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Carlo Giunti

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Coherence and Wave Packets in Neutrino Oscillations

General arguments in favor of the necessity of a wave packet description of neutrino oscillations are presented, drawing from analogies with other wave phenomena. We present a wave packet description of neutrino oscillations in stationary beams using the density matrix formalism. Recent claims of the necessity of an equal energy of different massive neutrinos are refuted.

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Status of Neutrino Masses and Mixing

The experimental evidences in favor of oscillations of solar (and KamLAND) and atmospheric (and K2K) neutrinos are briefly reviewed and accommodated in the framework of three-neutrino mixing. The implications for the values of neutrino masses are discussed and the bounds on the absolute scale of neutrino masses from Tritium beta-decay and cosmological data are reviewed. Finally, we discuss the implications of three-neutrino mixing for neutrinoless double-beta decay.

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Double Beta Decay and the Absolute Neutrino Mass Scale

After a short review of the current status of three-neutrino mixing, the implications for the values of neutrino masses are discussed. The bounds on the absolute scale of neutrino masses from Tritium beta-decay and cosmological data are reviewed. Finally, we discuss the implications of three-neutrino mixing for neutrinoless double-beta decay.

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Neutrino oscillations and neutrinoless double-beta decay

We consider the scheme with mixing of three neutrinos and a mass hierarchy. We shown that, under the natural assumptions that massive neutrinos are Majorana particles and there are no unlikely fine-tuned cancellations among the contributions of the different neutrino masses, the results of solar neutrino experiments imply a lower bound for the effective Majorana mass in neutrinoless double-beta decay. We also discuss briefly neutrinoless double-beta decay in schemes with mixing of four neutrinos. We show that one of them is favored by the data.

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Four-Neutrino Mixing and Long-Baseline Experiments

We consider the two four-neutrino schemes that are compatible with all neutrino oscillation data. We present the range of the corresponding mixing parameters allowed by the results of neutrino oscillation experiments. We discuss the implications for long-baseline experiments and we suggest the possibility to reveal the presence of CP-violating phases through a comparison of the oscillation probability measured in long-baseline experiments with the corresponding average oscillation probability measured in short-baseline experiments.

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Four-Neutrino Oscillations

It is shown that at least four massive neutrinos are needed in order to accommodate the evidences in favor of neutrino oscillations found in solar and atmospheric neutrino experiments and in the LSND experiment. Among all four-neutrino schemes, only two, with a mass spectrum composed of two pairs of neutrinos with close masses separated by the "LSND gap" of the order of 1 eV, are compatible with the results of all neutrino oscillation experiments. In these two schemes the probability of nu_e transitions into other states, the probability of nu_mu->nu_e transitions and the size of CP violation effects in nu_mu->nu_e transitions are suppressed in long-baseline experiments.

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Experimental Constraints on Four-Neutrino Mixing

It is shown that at least four massive neutrinos are needed in order to accommodate the evidences in favor of neutrino oscillations found in solar and atmospheric neutrino experiments and in the LSND experiment. Among all four-neutrino schemes, only two are compatible with the results of all neutrino oscillation experiments. These two schemes have a mass spectrum composed of two pairs of neutrinos with close masses separated by the "LSND gap" of the order of 1 eV.

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Four-Neutrino Mixing

It is shown that at least four massive neutrinos are needed in order to accommodate the evidences in favor of neutrino oscillations found in solar and atmospheric neutrino experiments and in the LSND experiment. Among all four-neutrino schemes, only two are compatible with the results of all neutrino oscillation experiments. These two schemes have a mass spectrum composed of two pairs of neutrinos with close masses separated by the "LSND gap" of the order of 1 eV.

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Matter Effects in Four-Neutrino Mixing

We present a formalism for the description of oscillations in matter of solar, atmospheric and long-baseline neutrinos in the two schemes of four-neutrino mixing that are allowed by the results of all existing neutrino oscillation experiments.

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