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Neutrino Physics
Andre de Gouvea
Northwestern University
CINVESTAV13 – 16 October 2014
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Tentative Outline for The Lectures
1. Brief History of the Neutrino;
2. Neutrino Puzzles – The Discovery of Neutrino Masses;
3. Neutrino Oscillations;
4. What We Know We Don’t Know – Next-Generation ν Oscillations;
5. What We Know We Don’t Know – Majorana versus Dirac Neutrinos;
6. Neutrino Masses As Physics Beyond the Standard Model;
7. Some Ideas for Tiny Neutrino Masses, and Some Consequences;
[note: Questions/Suggestions/Complaints are ALWAYS welcome]
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Some Neutrino references (WARNING: Biased Sample)
• “Are There Really Neutrinos? – An Evidential History,” Allan Franklin, Perseus
Books, 2001. Good discussion of neutrino history.
• A. de Gouvea, “TASI lectures on neutrino physics,” hep-ph/0411274;
• A. de Gouvea, “Neutrinos have mass: So what?,” Mod. Phys. Lett. A 19, 2799
(2004) [hep-ph/0503086];
• R. N. Mohapatra et al., “Theory of neutrinos: A White paper,” Rept. Prog. Phys.
70, 1757 (2007) [hep-ph/0510213];
• R. N. Mohapatra, A. Yu. Smirnov,“Neutrino Mass and New Physics,” Ann. Rev.
Nucl. Part. Sci. 56, 569 (2006) [hep-ph/0603118];
• M. C. Gonzalez-Garcia, M. Maltoni, “Phenomenology with Massive Neutrinos,”
Phys. Rept. 460, 1 (2008) [arXiv:0704.1800 [hep-ph]];
• A. Strumia, F. Vissani, “Neutrino masses and mixings,” hep-ph/0606054 (2010);
• “The Physics of Neutrinos,”V. Barger, D. Marfatia, K. Whisnant, Princeton
University Press (2012);
• “J. Hewett et al., “Fundamental Physics at the Intensity Frontier,” arXiv:1205.267;
• A. de Gouvea et al., “Working Group Report: Neutrinos,” arXiv:1310:4340.
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1 - Brief History of the Neutrino
1. 1896: Henri Becquerel discovers natural radioactivity while studying
phosphorescent properties of uranium salts.
• α rays: easy to absorb, hard to bend, positive charge, mono-energetic;
• β rays: harder to absorb, easy to bend, negative charge, spectrum?;
• γ rays: no charge, very hard to absorb.
2. 1897: J.J. Thompson discovers the electron.
3. 1914: Chadwick presents definitive evidence for a continuous β-ray
spectrum. Origin unkown. Different options include several different energy
loss mechanisms.
It took 15+ years to decide that the “real” β-ray spectrum was really
continuous. Reason for continuous spectrum was a total mystery:
• QM: Spectra are discrete;
• Energy-momentum conservation: N → N ′ + e− — electron energy and
momentum well-defined.
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Nuclear Physics before 1930: nucleus = npp+ nee−.
Example: 4He = 4p+ 2e−, works well. However: 14N = 14p+ 7e− is expected to
be a fermion. However, it was experimentally known that 14N was a boson!
There was also a problem with the magnetic moment of nuclei: µN , µp � µe
(µ = eh/4mc). How can the nuclear magnetic moment be so much smaller than
the electron one if the nucleus contains electrons?
SOLUTION: Bound, nuclear electrons are very weird!
This can also be used to solve the continuous β-ray spectrum: energy need not
be conserved in nuclear processes! (N. Bohr)
“... This would mean that the idea of energy and its conservation fails in dealing
with processes involving the emission and capture of nuclear electrons. This
does not sound improbable if we remember all that has been said about peculiar
properties of electrons in the nucleus.” (G. Gamow, Nuclear Physics Textbook,
1931).
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enter the neutrino. . .
1. 1930: Postulated by Pauli to (a) resolve the problem of continuous β-ray
spectra, and (b) reconcile nuclear model with spin-statistics theorem. ⇒
2. 1932: Chadwick discovers the neutron.
neutron 6= Pauli’s neutron = neutrino (Fermi);
3. 1934: Fermi theory of Weak Interactions – current-current interaction
H ∼ GF (pΓn) (eΓνe) , where Γ = {1, γ5, γµ, γµγ5, σµν}
Way to “see” neutrinos: νe + p→ e+ + n. Prediction for the cross-section -
too small to ever be observed...
4. 1935: (Yukawa postulates the existence of mesons (pions) as mediators of
the nuclear (strong) force: mπ ∼ 100 MeV.)
5. 1936/37: (“Meson” discovered in cosmic rays. Another long, tortuous story.
Turns out to be the muon...)
6. 1947: (Marshak, Bethe postulate the 2 meson hypothesis (π → µ). Pion
observed in cosmic rays.)
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observing the unobservable:
1. 1956: “Discovery” of the neutrino (Reines and Cowan) in the Savannah
River Nuclear Reactor site. ⇒νe + p→ e+ + n. Measure positron (e+e− → γs) and neutron
(nN → N∗ → N + γs) in delayed coincidence in order to get rid of
backgrounds.
2. 1958: Neutrino Helicity Measured (Goldhaber et al.). Neutrinos are purely
left-handed. Interact only weakly (Parity violated maximally).
e− +152 Eu(J = 0)→152 Sm∗(J = 1) + ν →152 Sm(J = 1) + ν + γ
3. 1962: The second neutrino: νµ 6= νe (Lederman, Steinberger, Schwarts at
BNL). First neutrino beam.
p+ Z → π+X → µ+νµ ⇒νµ + Z → µ− + Y (“always”)
νµ + Z → e− + Y (“never”)
4. 2001: ντ directly observed (DONUT experiment at FNAL). Same strategy:
ντ + Z → τ− + Y . (τ -leptons discovered in the 1970’s). ⇒
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What we Knew of Neutrinos: End of the 20th Century
• come in three flavors (see figure);
• interact only via weak interactions (W±, Z0);
• have ZERO mass – helicity good
quantum number;
• νL field describes 2 degrees of freedom:
– left-handed state ν,– right-handed state ν (CPT conjugate);
• neutrinos carry lepton number:– L(ν) = +1,
– L(ν) = −1.
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2– Neutrino Puzzles
Long baseline neutrino experiments have revealed that neutrinos changeflavor after propagating a finite distance, violating the definitions in theprevious slide. The rate of change depends on the neutrino energy Eν andthe baseline L.
• νµ → ντ and νµ → ντ — atmospheric experiments [“indisputable”];
• νe → νµ,τ — solar experiments [“indisputable”];
• νe → νother — reactor neutrinos [“indisputable”];
• νµ → νother — from accelerator experiments [“indisputable”].
