BEYOND THE STANDARD MODELS: SYMMETRY, GRAVITY AND DARK MATTER

Operation co-funded by EU cohesion policy (European Regional Development Fund (ERDF)) under the programme Multi-regional Spain - ERDF (2014ES16RFOP002), managing authority: Subdirección General de Gestión del FEDER, de la Dirección General de Fondos Europeos del Ministerio de Hacienda.. The source names no beneficiary for this operation. Location: Zaragoza Province (NUTS ES243); Spain. Budget: total eligible expenditure EUR 326,700; EU co-financing EUR 163,350 (co-financing rate 50%), as stated by the source. Runs 2019-01-01 to 2021-12-31. Source: Kohesio, EU cohesion policy projects managed by national and regional authorities (not CORDIS); selected because its summary names quantum technology. Summary from Kohesio (English machine translation by the source): THE STANDARD MODEL (SM) OF PARTICLE PHYSICS CONSTITUTES AN INCREDIBLE ACHIEVEMENT, IT DESCRIBES ALL KNOWN PARTICLES AND THEIR INTERACTIONS, WITH THE EXCEPTION OF GRAVITY. IT ALLOWS US TO CALCULATE WITH GREAT PRECISION, AND HAS PASSED EVERY EXPERIMENTAL TEST WE HAVE BEEN ABLE TO DEVISE. THE DISCOVERY OF THE HIGGS BOSON IN 2012 AT THE LHC WAS THE LAST MISSING PIECE IN THE MODEL. HOWEVER, THERE ARE VERY GOOD REASONS TO SUSPECT THAT THE SM IS INCOMPLETE. FROM A THEORETICAL POINT OF VIEW, IT DOES NOT INCORPORATE GRAVITY, DOES NOT ACCOUNT FOR NEUTRINO MASSES AND HAS TOO MANY ARBITRARY FEATURES, SUCH AS THE REPLICATION OF FAMILIES AND THE PATTERN OF MASSES AND MIXINGS, THE HIERARCHY OF MASSES BETWEEN THE HIGGS AND THE PLANCK SCALE, OR THE UNNATURAL ABSENCE OF CP VIOLATION IN THE STRONG INTERACTIONS (STRONG CP PROBLEM). FROM THE EXPERIMENTAL SIDE, THE EVIDENCE FOR DARK MATTER (DM) AND DARK ENERGY POINTS TO A GAP IN OUR UNDERSTANDING OF THE FUNDAMENTAL BUILDING BLOCKS OF NATURE. THE GENERAL OBJECTIVE OF THIS PROJECT IS TO ADVANCE IN OUR UNDERSTANDING OF PHYSICS BEYOND THE STANDARD MODEL. WE WILL FOLLOW SEVERAL LINES OF RESEARCH TO PROBE DIFFERENT ASPECTS OF POSSIBLE SCENARIOS FOR NEW PHYSICS. ONE LINE WILL BE FOCUSSED ON THE STRONG CP PROBLEM AND A POSSIBLE SOLUTION, THE QCD AXION. WE WILL USE LATTICE QCD TO CALCULATE FROM FIRST PRINCIPLES THE DEPENDENCE OF THE VACUUM ENERGY DENSITY AND TOPOLOGICAL CHARGE DENSITY ON THE VACUUM ANGLE THETA. WE WILL ALSO DEVELOP THE THEORY, PHENOMENOLOGY AND EXPERIMENTAL CONCEPTS FOR THE DETECTION OF AXION DARK MATTER, THROUGH DIELECTRIC HALOSCOPES (IN PARTICULAR THE MADMAX EXPERIMENT), AND THROUGH THE IAXO HELIOSCOPE. WE WILL STUDY THE PRODUCTION OF AXION DM IN THE EARLY UNIVERSE, AND CHARACTERIZE ITS DISTRIBUTION TODAY. WE WILL ALSO STUDY THE POSSIBILITY OF USING TOPOLOGICAL MATERIALS FOR THE DETECTION OF AXIONS. ANOTHER LINE WILL FOCUS ON CALCULATING PRECISION OBSERVABLES IN WELL MOTIVATED ALTERNATIVES TO THE SM THAT MAY GIVE [shortened; the full text is on the Kohesio page]

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Source: Kohesio (EU cohesion policy projects), European Commission, Directorate-General for Regional and Urban Policy (DG REGIO). Retrieved 2026-10-21. Licence: CC0 1.0 (Cohesion Open Data Platform, dataset 2014-2020 Kohesio projects). Selected metadata, adapted presentation; the publisher's record is authoritative. No endorsement by the source is implied. Licence: public domain dedication (CC0 1.0).

AI-assisted summary: The project 'Beyond the Standard Models: Symmetry, Gravity and Dark Matter' is co-funded by the EU and focuses on particle physics, excluding gravity. It runs from 2019 to 2021 in Zaragoza Province, Spain, with a total budget of EUR 326,700. Suggested technology pillar: simulation. Generated by AI from the public source text; it may contain errors and the original source is authoritative.