ELECTROWEAK THEORY AND THE NEUTRINO-MASS AND NEUTRINO-OSCILLATION QUESTIONS

It is shown that both conjectures of neutrino mass and neutrino oscillation can be made really well-grounded within the Standard Model provided that one adopts a recent new version of the electroweak scheme spontaneously giving also a fundamental explanation for the so-called ``maximal parity-violation'' effect. A crucial role is played by the prediction of two distinct, scalar and pseudoscalar, replicas of (electron, muon, and tau) lepton numbers that could fully account for an actual non-coincidence between neutrino mass-eigenstates and gauge-eigenstates.