High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · arXiv:hep-ph/0411274 v1 · submitted 20 Nov 2004
2004 TASI Lectures on Neutrino Physics
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“I conclude by highlighting the importance of determining the nature of the neutrinos, i.e., are they Dirac or Majorana fermions.”
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I discuss, in a semi-pedagogical way, our current understanding of neutrino physics. I present a brief history of how the neutrino came to be “invented” and observed, and discuss the evidence that led to the recent discovery that neutrinos change flavor. I then spend some time presenting mass-induced neutrino flavor change (neutrino oscillation), and how it pieces all the neutrino puzzles except for the LSND anomaly, which is also briefly discussed. I conclude by highlighting the importance of determining the nature of the neutrinos, i.e., are they Dirac or Majorana fermions.
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| I discuss, in a semi-pedagogical way, our current understanding of neutrino physics. | contribution 0.70 | 0.24 | 0.03 | asserted 0.67 |
| I present a brief history of how the neutrino came to be ``invented'' and observed, and discuss the evidence that led to the recent discovery that neutrinos change flavor. | background 0.82 | 0.10 | 0.03 | asserted 0.97 |
| I then spend some time presenting mass-induced neutrino flavor change (neutrino oscillation), and how it pieces all the neutrino puzzles except for the LSND anomaly, which is also briefly discussed. | contribution 0.57 | 0.14 | 0.08 | asserted 0.99 |
| I conclude by highlighting the importance of determining the nature of the neutrinos, i.e., are they Dirac or Majorana fermions. | future work 0.91 | 0.14 | 0.62 | asserted 0.81 |
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- Constraining Feeble Neutrino Interactions with Ultralight Dark Matter hep-ph · May 2022
- Short Baseline Neutrino Oscillations and a New Light Gauge Boson hep-ph · Nov 2007
- Space-time propagation of neutrino wave packets at high temperature and density hep-ph · Apr 2006
- A Three-Flavor, Lorentz-Violating Solution to the LSND Anomaly hep-ph · Feb 2006
- GeV Seesaw, Accidentally Small Neutrino Masses, and Higgs Decays to Neutrinos hep-ph · Jun 2007
- See-Saw Energy Scale and the LSND Anomaly hep-ph · Jan 2005
- Pseudo-Dirac Neutrinos in the New Standard Model hep-ph · Jun 2009
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These states oscillate into each other with a characteristic probability governed by their squared mass difference $δm^2$ [ref]
Constraining Feeble Neutrino Interactions with Ultralight Dark Matter · Introduction · 0.97
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See [ref] for more details.
Light Sterile Neutrino Effects at theta_13-Sensitive Reactor Neutrino Experiments · Very Light Sterile Neutrino Effects at Reactor Experiments · 1.00
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For a detailed summary of all data, see, for example, [ref] .
Neutrino Masses and Mixing - Theory · What We Learned About Neutrinos · 0.92
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