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Introduction to the Physics of Massive and Mixed Neutrinos

Authors:

  1. Samoil Bilenky

    1. Dubna, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research,, Dubna, Russian Federation

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  • written by one of the pioneers in the field of modern neutrino physics (Bruno Pontecorvo Prize in 2002).
  • self contained introduction useful for a self-study guide
  • integrates classic material and state-of-the-art survey
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Physics (LNP, volume 817)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction

    • Samoil Bilenky
    Pages 1-8

  3. Weak Interaction Before the Standard Model

    • Samoil Bilenky
    Pages 9-28

  5. Neutrino Mass Terms

    • Samoil Bilenky
    Pages 61-77

  6. Neutrino Mixing Matrix

    • Samoil Bilenky
    Pages 79-93

  7. Neutrino Oscillations in Vacuum

    • Samoil Bilenky
    Pages 95-120

  8. Neutrino in Matter

    • Samoil Bilenky
    Pages 121-137

  9. Neutrinoless Double Beta-Decay

    • Samoil Bilenky
    Pages 139-158

  10. On absolute Values of Neutrino Masses

    • Samoil Bilenky
    Pages 159-163

  11. Neutrino Oscillation Experiments

    • Samoil Bilenky
    Pages 165-194

  12. Neutrino and Cosmology

    • Samoil Bilenky
    Pages 195-229

  13. Conclusion and Prospects

    • Samoil Bilenky
    Pages 231-236

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 237-256
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About this book

For many years neutrino was considered a massless particle. The theory of a two-componentneutrino,whichplayedacrucialroleinthecreationofthetheoryof theweakinteraction,isbasedontheassumptionthattheneutrinomassisequalto zero. We now know that neutrinos have nonzero, small masses. In numerous exp- iments with solar, atmospheric, reactor and accelerator neutrinos a new p- nomenon, neutrino oscillations, was observed. Neutrino oscillations (periodic transitionsbetweendifferent?avorneutrinos? ,? ,? )arepossibleonlyifneutrino e ? ? mass-squareddifferencesaredifferentfromzeroandsmalland?avorneutrinosare “mixed”. The discovery of neutrino oscillations opened a new era in neutrino physics: an era of investigation of neutrino masses, mixing, magnetic moments and other neutrino properties. After the establishment of the Standard Model of the el- troweak interaction at the end of the seventies, the discovery of neutrino masses was the most important discovery in particle physics. Small neutrino masses cannot be explained by the standard Higgs mechanism of mass generation. For their explanation a new mechanism is needed. Thus, small neutrino masses is the ?rst signature in particle physics of a new beyond the Standard Model physics. It took many years of heroic efforts by many physicists to discover n- trino oscillations. After the ?rst period of investigation of neutrino oscillations, manychallengingproblemsremainedunsolved.Oneofthemostimportantisthe problem of the nature of neutrinos with de?nite masses. Are they Dirac n- trinos possessing a conserved lepton number which distinguish neutrinos and antineutrinos or Majorana neutrinos with identical neutrinos and antineutrinos? Many experiments of the next generation and new neutrino facilities are now underpreparation and investigation. There is no doubt that exciting results are ahead.
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Dubna, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research,, Dubna, Russian Federation

    Samoil Bilenky

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Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Introduction to the Physics of Massive and Mixed Neutrinos

  • Authors: Samoil Bilenky

  • Series Title: Lecture Notes in Physics

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14043-3

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-14043-3Published: 02 September 2010

  • Series ISSN: 0075-8450

  • Series E-ISSN: 1616-6361

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 256

  • Number of Illustrations: 12 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Particle and Nuclear Physics, Physics, general

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