Neutrino Physics

Abstract

Neutrinos offered the greatest surprises in high energy physics during the last decades. In this chapter we review the main milestones of this passionate history: the first neutrino beams which established the separate neutrino identities, the Gargamelle discovery of the weak neutral currents, the LEP determination of three light neutrino species and the discovery of the intriguing phenomenon of neutrino oscillations. The experimental determination of the neutrino mass matrix elements is still in progress with several experiments either taking data or planned for the near future. We end with the present theoretical puzzles and the experiments which may help to solve them.