Lectures on neutrino phenomenology

TL;DR

This paper provides an overview of neutrino properties, including oscillations and mass measurement techniques, emphasizing future precision experiments and astrophysical applications to explore new physics.

Contribution

It offers a comprehensive introduction to neutrino phenomenology, highlighting recent methods and future prospects for measuring neutrino properties and their implications for physics beyond the Standard Model.

Findings

Neutrino oscillations confirm flavor change mechanisms.

Future experiments aim to measure neutrino masses precisely.

Neutrinos from cosmic sources can reveal new physics insights.

Abstract

The fundamental properties of the lepton sector include the neutrino masses and flavor mixings. Both are difficult to observe because of the extremely small neutrino masses and neutrino-matter cross sections. In these lectures, we focus on the basic concepts for the determination of neutrino properties. We introduce neutrino oscillations as standard mechanism for neutrino flavor changes, and we discuss methods to measure the neutrino mass. Furthermore, we illustrate how precision measurements in neutrino oscillations will be performed in the future, and may even open a window to new physics properties, such as motivated by LHC physics. Finally, we discuss some applications of neutrinos in astrophysics, such as neutrino oscillations in the Sun. We also illustrate how neutrinos from extragalactic cosmic accelerators may be used for the determination of neutrino properties.