New Trends in Neutrino Physics

This volume constitutes the proceedings of the Ringberg Euroconference. The purpose of the meeting was to communicate experimental results and to exchange new theoretical ideas on the phenomenology of neutrinos within and beyond the standard model of particle physics, as well as in astrophysics and cosmology. Results from past and present laboratory experiments were presented at the conference. In astrophysics, the results referred to solar neutrinos, bringing the problem of the solar neutrino deficit closer to a solution, and to atmospheric neutrinos, indicating that the neutrinos apparently do have a non-zero mass. In theory, much attention has been devoted to constructing scenarios which explain the apparently large neutrino mixing angles. In cosmology, neutrinos may play a crucial role for baryogenesis, and may contribute to a hot dark matter component beyond cold dark matter, which apparently dominates the mass density of the universe. The hypothesis of a hot plus cold dark matter cosmology may be tested with the forthcoming MAP and PLANCK cosmic microwave background missions and large scale galaxy surveys such as the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. This overview seeks to reflect the present liveliness of neutrino physics and the bright prospects in the field.