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This chapter gives a brief overview of the history of neutrino physics, and the discovery of—and theory behind—neutrino oscillation. It also summarises the current knowledge in the field of neutrino oscillation before the analysis presented in this thesis, using information from solar, reactor, and long-baseline neutrino experiments.

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    This is actually a shortcut in the story: Pauli named his particle the neutron, until the neutron was discovered and found not to be the particle that Pauli postulated. Edoardo Amaldi, in a conversation with Fermi, was the first to coin the word ‘neutrino’ for Pauli’s particle, and the term was popularised by its use in Fermi’s theory of beta decay.

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Duffy, K.E. (2017). Introduction to Neutrino Oscillation. In: First Measurement of Neutrino and Antineutrino Oscillation at T2K. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65040-1_2

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