Answering the Sphinx's Questions on Neutrinos
Abstract
In answering the difficult questions on neutrinos asked by Sphinx I argue that search for proton decay is the most important experiment in coming 5-10 years. I also emphasize the crucial importance of the neutrinoless double beta decay with sensitivity of <m_{\nu e}> \sim 0.01 eV level as the unique feasible way of directly detecting neutrinos of atmospheric mass scale in laboratories. I point out that, if observed at this level, it means not only that neutrinos are Majorana particle but also that they must obey an inverted mass hierarchy.
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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0004249,
title = {Answering the Sphinx's Questions on Neutrinos},
author = {Hisakazu Minakata},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0004249},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
6pages, Talk presented at Workshop on Neutrino Oscillations and Their Origin, Fujiyoshida, Japan, February 11-13, 2000, to appear in Proceedings published by Universal Academy Press, Tokyo, sentences corrected