The Physics of Massive Neutrinos

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Abstract

This book explains the physics and phenomenology of massive neutrinos. The authors argue that neutrino mass is not unlikely and consider briefly the search for evidence of this mass in decay processes before they examine the physics and phenomenology of neutrino oscillation. The physics of Majorana neutrinos (neutrinos which are their own antiparticles) is then discussed. Firstly, a number of basic properties of such neutrinos are established without using any field theory. Then the field-theory description of a Majorana particle is introduced and used to treat such processes as neutrinos double beta decay. Finally, there is a treatment of neutrino masses in gauge theories and a derivation of the seesaw relation, which explains why neutrino masses are so small by relating them to the inverse of a large mass scale.

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