Lepton Number And Neutrino Masses

Abstract

I briefly review the arguments which in the 1970's convinced many theoretical physicists to anticipate lepton number violation, and to guess a range of neutrino masses.

8 pages

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• Dirac Neutrino Masses with Planck Scale Lepton Number Violation
• The minimal seesaw and leptogenesis models
• The $\mu$-$\tau$ reflection symmetry of Majorana neutrinos
• Leptogenesis with Lepton-Number-Violating Dirac Neutrinos
• Theoretical Overview of Neutrino Properties
• Sterile Neutrinos and Global Symmetries
• Radiative Dirac Neutrino Mass with Dark Matter and it's implication to $0\nu 4\beta$ in the $U(1{)}_{B-L}$ extension of the Standard Model
• New supersymmetric source of neutrino masses and mixings
• Neutrino Masses from the Top Down
• Search for the Lepton-Number-Violating Decay ${\Xi }^{-}\to p{\mu }^{-}{\mu }^{-}$
• Bilarge leptonic mixing from Abelian horizontal symmetries
• Bulk Majorana mass terms and Dirac neutrinos in Randall Sundrum Model
• Dimension-Five Operators in Grand Unified Theories
• Dark energy from the motions of neutrinos
• Identifying a minimal flavor symmetry of the seesaw mechanism behind neutrino oscillations
• 3D mapping of the effective Majorana neutrino masses with neutrino oscillation data
• Revisiting neutrino masses from Planck scale operators
• Lepton number violation via intermediate black hole processes
• A general formula by $LD{L}^T$ decomposition for the type-I seesaw mechanism
• Compact representation for electroweak lepton sector