Physics of Massive Neutrinos
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چکیده
I summarize the present status of global analyses of neutrino oscillations, including the most recent KamLAND and K2K data, as well as the latest solar and atmospheric neutrino fluxes. I give the allowed ranges of the three– flavour oscillation parameters from the current worlds’ global neutrino data sample, their best fit values and discuss the small parameters α ≡ ∆m2sol/∆m 2 atm and sin 2 θ13, which characterize the strength of CP violation in neutrino oscillations. I briefly discuss neutrinoless double beta decay and the LSND neutrino oscillation hint, as well as the robustness of the neutrino oscillation results in the presence of non-standard physics.
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