Bruno Pontecorvo and the neutrino

S.M. Bilenky^a, b
^aJoint Institute for Nuclear Research, 6 Joliot-Curie Str., Dubna, Moscow Region, 141980, Russian Federation
^bPhysik Department, Technische Universität München, James-Franck str. 1, Garching, 85748, Germany

This paper commemorates the 100th anniversary of the birth of the great scientist and neutrino researcher Bruno Pontecorvo. His major contributions are reviewed, including the radiochemical method of neutrino detection; the recognition of the ν—e universality of the weak interaction; and the idea of using accelerated neutrinos to discern between ν_e and ν_μ. Pontecorvo’s fundamental idea of neutrino masses, mixing and oscillations is discussed in fair detail, as is the development of this idea by Pontecorvo and Gribov and Pontecorvo and myself.

PACS: 01.60+q, 01.65.+g, 14.60.Pq (all)
DOI: 10.3367/UFNe.0184.201405g.0531
URL: https://ufn.ru/en/articles/2014/5/g/
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Citation: Bilenky S M "Bruno Pontecorvo and the neutrino" Phys. Usp. 57 489–496 (2014)

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Accepted: 2nd, September 2013

Оригинал: Биленький С М «Бруно Понтекорво и нейтрино» УФН 184 531–538 (2014); DOI: 10.3367/UFNr.0184.201405g.0531

B.M. Pontecorvo is author of Physics-Uspekhi

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