Neutrino oscillations: Recent results and future directions

AMITAVA RAYCHAUDHURI

Department of Physics, University of Calcutta, 92 Acharya Prafulla Chandra Road,
Calcutta 700 009, India
Email: amitava@cubmb.ernet.in

Abstract

A brief introduction to the phenomena of vacuum neutrino oscillations and resonant flavour conversion is presented with a heavy pedagogic leaning. Variants of these ideas, e.g., neutrino helicity flip in a magnetic field, violation of the equivalence principle, etc. are outlined. A few vexing issues pertaining to the quantum mechanics of neutrino oscillations are discussed. Expectations from some of the future experiments are summarized.

KeywordsNeutrino; oscillation.

PACS No. 14.60.Pq; 26.65.+t

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