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The SNO Experiment: conclusive evidence for flavor change
0 1 2 3 4 5 60
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2
3
4
5
6
7
8
)-1 s-2 cm6
(10eφ
)-1
s-2
cm
6 (
10τµφ SNONCφ
SSMφ
SNOCCφSNO
ESφSNO Measures:
[CC] νe +2H → p+ p+ e−
[ES] ν + e− → ν + e−
[NC] ν +2H → p+ n+ ν
different reactionssensitive to differentneutrino flavors.
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UP 6= DOWN – neutrinos can tell time! → neutrinos have mass.
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3 - Mass-Induced Neutrino Flavor Oscillations
Neutrino Flavor change can arise out of several different mechanisms. Thesimplest one is to appreciate that, once neutrinos have mass, leptonscan mix. This turns out to be the correct mechanism (certainly thedominant one), and only explanation that successfully explains alllong-baseline data consistently.
Neutrinos with a well defined mass:
ν1, ν2, ν3, . . . with masses m1,m2,m3, . . .
How do these states (neutrino mass eigenstates) relate to the neutrinoflavor eigenstates (νe, νµ, ντ )?
να = Uαiνi α = e, µ, τ, i = 1, 2, 3
U is a unitary mixing matrix. I’ll talk more about it later.
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The Propagation of Massive Neutrinos
Neutrino mass eigenstates are eigenstates of the free-particle Hamiltonian:
|νi〉 = e−iEit|νi〉, E2i − |~pi|2 = m2
i
The neutrino flavor eigenstates are linear combinations of νi’s, say:
|νe〉 = cos θ|ν1〉+ sin θ|ν2〉.
|νµ〉 = − sin θ|ν1〉+ cos θ|ν2〉.
If this is the case, a state produced as a νe evolves in vacuum into
|ν(t, ~x)〉 = cos θe−ip1x|ν1〉+ sin θe−ip2x|ν2〉.
It is trivial to compute Peµ(L) ≡ |〈νµ|ν(t, z = L)〉|2. It is just like a two-level
system from basic undergraduate quantum mechanics! In the ultrarelativistic
limit (always a good bet), t ' L, Ei − pz,i ' (m2i )/2Ei, and
Peµ(L) = sin2 2θ sin2(
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L(a.u.)
P eµ =
1-P
ee
sin22θ
Losc
π LLosc≡ ∆m2L
4E = 1.267(L
km
) (∆m2
eV2
) (GeVE
)amplitude sin2 2θ{oscillation parameters:
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CHOOZ experiment
Pee = 1− sin2 2θ sin2“
∆m2L4E
”
result: 1− Pee < 0.05
low ∆m2: 1− Pee ∝ sin2 2θ(∆m2)2
high ∆m2: 1− Pee ∝ 12
sin2 2θ
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There is a long (and oftentimes confused and confusing) history behindthis derivation and several others. A comprehensive discussion can befound, for example, in
E.K. Akhmedov, A. Yu. Smirnov, 0905.1903 [hep-ph]
In a nutshell, neutrino oscillations as described above occur whenever
• Neutrino Production and Detection are Coherent → cannot “tell” ν1
from ν2 from ν3 but “see” νe or νµ or ντ .
• Decoherence effects due to wave-packet separation are negligible →baseline not too long that different “velocity” components of theneutrino wave-packet have time to physically separate.
• The energy released in production and detection is large compared tothe neutrino mass → so we can assign all of the effect to the neutrinopropagation, independent from the production process. Also assuresultra-relativistic approximation good.
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Pµµ ∼ 1
↓
Pµµ∼1− 12 sin2 2θ
↖
Pµµ = 1− sin2 2θ sin2“
∆m2L4E
”Works great for sin2 2θ ∼ 1 and ∆m2 ∼ 10−3 eV2
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[Gonzalez-Garcia, PASI 2006]
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Matter Effects
The neutrino propagation equation, in the ultra-relativistic approximation, can
be re-expressed in the form of a Shrodinger-like equation. In the mass basis:
id
dL|νi〉 =
m2i
2E|νi〉,
up to a term proportional to the identity. In the weak/flavor basis
id
dL|νβ〉 = Uβi
m2i
2EU†iα|να〉.
In the 2× 2 case,
id
dL
0@ |νe〉
|νµ〉
1A =∆m2
2E
0@ sin2 θ cos θ sin θ
cos θ sin θ cos2 θ
1A0@ |νe〉
|νµ〉
1A ,
(again, up to additional terms proportional to the 2× 2 identity matrix).
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Fermi Lagrangian, after a Fiertz rearrangement of the charged-current terms:
L ⊃ νeLi∂µγµνeL − 2√
2GF (νeLγµνeL) (eLγµeL) + . . .
Equation of motion for one electron neutrino state in the presence of a
non-relativistic electron background, in the rest frame of the electrons:
〈eLγµeL〉 = δµ0Ne2
where Ne ≡ e†e is the average electron number density ( at rest, hence δµ0
term). Factor of 1/2 from the “left-handed” half.
Dirac equation for a one neutrino state inside a cold electron “gas” is (ignore
mass)
(i∂µγµ −√
2GFNeγ0)|νe〉 = 0.
In the ultrarelativistic limit, (plus√
2GFNe � E), dispersion relation is
E ' |~p| ±√
2GFNe, + for ν, − for ν
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id
dL
0@ |νe〉
|νµ〉
1A =
24∆m2
2E
0@ sin2 θ cos θ sin θ
cos θ sin θ cos2 θ
1A+
0@ A 0
0 0
1A350@ |νe〉
|νµ〉
1A ,
A = ±√
2GFNe (+ for neutrinos, − for antineutrinos).
Note: Similar effect from neutral current interactions common to all (active)
neutrino species → proportional to the identity.
In general, this is hard to solve, as A is a function of L: two-level non-relativistc
quantum mechanical system in the presence of time dependent potential.
In some cases, however, the solution is rather simple.
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Constant A: good approximation for neutrinos propagating through matter
inside the Earth [exception: neutrinos that see Earth’s internal structure (the
crust, the mantle, the outer core, the inner core)]
id
dL
0@ |νe〉
|νµ〉
1A =
0@ A ∆/2 sin 2θ
∆/2 sin 2θ ∆ cos 2θ
1A0@ |νe〉
|νµ〉
1A , ∆ ≡ ∆m2/2E.
Peµ = sin2 2θM sin2
„∆ML
2
«,
where
∆M =
q(A−∆ cos 2θ)2 + ∆2 sin2 2θ,
∆M sin 2θM = ∆ sin 2θ,
∆M cos 2θM = A−∆ cos 2θ.
The presence of matter affects neutrino and antineutrino oscillation differently.
Nothing wrong with this: CPT-theorem relates the propagation of neutrinos in
an electron background to the propagation of antineutrinos in a positron
background.
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Enlarged parameter space in the presence of matter effects.
For example, can tell whether cos 2θ is positive or negative.
L(a.u.)
