Nikita Blinov

I am an Assistant Professor at York University's Department of Physics and Astronomy. Previously, I worked in the theoretical physics groups at the University of Victoria, at Fermilab and at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory.

Contact Information

York University
Department of Physics and Astronomy
4700 Keele Street
Toronto, Ontario

Research Interests

I am interested in what particle physics can tell us about the early universe and vice versa. Some of the fundamental questions that I work on are:

What is the dark matter that makes up the majority of mass in the universe? How is it produced and how can it be detected?
How are neutrino masses generated? Are there observable consequences of this mechanism?
Why is there more matter than antimatter? How can this asymmetry arise in the early universe?

In each case I study modifications of the Standard Model that include new particles and interactions, examining their consistency against existing observations and designing ways of testing them in the future. For a complete list of my papers see INSPIRE or arXiv.