ABSTRACT

Before exploring the intrinsic properties of neutrinos, we want to discuss how neutrinos can be used for measuring other important physical quantities. They allow a precise determination of various electroweak parameters and can be used to probe the structure of the nucleon via neutrino-nucleon scattering, as they are a special case of lepton-nucleon scattering. To perform systematic studies with enough statistics, artificial neutrino beams have to be created. Such sources are basically high-energy particle accelerators. Further information on this subject can be found in [Com83, Bil94, Lip95, Lea96,Sch97,Con98,Per00, Dev04,Dor08].