Neutrino physics is one of the most exciting topics in contemporary physics, leading to two Nobel prizes in the last 20 years for the detection of cosmic neutrinos and the discovery that neutrinos have mass. The massive nature of neutrinos is arguably the strongest indication of physics beyond the Standard Model of particle physics, opening a number of fundamental questions: What is the mechanism for neutrino mass generation? Are neutrinos responsible of the matter-antimatter imbalance in the universe? Can neutrinos tell us something about the unification of fundamental forces?

The student will perform, with simulated event samples, a study of the sensitivity of the measurement of  Higgs boson decays to hadrons at the Futur Circular Collider, for the measurement of the Higgs Yukawa couplings to quarks of the second and third families.
In addition, the student will also have the possibility - if time allows - to work on the detailed simulation of the electromagnetic calorimetry section of one of the proposed detector designs for FCC.

The ATLAS experiment is installed at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN near Geneva, Switzerland. Two data taking periods have already taking place:
a) Run 1 (2011–2012), at 7 and 8 TeV in the center of mass (c.o.m). In this Run ATLAS and CMS discovered a standard model-like Higgs boson at 125 GeV (H), mainly through its bosonic decay modes.
b) Run 2 (2015–2018), at an energy of 13 TeV in the c.o.m, with greater integrated luminosity which allowed the observation of the main fermionic interactions of the Higgs boson (H → tt,  H → bb, ttH production).