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These lectures discuss some aspects of neutrino physics making special emphasis on the phenomenology of neutrino oscillations in vacuum and in matter. The existing evidence from solar and atmospheric neutrinos as well as the results from laboratory searches are also reviewed.

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Gonzalez-Garcia, M.C. (2003). Neutrino Physics. In: Prosper, H.B., Danilov, M. (eds) Techniques and Concepts of High-Energy Physics XII. NATO Science Series, vol 123. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0076-5_2

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