a tutorial for graduate students and young researchers /
First Statement of Responsibility
editor, Antonio Ereditato.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Singapore :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
[2018]
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
1 online resource
SERIES
Series Title
Advanced series on directions in high energy physics,
Volume Designation
vol. 28
ISSN of Series
1793-1339 ;
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Intro; Contents; Preface; Chapter 1. A Brief History of Neutrino; 1. Introduction; 2. Prehistory; 3. From theory to reality, 1930-1956; 4. Is neutrino a completely neutral particle?; 5. The proton accelerators; 6. Mixing, oscillations, adiabatic flavor conversion in matter; 7. The first great surprise -- solar neutrinos; 8. The underground laboratories; 9. The second great surprise -- atmospheric neutrinos; 10. Conclusions and outlook; References; Chapter 2. Introduction to the Formalism of Neutrino Oscillations; 1. Introduction; 1.1. Overview of neutrinos.
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1.1.1. A brief history of the major achievements; 1.1.2. Neutrino properties; 1.1.3. The major role of relativity for neutrinos; 1.2. Introduction to oscillations; 2. Leptonic mixing; 2.1. General considerations; 2.1.1. Definition and context; 2.1.2. Relation between flavor and mass states; 2.2. The parameters relevant to oscillations; 2.2.1. General considerations; 2.2.2. The standard parameterization; 2.2.3. What we know on the parameters of neutrino oscillations; 3. Vacuum neutrino oscillations; 3.1. General formalism; 3.1.1. Oscillations with n-flavors and n-mass states.
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2. The Sun and solar neutrino fluxes.
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3.1.2. The case with two flavors and two masses; 3.1.3. Oscillations in field theoretical formalism; 3.1.4. The vacuum Hamiltonians; 3.1.5. Oscillations and wave packets; 3.2. Applications and examples; 3.2.1. Why two-flavor formulae are so useful; 3.2.2. A special case: Maximal mixing; 3.2.3. A two-flavor case of oscillations with neutrino interactions; 3.2.4. Electron survival probability in three flavors; 3.2.5. The limit of fully averaged oscillations; 4. Neutrino oscillations in matter; 4.1. The matter (or Wolfenstein) term; 4.1.1. Hamiltonians of propagation including the matter term.
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4.1.2. Remarks; 4.2. Analytical solutions of the equations of propagation in the matter; 4.2.1. Constant matter density and "resonance"; 4.2.2. Adiabatic propagation/MSW effect; 4.3. Applications and examples; 4.3.1. High-energy atmospheric neutrinos; 4.3.2. Solar neutrinos; 4.3.3. Supernova neutrinos; 4.4. Earth matter effect at solar and supernova energies; 5. Summary and discussion; Appendix. Special results on Dirac matrices; A.1. All Dirac matrices are equivalent (Pauli theorem); A.2. Charge conjugation matrix; A.3. Fierz identity for (V − A) current-current operator; References
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Chapter 3. Neutrino Oscillation Detectors and Methods; 1. Basic principles; 2. Bubble chambers: a reference in neutrino interactions imaging; 3. NOMAD: kinematical measurements and a near detector reference; 4. Super-Kamiokande and massive water Cerenkov detectors; 5. MINOS and magnetized iron calorimeters: the spectral information in disappearance mode; 6. OPERA: the challenge of long-baseline [nu][tau] appearance; 7. The liquid argon time projection chamber: precision measurements in neutrino physics; References; Chapter 4. Solar Neutrinos and Matter Effects; 1. Introduction.