9780198508717
Written by: Giunti, Carlo
Published by: Oxford University Press, USA
Subject: Astrophysics & Space Science
Subject: Astrophysics
Subject: Physics | Nuclear, Particle,
Subject: Physics | Nuclear, Particle, and Astrophysics
Copyright: 2007
Series Volume: Vol. 2
Date of Publication: 20070420
Cover Type: Hardback
Grade Level: Professional and scholarly
Illustrations: 179 line illus.
Number of Pages: 720
Book Size: 0.100 x 0.100 x 0.100 in 0.006 oz
This book deals with neutrino physics and astrophysics- a field in which some of the most exciting recent developments in particle physics, astrophysics and cosmology took place. The book is the most up-to-date, comprehensive and self-contained treatment of key issues in neutrino physics. Itdiscusses all the topics vital to the understanding of the nature of neutrinos such as what they are, how to describe them, how they behave in nature, and the roles of neutrinos play in shaping our Universe. The book provides comprehensive discussions, both experimental and theoretical, with
relevant mathematical details, on neutrino oscillations, extra-terrestrial as well as terrestrial neutrinos and relic neutrinos. It also discusses many implications of current experimental data on rector, accelerator, atmospheric, solar and supernova neutrinos with future perspectives. The book
starts with an introduction to field theory and gauge theory which is accessible even to advanced undergraduate students, with helpful appendices, and it also provides pedagogical but sufficiently detailed reviews of supernova physics and cosmology, in particular the Cosmic Microwave Background
Radiation. It aims to provide all the technical details necessary for the professionals in the field and to be an almost exhaustive reference for neutrino physicists with 1000 references.
Book News Annotation:
Giunti (physics, U. di Torino) and Kim (physics, Korea Institute for
Advanced Study and The Johns Hopkins U.) gather what we know about
neutrino physics and astrophysics (and what we do not) based upon
experimental data, and produce a self-contained reference for
practitioners and students. They include thorough analyses of the
data and the emergent theories as they cover quantized Dirac fields,
the standard model, three-generation mixing, neutrino interactions,
massive neutrinos, neutrino oscillations in vacuum and the associated
theory, neutrino oscillations in matter, solar neutrinos, atmospheric
neutrinos, terrestrial neutrino oscillation experiments,
phenomenology of three-neutrino mixing, direct measurements of
neutrino mass, supernova neutrinos, cosmology, and relic neutrinos.
Appendices give background information on special relativity,
Langrangian theory, Gauge theories and Feynman rules of the standard
electroweak model.
Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
