物理学与天体物理学中有质量的中微子MASSIVE NEUTRINOS IN PHYSICS AND ASTROPHYSICS (THIRD EDITION)

作者： R. N. Mohapatra著

出 版 社： Penguin

出版时间： 2004-12-1字数：版次： 1页数： 451印刷时间： 2004/05/01开本：印次：纸张： 胶版纸I S B N ： 9789812380715包装： 平装内容简介

The field of neutrino mass physics underwent a revolutionary change in June 1998 when at the Neutrino'98 conference in Takayama, Japan, the Super-Kamiokande collaboration announced the discovery of oscil-lations of the cosmic ray neutrinos as they traveled from the Earth's atmosphere to detectors in the Kamioka mine. Indications of such os-cillations in earlier experiments involving the neutrinos from the Sun and the atmosphere suddenly took a new life and quickly got confirmed. The attention focused on the solar neutrinos and various experiments, culminating in the beautiful results from the SNO experiment, have now

given a prett clear picture of the nature of oscillations of the neutrinos emanating from the Sun. During 2002, results from the Kamland and the K2K experiments provided further confirmation of the oscillation phenomena using controlled source experiments. Thanks to all these beautiful experiments as well as the untiring efforts of many experimen-talists, neutrino mass has moved from being a matter of faith to a stark reality for the explorers of the undersea world of forces and particles in the Universe. The first definitive sign of physics beyond the standard model has finally appeared. This is a revolution that calls for a celebration!

目录

Preface to the third edition

Preface to the second edition

From the preface to the first edition

Notations

Ⅰ From massless to massive neutrinos

1 Introduction

1.1 History

1.2 Four-Fermi interaction

1.2.1 Modern form of four-Fermi interaction

1.2.2 Fierz transformation

1.2.3 Problems with the four-Fermi interaction

1.3 Symmetries and forces

1.3.1 Global symmetries

1.3.2 Local symmetries

1.3.3 Spontaneous breaking of symmetries

1.4 Renormalizability and anomalies

2 The standard model and the neutrino

2.1 Gauge interactions in the standard model

2.2 Neutral current interactions of neutrinos

2.3 Neutrino-electron scattering in the standard model .

2.3.1 vee and vee scattering

2.3.2 vue and vue scattering

2.3.3 Neutrino pair production

2.4 Neutrino-nucleon scattering in the standard model . . .

2.4.1 Quasi-elastic veN and veN scattering

2.4.2 Deep inelastic scattering of neutrinos off nucleons

2.5 Neutrino mass in the standard model

3 Massive neutrinos

3.1 Introduction

3.2 Theoretical motivations for neutrino mass

3.3 Questions related to neutrino mass

3.4 Tests of neutrino mass

3.4.1 Kinematic tests

3.4.2 Exclusive tests

3.5 Evidences of neutrino mass

4 Dirac versus Majorana masses

4.1 Two-component spinor field

4.2 Mathematical definition of a Majorana field

4.3 Different representations of Dirac matrices

4.3.1 Dirac representation

4.3.2 Majorana representation

4.3.3 Other representations

4.4 Majorana neutrinos and discrete symmetries of space-time

4.4.1 Properties under C

4.4.2 Properties under CP

4.4.3 Properties under CPT

4.5 Majorana basis of mass terms

4.6 The two-component basis in a different notation

4.7 Feynman rules involving Majorana neutrinos

4.8 Diagonalization of fermion mass matrices

5 Neutrino oscillations

5.1 Theory of neutrino oscillations

5.1.1 Oscillation formula for mono-energetic neutrinos

5.1.2 Oscillation formula for three flavors

5.1.3 More sophisticated derivations

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ⅡModels of neutrino mass

Ⅲ Implications of neutrino mass

Ⅳ Appendices

References

Index