Neutrino Masses and Flavor Oscillations

Understand

This essay is intended to provide a brief description of the peculiar properties of neutrinos within and beyond the standard theory of weak interactions.

• The focus is on the flavor oscillations of massive neutrinos, from which one has achieved some striking knowledge about their mass spectrum and flavor mixing pattern.
• The experimental prospects towards probing the absolute neutrino mass scale, possible Majorana nature and CP-violating effects will also be addressed.