Neutrino Physics

TL;DR

This paper provides a comprehensive pedagogical overview of neutrino physics, focusing on standard neutrinos within the Standard Model, their dynamics, experimental parameter determination, and implications for neutrino mass origins.

Contribution

It offers a clear, educational synthesis of neutrino theory and experiments, emphasizing the standard neutrino framework and recent data interpretations.

Findings

Summary of neutrino parameter measurements

Insights into neutrino mass origins

Coherent understanding of neutrino data

Abstract

These lectures aim at providing a pedagogical overview of neutrino physics. We will mostly deal with standard neutrinos, the ones that are part of the Standard Model of particle physics, and with their standard dynamics, which is enough to understand in a coherent picture most of the rich data available. After introducing the basic theoretical framework, we will illustrate the experimental determination of the neutrino parameters and their theoretical implications, in particular for the origin of neutrino masses.