Status and implications of neutrino masses: a brief panorama

Abstract

With the historic discovery of the Higgs boson our picture of particle physics would have been complete were it not for the neutrino sector and cosmology. I briefly discuss the role of neutrino masses and mixing upon gauge coupling unification, electroweak breaking and the flavor sector. Time is ripe for new discoveries such as leptonic CP violation, charged lepton flavor violation and neutrinoless double beta decay. Neutrinos could also play a role in elucidating the nature of dark matter and cosmic inflation.

arXiv comment15 pages, 10 figures, latex. To be published in Proceedings of the International Conference on Massive Neutrinos, Singapore, February 9-13, 2015

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