient Representations of Neutrino Telescope Events (2410.13148 - Yu et al., 17 Oct 2024) in Section 1 (Introduction), first paragraph