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The see-saw mechanism to generate small neutrino masses is reviewed. After summarizing our current knowledge about the low energy neutrino mass matrix, we consider reconstructing the see-saw mechanism. Indirect tests of see-saw are leptogenesis and lepton flavour violation in supersymmetric scenarios, which together with neutrino mass and mixing define the framework of see-saw phenomenology. Several examples are given, both phenomenological and GUT-related.
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Rodejohann, W. The see-saw mechanism: Neutrino mixing, leptogenesis and lepton flavour violation. Pramana - J Phys 72, 217–227 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12043-009-0018-7
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