Leptonic CP violation

• Main Author: Branco, G. C.
• Publication Date: 2012
• Other Authors: Felipe, Ricardo Gonzalez, Joaquim, F. R.
• Format: Article
• Language: eng
• Source: Repositórios Científicos de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (RCAAP)
• Download full: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.21/1773
• topic: Doubble-Beta-Decay; Neutrino-Oscillation Experiments; Minimal Flavor Violation; Long-Base-Line; Triplet Seesaw Mechanism; Electric-Dipole Moment; Right-Handed Neutrinos; Nuclear-Power-Reactor; Quark Mass Matrices; Majorana Neutrinos

Several topics on CP violation in the lepton sector are reviewed. A few theoretical aspects concerning neutrino masses, leptonic mixing, and CP violation will be covered, with special emphasis on seesaw models. A discussion is provided on observable effects which are manifest in the presence of CP violation, particularly, in neutrino oscillations and neutrinoless double beta decay processes, and their possible implications in collider experiments such as the LHC. The role that leptonic CP violation may have played in the generation of the baryon asymmetry of the Universe through the mechanism of leptogenesis is also discussed.