Neutrino Physics Proceedings Of Nobel Symposium 129
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Neutrino Physics - Proceedings Of Nobel Symposium 129 by Lars Bergstrom,O Botner,Per Carlson,P O Hulth,Tommy Ohlsson Pdf
Nobel Symposium 129 on Neutrino Physics was held at Haga Slott in Enköping, Sweden during August 19-24, 2004. Invited to the symposium were around 40 globally leading researchers in the field of neutrino physics, both experimental and theoretical.The dominant theme of the lectures was neutrino oscillations, which after several years were recently verified by results from the Super-Kamiokande detector in Kamioka, Japan and the SNO detector in Sudbury, Canada. Discussion focused especially on effects of neutrino oscillations derived from the presence of matter and the fact that three different neutrinos exist. Since neutrino oscillations imply that neutrinos have mass, this is the first experimental observation that fundamentally deviates from the standard model of particle physics. This is a challenge to both theoretical and experimental physics. The various oscillation parameters will be determined with increased precision in new, specially designed experiments. Theoretical physics is working intensively to insert the knowledge that neutrinos have mass into the theoretical models that describe particle physics. The lectures provided a very good description of the intensive situation in the field right now. The topics discussed also included mass models for neutrinos, neutrinos in extra dimensions as well as the “seesaw mechanism,” which provides a good description of why neutrino masses are so small.This book is A4 size and in full color.
Fundamentals of Neutrino Physics and Astrophysics by Carlo Giunti,Chung W. Kim Pdf
Our Universe is made of a dozen fundamental building blocks. Among these, neutrinos are the most mysterious - but they are the second most abundant particles in the Universe. This book provides detailed discussions of how to describe neutrinos, their basic properties, and the roles they play in nature.
Topology, Geometry And Field Theory - Proceedings Of The 31st International Taniguchi Symposium And Proceedings Of The Conference by Kenji Fukaya,Dieter Kotschick,M Furuta,Toshitake Kohno Pdf
Nobel Symposium 129 on Neutrino Physics was held at Haga Slott in Enköping, Sweden during August 19-24, 2004. Invited to the symposium were around 40 globally leading researchers in the field of neutrino physics, both experimental and theoretical.The dominant theme of the lectures was neutrino oscillations, which after several years were recently verified by results from the Super-Kamiokande detector in Kamioka, Japan and the SNO detector in Sudbury, Canada. Discussion focused especially on effects of neutrino oscillations derived from the presence of matter and the fact that three different neutrinos exist. Since neutrino oscillations imply that neutrinos have mass, this is the first experimental observation that fundamentally deviates from the standard model of particle physics. This is a challenge to both theoretical and experimental physics. The various oscillation parameters will be determined with increased precision in new, specially designed experiments. Theoretical physics is working intensively to insert the knowledge that neutrinos have mass into the theoretical models that describe particle physics. The lectures provided a very good description of the intensive situation in the field right now. The topics discussed also included mass models for neutrinos, neutrinos in extra dimensions as well as the “seesaw mechanism,” which provides a good description of why neutrino masses are so small.This book is A4 size and in full color.
Untranslatability by Duncan Large,Motoko Akashi,Wanda Józwikowska,Emily Rose Pdf
This volume is the first of its kind to explore the notion of untranslatability from a wide variety of interdisciplinary perspectives and its implications within the broader context of translation studies. Featuring contributions from both leading authorities and emerging scholars in the field, the book looks to go beyond traditional comparisons of target texts and their sources to more rigorously investigate the myriad ways in which the term untranslatability is both conceptualized and applied. The first half of the volume focuses on untranslatability as a theoretical or philosophical construct, both to ground and extend the term’s conceptual remit, while the second half is composed of case studies in which the term is applied and contextualized in a diverse set of literary text types and genres, including poetry, philosophical works, song lyrics, memoir, and scripture. A final chapter examines untranslatability in the real world and the challenges it brings in practical contexts. Extending the conversation in this burgeoning contemporary debate, this volume is key reading for graduate students and researchers in translation studies, comparative literature, gender studies, and philosophy of language. The editors are grateful to the University of East Anglia Faculty of Arts and Humanities, who supported the book with a publication grant.
