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Neutrino Physics
The fundamental properties of neutrinos are reviewed in these lectures. The
first part is focused on the basic characteristics of neutrinos in the Standard
Model and how neutrinos are detected. Neutrino masses and oscillations are
introduced and a summary of the most important experimental results on neutrino
oscillations to date is provided. Then, present and future experimental
proposals are discussed, including new precision reactor and accelerator
experiments. Finally, different approaches for measuring the neutrino mass and
the nature (Majorana or Dirac) of neutrinos are reviewed. The detection of
neutrinos from supernovae explosions and the information that this measurement
can provide are also summarized at the end.Comment: 50 pages, contribution to the 2011 CERN-Latin-American School of
High-Energy Physics, Natal, Brazil, 23 March-5 April 2011, edited by C.
Grojean, M. Mulders and M. Spiropulu. arXiv admin note: text overlap with
arXiv:1010.5112, arXiv:1010.4131, arXiv:0704.1800 by other author
Neutrino Physics
These lectures aim at providing a pedagogical overview of neutrino physics.
We will mostly deal with standard neutrinos, the ones that are part of the
Standard Model of particle physics, and with their standard dynamics, which is
enough to understand in a coherent picture most of the rich data available.
After introducing the basic theoretical framework, we will illustrate the
experimental determination of the neutrino parameters and their theoretical
implications, in particular for the origin of neutrino masses.Comment: 30 pages, contribution to the 2010 European School of High-Energy
Physics; 20 June - 3 July 2010, Raseborg, Finlan
Neutrino Physics
The Standard Model has been incredibly successful in predicting the outcome
of almost all the experiments done up so far. In it, neutrinos are mass-less.
However, in recent years we have accumulated evidence pointing to tiny masses
for the neutrinos (as compared to the charged leptons). These masses allow
neutrinos to change their flavour and oscillate. In these lectures I review the
properties of neutrinos in and beyond the Standard Model.Comment: 19 pages, contribution to the 2012 European School of High-Energy
Physics, La Pommeraye, Anjou, France, 06-19 Jun 2012, edited by C. Grojean
and M. Mulders. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:hep-ph/0506165 by
other author
Neutrino Physics
This is the writeup of the lectures on neutrino physics delivered at various
schools: TASI and Trieste in 2013 and the CERN-Latin American School in 2015.
The topics discussed in this lecture include: general properties of neutrinos
in the SM, the theory of neutrino masses and mixings (Dirac and Majorana),
neutrino oscillations both in vacuum and in matter, as well as an overview of
the experimental evidence for neutrino masses and of the prospects in neutrino
oscillation physics. We also briefly review the relevance of neutrinos in
leptogenesis and in beyond-the-Standard-Model physics.Comment: 58 pages, contribution to the CERN in the Proceedings of the 2015
CERN-Latin-American School of High-Energy Physics, Ibarra, Ecuador, 4 - 17
March 2015. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1010.413
Neutrino Physics
The basic concepts of neutrino physics are presented at a level appropriate
for integration into elementary courses on quantum mechanics and/or modern
physics.Comment: Prepared for the American Journal of Physics; 50 pages; 11 figures
(10 included); late
The connection between cosmology and neutrino physics
Cosmology provides a unique and very powerful laboratory for testing neutrino
physics. Here, I review the current status of cosmological neutrino
measurements. Future prospects are also discussed, with particular emphasis on
the interplay with experimental neutrino physics. Finally I discuss the
possibility of a direct detection of the cosmic neutrino background and its
associated anisotropy.Comment: 8 pages, 4 figures, contribution to the Workshop "European Strategy
for Future Neutrino Physics", CERN, oct.2009, to appear in the proceeding
Experimental neutrino physics
The current experimental status of neutrino physics is reviewed. It contains
the evidences for a non-vanishing neutrino rest mass from neutrino oscillation
searches. In addition an outlook is given on determining the various mixing
matrix elements and mass differences more precisely with new experiments. Of
special interest is the value of the mixing angle \theta_{13} determining the
possibility of detecting leptonic CP violation in the future. The prospect for
absolute mass measurements using beta and double beta decay as well as
cosmological observations is presented.Comment: 11 pages, 11 figures, Inv. talk presented at the DPF 2004 meeting of
the APS, Riverside, Aug. 200
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