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On the history of the PMNS Matrix... with today's perspective

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2022-03-02 v1

Abstract

The conceptual basis for understanding the interplay of neutrino mass and mixing for neutrino oscillations were paradoxically discussed in a period when the prevailing view was that of massless neutrinos. The name of Bruno Pontecorvo is associated to most of the components for this beautiful quantum phenomenon: muon-electron universality, different neutrino flavours, mismatch between weak interaction and mass eigenstates, neutrino oscillation phenomenology, including flavour and Majorana transitions.

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@article{arxiv.1312.7451,
  title  = {On the history of the PMNS Matrix... with today's perspective},
  author = {Jose Bernabeu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1312.7451},
  year   = {2022}
}

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Six photographs. To appear in the proceedings of Pontecorvo100 - Symposium, Pisa, 2013, in honour of Bruno Pontecorvo. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1210.3065 by other authors