The theoretical and experimental issues relevant to neutrinoless double beta decay are
reviewed. The impact that a direct observation of this exotic process would have on …

The rapid neutron capture process (r process) is believed to be responsible for about half of
the production of the elements heavier than iron and contributes to abundances of some …

Neutrinos play a crucial role in the collapse and explosion of massive stars, governing the
infall dynamics of the stellar core, triggering and fueling the explosion and driving the …

arxiv:1204.5379v1 [hep-ph] 18 Apr 2012 Page 1 Light Sterile Neutrinos: A White Paper KN
Abazajiana,1 MA Acero,2 SK Agarwalla,3 AA Aguilar-Arevalo,2 CH Albright,4, 5 S. Antusch,6 …

Neutrino masses and mixings produce vacuum oscillations, an established quantum
mechanical phenomenon. In matter, the Mikheev-Smirnov-Wolfenstein effect, due to …

The discovery of neutrino masses suggests the likely existence of gauge singlet fermions
that participate in the neutrino mass generation via the seesaw mechanism. The masses of …

A core-collapse supernova will produce an enormous burst of neutrinos of all flavors in the
few-tens-of-MeV range. Measurement of the flavor, time, and energy structure of a nearby …

We identify the range of parameters for which the sterile neutrinos can simultaneously
explain the cosmological dark matter and the observed velocities of pulsars. To satisfy all …

The diffuse supernova neutrino background (DSNB) is the weak glow of megaelectronvolt
neutrinos and antineutrinos from distant core-collapse supernovae. The DSNB has not been …

Neutrino-driven winds, which follow core-collapse supernova explosions, present a
fascinating nuclear-astrophysics problem that requires an understanding of advanced …