2004 TASI Lectures on Neutrino Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
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.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0411274,
title = {2004 TASI Lectures on Neutrino Physics},
author = {Andre de Gouvea},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0411274},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
62 pages, 17 figures