15–21 Oct 2017
Monastero dei Benedettini, University of Catania, Catania, Italy
Europe/Rome timezone
Proceedings published online

Theory of neutrino masses and mixing

20 Oct 2017, 10:30
30m
Auditorium (Monastero dei Benedettini, University of Catania)

Auditorium

Monastero dei Benedettini, University of Catania

Oral Plenary

Speaker

Prof. Alexei Smirnov (Max-Planck-Institute for Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg)

Description

Status of theory of neutrino mass is outlined. The key issues, which determine the progress in identification of physics behind neutrino masses and mixing, will be reviewed. Those include (i) role of sterile neutrinos, (ii) nature of neutrino mass, (iii) scale of neutrino mass generation  and the electroweak scale, (iv) symmetry behind mixing pattern, (v) grand unification, (vi) neutrino portal to dark sector, (vii) neutrino connections to leptogenesis, dark matter, dark energy, anomalies in particle physics.

Primary author

Prof. Alexei Smirnov (Max-Planck-Institute for Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg)

Presentation materials