Research theme
Heavy Majorana and sterile-neutrino searches at colliders, a heritage in neutrinoless double-beta decay, and coherent neutrino scattering with argon detectors.
Neutrinos are the Standard Model's most elusive particles — and among the most promising places to find cracks in it. Whether neutrinos are their own antiparticles, and how they acquire mass, remain open questions.
I work on searches for heavy Majorana and sterile neutrinos at colliders, including through same-sign WW scattering — a channel uniquely sensitive to lepton-number violation. My research career began with neutrinoless double-beta decay on the SuperNEMO experiment, and that thread continues today.
With dual-target argon detectors we can study coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CEνNS) and beyond-Standard-Model neutrino physics, complementing the dark-matter programme — including sensitivity to supernova neutrinos with DarkSide-20k.
Same-sign WW scattering is a rare, purely-electroweak process that uniquely tests whether neutrinos are their own antiparticles — at high momentum transfer it is essentially a collider realisation of neutrinoless double-beta decay. This search uses the full ATLAS Run 2 dataset (140 fb⁻¹) in the same-sign dimuon channel to look for heavy Majorana neutrinos with masses from 50 GeV to 20 TeV, pushing the reach past the TeV barrier where resonant production becomes kinematically inaccessible. The results are interpreted in the Phenomenological Type-I Seesaw; a discovery would establish lepton-number violation.
Current
Principal Investigator
Diverse interests across particle physics, software development and data analysis at colliders and in direct dark matter detection, high-frequency gravitational waves, neutrino physics, phenomenology, instrumentation, and the deployment of AI techniques.
PhD student (2023–)
Advancing direct detection frontiers for dark matter, new neutrino physics and high-frequency gravitational waves through detector modelling, optimisation and novel sensor technologies.
MPhil student
Sensitivity studies for beyond-the-Standard-Model low-energy solar CEνNS anomalies with low-threshold dual-phase liquid-argon TPCs.
Alumni
MScR student · 2021–2022
Prospects for DarkSide-20k to probe non-standard neutrino interactions from solar neutrino sources.
MScR student · 2018–2020
Coherent scattering of supernova neutrinos in next-generation liquid noble gas dark matter detectors.
Now PhD student
MPhys student · 2018–19
Simulation and sensitivity studies for supernovae detection with the DarkSide-20k dark matter detector.
Summer research intern · 2021
Potential for DarkSide-20k to probe non-standard neutrino interactions.