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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Rodrigo Soares da Graça Antunes Capucha
Date of birth
1995/12/11
Gender
Male

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
AA13-D2CB-E4D6

Email addresses

  • rscapucha@fc.ul.pt (Professional)
Education
Degree Classification
2021/03/01 - 2025
Ongoing
 Física (Doutoramento)
Major in PhD in Physics and Astrophysics
Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
"Dark Matter and CP-Violation in extensions of the Standard Model" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2017/09 - 2020/04/06
Concluded
 Física (Mestrado)
Major in Master's degree in Nuclear and Particle Physics
Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
"Extensions of the scalar sector of the Standard Model" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 19,2
2014/09 - 2017/07/21
Concluded
 Física (Licenciatura)
Major in Bachelor's degree in Physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics
Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
 17,48
Affiliation

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2023/02 - 2024/07 Assistant (University Teacher) Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
2018/09 - 2019/02 Tutor (University Teacher) Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Outputs

Publications

Conference poster
  1. Rodrigo Capucha; Karim Elyaouti; Johann Plotnikov. "Dark Matter Production in a Pandemic Model". Paper presented in Ultralight Dark Matter Summer School, 2022.
  2. Rodrigo Capucha. "Higgs searches in $t\bart\phi$ production at the LHC". Paper presented in PANIC2021, 2021.
  3. Rodrigo Capucha. "Higgs searches in $t\bart\phi$ production at the LHC". Paper presented in HPNP2021, 2021.
Journal article
  1. Rodrigo Capucha. "V-Associated Production & Vector Boson Fusion as an LHC Signature of CP Violation". (2025): https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2507.05942.
    Submitted
  2. Rodrigo Capucha. "RelExt: A New Dark Matter Tool for the Exploration of Dark Matter Models". (2025): https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.13087.
    Submitted
  3. Capucha, Rodrigo; Elyaouti, Karim; Mühlleitner, Margarete; Plotnikov, Johann; Santos, Rui. "Freeze-in as a complementary process to freeze-out". Journal of High Energy Physics 2024 9 (2024): 113. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep09(2024)113.
    Open access • Published • 10.1007/jhep09(2024)113
  4. Azevedo, Duarte; Capucha, Rodrigo; Chaves, Pedro; Martins, João Bravo; Onofre, António; Santos, Rui. "Search for an invisible scalar in $t\overline{t}$ final states at the LHC". Journal of High Energy Physics 2023 11 (2023): 125. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep11(2023)125.
    Open access • Published • 10.1007/jhep11(2023)125
  5. Capucha, Rodrigo; Huang, Da; Lopes, Tomás; Santos, Rui. "Impact of electroweak group representation in models for B and g-2 anomalies from dark loops". Physical Review D 106 9 (2022): https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.106.095032.
    Open access • Published • 10.1103/physrevd.106.095032
  6. Azevedo, Duarte; Capucha, Rodrigo; Onofre, António; Santos, Rui. "CP-violation, asymmetries and interferences in $t\overline{t}\phi$". Journal of High Energy Physics 2022 9 (2022): 246. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/jhep09(2022)246.
    Open access • Published • 10.1007/jhep09(2022)246
  7. Azevedo, Duarte; Capucha, Rodrigo; Gouveia, Emanuel; Onofre, António; Santos, Rui. "Light Higgs searches in $t\overline{t}\phi$ production at the LHC". Journal of High Energy Physics 2021 4 (2021): 77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/jhep04(2021)077.
    Open access • Published • 10.1007/jhep04(2021)077
  8. Azevedo, Duarte; Capucha, Rodrigo; Onofre, António; Santos, Rui. "Scalar mass dependence of angular variables in $t\overline{t}\phi$ production". Journal of High Energy Physics 2020 6 (2020): 155. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/jhep06(2020)155.
    Open access • Published • 10.1007/jhep06(2020)155
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2025/04/28 Vector boson fusion and associated production of Higgs bosons as an LHC signature of CP violation 2nd COMETA General Meeting
(Krakow, Poland)
2024/09/06 Automatising DM relic density calculations for models with discrete symmetries Workshop on Multi-Higgs Models
(Lisbon, Portugal)
2024/07/15 Freeze-in Complements Freeze-out BSM^2 - Beyond the Standard Model BrainStorming Meeting: Particle Physics and Cosmology interface
(Vila do Conde, Portugal)
2023/09/26 Search for an invisible scalar in tt final states at the LHC WG2 WG3 joint meeting on CP violation in extended Higgs sector
2022/10/14 Impact of SU(2) representation in models for B and g-2 anomalies from Dark Loops BSM^2 - Beyond the Standard Model BrainStorming Meeting
(Aveiro, Portugal)
2022/08/30 Impact of SU(2) representation in models for B and g-2 anomalies from Dark Loops Workshop on Multi-Higgs Models
(Lisbon, Portugal)
2022/01/20 CP-violation, Asymmetries and Interferences in $t\bar{t}\phi$ WG2 activity on CP violation in Higgs interactions: kick-off meeting (part 2)
2021/10/21 Dark matter models and anomalies in B meson decays and the muon g-2 COST Advanced School on Physics of Dark Matter and Hidden Sectors: from Theory to Experiment
(Lund, Sweden)
2021/07/07 Light Higgs searches in $t\bart\phi$ production at the LHC LHC Higgs Working Group WG3 (BSM) -- Extended Higgs Sector subgroup meeting
2020/01/30 Probing the CP nature of the Higgs couplings in bbh and tth at the LHC Centro de Física Teórica e Computacional-University of Lisbon (CFTC-UL), University of Aveiro (UA) and LIP meeting - Experiment vs. theory
(Braga, Portugal)
2019/09/09 Probing the CP nature of the Higgs couplings in bbh Harmonia Meeting VI
(Warsaw, Poland)

