Phenomenology of Neutrino Oscillations
Abstract:
After a short introduction and overview of the experimental data, a broad range of questions of neutrino theory and phenomenology will be considered, which then will be followed by a more detailed discussion of the data of neutrino experiments. The topic which will be covered include Weyl, Dirac and Majorana neutrinos, neutrino mass generation in the simplest extensions of the standard model (including the seesaw mechanism(s)), theory and phenomenology of neutrino oscillations, implications of CP, T and CPT conservation to neutrino oscillations, neutrino oscillations in matter (including the MSW effect), coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering, neutrino electromagnetic properties, baryogenesis through leptogenesis, results of solar, atmospheric, accelerator and reactor neutrino experiments as well as experiments on double beta decay and hints of existence of light sterile neutrinos. Among the theoretical issues some subtle questions of the oscillation theory will be discussed, such as whether or not charged leptons can oscillate. In the final part of the lectures unsolved problems of neutrino phyics will be discussed and an outlook and prospects of future experimental studies with neutrinos will be given.