Neutrinos have mass, although their mass is much smaller than electron (< 4/10
6 electron mass). This fact is indeed beyond the description of Standard Model of elementary particle (neutrino is predicted to be massless in this model). The evidence of neutrino massiveness comes from the now well-understood neutrino oscillation phenomenon in which neutrinos change their flavor when traveling. This quantum mechanical phenomenon is widely accepted as the result of mixing between mass eigenstates and flavor eigenstates (see more in
Neutrino Oscillation). The element of mixing matrix which are parameterized by three mixing angles, two mass-squared difference and one irreducible phase 𝛿
CP, are the target for the experimental measurement. Bellow graph summarizes what we do know for this mixing matrix. The phase 𝛿
CP is very interesting since it relates to CP violation in neutrino sector and might connect to the leptogenesis as introduced in
CP violation search