Introduction to the Physics of Massive and Mixed Neutrinos by Samoil Bilenky

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By Samoil Bilenky

for a few years neutrino was once thought of a massless particle. the speculation of a two-componentneutrino,whichplayedacrucialroleinthecreationofthetheoryof theweakinteraction,isbasedontheassumptionthattheneutrinomassisequalto 0. We now recognize that neutrinos have nonzero, small plenty. in different exp- iments with sunlight, atmospheric, reactor and accelerator neutrinos a brand new p- nomenon, neutrino oscillations, used to be saw. Neutrino oscillations (periodic transitionsbetweendifferent?avorneutrinos? ,? ,? )arepossibleonlyifneutrino e ? ? mass-squareddifferencesaredifferentfromzeroandsmalland?avorneutrinosare “mixed”. the invention of neutrino oscillations opened a brand new period in neutrino physics: an period of research of neutrino lots, blending, magnetic moments and different neutrino houses. After the institution of the normal version of the el- troweak interplay on the finish of the seventies, the invention of neutrino plenty was once crucial discovery in particle physics. Small neutrino plenty can't be defined by means of the traditional Higgs mechanism of mass iteration. for his or her rationalization a brand new mechanism is required. hence, small neutrino lots is the ?rst signature in particle physics of a brand new past the traditional version physics. It took a long time of heroic efforts through many physicists to find n- trino oscillations. After the ?rst interval of research of neutrino oscillations, manychallengingproblemsremainedunsolved.Oneofthemostimportantisthe challenge of the character of neutrinos with de?nite plenty. Are they Dirac n- trinos owning a conserved lepton quantity which distinguish neutrinos and antineutrinos or Majorana neutrinos with exact neutrinos and antineutrinos? Many experiments of the subsequent iteration and new neutrino amenities at the moment are below coaching and research. there is not any doubt that fascinating effects are ahead.

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