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Working Group Report: Neutrino and Astroparticle Physics

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This is the report of neutrino and astroparticle physics working group at WHEPP-8. We present the discussions carried out during the workshop on selected topics in the above fields and also indicate progress made subsequently. The neutrino physics subgroup studied the possibilites of constraining neutrino masses, mixing and CPT violation in lepton sector from future experiments. Neutrino mass models in the context of abelian horizontal symmetries, warped extra dimensions and in presence of triplet Higgs were studied. Effect of threshold corrections on radiative magnification of mixing angles was investigated. The astroparticle physics subgroup focused on how various particle physics inputs affect the CMBR fluctuation spectrum, and on brane cosmology. This report also contains an introduction on how to use the publicly available code CMBFAST to calculate the CMBR fluctuations.

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Srubabati Goswami, Raghavan Rangarajan, K. Agashe, A. Bandyopadhyay, K. Bhattacharya, B. Brahmachari, C. Burgess, E. J. Chun, D. Choudhury, P. K. Das, A. Dighe, R. Godbole, N. Gupta, M. Kaplinghat, D. Indumathi, J. Forshaw, Y. Y. Keum, B. Layek, D. Majumdar, N. Mahajan, P. Mehta, R. N. Mohapatra, N. Mondal, S. More, Y. Nir, S. Pakvasa, M. K. Parida, M. Ravikumar, G. Rajasekaran, P. Ramadevi, S. D. Rindani, D. P. Roy, P. Roy, N. Sahu, A. Samanta, Y. Shadmi, A. M. Srivastava, S. Uma Sankar, R. Vaidya, U. Yajnik. 2004-09-19. Working Group Report: Neutrino and Astroparticle Physics. https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02704904

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