Neutrino Mass, Mixing, and Flavor Change
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
The theoretical basics of neutrino mass and mixing are reviewed. Dirac and Majorana masses are explained, and added together to produce the see-saw picture of the lightness of neutrinos. This picture predicts that neutrinos are Majorana particles. The character, and an apparent paradox, of Majorana neutrinos are examined. The physics of neutrino flavor change (oscillation), in vacuo and in matter, is reviewed.
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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0211134,
title = {Neutrino Mass, Mixing, and Flavor Change},
author = {Boris Kayser},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0211134},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
LaTeX; 20 pages with 5 PostScript figures. To appear in Neutrino Mass, eds. G. Altarelli and K. Winter (Springer Tracts in Modern Physics)