Are There Really Neutrinos? : An Evidental History

Franklin, Allan

CRC Pr I Llc（2003/07発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 384 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780813341286
• DDC分類 539.7215

Full Description

In this intriguing and accessible book, physicist Allan Franklin examines they experiments on neutrino oscillations. He argues that this history gives us good reason to believe in the existence of neutrinos, a particle that interacts so weakly with matter that its interaction length is measured in light years of lead. Only recently, the scientific process has provided evidence of the elusive neutrino. 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.

Contents

Preface -- Introduction -- The Road to the Neutrino -- The Neutrino Hypothesis -- Toward a Universal Fermi Interaction -- Fermi's Theory: The Final Act -- "Observing" the Neutrino: The Reines-Cowan Experiments -- How Much? The Mass of the Neutrino -- How Many? Whose? -- The Missing Solar Neutrinos -- Neutrino Oscillations -- Conclusion: There Are Neutrinos