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What Is ? What Is ? Closing Discussion Boris Kayser Fermilab June 29, 2012 1 Thank you for a very interesting week! Belen Gavela , Ferruccio Feruglio, Bonnie Fleming, Belen Gavela Steen Hannestad, Takaaki Kajita, Ann Nelson, Silvia


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What Is What Is ν ν? ? Closing Discussion

Boris Kayser Fermilab June 29, 2012

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Thank you for a very interesting week!

Belen Gavela Belen Gavela, Ferruccio Feruglio, Bonnie Fleming,

Steen Hannestad, Takaaki Kajita, Ann Nelson, Silvia Pascoli Laura Baudis, Pilar Hernandez Yasaman Farzan, Michele Frigerio, Cecilia Lunardini Daniele Dominici Marcia McGowan, Milvia Soumbounou, Tiina Timonen Annalisa Anichini, Antonio Orlando, Margherita Pazzaglia

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Congratulations and Happy Birthday, Alexei Smirnov!

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NASA Hubble Photo

What Is the Universe Made Of?

A public lecture (in Italian) by Graciela Gelmini Pitti Palace, Tonight, 7 pm

Boboli Gardens (by Pitti Palace) open free for us from ~ 6.15 pm (via Romana, near Ponte Vecchio, this side of the Arno river)

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Issues and Questions

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What Is ν?

Numerous things, but one that stands out is the determination that — (Daya Bay, RENO, Double Chooz, T2K, MINOS)

sin2 2"13 # 0.10

In particular, sin2 2"13 > 0.01. . This is very encouraging for experiments that propose to look for CP in neutrino oscillation, and to determine whether the neutrino mass spectrum looks like or , by using superbeams (neutrinos from pion decay).

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Q: How desirable/important is it for proton decay, supernova neutrinos, and atmospheric neutrinos to be part of any “long-baseline neutrino oscillation” program?

Non Accelerator-Neutrino Physics

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Q: Will we ever need a neutrino factory (neutrinos from muon decay), or a beta beam (neutrinos from nuclear beta decay)? Q: If so, should the Asian, European, and American neutrino communities agree to put the superbeam in one region, and the neutrino factory or beta beam in another region?

Should We Join Forces?

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Q: How seriously should we take the HI HINTS of sterile neutrinos (or something else) from the LSND, MiniBooNE, reactor, radioactive source, and cosmological data? Q: What should we do, and how far should we go, to find out what is going on?

Sterile Neutrinos

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Q: How many neutrinoless double beta decay experiments is it important to have? Q: If one day we know that the neutrino mass spectrum is inverted, and we establish that mee < 10 meV, do we declare that neutrinos are probably Dirac particles, and stop looking for neutrinoless double beta decay?

Double Beta Decay

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The See-Saw Mechanism

Q: What can we do to make it more (or less) plausible that neutrino masses come from the see-saw mechanism? ØFor the high-mass-scale see-saw ØFor the low-mass-scale see-saw Q: Is Leptogenesis, an outgrowth of the see-saw picture, testable? Q: Can we understand the pattern of neutrino masses and leptonic mixing?

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Charged Lepton Flavor Violation

Q: If we observe CLFV, how will we determine what underlying physics is involved?

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Dark Matter

We have discussed several kinds of DM candidates: LHC mass-scale WIMPS, light WIMPS, Asymmetric DM, DM from a hidden sector, keV-scale neutrinos, … Q: Is there a “killer” collection of DM experiments that would markedly help us to determine the nature of DM?

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INVISIBLES 13 : 15-19 July, 2013 (to be re-confirmed) in a castle in UK