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- Title
Neutrino: Chronicles of an aloof protagonist.
- Authors
Melfo, Alejandra; Senjanović, Goran
- Abstract
In this paper, we give a brief account of the history of neutrino, and how that most aloof of all particles shaped our search for a theory of fundamental interactions ever since it was theoretically proposed. We introduce the necessary concepts and phenomena in a nontechnical language aimed at a physicist with some basic knowledge of quantum mechanics. In showing that neutrino mass could be the door to new physics beyond the Standard Model, we emphasize the need to frame the issue in the context of a complete theory, with testable predictions accessible to present and near future experiments. We argue in favor of the minimal Left–Right symmetric theory as the strongest candidate for such theory, connecting neutrino mass with parity breakdown in nature. This is the theory that led originally to neutrino mass and the seesaw mechanism behind its smallness, but even more important, the theory that sheds light on a fundamental question that touches us all: the symmetry between left and right.
- Subjects
NEUTRINOS; STANDARD model (Nuclear physics); QUANTUM mechanics; NEUTRINO mass; SEARCH theory; PHYSICISTS; PHYSICS
- Publication
Modern Physics Letters A, 2022, Vol 37, Issue 12, p1
- ISSN
0217-7323
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1142/S0217732322300087