Seesaw Mechanism and Its Implications
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چکیده
The seesaw mechanism is introduced and some of its different realizations and applications are discussed. It is pointed out how they can be used to understand the bi-large mixing patterns among neutrinos in combination with the assumptions about high scale physics such as grand unification or quasidegeneracy of neutrino masses.
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