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RESEARCH PRODUCT

On the history of the PMNS Matrix... with today's perspective

José Bernabeu Alberola

subject

High Energy Physics - PhenomenologyHigh Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)Physics::Instrumentation and DetectorsAstrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical PhenomenaHigh Energy Physics::PhenomenologyFísicaFOS: Physical sciencesHigh Energy Physics::ExperimentPhysics::History of Physics

description

The conceptual basis for understanding the interplay of neutrino mass and mixing for neutrino oscillations were paradoxically discussed in a period when the prevailing view was that of massless neutrinos. The name of Bruno Pontecorvo is associated to most of the components for this beautiful quantum phenomenon: muon-electron universality, different neutrino flavours, mismatch between weak interaction and mass eigenstates, neutrino oscillation phenomenology, including flavour and Majorana transitions.

10.1393/ncc/i2014-11774-6http://arxiv.org/abs/1312.7451