Title Page -- Indice -- Preface -- Gruppo fotografico dei partecipanti al Corso -- Neutrino oscillation physics -- Introduction -- Physics of neutrino oscillation -- Preliminaries -- Probability of neutrino oscillation in vacuum -- Neutrino flavor change in matter -- A brief guide to references -- Double-beta decay -- Introduction -- The principle of cryogenic detectors -- Measurement of the neutrino mass in single-beta decay -- Conclusions -- Light neutrinos in cosmology -- Introduction -- The cosmic neutrino background -- Relic neutrino production and decoupling -- Background evolution -- Neutrinos and Primordial Nucleosynthesis -- Extra radiation and the effective number of neutrinos -- Neutrino oscillations in the Early Universe -- Active-active neutrino oscillations: relic neutrino asymmetries -- Active-sterile neutrino oscillations -- Massive neutrinos as Dark Matter -- Effects of neutrino masses on cosmology -- Brief description of cosmological observables -- Neutrino free-streaming -- Impact of massive neutrinos on the matter power spectrum -- Impact of massive neutrinos on the CMB anisotropy spectrum -- Current bounds on neutrino masses -- CMB anisotropies -- Galaxy redshift surveys -- Lyman-alpha forest -- Summary and discussion of current bounds -- Future sensitivities on neutrino masses from cosmology -- Conclusions -- Neutrinos and the stars -- Introduction -- Neutrinos from ordinary stars -- Some basics of stellar evolution -- Neutrino emission processes -- Neutrino electromagnetic properties -- Globular clusters testing stellar evolution and particle physics -- White dwarf cooling -- Neutrinos from the Sun -- Solar neutrino measurements and flavor oscillations -- Helioseismology and the solar opacity problem -- Sun as a particle source -- Supernova neutrinos -- Classification of supernovae -- Explosion mechanism.

Characteristics of neutrino signal -- Supernova 1987A and its neutrino signal -- Neutrinos from the next nearby supernova -- Diffuse supernova neutrino background (DSNB) -- Particle physics constraints and future possibilities -- Flavor oscillations of SN neutrinos -- Conclusion -- High energy neutrinos and cosmic rays -- Galactic and extragalactic primary cosmic radiation: a short overview -- Cosmic ray acceleration -- Shock acceleration -- Maximal acceleration energy -- Application to particle acceleration in gamma-ray bursts -- Anisotropies and nature of the sources -- Propagation and deflection -- Galactic cosmic rays -- Extragalactic cosmic rays -- Chemical composition -- High energy neutrino detection -- High energy neutrino fluxes -- Methods and problems in low-energy neutrino experiments (solar, reactors, geo-) -- Introduction -- Solar neutrinos -- Radiochemical method -- Cherenkov detector -- SNO -- Super-Kamiokande -- Scintillation technique -- Borexino -- Other experiments -- Global physics results -- Geoneutrinos -- Conclusions -- Methods and problems in neutrino observatories -- Introduction -- Cosmic Accelerators and neutrino astronomy -- UHE CR cosmic ray connection -- AGN blazar accelerator -- Atmospheric neutrinos -- CR muon background -- Strong ET neutrino discrimination -- Neutrino oscillations -- Oscillations over astronomical baselines -- Matter oscillations -- Lorentz invariance violation -- GZK neutrinos -- Dark matter -- Solar WIMPs -- Neutralino annihilation in the galaxy -- Neutrino telescope detection methodology -- Neutrino interaction cross-sections -- Event topologies -- Effective area, event rate and detection potential -- Event reconstruction -- Systematic uncertainties -- Neutrino telescopes: past and present -- First generation -- Present generation -- Supernova neutrino detection methodology.

