Status and implications of neutrino masses: a brief panorama

TL;DR

This paper reviews the current understanding of neutrino masses and mixing, highlighting their significance in particle physics, cosmology, and potential avenues for future discoveries like CP violation and dark matter connections.

Contribution

It provides a concise overview of neutrino physics, emphasizing recent developments and future prospects in understanding neutrino properties and their implications.

Findings

Neutrino masses influence gauge coupling unification.

Potential for discovering leptonic CP violation.

Neutrinos may shed light on dark matter and cosmic inflation.

Abstract

With the historic discovery of the Higgs boson our picture of particle physics would have been complete were it not for the neutrino sector and cosmology. I briefly discuss the role of neutrino masses and mixing upon gauge coupling unification, electroweak breaking and the flavor sector. Time is ripe for new discoveries such as leptonic CP violation, charged lepton flavor violation and neutrinoless double beta decay. Neutrinos could also play a role in elucidating the nature of dark matter and cosmic inflation.