P eµ =
1-P
ee
sign(A)=sign(cos2θ)
A=0 (vacuum)
sign(A)=-sign(cos2θ)
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The MSW Effect
Curiously enough, the oldest neutrino puzzle is the one that is most subtleto explain. This is because solar neutrinos traverse a strongly varyingmatter density on their way from the center of the Sun to the surface ofthe Earth.
For the Hamiltonian∆
sin2 θ cos θ sin θ
cos θ sin θ cos2 θ
+A
1 0
0 0
,it is easy to compute the eigenvalues as a function of A:
(remember, ∆ = ∆m2/2E)
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A(a.u.)
λ(a.u.)
heavy
light
|νe〉 = |νH〉
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A decreases “slowly” as a function of L ⇒ system evolves adiabatically.
|νe〉 = |ν2M 〉 at the core → |ν2〉 in vacuum,
PEarthee = |〈νe|ν2〉|2 = sin2 θ.
Note that Pee ' sin2 θ applies in a wide range of energies and baselines, as long
as the approximations mentioned above apply —ideal to explain the energy
independent suppression of the 8B solar neutrino flux!
Furthermore, large average suppressions of the neutrino flux are allowed if
sin2 θ � 1. Compare with P vacee = 1− 1/2 sin2 2θ > 1/2.
One can expand on the result above by loosening some of the assumptions. |νe〉state is produced in the Sun’s core as an incoherent mixture of |ν1M 〉 and |ν2M 〉.Introduce adiabaticity parameter Pc, which measures the probability that a
|νiM 〉 matter Hamiltonian state will not exit the Sun as a |νi〉 mass-eigenstate.
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|νe〉 → |ν1M 〉, with probability cos2 θM ,
→ |ν2M 〉, with probability sin2 θM ,
where θM is the matter angle at the neutrino production point.
|ν1M 〉 → |ν1〉, with probability (1− Pc),
→ |ν2〉, with probability Pc,
|ν2M 〉 → |ν1〉 with probability Pc,
→ |ν2〉 with probability (1− Pc).
P1e = cos2 θ and P2e = sin2 θ so
PSunee = cos2 θM
ˆ(1− Pc) cos2 θ + Pc sin2 θ
˜+ sin2 θM
ˆPc cos2 θ + (1− Pc) sin2 θ
˜.
For Ne = Ne0e−L/r0 , Pc, (crossing probability), is exactly calculable
Pc =e−γ sin2 θ − e−γ
1− e−γ, γ = 2πr0∆. (1)
Adiabatic condition: γ � 1, when Pc → 0.
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Vacuum - Mattertransition
cos4θ13(1- sin22θ12) 1 2
|
cos4θ13sin2θ12
β=23/2GFcos2θ13neEν
∆m21 2
P
E0.0
0.2
0.4
0.6
0.8
1.0
We need:
• Pee ∼ 0.3 (8B neutrinos)
• Pee ∼ 0.6 (7Be, pp neutrinos)
⇒ sin2 θ ∼ 0.3
⇒ ∆m2 ∼ 10−(5 to 4) eV2
for a long time, there were many
other options!
(LMA, LOW, SMA, VAC)
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Borexino, 1110.3230
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“Final” SNO results, 1109.0763
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Solar oscillations confirmed by Reactor experiment: KamLAND[arXiv:1303.4667]
Pee = 1− sin2 2θ sin2“
∆m2L4E
”
phase= 1.27“
∆m2
5×10−5 eV2
”“5 MeVE
”“L
100 km
”
oscillatory behavior!
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[Gonzalez-Garcia, PASI 2006]
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Atmospheric Oscillations in the Electron Sector: Daya Bay, RENO, Double Chooz
Pee = 1− sin2 2θ sin2“
∆m2L4E
”
phase= 0.64“
∆m2
2.5×10−3 eV2
”“5 MeVE
”“L
1 km
”
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Summarizing:
Both the solar and atmospheric puzzles can be properly explained interms of two-flavor neutrino oscilations:
• solar: νe ↔ νa (linear combination of νµ and ντ ): ∆m2 ∼ 10−4 eV2,sin2 θ ∼ 0.3.
• atmospheric: νµ ↔ ντ : ∆m2 ∼ 10−3 eV2, sin2 θ ∼ 0.5 (“maximalmixing”).
• short-baseline reactors: νe ↔ νa (linear combination of νµ and ντ ):∆m2 ∼ 10−3 eV2, sin2 θ ∼ 0.02.
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Putting it all together – 3 flavor mixing:
νe
νµ
ντ
=
Ue1 Ue2 Ue3
Uµ1 Uµ2 Uµ3
Uτ1 Ueτ2 Uτ3
ν1
ν2
ν3
Definition of neutrino mass eigenstates (who are ν1, ν2, ν3?):
• m21 < m2
2 ∆m213 < 0 – Inverted Mass Hierarchy
• m22 −m2
1 � |m23 −m2
1,2| ∆m213 > 0 – Normal Mass Hierarchy
tan2 θ12 ≡ |Ue2|2
|Ue1|2 ; tan2 θ23 ≡ |Uµ3|2|Uτ3|2 ; Ue3 ≡ sin θ13e
−iδ
[For a detailed discussion see AdG, Jenkins, PRD78, 053003 (2008)]
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It Turns Out That . . .
• Two Mass-Squared Differences Are Hierarchical, ∆m212 � |∆m2
13|;• One of the Mixing Angles Is Small, sin2 θ13 ∼ 0.02.
⇒ Two Puzzles Decouple, and Two-Flavor Interpretation CapturesAlmost All the Physics:
• Atmospheric Neutrinos Determine |∆m213| and θ23;
• Solar Neutrinos Determine ∆m212 and θ12.
(small θ13 guarantees that |∆m213| effects governing electron neutrinos are
small, while ∆m212 � |∆m2
13| guarantees that ∆m212 effects are small at
atmospheric and accelerator experiments).
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NuFIT 2.0 (2014)
Normal Ordering (Δχ2 = 0.97) Inverted Ordering (best fit) Any Ordering
bfp ±1σ 3σ range bfp ±1σ 3σ range 3σ range
sin2 θ12 0.304+0.013−0.012 0.270 → 0.344 0.304+0.013
−0.012 0.270 → 0.344 0.270 → 0.344
θ12/◦ 33.48+0.78
−0.75 31.29 → 35.91 33.48+0.78−0.75 31.29 → 35.91 31.29 → 35.91
sin2 θ23 0.452+0.052−0.028 0.382 → 0.643 0.579+0.025
−0.037 0.389 → 0.644 0.385 → 0.644
θ23/◦ 42.3+3.0
−1.6 38.2 → 53.3 49.5+1.5−2.2 38.6 → 53.3 38.3 → 53.3
sin2 θ13 0.0218+0.0010−0.0010 0.0186 → 0.0250 0.0219+0.0011
−0.0010 0.0188 → 0.0251 0.0188 → 0.0251
θ13/◦ 8.50+0.20
−0.21 7.85 → 9.10 8.51+0.20−0.21 7.87 → 9.11 7.87 → 9.11
δCP/◦ 306+39
−70 0 → 360 254+63−62 0 → 360 0 → 360
Δm221
10−5 eV2 7.50+0.19−0.17 7.02 → 8.09 7.50+0.19
−0.17 7.02 → 8.09 7.02 → 8.09
Δm23�
10−3 eV2 +2.457+0.047−0.047 +2.317 → +2.607 −2.449+0.048
−0.047 −2.590 → −2.307
�+2.325 → +2.599−2.590 → −2.307
�
Three Flavor Mixing Hypothesis Fits All∗ Data Really Well.