Neutrino telescope as supernova detector -- SN detection based on coincident hit rate -- Backgrounds and other difficulties in SN analyses -- Point source search methodology -- The multi-messenger approach -- Point source search strategies -- Whole sky steady point source search -- UHE neutrino search with alternative detection techniques -- Conclusions -- New technologies in neutrino physics -- Phenomenology of neutrino oscillations -- Open questions in neutrino physics -- Technology of reactor experiments searching for Theta13 -- Large scintillator techniques -- General experimental layout of LENA -- Low energy neutrino physics -- High energy neutrino physics -- Perspectives of underground physics -- Why go underground? -- A bit of history -- Science -- Neutrino physics -- Solar neutrinos -- The nature of neutrinos -- Direct search for dark matter -- Conclusions -- POSTERS -- Precision measurement of the 7Be solar neutrino rate in Borexino -- Introduction -- The Borexino detector -- Precision measurement of 7Be neutrinos -- Search for a day-night asymmetry in the 862 keV 7Be neutrino rate -- Conclusions -- COBRA-Neutrinoless double beta decay experiment -- The concept of COBRA -- Detector technologies -- R&D activities -- Conclusion -- Commissioning of the GERDA experiment -- Introduction -- Experimental setup -- Activities during the commissioning -- Conclusions and outlook -- Multiple CP-non-conserving mechanisms in beta beta beta 0 nu decay -- Introduction -- CP-violating mechanisms -- Example of two ``non-interfering'' mechanisms -- Example of two ``interfering'' mechanisms -- The Askar'yan Radio Array, an UHE-neutrino detector at South Pole -- Introduction -- The detection principle -- The detector setup -- The detector site -- The detector configuration -- Used technology -- First deployments and measurements -- Outlook.

Matter suppression of collective supernova neutrino oscillations -- Introduction -- Analysis of SN neutrino flavor conversions -- Setup of the flavor evolution -- Matter versus neutrino potential: analysis and results -- Conclusions -- Accuracy of the Laser Raman system for KATRIN -- Introduction -- Impact of LARA accuracy on KATRIN -- Status of the accuracy of the KATRIN Laser Raman system -- Achieved precision -- Achieved trueness -- Conclusion -- Particle physics beyond the standard model: Astrophysical constraints -- Exotic energy loss -- Results -- Conclusions -- Enhanced Higgs-mediated lepton-flavour-violating processes in the supersymmetric inverse seesaw model -- Introduction -- Supersymmetric inverse seesaw and Higgs-mediated LFV -- Conclusion -- Solar neutrino flux modulated by solar activity -- The Double Chooz experiment -- Introduction: Physics motivations and experimental concept -- Detector design, signal and background -- Expected sensitivity, discovery potential and first results -- NUCIFER: A small detector for short-distance reactor electron-antineutrino studies -- Description -- Non-proliferation -- Short baseline oscillation study -- Investigations of UV-Laser induced background at the KATRIN pre-spectrometer -- Introduction -- Background due to electrons from the vessel hull -- Measurement set-up -- Results -- Supernova neutrino detection with IceCube -- Detection method -- Background analysis -- Signal prediction -- A new noise-free neutrino astronomy at 20GeV? -- Optimisation of the KM3NeT high-energy neutrino telescope for galactic neutrino sources -- Supernova neutrino signal at helium and lead observatory: Learning about the primary neutrino fluxes -- Acoustic detection of UHE cosmic neutrinos: R&D towards large deep-sea arrays -- Acoustic neutrino detection -- The NEMO-SMO acoustic array.

Background due to stored electrons in the KATRIN spectrometers -- Introduction -- Background due to stored electrons -- Removing stored electrons -- Elenco dei partecipanti.

This book contains chapters based on 9 of the lectures delivered at the Enrico Fermi School of Physics "Neutrino Physics and Astrophysics", held from 25 of July to 5 August 2011. The event was organized by the Italian Physical Society (SIF) jointly with the International School of Astro-particle Physics (ISAPP), a network whose aim is to build up an astro-particle community of both astrophysicists and particle physicists. Included are chapters on Neutrino oscillation physics (B. Kayser); Double-beta decay (E. Fiorini); Light neutrinos in cosmology (S. Pastor); Neutrinos and the stars (G.G. Raffelt); High energy neutrinos and cosmic rays (G. Sigl); Methods and problems in low-energy neutrino experiments (G. Ranucci); Methods and problems in neutrino observatories (M. Ribordy); New technologies in neutrino physics (L. Oberauer); and Perspectives of underground physics (A. Bettini). These are a followed by a section on the results presented in the form of posters by the Ph.D. students attending the school. The book will be of interest not only to participants of the school, but also to other Ph.D. students and young physicists.

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