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The current status of neutrino physics is reviewed with some near future perspective. After recollecting the birth of modern neutrino physics with nonzero masses and flavor mixing, I summarize the present status of measurement of the mixing…
Within a democratic approach based on discrete symmetries, we show how the charged lepton mass hierarchies and bilarge neutrino mixings can be realized. For the third mixing angle we find $\te_{13}\sim \sq{\fr{\De m_{\rm sol}^2}{\De m_{\rm…
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