∗Modulo a handful of 2σ to 3σ anomalies.
[Gonzalez-Garcia, Maltoni, Schwetz, 1409.5439, http://www.nu-fit.org]
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4– What We Know We Don’t Know: Missing Oscillation Parameters
(∆m2)sol
(∆m2)sol
(∆m2)atm
(∆m2)atm
νe
νµ
ντ
(m1)2
(m2)2
(m3)2
(m1)2
(m2)2
(m3)2
normal hierarchy inverted hierarchy
• What is the νe component of ν3?(θ13 6= 0!)
• Is CP-invariance violated in neutrinooscillations? (δ 6= 0, π?)
• Is ν3 mostly νµ or ντ? (θ23 > π/4,θ23 < π/4, or θ23 = π/4?)
• What is the neutrino mass hierarchy?(∆m2
13 > 0?)
⇒ All of the above can “only” be
addressed with new neutrino
oscillation experiments
Ultimate Goal: Not Measure Parameters but Test the Formalism (Over-Constrain Parameter Space)
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!
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dm#K$
K$
sm# & dm#
ubV
%sin 2
(excl. at CL > 0.95) < 0%sol. w/ cos 2
excluded at CL > 0.95
"
%!
&−1.0 −0.5 0.0 0.5 1.0 1.5 2.0
'
−1.5
−1.0
−0.5
0.0
0.5
1.0
1.5excluded area has CL > 0.95
Moriond 09
CKMf i t t e r
We need to do this in
the lepton sector!
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0BB@νe
νµ
ντ
1CCA =
0BB@Ue1 Ue2 Ue3
Uµ1 Uµ2 Uµ3
Uτ1 Uτ2 Uτ3
1CCA0BB@
ν1
ν2
ν3
1CCA
What we have really measured (very roughly):
• Two mass-squared differences, at several percent level – many probes;
• |Ue2|2 – solar data;
• |Uµ2|2 + |Uτ2|2 – solar data;
• |Ue2|2|Ue1|2 – KamLAND;
• |Uµ3|2(1− |Uµ3|2) – atmospheric data, K2K, MINOS;
• |Ue3|2(1− |Ue3|2) – Double Chooz, Daya Bay, RENO;
• |Ue3|2|Uµ3|2 (upper bound → hint) – MINOS, T2K.
We still have a ways to go!
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★
-0.5
0
0.5
Im(z
)
z = −
Ue3
U∗µ3
Ue2
U∗µ2
U e1 U
∗µ1
Ue2
U∗µ2
Ue3 U
∗µ
3
★
-0.5
0
0.5
Im(z
)
z = −
Ue3
U∗τ3
Ue2
U∗τ2
Ue1 U∗
τ1
Ue2
U∗τ2
Ue3 U
∗τ3
★
-1 -0.5 0 0.5 1
Re(z)
-0.5
0
0.5
Im(z
)
z = −
Uµ1
U∗τ1
Uµ3
U∗τ3
Uµ1 U ∗
τ1 Uµ2 U
∗τ2
Uµ3
U∗τ3
★
z = −
Uµ1
U∗µ2
Ue1
U∗e2
Ue1
U∗e2
Uµ1 U ∗
µ2U τ1
U∗τ2
★
z = −
Ue1
U∗e3
Uµ1
U∗µ3
Ue1 U
∗e3
Uµ1
U∗µ3
U τ1 U
∗τ3
★
-1 -0.5 0 0.5 1
Re(z)
z = −
Ue2
U∗e3
Uτ2
U∗τ3
Uτ2
U∗τ3
Uµ2 U
∗µ3
Ue2 U
∗ e3
NuFIT 2.0 (2014)
But it is a start. . .
Where We Are (?) [This is Not a Proper Comparison Yet!]
[Gonzalez-Garcia, Maltoni, Schwetz, 1409.5439, http://www.nu-fit.org]
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(∆m2)sol
(∆m2)sol
(∆m2)atm
(∆m2)atm
νe
νµ
ντ
(m1)2
(m2)2
(m3)2
(m1)2
(m2)2
(m3)2
normal hierarchy inverted hierarchy
The Neutrino
Mass Hierarchy
which is the right picture?
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Why Don’t We Know the Neutrino Mass Hierarchy?
Most of the information we have regarding θ23 and ∆m213 comes from
atmospheric neutrino experiments (SuperK). Roughly speaking, theymeasure
Pµµ = 1− sin2 2θ23 sin2
(∆m2
13L
4E
)+ subleading.
It is easy to see from the expression above that the leading term is simplynot sensitive to the sign of ∆m2
13.
On the other hand, because |Ue3|2 < 0.05 and ∆m212
∆m213< 0.06 are both small,
we are yet to observe the subleading effects.
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Determining the Mass Hierarchy via Oscillations – the large Ue3 route
Again, necessary to probe νµ → νe oscillations (or vice-versa) governed by
∆m213. This is the oscillation channel that (almost) all next-generation,
accelerator-based experiments are concentrating on, including the next
generation experiments T2K and NOνA.
In vaccum
Pµe = sin2 θ23 sin2 2θ13 sin2
„∆m2
13L
4E
«+ “subleading”,
so that, again, this is insensitive to the sign of ∆m213 at leading order. However,
in this case, matter effects may come to the rescue.
As I discussed already, neutrino oscillations get modified when these propagate
in the presence of matter. Matter effects are sensitive to the neutrino mass
ordering (in a way that I will describe shortly) and different for neutrinos and
antineutrinos.
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If ∆12 ≡ ∆m212
2E terms are ignored, the νµ → νe oscillation probability isdescribed, in constant matter density, by
Pµe ' Peµ ' sin2 θ23 sin2 2θeff13 sin2
(∆eff
13L2
),
sin2 2θeff13 = ∆2
13 sin2 2θ13
(∆eff13 )2 ,
∆eff13 =
√(∆13 cos 2θ13 −A)2 + ∆2
13 sin2 2θ13,
∆13 = ∆m213
2E ,
A ≡ ±√2GFNe is the matter potential. It is positive for neutrinos andnegative for antineutrinos.
