This book, written by leading experts of the field, gives an excellent up-to-date overview of modern neutrino physics and is useful for scientists and graduate students alike. The book starts with a history of neutrinos and then develops from the fundamentals to the direct determination of masses and lifetimes. The role of neutrinos in fundamental astrophysical problems is discussed in detail.
Current Aspects of Neutrino Physics
Table of contents
1 Pauli's Ghost: The Conception and Discovery of Neutrinos.- 2 The Nature of Massive Neutrinos.- 3 Direct Measurements of Neutrino Mass.- 4 Neutrino Oscillations and the Solar Neutrino Problem.- 5 The Atmospheric Neutrino Anomaly: Muon Neutrino Disappearance.- 6 Studies of Neutrino Oscillations at Reactors.- 7 Studies of Neutrino Oscillations at Accelerators.- 8 Double Beta Decay: Theory, Experiment and Implications.- 9 Neutrino Mixing Schemes.- 10 Theories of Neutrino Masses and Mixings.- 11 Neutrino Flavor Transformation in Supernovae and the Early Universe.- 12 Hot Dark Matter in Cosmology.- 13 High Energy Neutrino Astronomy: Towards Kilometer-Scale Detectors.