Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xx, 445 Seiten)
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Illustrationen
Edition:
Third edition
ISBN:
9781351764582
Series Statement:
Series in high energy physics, cosmology, and gravitation
Content:
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface to the First Edition -- Preface to the Second Edition -- Preface to the Third Edition -- Notation -- 1: Important Historical Experiments -- 1.1 The Birth of the Neutrino -- 1.2 Nuclear Recoil Experiment by Rodeback and Allen -- 1.3 Discovery of the Neutrino by Cowan and Reines -- 1.4 Difference between ve and ve and solar neutrino detection -- 1.5 Discovery of Parity Violation in Weak Interactions -- 1.6 Direct Measurement of the Helicity of the Neutrino -- 1.7 Experimental Proof That Vμ is Different from Ve -- 1.8 Discovery of Weak Neutral Currents -- 1.9 Discovery of the Weak W± and Z0 Gauge Bosons -- 1.10 Observation of Neutrinos from SN 1987A -- 1.11 Number of Neutrino Flavours from the Width of the Z0 -- 1.12 Further Milestones in the Last 20 Years -- 2: Properties of Neutrinos -- 2.1 Helicity and Chirality -- 2.2 Charge Conjugation -- 2.3 Parity Transformation -- 2.4 Dirac and Majorana Mass Terms -- 2.4.1 Generalization to n Flavours -- 2.5 Lepton Number -- 2.5.1 Experimental Status of Lepton Flavour and Number Violation -- 3: The Standard Model of Particle Physics -- 3.1 The V-A Theory of the Weak Interaction -- 3.2 Gauge Theories -- 3.2.1 The Gauge Principle -- 3.2.2 Global Symmetries -- 3.2.3 Local (=Gauge) Symmetries -- 3.2.4 Non-Abelian Gauge Theories (= Yang-Mills Theories) -- 3.3 The Glashow-Weinberg-Salam Model -- 3.3.1 Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking and the Higgs Mechanism -- 3.3.2 The CKM Mass Matrix -- 3.3.3 CP Violation -- 3.3.4 CPT and T Violation -- 3.4 Experimental Determination of Fundamental Parameters -- 3.4.1 Measurement of the Fermi Constant GF -- 3.4.2 Neutrino-Electron Scattering and the Coupling Constants gV and gA -- 3.4.2.1 Theoretical considerations -- 3.4.2.2 Vμe-Scattering -- 3.4.2.3 Vee and Vee-Scattering.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781138718890
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781138718890
Language:
English
Subjects:
Physics
Keywords:
Neutrino
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Electronic books
Author information:
Zuber, Kai 1963-
