Fundamentals of Neutrino Physics and Astrophysics

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. It discusses 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 that 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 the relic neutrinos. It also discusses many implications of current experimental data on reactor, 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 over 1000 references.

ISBN 0198508719   Pages 728 ISBN13 9780198508717 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Oxford University Press   Weight (grammes) 1545 Imprint Oxford University Press   Published in Oxford Format Hardback   Height (mm) 254 Publication date 15 Mar 2007   Width (mm) 180 Library of Congress 2007278542   Spine width (mm) 40 DEWEY 539.7215   Academic level Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly DEWEY edition DC22

1		Historical introduction		1
2		Quantized Dirac fields		7
3		The standard model		67
4		Three-generation mixing		106
5		Neutrino interactions		135
6		Massive neutrinos		180
7		Neutrino oscillations in vacuum		245
8		Theory of neutrino oscillations in vacuum		283
9		Neutrino oscillations in matter		322
10		Solar neutrinos		352
11		Atmospheric neutrinos		390
12		Terrestrial neutrino oscillation experiments		428
13		Phenomenology of three-neutrino mixing		452
14		Direct measurements of neutrino mass		484
15		Supernova neutrinos		511
16		Cosmology		540
17		Relic neutrinos		586
App. A		Conventions, useful formulas, and physical constants		626
App. B		Special relativity		637
App. C		Lagrangian theory		649
App. D		Gauge theories		657
App. E		Feynman rules of the standard electroweak model		664

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