Standard and Non-Standard Aspects of Neutrino Physics

Abstract

This review provides a succinct overview of the basic aspects of neutrino physics. The topics covered include neutrinos in the standard model and the three-neutrino mixing scheme; the current status of neutrino oscillation measurements and what remains to be determined; the seesaw mechanisms for neutrino mass generation and the associated phenomenology, including the leptogenesis mechanism to explain the observed matter–antimatter asymmetry of the Universe; and models for the origin of the pattern of neutrino mixing and lepton masses based on discrete flavour symmetries and modular invariance.

Keywords

• neutrino physics
• electroweak theory
• neutrino oscillations
• neutrino mass models
• seesaaw mechanisms
• right-handed neutrinos