Neutrino Masses and Flavor Mixing H. Fritzsch LMU Munich
weak transitions and weak mixing
flavor mixing - quarks CKM - matrix
:H. Fritzsch – Z. Xing
experiments
flavor mixing angles - fermion masses
- - III 2 families flavor mixing II I
mass matrices texture 0 H. Fritzsch - S. Weinberg / 1978
mixing angles <=> masses - mixing angles <=> masses
Observed quark masses
Cabibbo angle
Cabibbo angle
- 3 families III flavor mixing II I
- texture zeros
m in GeV
- unitarity triangle
Cabibbo angle unitarity triangle (rectangular)
- Maximal CP-violation
relations between quark masses ? Observed: m(c) : m(t) = m(u):m(c) 1/207 1/207 m(s):m(b) = m(d):m(s) 1/23 1/23
ln m
mixing of leptons
W. Pauli 1930 „Neutrino“
Dear Radioactive Ladies and Gentlemen !
Savannah river reactor 1956: discovery of the neutrino Savannah river reactor
(Fred Reines – Clyde Cowan)
n-capture by cadmium
Bruno Pontecorvo 1913 - 1993
neutrino mixing
(1957) (1976) Physics Letters 62B, 76 B. Pontecorvo Phys. JETP 6, 429 H. Fritzsch - P. Minkowski Physics Letters 62B, 76 (1976)
Neutrino oscillations
1963 Calculation of solar flux John Bahcall
1965 => Homestake Goldmine South Dakota
solar neutrino deficit observed: 0.5 neutrinos / day expected: 1.5 neutrinos / day observed: 0.5 neutrinos / day solar neutrino deficit
Kamioka
neutrino oscillations atmospheric neutrinos
2001 => Kanada Sudbury Neutrino Obervatory SNO
charged current neutral current S N O Solar neutrinos charged current neutral current
neutrino mixing matrix (==> CKM Matrix)
V = U P Fritzsch - Xing
n Kamiokande - SNO
- texture zeros
observation
==> neutrino masses
neutrino masses ( eV )
Neutrino Mixing Matrix ???
ln m
ln m ?
Radiative corrections
radiative corrections
ln m
-
Daya Bay
RENO
Daya Bay - Reno
???????? ??????? neutrino masses very small
Dirac mass ? Majorana mass ?
seesaw mechanism
History Seesaw T. Yanagida 1979 Footnote: H. Fritzsch, M. Gell-Mann, P. Minkowski, PLB 59 (1975) 256 P. Minkowski, PLB 1976 T. Yanagida 1979 M. Gell-Mann, P. Ramond, R. Slansky 1979
Neutrinoless Double Beta decay
Gran Sasso Laboratory
Cuoricino experiment
Cuoricino experiment Majorana neutrino mass: < 0.23 eV
relevant mass term: expected: Observed:
Conclusions texture zeros
observation
neutrino masses ( eV )