Neutrino mass: From Lhc to grand unification
Description
The tiny neutrino masses and the associated large lepton mixings provide an interesting puzzle and a likely window to the physics beyond the standard model. This is certainly true if neutrinos are Majorana particles, since then, unlike in the Dirac case, the standard model is not a complete theory. The Majorana case leads to lepton number violation manifested through neutrinoless-double-beta decay and same-sign dileptons potentially accessible to colliders such as the Lhc. This is covered at length. I discuss in these lectures possible theories of neutrino mass whose predictions are dictated by their structure only and this points strongly to grand unification. I cover in detail both SU(5) and S O(10) grand unified theories, and study the predictions of their minimal versions. The main message I wish to bring across is a serious hope of probing the origin of neutrino mass in near future, through the combined effort of high-energy collider and low-energy lepton number and lepton flavor violation experiments.
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Rivista del Nuovo Cimento della Societa Italiana di Fisica
- Journal Volume
- 34
- Journal Issue
- 1
- Journal Page Range
- p. 1-68
- ISSN
- 0393-697X
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Italy
- Country of Input or Organization
- Italy
- INIS RN
- 43013361
- Subject category
- S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
- Descriptors DEI
- CERN LHC; LEPTONS; NEUTRINOS; STANDARD MODEL
- Descriptors DEC
- ACCELERATORS; CYCLIC ACCELERATORS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; FERMIONS; FIELD THEORIES; GRAND UNIFIED THEORY; LEPTONS; MASSLESS PARTICLES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARTICLE MODELS; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; STORAGE RINGS; SYNCHROTRONS; UNIFIED GAUGE MODELS