Origin of neutrino masses

Determine the origin of neutrino masses, including the underlying mechanism that generates nonzero neutrino mass within or beyond the Standard Model of particle physics.

Background

The paper introduces neutrino telescopes and notes that neutrinos are central to several unresolved issues in fundamental physics. One highlighted uncertainty is the origin of neutrino masses, which are not accounted for in the minimal Standard Model and remain a primary target of contemporary research.

While the paper focuses on machine learning methods (om2vec) to represent neutrino telescope data efficiently, establishing the origin of neutrino masses is a broader physics goal that motivates improved data analysis and reconstruction capabilities in neutrino experiments.

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