2015年10月6日,诺贝尔物理学奖授予日本物理学家鶨田隆章和加拿大物理学家阿瑟·麦克唐纳,以表彰他们发现中微子振荡并证实中微子有质量.同年11月8日,包括鶨田隆章和麦克唐纳在内的7名在中微子振荡研究中做出关键贡献的科学家获得2016年度基础物理学突破奖.中微子振荡成为基础物理学研究的焦点.本文从量子力学理论出发,对中微子振荡及CP破坏理论作简要的描述,并介绍未来中微子研究中的若干重大科学问题.
The Nobel Prize in physics 2015 was awarded jointly to Takaaki Kajita and Arthur B. McDonald "for the discovery of neutrino oscillations,which shows that neutrinos have mass". One month later,seven physicists including Takaaki Kajita and Arthur B. McDonald,who make significant contribution in the research of neutrino oscillations,obtain the 2016 Breakthrough Prize in fundamental physics. Neutrino oscillation has become the focus of fundamental physics research. In this paper,using the principle of quantum mechanics,we simply describe the theory of neutrino oscillations and CP violation,and introduce several important scientific problems in the future neutrino research.