Brief Neutrino Physics Update

Abstract

The discovery of neutrino mass establishes the need for physics beyond the Standard Model. I summarize the status of two- and three-neutrino oscillation parameters from current solar, atmospheric, reactor and accelerator data. Future neutrinoless double beta decay experiments will probe the nature of neutrinos, as well as the absolute scale of neutrino mass, also tested by tritium beta decay spectra and cosmological observations. Sterile neutrinos do not provide a good way to account for the LSND hint, which needs further confirmation. Finally I sketch the main theoretical ideas for generating neutrino mass.

Comments: Latex file, 10 pages, 6 figures, uses ws-p8-50x6-00.cls. Based on talk given at the String Phenomenology Workshop held at Durham, July 29 - August 4, 2003