Pµe depends on the relative sign between ∆13 and A. It is different for thetwo different mass hierarchies, and different for neutrinos andantineutrinos.
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L(a.u.)
P eµ =
1-P
ee
sign(A)=sign(cos2θ)
A=0 (vacuum)
sign(A)=-sign(cos2θ)
replace sign(cos 2θ) → sign(∆m213)
Requirements:
• sin2 2θ13 large enough – otherwise there is nothing to see!
• |∆13| ∼ |A| – matter potential must be significant but not overwhelming.
• ∆eff13L large enough – matter effects are absent near the origin.
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The “Holy Graill” of Neutrino Oscillations – CP Violation
In the old Standard Model, there is only onea source of CP-invarianceviolation:
⇒ The complex phase in VCKM , the quark mixing matrix.
Indeed, as far as we have been able to test, all CP-invariance violatingphenomena agree with the CKM paradigm:
• εK ;
• ε′K ;
• sin 2β;
• etc.
Recent experimental developments, however, provide strong reason tobelieve that this is not the case: neutrinos have mass, and leptons mix!
amodulo the QCD θ-parameter, which will be “willed away” henceforth.
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CP-invariance Violation in Neutrino Oscillations
The most promising approach to studying CP-violation in the leptonicsector seems to be to compare P (νµ → νe) versus P (νµ → νe).
The amplitude for νµ → νe transitions can be written as
Aµe = U∗e2Uµ2
(ei∆12 − 1
)+ U∗e3Uµ3
(ei∆13 − 1
)where ∆1i = ∆m2
1iL2E , i = 2, 3.
The amplitude for the CP-conjugate process can be written as
Aµe = Ue2U∗µ2
(ei∆12 − 1
)+ Ue3U
∗µ3
(ei∆13 − 1
).
[remember: according to unitarty, Ue1U∗µ1 = −Ue2U∗µ2 − Ue3U∗µ3]
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In general, |A|2 6= |A|2 (CP-invariance violated) as long as:
• Nontrivial “Weak” Phases: arg(U∗eiUµi) → δ 6= 0, π;
• Nontrivial “Strong” Phases: ∆12, ∆13 → L 6= 0;
• Because of Unitarity, we need all |Uαi| 6= 0 → three generations.
All of these can be satisfied, with a little luck: given that two of the threemixing angles are known to be large, we need |Ue3| 6= 0. (X)
The goal of next-generation neutrino experiments is to determine themagnitude of |Ue3|. We need to know this in order to understand how tostudy CP-invariance violation in neutrino oscillations!
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In the real world, life is much more complicated. The lack of knowledgeconcerning the mass hierarchy, θ13, θ23 leads to several degeneracies.
Note that, in order to see CP-invariance violation, we need the“subleading” terms!
In order to ultimately measure a new source of CP-invariance violation,we will need to combine different measurements:– oscillation of muon neutrinos and antineutrinos,– oscillations at accelerator and reactor experiments,– experiments with different baselines,– etc.
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5– What We Know We Don’t Know (ii): How Light is the Lightest Neutrino?
(∆m2)sol
(∆m2)sol
(∆m2)atm
(∆m2)atm
νe
νµ
ντ
(m1)2
(m2)2
(m3)2
(m1)2
(m2)2
(m3)2
normal hierarchy inverted hierarchy
m2 = 0 ——————
——————↑↓
m2lightest = ?
So far, we’ve only been able to measure
neutrino mass-squared differences.
The lightest neutrino mass is only poorly
constrained: m2lightest < 1 eV2
qualitatively different scenarios allowed:• m2
lightest ≡ 0;
• m2lightest � ∆m2
12,13;
• m2lightest � ∆m2
12,13.
Need information outside of neutrino oscillations.
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The most direct probe of the lightest neutrino mass –precision measurements of β-decay
Observation of the effect of non-zero neutrino masses kinematically.
When a neutrino is produced, some of the energy exchanged in the process
should be spent by the non-zero neutrino mass.
Typical effects are very, very small – we’ve never seen them! The most sensitive
observable is the electron energy spectrum from tritium decay.
3H→3He + e− + ν
Why tritium? Small Q value, reasonable abundances. Required sensitivity
proportional to m2/Q2.
In practice, this decay is sensitive to an effective “electron neutrino mass”:
m2νe ≡
Xi
|Uei|2m2i
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Experiments measure the shape of the end-point of the spectrum, not the
value of the end point. This is done by counting events as a function of
a low-energy cut-off. note: LOTS of Statistics Needed!
E0 = 18.57 keV
t1/2 = 12.32 years
e
e
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NEXT GENERATION: The Karlsruhe Tritium Neutrino (KATRIN) Experiment:
(not your grandmother’s table top experiment!)
sensitivity m2νe> (0.2 eV)2
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Big Bang Neutrinos are Warm Dark Matter
• Constrained by the Large Scale
Structure of the Universe.
Constraints depend on
• Data set analysed;
• “Bias” on other parameters;
• . . .
Bounds can be evaded with
non-standard cosmology. Will we
learn about neutrinos from
cosmology or about cosmology
from neutrinos?[Z. Hou et al. arXiv:1212.6267]
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Big Bang Neutrinos are Warm Dark Matter
• Constrained by the Large Scale
Structure of the Universe.
Constraints depend on
• Data set analysed;
• “Bias” on other parameters;
• . . .
Bounds can be evaded with
non-standard cosmology. Will we
learn about neutrinos from
cosmology or about cosmology
from neutrinos?[Z. Hou et al. arXiv:1212.6267]
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Big Bang Neutrinos are Warm Dark Matter
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5– What We Know We Don’t Know (iii) – Are Neutrinos Majorana Fermions?
νL
you
νR? ν
L?
you
__
A massive charged fermion (s=1/2) isdescribed by 4 degrees of freedom:
(e−L ← CPT→ e+R)
l Lorentz
(e−R ← CPT→ e+L)
A massive neutral fermion (s=1/2) isdescribed by 4 or 2 degrees of freedom:
(νL ← CPT→ νR)
l Lorentz “DIRAC”
(νR ← CPT→ νL)
(νL ← CPT→ νR)
“MAJORANA” l Lorentz
(νR ← CPT→ νL)How many degrees of freedom are requiredto describe massive neutrinos?
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Why Don’t We Know the Answer (Yet)?
If neutrino masses were indeed zero, this is a nonquestion: there is nodistinction between a massless Dirac and Majorana fermion.
Processes that are proportional to the Majorana nature of the neutrinovanish in the limit mν → 0. Since neutrinos masses are very small, theprobability for these to happen is very, very small: A ∝ mν/E.
The “smoking gun” signature is the observation of LEPTON NUMBERviolation. This is easy to understand: Majorana neutrinos are their ownantiparticles and, therefore, cannot carry any quantum numbers —including lepton number.
