Neutrinos in Nuclear Physics

TL;DR

This paper reviews the progress in nuclear physics research on neutrinos, focusing on their oscillations, mass measurements, and the search for neutrinoless double beta decay to understand their fundamental properties.

Contribution

It summarizes recent experimental efforts and advances in understanding neutrino properties, including oscillations, mass, and Majorana nature, highlighting ongoing and future research directions.

Findings

Neutrino oscillations confirmed and characterized.

Progress in measuring neutrino mass via beta decay spectrum.

Searches for neutrinoless double beta decay ongoing with promising results.

Abstract

Since the discovery of nuclear beta decay, nuclear physicists have studied the weak interaction and the nature of neutrinos. Many recent and current experiments have been focused on the elucidation of neutrino oscillations and neutrino mass. The quest for the absolute value of neutrino mass continues with higher precision studies of the tritium beta decay spectrum near the endpoint. Neutrino oscillations are studied through measurements of reactor neutrinos as a function of baseline and energy. And experiments searching for neutrinoless double beta decay seek to discover violation of lepton number and establish the Majorana nature of neutrino masses.