Observations of neutrinos being emitted by the supernova SN1987A, star neutrinos, and atmospheric neutrinos have provided new insights into astronomy, as well as new unresolved phenomena such as the solar neutrino problem, spurring investigative studies among particle physicists and astrophysicists. One of the most important features of this book is its enumeration of a number of basic properties of neutrinos and their relationship to Grand Unified Theories, focusing on the origin of the neutrino's mass and the generation mixing of neutrinos. All the kamiokande results, detector performances, and complete references are included.
Neutrinos play a fundamental role in the latest particle physics theories, such as Grand Unified Theories, theories of supersymmetry, and superstring theory. Their mass yields an important boundary condition for grand unification models. They are the best candidates for dark matter in the universe, and their mass could determine its large scale structure and evolution. Neutrinos probe the interior of collapsing stars, and understanding them may lead to a solution of the solar neutrino problem. In ten chapters written by experts in each of these fields this book gives a comprehensive presentation of our current knowledge of the neutrino, of its role in nuclear particle and astrophysics theories, and of ongoing experimental efforts to learn more about its own nature. Graduate students and researchers in these fields will find this book a reliable advanced text and source of reference.
This international meeting on ultrahigh energy multiparticle phenomena started with a summary of neutrino physics, followed by a detailed review of LEP results. It moved on to the fast-breaking field of rapidity gaps, hard pomeron and small-x structure functions at both Hera and the FermiLab Tevatron. The major collider experiments at FermiLab, and in particular, the results of the top quark search were presented in complete detail. The fields of intermittency, multiplicities, correlation functions, heavy quarks, soft and semihard hadronic physics, and the particle physics aspects of cosmic rays were subjects of spirited debate.
This book on TENR discusses the basic Physics and Chemistry principles of natural radiation. The current knowledge of the biological effects of natural radiation is summarized. A wide variety of topics, from cosmic radiation to atmospheric, terrestrial and aquatic radiation is addressed, including radon, thoron, and depleted uranium. Issues like terrorism and geochronology using natural radiation are also examined. - Comprehensive global TENR data assembly - Critical assessment of the significant radiological impact of TENR on man and the environment as compared to radiological impact from man-made sources in nuclear technology and nuclear medicine - Illustration of the importance of TENR for the future conceptual development of radiation protection
Nobel Symposium 129 on Neutrino Physics was held at Haga Slott in Enköping, Sweden during August 19-24, 2004. Invited to the symposium were around 40 globally leading researchers in the field of neutrino physics, both experimental and theoretical.The dominant theme of the lectures was neutrino oscillations, which after several years were recently verified by results from the Super-Kamiokande detector in Kamioka, Japan and the SNO detector in Sudbury, Canada. Discussion focused especially on effects of neutrino oscillations derived from the presence of matter and the fact that three different neutrinos exist. Since neutrino oscillations imply that neutrinos have mass, this is the first experimental observation that fundamentally deviates from the standard model of particle physics. This is a challenge to both theoretical and experimental physics. The various oscillation parameters will be determined with increased precision in new, specially designed experiments. Theoretical physics is working intensively to insert the knowledge that neutrinos have mass into the theoretical models that describe particle physics. The lectures provided a very good description of the intensive situation in the field right now. The topics discussed also included mass models for neutrinos, neutrinos in extra dimensions as well as the “seesaw mechanism,” which provides a good description of why neutrino masses are so small.This book is A4 size and in full color.
These conferences are the major forum for dissemination of new research results by cosmic ray physicists. The proceedings cover all aspects of research on cosmic ray: observations of cosmic rays from ground-based large detector arrays, balloon-borne instruments and satellite detectors; observations of radio waves and gamma rays produced by cosmic rays in distant galaxies, supernova remnants in our own galaxy, and around other objects such as neutron stars and even our own sun; propagation of cosmic rays within the production source, within the galaxy and within the solar system and near earth environment; theoretical models for production of cosmic rays; cosmic rays as a probe of particle physics at high energy.
Contents:Critical Current Density of High-Temperature Superconductors (P Chu)Electroweak Symmetry-Breaking Effects at Colliders (V Barger)Precision Tests of the Electroweak Theory (R D Peccei)Hadron Colliders: B Factories for Now and the Future (N S Lockyer)The MSW Effect as the Solution to the Solar Neutrino Problem (S P Rosen)New Physics Effects from String Models (R Arnowitt & P Nath)Solar Neutrino Puzzle and Physics Beyond the Standard Model (R N Mohapatra)The SFT: A Super Fixed Target Beauty Facility at the SSC (B Cox)Non-Standard Stellar Evolution (V Trimble)Analogous Behaviour in the Quantum Hall Effect, Anyon Superconductivity, and the Standard Model (R B Laughlin & S B Libby)Gauge Boson Dynamics (C Quigg)Interpreting Precision Measurements (G L Kane)Rare K Decays: Present Status and Future Prospects (S G Wojcicki)Quantum Mechanics at the Black Hole Horizon (G't Hooft)Target-Space Duality and the Curse of the Wormhole (J H Schwarz)Mass Enhancement and Critical Behavior in Technicolor Theories (T Appelquist)Proton-Proton and Proton-Antiproton Elastic Scattering at High Energies — Theory, Phenomenology, and Experiment (T T Wu) Readership: Graduate students and high energy physicists. keywords:
In the last 20 years the disciplines of particle physics, astrophysics, nuclear physics and cosmology have grown together in an unprecedented way. A brilliant example is nuclear double beta decay, an extremely rare radioactive decay mode, which is one of the most exciting and important fields of research in particle physics at present and the flagship of non-accelerator particle physics.While already discussed in the 1930s, only in the 1980s was it understood that neutrinoless double beta decay can yield information on the Majorana mass of the neutrino, which has an impact on the structure of space-time. Today, double beta decay is indispensable for solving the problem of the neutrino mass spectrum and the structure of the neutrino mass matrix. The potential of double beta decay has also been extended such that it is now one of the most promising tools for probing beyond-the-standard-model particle physics, and gives access to energy scales beyond the potential of future accelerators.This book presents the breathtaking manner in which achievements in particle physics have been made from a nuclear physics process. Consisting of a 150-page highly factual overview of the field of double beta decay and a 1200-page collection of the most important original articles, the book outlines the development of double beta decay research — theoretical and experimental — from its humble beginnings until its most recent achievements, with its revolutionary consequences for the theory of particle physics. It further presents an outlook on the exciting future of the field.