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Weak Interactions are Purely Left-Handed (Chirality):
For example, in the scattering process e− +X → νe +X, the electronneutrino is, in a reference frame where m� E,
|νe〉 ∼ |L〉+(mE
)|R〉.
If the neutrino is a Majorana fermion, |R〉 behaves mostly like a “νe,”(and |L〉 mostly like a “νe,”) such that the following process could happen:
e− +X → νe +X, followed by νe +X → e+ +X, P '(mE
)2
Lepton number can be violated by 2 units with small probability. Typicalnumbers: P ' (0.1 eV/100 MeV)2 = 10−18. VERY Challenging!
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How many new CP-violating parameters in the neutrino sector?
If the neutrinos are Majorana fermions, there are more physicalobservables in the leptonic mixing matrix.
Remember the parameter counting in the quark sector:
9 (3× 3 unitary matrix)
−5 (relative phase rotation among six quark fields)
4 (3 mixing angles and 1 CP-odd phase).
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If the neutrinos are Majorana fermions, the parameter counting is quitedifferent: there are no right-handed neutrino fields to “absorb” CP-oddphases:
9 (3× 3 unitary matrix)
−3 (three right-handed charged lepton fields)
6 (3 mixing angles and 3 CP-odd phases).
There is CP-invariance violating parameters even in the 2 family case:4− 2 = 2, one mixing angle, one CP-odd phase.
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L ⊃ eLUWµγµνL − eL(Me)eR − νcL(Mν)νL +H.c.
Write U = E−iξ/2U ′Eiα/2, where Eiβ/2 ≡ diag(eiβ1/2, eiβ2/2, eiβ3/2),β = α, ξ
L ⊃ eLU ′WµγµνL − eLEiξ/2(Me)eR − νcL(Mν)E−iανL +H.c.
ξ phases can be “absorbed” by eR,
α phases cannot go away!
on the other hand
Dirac Case:
L ⊃ eLUWµγµνL − eL(Me)eR − νR(Mν)νL +H.c.
L ⊃ eLU ′WµγµνL − eLEiξ/2(Me)eR − νR(Mν)E−iα/2νL +H.c.
ξ phases can be “absorbed” by eR, α phases can be “absorbed” by νR,
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VMNS =
Ue1 Ue2 Ue3
Uµ1 Uµ2 Uµ3
Uτ1 Ueτ2 Uτ3
′
eiα1/2 0 0
0 eiα2/2 0
0 0 eiα3/2
.
It is easy to see that the Majorana phases never show up in neutrinooscillations (A ∝ UαiU∗βi).Furthermore, they only manifest themselves in phenomena that vanish inthe limit mi → 0 – after all they are only physical if we “know” thatlepton number is broken.
A(αi) ∝ mi/E → tiny!
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Search for the Violation of Lepton Number (or B − L)
10−4 10−3 10−2 10−1 1lightest neutrino mass in eV
10−4
10−3
10−2
10−1
1
|mee
| in
eV
90% CL (1 dof)
∆m232 > 0
disfavoured by 0ν2β
disfavouredby
cosmology
∆m232 < 0
Helicity Suppressed Amplitude ∝ meeE
Observable: mee ≡∑i U
2eimi
⇐ no longer lamp-post physics!
Best Bet: search for
Neutrinoless Double-Beta
Decay: Z → (Z + 2)e−e− ×
←(next)
←(next-next)
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10−4 10−3 10−2 10−1 1lightest neutrino mass in eV
10−4
10−3
10−2
10−1
1|m
ee| i
neV
90% CL (1 dof)
∆m232 > 0
disfavoured by 0ν2β
disfavouredby
cosmology
∆m232 < 0
mee = U2e1m1 + U2
e2m2 + U2e3m3
↓[U2ei complex numbers]
Depends on Majorana Phases
e.g. inverted hierarchy:
m3 � m1 ∼ m2 ∼q
∆m213,
mee ∼q
∆m213×
×`cos2 θ12 + eiα sin2 θ12
´.
mee >q
∆m213 cos 2θ12
←(next)
←(next-next)
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Not all is well(?): The Short Baseline Anomalies
Different data sets, sensitive to L/E values small enough that the knownoscillation frequencies do not have “time” to operate, point to unexpectedneutrino behavior. These include
• νµ → νe appearance — LSND, MiniBooNE;
• νe → νother disappearance — radioactive sources;
• νe → νother disappearance — reactor experiments.
None are entirely convincing, either individually or combined. However,there may be something very very interesting going on here. . .
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• LSND
• MB ν
• MB, ν
[Courtesy of G. Mills]
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[Statistical Errors Only]
[Courtesy of G. Mills]
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What is Going on Here?
• Are these “anomalies” related?
• Is this neutrino oscillations, other new physics, or something else?
• Are these related to the origin of neutrino masses and lepton mixing?
• How do clear this up definitively?
Need new clever experiments, of the short-baseline type!
Observable wish list:
• νµ disappearance (and antineutrino);
• νe disappearance (and antineutrino);
• νµ ↔ νe appearance;
• νµ,e → ντ appearance.
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NEUTRINOS
HAVE MASS
10-5
10-4
10-3
10-2
10-1
1
10
10 2
10 3
10 4
10 5
10 6
10 7
10 8
10 9
10 10
10 11
10 12
0 1 2 3 4generation
mas
s (e
V)
t
bτ
µ
c
s
du
e
ν3
ν2
ν1
TeV
GeV
MeV
keV
eV
meV
albeit very tiny ones...
SO WHAT?
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Only∗ “Palpable” Evidence of PhysicsBeyond the Standard Model
The SM we all learned in school predicts that neutrinos are strictlymassless. Hence, massive neutrinos imply that the the SM is incompleteand needs to be replaced/modified.
Furthermore, the SM has to be replaced by something qualitativelydifferent.
——————∗ There is only a handful of questions our model for fundamental physics cannot
explain (these are personal. Feel free to complain).
• What is the physics behind electroweak symmetry breaking? (Higgs X).
• What is the dark matter? (not in SM).
• Why is there more matter than antimatter? (Not in SM).
• Why does the Universe appear to be accelerating? Why does it appear that the
Universe underwent rapid acceleration in the past? (not in SM).
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Standard Model in One Slide, No Equations
The SM is a quantum field theory with the following definingcharacteristics:
• Gauge Group (SU(3)c × SU(2)L × U(1)Y);
• Particle Content (fermions: Q, u, d, L, e, scalars: H).
Once this is specified, the SM is unambiguously determined:
• Most General Renormalizable Lagrangian;
• Measure All Free Parameters, and You Are Done! (after severaldecades of hard experimental work. . . )
If you follow these rules, neutrinos have no mass. Something has to give.
