PRISMA+ Colloquium

Feb. 2, 2011 at 1 p.m. in Minkowski-Raum, 05-119, Staudinger Weg

Prof. Dr. Tobias Hurth
Institut für Physik, THEP
hurth@uni-mainz.de

Outlook in Neutrino Physics
Prof. Dr. Pilar Hernandez Gamazo (Instituto de Fisica Corpuscular UV/CSIC, Valencia)


I will review the status of our understanding of the lepton flavour sector of the SM and the future plans to improve our present knowledge. I will then discuss the implications of neutrino masses for physics beyond the Standard Model and consider the possibility of low-scale seesaw models, that could have testable effects beyond neutrino oscillations, in LHC and in charged lepton violating processes. The role of approximate global lepton number symmetries and the possible connection between the full flavour structure of the model with that in the neutrino mass matrix (e.g. Minimal Flavour Violation) wil be discussed.