Neutrino Physics
I did early work on neutrino masses and mixings in a SO(10) grand unified model, studied the cosmological implications of and production mechanisms for a nonzero lepton number, and more recently investigated Standard Model explanations related to anomalous Wess-Zumino-Witten couplings for the excess of low-energy neutrino events seen in the MiniBoone experiment. It is interesting that the SO(10) model of HRR predicted maximal mixing between muon and tau neutrinos, an idea that ran against some theoretical prejudices but was later found to be true experimentally.
Research Papers:
Standard Model Gauging of the Wess-Zumino-Witten term: Anomalies, Global Currents and pseudo-Chern-Simons interactions, with C. Hill and R. Hill, pdfAnomaly mediated neutrino-photon interactions at finite baryon density, with C.Hill and R. Hill, pdf
Cosmological baryon and lepton number in the presence of electroweak fermion number violation, with M. Turner, pdf
Grand unified theories and the lepton number of the Universe, with R. Kolb, pdf
CP Violation and Mass Relations in SO(10), with P.Ramond and D.Reiss, pdf
Mass Relations and Neutrino Oscillations in an SO(10) Model, with P.Ramond and D.Reiss, pdf
Contact Information
Email: j-harvey at uchicago.edu
Phone: +1 773-702-9897
Work Address: Enrico Fermi Institute, 5620 Ellis Ave., Chicago IL 60637 USA