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What is the New Standard Model? [νSM]
The short answer is – WE DON’T KNOW. Not enough available info!
mEquivalently, there are several completely different ways of addressingneutrino masses. The key issue is to understand what else the νSMcandidates can do. [are they falsifiable?, are they “simple”?, do theyaddress other outstanding problems in physics?, etc]
We need more experimental input, and it looks like it may be coming inthe near/intermediate future!
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The νSM – Everyone’s Favorite Scenario
SM as an effective field theory – non-renormalizable operators
LνSM ⊃ −λij LiHLjH2M +O ( 1M2
)+H.c.
There is only one dimension five operator [Weinberg, 1979]. IfM � 1 TeV, it leads to only one observable consequence...
after EWSB LνSM ⊃ mij2 νiνj ; mij = λij
v2
M .
• Neutrino masses are small: M � v → mν � mf (f = e, µ, u, d, etc)
• Neutrinos are Majorana fermions – Lepton number is violated!
• νSM effective theory – not valid for energies above at most M .
• What is M? First naive guess is that M is the Planck scale – does notwork. Data require M < 1015 GeV (anything to do with the GUTscale?)
What else is this “good for”? Depends on the ultraviolet completion!
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Note that this VERY similar to the “discovery” weak interactions.Imagine the following scenario:
U(1)E&M + e(q = −1), µ(q = −1), νe(q = 0), νµ(q = 0).
The most general renormalizable Lagrangian explains all QED phenomenaonce all couplings are known (α,mf ).
New physics: the muon decays! µ− → e−νeνµ. This can be interpreted asevidence of effective four fermion theory (nonrenormalizable operators):
−4GF√2
∑γ
gγ (eΓγν) (νΓγµ) , Γγ = 1, γ5, γµ, . . .
Prediction: will discover new physics at an energy scale below√1/GF ' 250 GeV. We know how this turned out ⇒ W±, Z0 discovered
slightly below 100 GeV!
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Full disclosure:
All higher dimensional operators are completely negligible, except thosethat mediate proton decay, like:
λBM2
QQQL
The fact that the proton does not decay forces M/λB to be much largerthan the energy scale required to explain neutrino masses.
Why is that? We don’t know. . .
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Example: the Seesaw Mechanism
A simplea, renormalizable Lagrangian that allows for neutrino masses is
Lν = Lold − λαiLαHN i −3∑i=1
Mi
2N iN i +H.c.,
where Ni (i = 1, 2, 3, for concreteness) are SM gauge singlet fermions. Lνis the most general, renormalizable Lagrangian consistent with the SMgauge group and particle content, plus the addition of the Ni fields.
After electroweak symmetry breaking, Lν describes, besides all other SMdegrees of freedom, six Majorana fermions: six neutrinos.
aOnly requires the introduction of three fermionic degrees of freedom, no new inter-
actions or symmetries.
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To be determined from data: λ and M .
The data can be summarized as follows: there is evidence for threeneutrinos, mostly “active” (linear combinations of νe, νµ, and ντ ). Atleast two of them are massive and, if there are other neutrinos, they haveto be “sterile.”
This provides very little information concerning the magnitude of Mi
(assume M1 ∼M2 ∼M3)
Theoretically, there is prejudice in favor of very large M : M � v. Popularexamples include M ∼MGUT (GUT scale), or M ∼ 1 TeV (EWSB scale).
Furthermore, λ ∼ 1 translates into M ∼ 1014 GeV, while thermalleptogenesis requires the lightest Mi to be around 1010 GeV.
we can impose very, very few experimental constraints on M
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What We Know About M :
• M = 0: the six neutrinos “fuse” into three Dirac states. Neutrinomass matrix given by µαi ≡ λαiv.
The symmetry of Lν is enhanced: U(1)B−L is an exact globalsymmetry of the Lagrangian if all Mi vanish. Small Mi values are’tHooft natural.
• M � µ: the six neutrinos split up into three mostly active, light ones,and three, mostly sterile, heavy ones. The light neutrino mass matrixis given by mαβ =
∑i µαiM
−1i µβi [m = 1/Λ ⇒ Λ = M/µ2].
This the seesaw mechanism. Neutrinos are Majorana fermions.Lepton number is not a good symmetry of Lν , even thoughL-violating effects are hard to come by.
• M ∼ µ: six states have similar masses. Active–sterile mixing is verylarge. This scenario is (generically) ruled out by active neutrino data(atmospheric, solar, KamLAND, K2K, etc).
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[ASIDE: Why are Neutrino Masses Small in the M 6= 0 Case?]
If µ�M , below the mass scale M ,
L5 =LHLH
Λ.
Neutrino masses are small if Λ� 〈H〉. Data require Λ ∼ 1014 GeV.
In the case of the seesaw,
Λ ∼ M
λ2,
so neutrino masses are small if either
• they are generated by physics at a very high energy scale M � v
(high-energy seesaw); or
• they arise out of a very weak coupling between the SM and a new, hidden
sector (low-energy seesaw); or
• cancellations among different contributions render neutrino masses
accidentally small (“fine-tuning”).
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10-14
10-12
10-10
10-8
10-6
10-4
10-2
1
10-12
10-10
10-8
10-6
10-4
10-2
1 102
104
106
108
1010
1012
MN (eV)
sin2 !
as
Experimentally Excluded10-1
10-2
10-5
m"=.....eV
Constraining the Seesaw Lagrangian
[AdG, Huang, Jenkins, arXiv:0906.1611]
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High-Energy Seesaw: Brief Comments
• This is everyone’s favorite scenario.
• Upper bound for M (e.g. Maltoni, Niczyporuk, Willenbrock, hep-ph/0006358):
M < 7.6× 1015 GeV ×(
0.1 eVmν
).
• Hierarchy problem hint (e.g., Casas, Espinosa, Hidalgo, hep-ph/0410298):
M < 107 GeV.
• Physics “too” heavy! No observable consequence other thanleptogenesis. From thermal leptogenesis M > 109 GeV. Will we everconvince ourselves that this is correct? (e.g., Buckley, Murayama,
hep-ph/0606088)
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High-energy seesaw has no other observable consequences, except, perhaps, . . .
Baryogenesis via Leptogenesis
One of the most basic questions we are allowed to ask (with any real hopeof getting an answer) is whether the observed baryon asymmetry of theUniverse can be obtained from a baryon–antibaryon symmetric initialcondition plus well understood dynamics. [Baryogenesis]
This isn’t just for aesthetic reasons. If the early Universe undergoes aperiod of inflation, baryogenesis is required, as inflation would wipe outany pre-existing baryon asymmetry.
It turns out that massive neutrinos can help solve this puzzle!
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In the old SM, (electroweak) baryogenesis does not work – not enoughCP-invariance violation, Higgs boson too light.
Neutrinos help by providing all the necessary ingredients for successfulbaryogenesis via leptogenesis.
• Violation of lepton number, which later on is transformed into baryonnumber by nonperturbative, finite temperature electroweak effects (inone version of the νSM, lepton number is broken at a high energyscale M).
