Massive Neutrinos in Physics and Astrophysics

✍ Scribed by R. N. Mohapatra, Palash B. Pal

• Book ID: 127431342
• Publisher: World Scientific
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 7 MB
• Series: World Scientific lecture notes in physics 72
• Edition: 3rd ed
• Category: Library
• City: River Edge, N.J
• ISBN-13: 9789812380715

✦ Synopsis

This book provides a complete and up-to-date discussion on the theory, phenomenology, cosmology and astrophysics of massive neutrinos. Starting with a chapter on mathematical preliminaries that lead to the derivation of the standard model and its properties, it gives a discussion on the nature of Dirac and Majorana masses for neutrinos and the various extensions of the standard model (left-right, supersymmetric, etc.) that explain the small neutrino mass. Various phenomena related to neutrino mass such as rare decays of muons and kaons, double beta decay, and neutrinos in a medium, are discussed. The final chapters include discussions on solar and supernova neutrinos and neutrino cosmology. Extensive references to the existing literature are included.