This master's thesis has, as a subject of study, the embedding of the scotogenic model, which explains the generation of neutrino masses and dark matter, in the context of the Randall-Sundrum scenario, where an extra compactified spacelike dimension is added to the usual Minkowski space. We shall start by briefly reviewing both of these known models as seen in the literature, before combining them and start to explore some of the implications of such an embedding.
ELI12: What if we added a few new particles as well as an extra (spatial) dimension?
Memoria.tex is the main course, the thesis itself. It's probably going to be
the most polished file of this repository, as people actually had to read this one.
Notas.tex is just that, the file I used to note explanations, demonstrations
and clarifications on concepts used in this work.
TFM.bib contains the references that were used or could have been used in both
of the previous documents.
thesis.py and slides.py make various numerical calculations and generate graphs
shown in the thesis and the defense's slides, respectively.
You will need LuaLaTeX, as well as the following packages:
geometrymathtoolsamssymbgraphicxbabelfloatsubfigurepdfpagesrelsizebiblatexcsquotesdirtytalkmulticoltikz-feynmanslashedphysicshyperref
You will need Python 3+, and the following libraries:
- NumPy
- SciPy
- Matplotlib
In order to compile the thesis' PDF, it's necessary to come up with the various
figures shown in it. So, first execute thesis.py
(these commands are for Linux/BSD/Mac systems, but it's trivial to do the
same on Windows)
$ cd masters
$ chmod +x thesis.py
$ ./thesis.py
then compile the LaTeX to a PDF. You need to use LuaLaTeX in order to do this, since I made heavy use of TikZ-Feynman, and this package is mostly written in Lua. To include the bibliography, I used Biber, so whenever I'd compile the thesis, I'd execute this,
$ lualatex Memoria.tex
$ biber Memoria
$ lualatex Memoria.tex
If references are not changed in Memoria.tex, I believe it isn't necessary
to call Biber and LuaLaTeX again like this.
Now, the thesis itself is finished, so I will not add any new actual content (i.e. science). Further research has its place in additional papers down the line, however I decided that, in the near future, I will not pursue a career in academia. If you wish to follow work on this or similar topics, I suggest you keep an eye on what my supervisors will publish.
I am content with its formatting and the grade I got, however I still feel like I could do some tinkering with the delivery. By this, I mean that I'm very intrigued by Org-mode, and I might just end up reformatting this thesis into an org file with all the code I used in chunks. I also plan to clean up the scripts I used, given that they were made and then extensively modified on short notice, so they are not in the best shape they could be.