• Violation of C-invariance and CP-invariance (weak interactions, plusnew CP-odd phases).
• Deviation from thermal equilibrium (depending on the strength of therelevant interactions).
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E.g. – thermal, seesaw leptogenesis, L ⊃ −yiαLiHNα − MαβN
2 NαNβ +H.c.
• L-violating processes
• y ⇒ CP-violation
• deviation from thermal eq.constrains combinations of
MN and y.
• need to yield correct mν
not trivial!
[G. Giudice et al, hep-ph/0310123]
[Fukugita, Yanagida]
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0.08 0.1 0.12 0.14 0.16heaviest ν mass m3 in eV
10−10
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0.08 0.1 0.12 0.14 0.16heaviest ν mass m3 in eV
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3σ ranges
E.g. – thermal, seesaw leptogenesis, L ⊃ −yiαLiHNα − MαβN
2 NαNβ +H.c.
[G. Giudice et al, hep-ph/0310123]
It did not have to work – but it does
MSSM picture does not quite work – gravitino problem
(there are ways around it, of course...)
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Relationship to Low Energy Observables?
In general . . . no. This is very easy to understand. The baryon asymmetrydepends on the (high energy) physics responsible for lepton-numberviolation. Neutrino masses are a (small) consequence of this physics,albeit the only observable one at the low-energy experiments we canperform nowadays.
see-saw: y,MN have more physical parameters than mν = ytM−1N y.
There could be a relationship, but it requires that we know more aboutthe high energy Lagrangian (model depent). The day will come when wehave enough evidence to refute leptogenesis (or strongly suspect that it iscorrect) - but more information of the kind I mentioned earlier is reallynecessary (charged-lepton flavor violation, collider data on EWSB,lepton-number violation, etc).
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( There are other “kinds” of leptogenesis, of which I’ll say nothing
• Nonthermal leptogenesis
• Type-II see-saw leptogenesis
• Dirac leptogenesis Lindner et al; Murayama and Pierce
• Soft leptogenesis Grossman et al; Giudice et al.
• . . .
)
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Colliders
g − 2 CLFVEDM ⇓
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This is Just the Tip of the Model-Iceberg!
AdG, Jenkins, 0708.1344 [hep-ph]
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VMNS ∼
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Understanding Fermion Mixing
The other puzzling phenomenon uncovered by the neutrino data is the
fact that Neutrino Mixing is Strange. What does this mean?
It means that lepton mixing is very different from quark mixing:
[|(VMNS)e3| < 0.2]
WHY?
They certainly look VERY different, but which one would you labelas “strange”?
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“Left-Over” Predictions: δ, mass-hierarchy, cos 2θ23. More important: CORRELATIONS!
[Albright and Chen, hep-ph/0608137]
| || || || || || || || || |Daya Bay
(3 σ)
↔↔↔
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Lepton Mixing Anarchy is the hypothesis that there is no symmetry
principle behind the leptonic mixing matrix U .
In more concrete terms, it postulates that the observed leptonic mixingmatrix can be described as the result of a random draw from an unbiaseddistribution of unitary 3× 3 matrices.
This is not a very ambitious model. It does not make predictions for thevalues of any of the mixing parameters, nor does it predict anycorrelations among the different mixing parameters. It does not,obviously, allow one to reduce the number of mixing parameters comparedto those in the lepton mixing sector of the νSM.
The Anarchy hypothesis, however, does make some predictions. Itpredicts a probability distribution for the different parameters thatparameterize U . The distributions are parameterization dependent, butunique once a parameterization is fixed.
[Murayama et al, hep-ph/9911341, hep-ph/0009174, hep-ph/0301050, 1204.1249]
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The probability distributions, first derived by Haba and Murayama,hep-ph/0009174, are easy to obtain. The idea is that they are invariantunder a basis redefinition of the neutrino weak eigenstates, i.e, weak-basisindependent. They are given by the invariant Haar measure of U(3)(assuming that U is a 3× 3 unitary matrix).
This is similar to obtaining the probability distribution for picking a pointon the surface of a sphere from dA = d cos θdφ. The probability density isflat in φ and flat in cos θ.
For unitary 3× 3 matrices, using the standard PDG parameterization, onegets that the probability distribution is flat in
sin2 θ12 sin2 θ23 cos4 θ13 δ φ1,2 (Majorana phases).
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Neutrino Mixing Anarchy: Alive and Kicking!
[AdG, Murayama, 1204.1249]
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Anarchy: Predictions
[AdG, Murayama, 1204.1249]
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00.0050.010.0150.020.0250.030.0350.040.0450.05
0 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.7 0.8 0.9 1sin2e23
sin2e 1
3Anarchy vs. Order — more precision required!
Order: sin2 θ13 = C cos2 2θ23, C ∈ [0.8, 1.2] [AdG, Murayama, 1204.1249]
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How Do We Learn More?
In order to learn more, we need more information. Any new data and/oridea is welcome, including
• searches for charged lepton flavor violation;
(µ→ eγ, µ→ e-conversion in nuclei, etc)
• searches for lepton number violation;
(neutrinoless double beta decay, etc)
• precision measurements of the neutrino oscillation parameters;
(Daya Bay, NOνA, etc)
• searches for fermion electric/magnetic dipole moments
(electron edm, muon g − 2, etc);
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• precision studies of neutrino – matter interactions;
(Minerνa, NuSOnG, etc)
• collider experiments:
(LHC, etc)
– Can we “see” the physics responsible for neutrino masses at the LHC?– YES!Must we see it? – NO, but we won’t find out until we try!
– we need to understand the physics at the TeV scale before we canreally understand the physics behind neutrino masses (is therelow-energy SUSY?, etc).
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CONCLUSIONS
The venerable Standard Model has finally sprung a leak – neutrinos arenot massless!
1. we have a very successful parametrization of the neutrino sector, andwe have identified what we know we don’t know.
2. neutrino masses are very small – we don’t know why, but we think itmeans something important.
3. lepton mixing is very different from quark mixing – we don’t knowwhy, but we think it means something important.
4. we need a minimal νSM Lagrangian. In order to decide which one is“correct” (required in order to attack 2. and 3. above) we mustuncover the faith of baryon number minus lepton number (0νββ is thebest [only?] bet).
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5. We need more experimental input – and more seems to be on the way(this is a truly data driven field right now). We only started to figureout what is going on.
6. The fact that neutrinos have mass may be intimately connected to thefact that there are more baryons than antibaryons in the Universe.How do we test whether this is correct?
7. There is plenty of room for surprises, as neutrinos are very narrow butdeep probes of all sorts of physical phenomena. Remember thatneutrino oscillations are “quantum interference devices” – potentiallyvery sensitive to whatever else may be out there (e.g.,Mseesaw ' 1014 GeV).
8. Finally, we need to resolve the short baseline anomalies. Life could bemuch more interesting!
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