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Yoji Totsuka
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An elementary particle "neutrino" was born in Pauli's conjecture 70 years ago. Its study has made remarkable contributions to establishing the weak interactions and the electro-weak unification theory. Recently much interest has been directed to investigating the intrinsic properties of the neutrinos and important experimental results on their masses and mixings were obtained. This article introduces several experiments that have made break-throughs in neutrino physics. Also presented is a personal view of what should be done in future to further develop neutrino physics. This article is devoted to Professor Koshiba's 2002 Nobel Prize in physics.
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Tsutomu Yanagida
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We give a brief review on the seesaw mechanism in a grand unified theory which predicts small neutrino masses. In the seesaw mechanism the lepton-number conservation is broken and neutrinos have Majorana type masses. We also explain why the lepton-number nonconservation can be an origin of the baryon-number asymmetry in the present universe.
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Takaaki Kajita
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Cosmic ray particles entering the atmosphere interact with the air nuclei and produce neutrinos. These neutrinos are called atmospheric neutrinos. The atmospheric neutrino anomaly observed in Kamiokande is now understood as due to neutrino oscillations by high statistics measurements of the atmospheric neutrinos in Super-Kamiokande. The studies of the atmospheric neutrinos have matured into detailed studies of neutrino masses and mixings.
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Koichiro Nishikawa
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The K2K collaboration has established the principles of the accelerator based long baseline neutrino experiment. The data prove the existence of neutrino oscillation with better than 99% confidence level and the indication of the neutrino spectrum distortion is observed. The results of oscillation analysis show that the oscillation parameters are consistent with the atmospheric neutrino results from Super-Kamiokande experiment.
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Masayuki Nakahata, Yoichiro Suzuki
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The deficit of the solar neutrino event rate (so called "solar neutrino problem") was initially presented by Davis since 1960s. It was established as a deficit of the solar neutrino flux by Kamiokande led by Koshiba. In the recent two years, it was found that the solar neutrino problem is due to neutrino oscillations by the results from Super-Kamiokande and SNO experiments. Combining with other solar neutrino experiments, most probable solution of the neutrino oscillation parameters was the Large Mixing Angle (LMA) solution. In December 2002, the reactor long baseline experiment. KamLAND, confirmed that the LMA is the correct solution.
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Atsuto Suzuki
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In January 22, 2002, KamLAND started the data-taking. With the data sample from March 3 through October 6, 2002. KamLAND has measured the flux of electron antineutrinos from distant nuclear reactors. We find fewer electron antineutrino events than expected from standard assumptions about electron antineutrino propagation at the 99.95%C.L. In a 162 ton-yr exposure the ratio of the number of observed inverse β-decay events to the expected number without electron antineutrino disappearance is 0.611±0.085 (stat) ± 0.041 (syst) for electron antineutrino energies >3.4 MeV. In the context of two-flavor neutrino oscillations with CPT invariance, all solutions to the solar neutrino problem except for the "large mixing angle" region are excluded.
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Osamu Yasuda
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A lot of information on the mixing matrix and the mass squared differences of neutrino oscillation have been revealed recently thanks to various experiments on neutrino oscillation. The conclusion is that almost everything is well accounted for by neutrino oscillation among three flavors. In this article I will describe how the three flavor mixing matrix is derived and the status of four neutrino mixing scenarios which would be necessary to account for the LSND experiment in Los Alamos and I will explain on phenomenology of long baseline experiments (determination of the third mixing angle, the mass squared difference of the atmospheric neutrino oscillation and the CP violating phase in the three flavor framework) which are studied actively at present.
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Hitoshi Murayama
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In this article, we review the impact of the discovery of neutrino oscillation on our understanding of flavor.
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Kaoru Hagiwara
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