On the physics of massive neutrinos

Abstract

Massive neutrinos open up the possibility for a variety of new physical phenomena. Among them are oscillations and double beta decay. Furthermore they influence several fields from particle physics to cosmology. In this article the concept of massive neutrinos is given and the current status of experimental research is extensively reviewed. This includes astrophysical studies of solar, supernova and very high energy neutrinos. Future perspectives are also outlined.

86 pages, 50 figures (large file 8MB!!). To appear in Physics Reports

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• High Energy Neutrinos from Cosmological Gamma-Ray Burst Fireballs
• Solar Models with Helium and Heavy Element Diffusion
• Evidence for ${\bar{\nu }}_{\mu }\to {\bar{\nu }}_e$ Oscillations from the LSND Experiment at LAMPF
• Initial Results from the CHOOZ Long Baseline Reactor Neutrino Oscillation Experiment
• Neutrino Beams from Muon Storage Rings: Characteristics and Physics Potential
• Atmospheric neutrino flux above 1 GeV
• Calculation of the Flux of Atmospheric Neutrinos
• Nonequilibrium Corrections to the Spectra of Massless Neutrinos in the Early Universe
• Cold + Hot Dark Matter Cosmology with $m({\nu }_{\mu })\approx m({\nu }_{\tau })\approx 2.4$ ev
• Standard Neutrino Spectrum from B-8 Decay
• The Liquid Scintillator Neutrino Detector and LAMPF Neutrino Source
• Non-decoupling of Heavy Neutrinos and Lepton Flavour Violation
• Solutions to Solar Neutrino Anomaly
• Earth regeneration effect in solar neutrino oscillations: an analytic approach
• The Cross Section of 3He(3He,2p)4He measured at Solar Energies
• New measurement and analysis of the 7Be(p,gamma)8B cross section
• The neutrino cross section and upward going muons
• Neutrino production through hadronic cascades in AGN accretion disks
• Possible Production of High-Energy Gamma Rays from Proton Acceleration in the Extragalactic Radio Source Markarian 501
• Spectrum of the Supernova Relic Neutrino Background and Evolution of Galaxies
• A High Statistics Search for muon-neutrino(anti-muon-neutrino) ---> electron-neutrino(anti-electron-neutrino) Oscillations in the Small Mixing Angle Regime
• A New Class of Majoron-Emitting Double-Beta Decays
• Cosmological Neutrino Signatures for Grand Unification Scale Physics
• Three Neutrino Flavors are Enough
• Comparison of Atmospheric Neutrino Flux Calculations at Low Energies
• Can a ``natural'' three-generation neutrino mixing scheme satisfy everything?
• KARMEN Limits on nu_e -> nu_tau Oscillations in 2-neutrino and 3-neutrino Mixing Schemes
• New Solar Models Including Helioseismological Constraints and Light-Element Depletion
• ${}^3$He Transport in the Sun and the Solar Neutrino Problem
• A four-neutrino mixing scheme for observed neutrino data
• Model Independent Determination of the Solar Neutrino Spectrum with and without MSW
• Same-sign dileptons as a signature for heavy Majorana neutrinos in hadron-hadron collisions
• Bounds on new Majoron models from the Heidelberg-Moscow-Experiment
• Heavy neutrinos production and decay in future $e^{+}{e}^{-}$ colliders
• Upward-going muons and neutrino oscillations
• Pair Production and Correlated Decay of Heavy Majorana Neutrinos in $e^{+}{e}^{-}$ Collisions
• The Energy and Zenith Angle Distribution of Upward Going Muons and Neutrino Oscillations
• A Limit on the Mass of the ${\nu }_{\tau }$
• MeV neutrinos in double beta decay

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• Bounds on effective Majorana neutrino masses at HERA
• New limits on effective Majorana neutrino masses from rare kaon decays
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• Spectroscopy of low energy solar neutrinos using CdTe detectors
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• Neutrino oscillations in the field of a rotating deformed mass
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• Constraints on mixing angles of Majorana neutrinos
• Effective Theories with Dark Matter Applications
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• Lorentz-violating dilatations in the momentum space and some extensions on non-linear actions of Lorentz algebra-preserving systems
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• Discriminating among the theoretical origins of new heavy Majorana neutrinos at the CERN LHC
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• Solar neutrino interactions with liquid scintillators used for double beta decay experiments
• Equivalence between local Fermi gas and shell models in inclusive muon capture from nuclei
• Second-order corrections to neutrino two-flavor oscillation parameters in the wave packet approach
• Dirac neutrino mass from the beta decay end-point modified by the dynamics of a Lorentz-violating equation of motion
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• Neutral heavy lepton production at next high energy $e^{+}{e}^{-}$ linear colliders
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• The C$\nu$B energy density through the quantum measurement theory
• Single neutral heavy lepton production at electron-muon colliders
• Chirality Dynamics for a fermionic particle non-minimally coupling with an external magnetic field
• "Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay" at a Neutrino Factory
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• The construction of Dirac wave packets for a fermionic particle non-minimally coupling with an external magnetic field
• Additional time-dependent phase in the flavor-conversion formulas
• Four-neutrino MS^2 mixing
• Implications of Weak-Interaction Space Deformation for Neutrino Mass Measurements
• Possible improvements on the mass of the tau neutrino using leptonic $D_s^{\pm }$ decays
• Influence of second-order corrections to the energy-dependence of neutrino flavor conversion formulae
• Superheavy Majorana neutrino effects in the lepton-number violating e- + e- -> mu- + mu- process
• Quantum measurement schemes related to flavor-weighted energies
• Neutrino survival probabilities in magnetic fields
• Emulsion Chamber with Big Radiation Length for Detecting Neutrino Oscillations