Frank Deppisch was born 1975 in Ochsenfurt, which is part of the beautiful German region of Franconia. He earned his undergraduate qualification in physics at the University of Würzburg, where he also worked as a doctoral student and research assistant, and completed his doctoral thesis entitled Towards a reconstruction of the SUSY seesaw model. He is an associate professor within the high energy physics group at University College London.

1 Introduction

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2 Neutrinos in the Standard Model

2.1 Beta Decays, Pauli and Missing Energy

2.2 The Standard Model and Electroweak Physics

2.3 A First Look at Neutrino Masses

2.4 A Flavour of Symmetry

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3 Neutrino Oscillations

3.1 Oscillations in Vacuum

3.2 Oscillations in a Medium

3.3 Oscillation Experiments

3.4 Three Neutrinos and Beyond

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4 Lepton Flavour Violation

4.1 Lepton Flavour Violating m Decays

4.2 Muon-Electron Conversion in Nuclei

4.3 Lepton Flavour Violating t Decays

4.4 Effective Operator Approach

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5 Lepton Number Violation

5.1 A Second Look at Neutrino Masses

5.2 Two-Neutrino Double Beta Decay

5.3 Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay

5.4 Exotic Contributions

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6 Neutrinos Beyond the Standard Model

6.1 Flavour Symmetries

6.2 A Third Look at Neutrino Masses

6.3 Detectable Heavy Neutrinos

6.4 Gauge Symmetries beyond the SM

6.5 Neutrinos and the Matter-Antimatter Asymmetry

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7 Conclusions