A modern introduction to neutrino physics /

A deeper understanding of neutrinos, with the goal to reveal their nature and exact role within particle physics, is at the frontier of current research. This book reviews the field in a concise fashion and highlights the most pressing issues and areas of strongest topical interest. It provides a cl...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Deppisch, Frank F. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: San Rafael [California] (40 Oak Drive, San Rafael, CA, 94903, USA) : Morgan & Claypool Publishers, [2019]
Colección:IOP (Series). Release 6.
IOP concise physics.
Temas:
Neutrinos.
Particle & high-energy physics.
SCIENCE / Physics / Nuclear.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Neutrinos in the Standard Model
  • 2.1. Beta decays, Pauli and missing energy
  • 2.2. The Standard Model and electroweak physics
  • 2.3. A first look at neutrino masses
  • 2.4. A flavour of symmetry
  • 3. Neutrino oscillations
  • 3.1. Oscillations in vacuum
  • 3.2. Oscillations in a medium
  • 3.3. Oscillation experiments
  • 3.4. Three neutrinos and beyond
  • 4. Lepton flavour violation
  • 4.1. Lepton flavour violating [mu] decays
  • 4.2. Muon-electron conversion in nuclei
  • 4.3. Lepton flavour violating [tau] decays
  • 4.4. Effective operator approach
  • 5. Lepton number violation
  • 5.1. A second look at neutrino masses
  • 5.2. Two-neutrino double beta decay
  • 5.3. Neutrinoless double beta decay
  • 5.4. Exotic contributions
  • 6. Neutrinos beyond the Standard Model
  • 6.1. Flavour symmetries
  • 6.2. A third look at neutrino masses
  • 6.3. Detectable heavy neutrinos
  • 6.4. Gauge symmetries beyond the SM
  • 7. Neutrinos in astrophysics
  • 7.1. The relic neutrino background
  • 7.2. Neutrinos from extrasolar sources
  • 7.3. Neutrinos and the matter-antimatter asymmetry
  • 8. Conclusions.

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