That a Majorana neutrino theory is different from a Dirac neutrino theory (even in the zero mass limit) is proved in two sentences. Fermion Statistics For the reactions (Dirac) e + e − → ν ¯ ν and (Majorana) e + e − → νν wherein the two final particles are presumed to have opposite helicity, in the Dirac case the neutrino and anti-neutrino are different particles so that Ψ Dirac (p 1 , λ 1 ; ¯ ...

I review the main features of the nuclear response extracted from electron scattering data. The emerging picture clearly shows that the shell model does not provide a fully quantitative description of nuclear dynamics. On the other hand, many body approaches in which correlation effetcs are explicitely taken into account lead to a satisfactory account of electron scattering observables. The pos...

We study the effect of non-vanishing masses and mixings among neutrino flavours on the detection of neutrinos from stellar collapse by a water Cerenkov detector. We consider a frame-work in which there are four neutrino flavours, including a sterile neutrino, whose mass squared differences and mixings are constrained by the present understanding of solar, atmospheric and laboratory neutrino det...