Neutrino Physics: Proceedings of an International Workshop Held in Heidelberg, October 20-22,1987

ISBN-13: 9783642736810 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 333 str.

Hans V. Klapdor; Bogdan Povh

Opis

Neutrinos play an intriguing role in modern physics linking central questions of particle physics, cosmology and astrophysics. The contributions in this book reflect the present status of neutrino physics with emphasis on non-accelerator or beyond-accelerator experiments. Since a nonvanishing neutrino mass would yield an important boundary condition for GUT, SUSY or Superstring models and since neutrinos are the best candidates for dark matter in the universe, the many efforts to look for a neutrino mass, ranging from neutrino oscillation experiments using reactors, accelerators or the sun as neutrino sources, to tritium decay experiments and the search for neutrinoless double beta decay, are described in some detail. One of the sections is devoted to neutrinos from collapsing stars, including the supernova SN 1987 A. Possibilities for detecting cosmological neutrinos are discussed and an outlook to future experiments is given.

Spis treści

I Neutrinos in Gauge Theories and Cosmology.- Massive Neutrinos.- Small Neutrino Masses in Gauge Theories.- Neutrinos in Cosmology.- Radiative Massive Neutrino Decay.- II Neutrino Reactions and Properties.- Neutrino Reactions and the Structure of the Neutral Weak Current.- Analysis of the Lepton Mixing Matrix from Neutrino Oscillation Experiments.- Search for v? ?v? Oscillations Motivation and Feasibility.- A Search for Neutrino Oscillations at LAMPF.- Generation Mixing and Heavy Neutrinos.- Searches for Lepton-Flavor Violation.- An Upper Limit for the Electron Antineutrino Mass from Tritium ?-Decay.- Measurements of the Tau-Neutrino Mass.- Experimental Limits on Radiative Neutrino Decay.- KARMEN: Neutrino Physics at ISIS.- Search for Right-Handed Currents in Nuclear ?-Decay.- The Neutrino as a Tachyonic Non-charged Light Magnetic Monopole?.- III Double Beta Decay and Neutrino Mass.- Possible Test of Grand Unification in the Double Beta-Decay.- Nuclear Structure Effects on the Suppression of Two-Neutrino Double Beta Decay.- Recent Progress in Ultralow Background Ge Detector Searches for the ??-Decay of 76Ge, Dark Matter Candidates, and Solar Axions.- A Direct Laboratory Measurement of Two-Neutrino Double Beta Decay in 82Se.- Indication of Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay of 76Ge to the First Excited State of 76Se. Results of the Prejus Experiment.- Search for Double Beta Decay at the Gotthard Underground Lab.- IV Solar and Cosmological Neutrinos.- The Present Status of the Gallium Solar Neutrino Detector GALLEX.- The Sudbury Neutrino Observatory.- Resonant v/-Oscillations in Matter: Measuring of Neutrino Masses and Mixing.- Weak Interactions and Solar Neutrinos: Testing the Oscillation Hypothesis.- Is the Detection of Cosmic Background Neutrinos Possible?.- V Neutrinos from Collapsing Stars.- Neutrinos from Collapsing Stars and SN 1987 A.- Detection of the Neutrino Signal from SN1987A Using the INR Baksan Underground Scintillation Telescope.- On the Neutrino Burst from SN1987A Detected in the Mt. Blanc LSD Experiment.- Supernova 1987A and the Neutrino Mass.- VI Future Neutrino Projects.- (A Few) Future Neutrino Experiments.- List of Participants.- Index of Contributors.

O autorze

Prof. em. Dr. Bogdan Povh erhielt 1965 eine Professur in Physik an der Universität Heidelberg und wurde 1975 zum Direktor an das Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik in Heidelberg berufen. Er war jahrelang an der Ausbildung von Medizinern, Naturwissenschaftlern und Physikern beteiligt. Seine Forschungsgebiete sind Kern- und Teilchenphysik und die Anwendung der physikalischen Methoden in der Biologie, Geologie und Planetologie. 2005 bekam er die Stern-Gerlach-Medaille für Experimentalphysik verliehen.