The lecture provides an introduction to neutrino physics with focus on neutrino mass generation and neutrino oscillations in vacuum and matter, as well as the current experimental status. Apart from students generally interested in the field of neutrino physics, the lecture targets in particular students who want to write their master thesis in the AG Kappes or AG Weinheimer.
1 Neutrinos in the Standard Model of particle physics
- Overview electroweak theory
- CP violation
- Neutrino interactions
- Dirac masses
- Majorana masses
2 Neutrino oscillations in vacuum and matter
- Neutrino oscillation probability
- Two-neutrino mixing
- The MSW effect
- Parametric resonances
- Neutrino oscillation experiments
3 Solar and atmospheric neutrinos
- Neutrino production in the Sun
- Resonant flavor transition in the Sun
- Solar neutrino experiments
- Atmospheric neutrinos and experiments
4 Phenomenology of three-neutrino mixing
- Neutrino oscillations in vacuum
- Matter effects
- Neutrino mass ordering
- Sterile neutrinos
5 Measurement of neutrino mass
- Beta decays
- Neutrinoless double-beta decay
6 Neutrinos in cosmology (if time permits)
- Lehrende/r: Alexander Kappes