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2023/06/19 - 2023/06/30 ICTP Summer School on Particle Physics
Other
 ICTP Summer School on Particle Physics
Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Italy
2022/07/31 - 2022/08/05 Ultralight Dark Matter Bad Honnef Physics School
Conference
 Ultralight Dark Matter Bad Honnef Physics School
Internationale Fachhochschule Bad Honnef-Bonn, Germany
2022/03/21 - 2022/03/26 KEK-IINAS Iwate Collider School 2022
Other
 KEK-IINAS Iwate Collider School 2022
2021/09/06 - 2021/09/17 10th IDPASC School - online
Other
 10th IDPASC School
Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas, Portugal
2021/09/05 - 2021/09/10 PANIC2021 Conference - online
Conference
 PANIC2021 Conference
Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas, Portugal

Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
2021/07/26 - 2021/07/30 EPS-HEP2021 conference - online
Conference
 EPS-HEP2021 conference
2021/05/31 - 2021/06/11 Summer School on Particle Physics - ICTP, online
Other
 Summer School on Particle Physics
Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Italy
2021/03/25 - 2021/03/27 HPNP Special Edition 2021 - online
Conference
 HPNP Special Edition 2021
2019/09/11 - 2019/09/14 Scalars 2019
Conference
 Scalars 2019
2018/12/06 - 2018/12/08 Harmonia Meeting V
Conference
 Harmonia Meeting V

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2024/02 - 2024/07 Física Geral Bioquímica, Química, Química Tecnológica (Licenciatura) Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
2023/09 - 2024/02 Física Matemática e Matemática Aplicada (Licenciatura) Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
2023/02 - 2023/07 Física Geral Bioquímica, Química, Química Tecnológica (Licenciatura) Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
2022/02 - 2022/07 Electromagnetismo Física, Engenharia Física e Engenharia Biomédica e Biofísica (Licenciatura) Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
2018/09 - 2019/02 Física Experimental II Física e Engenharia Física (Licenciatura) Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal