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 clear, self-contained, and logical treatment of the fundamental physics aspects, appropriate for graduate students. Starting with the relevant basics of the SM, neutrinos are introduced, and the quantum mechanical effect of oscillations is explained in detail. A strong focus is then set on the phenomenon of lepton number violation, especially in 0nbb decay, as the crucial probe to understand the nature of neutrinos. The role of neutrinos in astrophysics, expected to be of increasing importance for future research, is then described. Finally, models to explain the neutrino properties are outlined. The central theme of the book is the nature of neutrino masses and the above topics will revolve around this issue.
Author(s): Frank F. Deppisch
Edition: Concise
Publisher: IOP Publishing
Year: 2019
Language: English
Pages: 132
City: Bristol
PRELIMS.pdf
Preface
Acknowledgments
Author biography
Frank Deppisch
CH001.pdf
Chapter 1 Introduction
References
CH002.pdf
Chapter 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
References
CH003.pdf
Chapter 3 Neutrino oscillations
3.1 Oscillations in vacuum
3.2 Oscillations in a medium
3.3 Oscillation experiments
3.4 Three neutrinos and beyond
References
CH004.pdf
Chapter 4 Lepton flavour violation
4.1 Lepton flavour violating μ decays
4.2 Muon–electron conversion in nuclei
4.3 Lepton flavour violating τ decays
4.4 Effective operator approach
References
CH005.pdf
Chapter 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
References
CH006.pdf
Chapter 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
References
CH007.pdf
Chapter 7 Neutrinos in Astrophysics
7.1 The Relic Neutrino Background
7.2 Neutrinos from Extrasolar Sources
7.3 Neutrinos and the Matter–Antimatter Asymmetry
References
CH008.pdf
Chapter 8 Conclusions
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