Advanced Series on Directions in High Energy Physics: 3 (Massive Neutrinos: Flavor Mixing of Leptons and Neutrino Oscillations) - Hardcover

9781783268191: Advanced Series on Directions in High Energy Physics: 3 (Massive Neutrinos: Flavor Mixing of Leptons and Neutrino Oscillations)

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ISBN 10: 1783268190 ISBN 13: 9781783268191

Publisher: Imperial College Press, 2016

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Since the discovery of neutrino oscillations neutrino physics has become an interesting field of research in physics. They imply that neutrino must have a small mass and that the neutrinos, coupled to the charged leptons, are mixtures of the mass eigenstates, analogous to the flavor mixing of the quarks. The mixing angles for the quarks are small, but for the leptons two of the mixing angles are large. The masses of the three neutrinos must be very small, less than 1 eV, but from the oscillation experiments we only know the mass differences - the absolute masses are still unknown. Also we do not know, if the masses of the neutrinos are Dirac masses, as the masses of the charged leptons and of the quarks, or whether they are Majorana masses.In this volume, an overview of the present state of research in neutrino physics is given by well-known experimentalists and theorists. The contents - originated from talks and discussions at a recent conference addressing some of the most pressing open questions in neutrino physics - range from the oscillation experiments to CP-violation for leptons, to texture zero mass matrices and to the role of neutrinos in astrophysics and cosmology.

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The articles are all quite well-written and informative. In these days of increasing mathematical specialization, it's always nice to find something that helps bridge the gap between disciplines. It's even nicer when the contents are of the quality of these articles. This is an interesting, enjoyable and valuable book. --Mathematical Association of America

About the Author

Frank Smith was born in Canada and went to England at the age of six. At the age of 16 he went to work in Bletchley Park, the wartime station where enemy communications were being decoded with the aid of the famous Enigma machine. He began writing in the 1960s. The theme of the first five books, beginning with CORPSE IN HANDCUFFS, was espionage in the Cold War years, but when that came to an end he moved on to police procedurals featuring DCI Neil Paget and DS John Tregalles.

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