THE NEUTRINO WORLD

Current plans are for the school to have 36 1 hr 15 minute lectures. We will aim to teach not only the fundamentals, but also theoretical perspectives and experimental challenges, including —

Theoretical connections of neutrinos to other areas of particle physics

Need for statistics and ways to get it

Character of the signals to be sought

Needs for background suppression and ways to achieve it

Need for cross section information and ways to get it

Optimizing experimental strategies to answer the open questions

In addition to the lectures there will be discussion sessions to answer questions and explore topics in more detail, driven by students areas of interest.

(n) indicates the number of lectures on that topic

Standard Model Background   (3)

Standard Model basics relevant to neutrino physics
– especially quark masses, mixing, and CP violation

The framework -- neutrino phenomenology   (3)

Dirac and Majorana neutrino masses and leptonic mixing
Neutrino oscillation in vacuum and in matter
Neutrino-less double beta decay
Kinematical neutrino mass probes
Dipole moments and other EM properties

The evidence for neutrino flavor change and neutrino mass   (3)

Atmospheric neutrinos
Accelerator neutrinos
Solar neutrinos
Reactor neutrinos

The big picture   (3)

What we have learned from the data
The open questions and why they are interesting

Neutrinos and the universe   (5)

Cosmological information on neutrino masses   (1)
Leptogenesis   (2)
Neutrino probes of UHE astrophysical phenomena   (1)
Supernova neutrinos   (1)

How the open questions may be answered   (10)

Does anti-ν = ν, and what is the ν mass scale?
          0νββ and β decay experiments   (2)
What are θ₁₃, θ₂₃, the mass ordering, and CP violation?
          Accelerator and reactor experiments & future "conventional-beam" options
                    Strategy   (2)
                    Conventional beams   (2)
                    Reactors & the accelerator/reactor connection   (2)
          Liquid Argon and Water Cherenkov detectors   (2)

The possibility of sterile neutrinos   (2)

The physics
The experiments

Neutrino cross sections   (2)

Their importance and ways to measure them

Beyond conventional neutrino beams   (2)

The neutrino factory
Beta beams

Models of neutrino masses and mixing   (3)

The extended SM as a framework for model building
The see-saw mechanism
Extra dimensions
MaVaNs
A survey highlighting possible connections to other physics
How future experimental results will test the models