A modern introduction to neutrino physics /

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"Version: 20191101"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 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 symmetry3. Neutrino oscillations -- 3.1. Oscillations in vacuum -- 3.2. Oscillations in a medium -- 3.3. Oscillation experiments -- 3.4. Three neutrinos and beyond4. Lepton flavour violation -- 4.1. Lepton flavour violating [mu] decays -- 4.2. Muon-electron conversion in nuclei -- 4.3. Lepton flavour violating [tau] decays -- 4.4. Effective operator approach5. 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 contributions6. 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 SM7. Neutrinos in astrophysics -- 7.1. The relic neutrino background -- 7.2. Neutrinos from extrasolar sources -- 7.3. Neutrinos and the matter-antimatter asymmetry -- 8. Conclusions.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.Professional and scholarly.Also available in print.Mode of access: World Wide Web.System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader, EPUB reader, or Kindle reader.Dr. Frank Deppisch was born 1975 in Ochsenfurt which is part of the beautiful German region of Franconia. He earned his undergraduate studies in physics at the University of Wurzburg, where he also worked as a doctoral student and research assistant and completed completed his doctoral thesis entitled Towards a reconstruction of the SUSY seesaw model. He is an Associate Professor within the High Energy Physics group of University College London.Title from PDF title page (viewed on December 9, 2019).

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1 online resource (various pagings) :illustrations (some color).

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9781643276809

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SCIENCE / Physics / Nuclear.
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