Neutrino physics

TL;DR

This paper provides an overview of neutrino properties, masses, oscillations, experimental evidence, and their significance in leptogenesis and beyond-Standard-Model physics, highlighting recent theoretical and experimental developments.

Contribution

It offers a comprehensive review of neutrino physics, including theory, experimental evidence, and implications for new physics beyond the Standard Model.

Findings

Neutrinos have non-zero masses and mixings.

Experimental evidence confirms neutrino oscillations.

Neutrinos play a role in leptogenesis and beyond-Standard-Model theories.

Abstract

The topics discussed in this lecture include: general properties of neutrinos in the SM, the theory of neutrino masses and mixings (Dirac and Majorana), neutrino oscillations both in vacuum and in matter, an overview of the experimental evidence for neutrino masses and of the prospects in neutrino oscillation physics. We also briefly review the relevance of neutrinos in leptogenesis and in beyond-the-Standard-Model physics.