Neutrino Oscillations in the Three Flavor Paradigm

[2501.08374] Neutrino Oscillations in the Three Flavor Paradigm Skip to main content Search Submit Donate Log in High Energy Physics - Phenomenology arXiv:2501.08374 (hep-ph) [Submitted on 14 Jan 2025 ( v1 ), last revised 23 Mar 2026 (this version, v3)] Title: Neutrino Oscillations in the Three Flavor Paradigm Authors: Peter B. Denton View PDF Abstract: The three-flavor neutrino oscillation model describes the well-studied phenomenon of neutrinos produced in association with one charged lepton: electron, muon, or tau, and then later detected in association with a possibly different charged lepton. While somewhat surprising, the firm experimental discovery of the phenomenon in the late 1990s and early 2000s has lead to a revolution in particle physics as the nature of neutrinos has been explored with heightened vigor ever since. At the core of the phenomenon are the six neutrino oscillation parameters. These parameters are fundamental and not predicted from anything else in our model of particle physics. At the time of writing this chapter, many of them have been measured, but several key questions remain that are to be answered by neutrino oscillations themselves. These questions have motivated some of the largest and most involved particle physics experiments built to date. This chapter will develop the basics of neutrino oscillation theory and build intuition for the role of the oscillation parameters and how they are measured, as well as the important role of the matter effect in neutrino oscillations. Comments: 25 pages, 5 figures, invited chapter for the Encyclopedia of Particle Physics. Comments welcome! v2: typos, references, v3: more updates Subjects: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) ; High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex) Cite as: arXiv:2501.08374 [hep-ph] (or arXiv:2501.08374v3 [hep-ph] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2501.08374 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite Journal reference: Encyclopedia of Particle Physics, 3, 194 (2026) Related DOI : https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-443-26598-3.00005-5 Focus to learn more DOI(s) linking to related resources Submission history From: Peter Denton [ view email ] [v1] Tue, 14 Jan 2025 19:00:00 UTC (989 KB) [v2] Fri, 9 May 2025 21:15:52 UTC (990 KB) [v3] Mon, 23 Mar 2026 23:00:12 UTC (993 KB) Full-text links: Access Paper: View PDF TeX Source view license Current browse context: hep-ph < prev | next > new | recent | 2025-01 Change to browse by: hep-ex References & Citations INSPIRE HEP SciX Google Scholar Semantic Scholar export BibTeX citation Bookmark Bibliographic Tools Bibliographic and Citation Tools Bibliographic Explorer Toggle Bibliographic Explorer ( What is the Explorer? ) Connected Papers Toggle Connected Papers ( What is Connected Papers? ) Litmaps Toggle Litmaps ( What is Litmaps? ) scite.ai Toggle scite Smart Citations ( What are Smart Citations? ) Code, Data, Media Code, Data and Media Associated with this Article alphaXiv Toggle alphaXiv ( What is alphaXiv? ) Links to Code Toggle CatalyzeX Code Finder for Papers ( What is CatalyzeX? ) DagsHub Toggle DagsHub ( What is DagsHub? ) GotitPub Toggle Gotit.pub ( What is GotitPub? ) Huggingface Toggle Hugging Face ( What is Huggingface? ) ScienceCast Toggle ScienceCast ( What is ScienceCast? ) Demos Demos Replicate Toggle Replicate ( What is Replicate? ) Spaces Toggle Hugging Face Spaces ( What is Spaces? ) Spaces Toggle TXYZ.AI ( What is TXYZ.AI? ) Related Papers Recommenders and Search Tools Link to Influence Flower Influence Flower ( What are Influence Flowers? ) Core recommender toggle CORE Recommender ( What is CORE? ) IArxiv recommender toggle IArxiv Recommender ( What is IArxiv? ) Author Venue Institution Topic About arXivLabs arXivLabs: experimental projects with community collaborators arXivLabs is a framework that allows collaborators to develop and share new arXiv features directly on our website. Both individuals and organizations that work with arXivLabs have embraced and accepted our values of openness, community, excellence, and user data privacy. arXiv is committed to these values and only works with partners that adhere to them. Have an idea for a project that will add value for arXiv's community? Learn more about arXivLabs . Which authors of this paper are endorsers? | Disable MathJax ( What is MathJax? ) We gratefully acknowledge support from our major funders , member institutions , and all contributors. About · Help · Contact · Subscribe · Copyright · Privacy · Accessibility · Operational Status (opens in new tab)

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