Are There Really Neutrinos?: An Evidential History

ISBN-13: 9780367190026 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 402 str.

Allan D. Franklin; Alysia Marino

Opis

Written in a style accessible to any reader with a college education in physics, Are There Really Neutrinos? is of interest to students and researchers alike. This second edition contains a new epilogue highlighting the new developments in neutrino physics over the past 20 years.

Spis treści

1. The Road to the Neutrino. 2. The Neutrino Hypothesis. 3. Towards a Universal Fermi Interaction. 4. Fermi’s Theory: The Final Act. 5. ‘Observing’ the Neutrino: The Reines-Cowan Experiments. 6. How Much?  The Mass of the Neutrino. 7. How Many? Whose?  8. The Missing Solar Neutrinos. 9. Neutrino Oscillations. 10 Conclusion: There Are Neutrinos. 11. Epilogue.