Dark Matter, Neutrinos, and Our Solar System by Nirmala Prakash Pdf
"Dark Matter, Neutrinos, and Our Solar System" is a unique enterprise that should be viewed as an important contribution to our understanding of dark matter, neutrinos and the solar system. It describes these issues in terms of links, between cosmology, particle and nuclear physics, as well as between cosmology, atmospheric and terrestrial physics. It studies the constituents of dark matter (classified as hot warm and cold) first in terms of their individual structures (baryonic and non-baryonic, massive and non-massive, interacting and non-interacting) and second, in terms of facilities available to detect these structures (large and small). Neutrinos (an important component of dark matter) are treated as a separate entity. A detailed study of these elusive (sub-atomic) particles is done, from the year 1913 when they were found as byproducts of beta decay — until the discovery in 2007 which confirmed that neutrino flavors were not more than three (as speculated by some). The last chapter of the book details the real-time stories about the “regions” that were not explored thus far, for lack of advanced technology. Their untold fascinating stories (which span up to 2010) are illustrated here datewise in full. The book concludes with the latest news that the Large Hadron Collider team at CERN has finally succeeded in producing 7 trillion electronic Volts of energy by creating head-on-collisions of protons and more protons (in search of God-particle). The energy produced was three times more than previous records. Foreword Foreword (48 KB) Contents: The Advent of Dark Matter: Galaxies, Clusters, Planet Formation, and Comet CollisionStars of Poor Visibility and the Methods to Track ThemModels in Cosmology, the Luminosity of a Star, White Dwarfs and Neutron StarsBlack Holes: The Stars with no ShineParticles We Encounter (A Historical Overview)Dark Matter and Dark Energy (A Peep into the Deep): Some Questions and AnswersNeutrino — The Puzzle and the PowerDetection of Lightest Supersymmetric Particles (LSPs) in Dark Matter, and the Search for WIMPsThe Years 2004–2010: A Boom for Planetary Scientists Readership: Graduate students, researchers and all readers interested in cosmology and astrophysics.
Particle Physics And The Universe, Proceedings Of Nobel Symposium 109 by Lars Bergstrom,Per Carlson,Claes Fransson Pdf
It is generally felt in the cosmology and particle astrophysics community that we have just entered an era which later can only be looked back upon as a golden age. Thanks to the rapid technical development, with powerful new telescopes and other detectors taken into operation at an impressive rate, and the accompanying advancement of theoretical ideas, the picture of the past, present and future Universe is getting ever clearer. Some of the most exciting new findings and expected future developments are discussed in this invaluable volume.The topics covered include the physics of the early Universe and ultra-high energy processes. Emphasis is also put on neutrino physics and astrophysics, with the evidence for non-zero neutrino masses emerging from both solar neutrinos and atmospheric neutrinos covered in great depth. Another field with interesting new results concerns the basic cosmological parameters, where both traditional methods and the potential of new ones, like deep supernova surveys and acoustic peak detections in the cosmic microwave background, are thoroughly discussed. Various aspects of the dark matter problem, such as gravitational lensing estimates of galaxy masses, cluster evolution and hot cluster electron distortions of the thermal microwave background spectrum, are also discussed, as are particle physics candidates of dark matter and methods to detect them. Cosmic rays of matter and antimatter are included as a topic, and so is the problem of the enigmatic dark energy of the vacuum.
Neutrino Physics by J Bahcall,W Haxton,K Kubodera,C Poole Pdf
Neutrinos play a key role in many areas of particle physics, nuclear physics and astrophysics. The recent discovery of neutrino oscillation has given the first hint of new physics beyond the standard model. Clearly, it is extremely important to study further the oscillation and other fundamental properties of neutrinos. It is also important to improve our knowledge of neutrino-nucleus reactions, which are crucial for understanding a large class of astrophysical phenomena. These and many other interesting questions can be investigated at stopped pion neutrino facilities like the one planned for the Spallation Neutron Source at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The purpose of the Carolina Symposium was twofold: (1) to explore and exchange ideas on the latest developments in general frontiers of neutrino physics and related fields; (2) to address specific issues pertaining to the above-mentioned stopped pion neutrino facility. Among the topics covered in the proceedings are: cosmology and neutrino; standard model tests with neutrinos; neutrino oscillation, experiments and theories; dark matter search; double beta-decay; rare events detection techniques; the solar neutrino problem; supernova explosion; nucleosynthesis; and the ORLaND project. Contents: CosmologySupernovae, NucleosynthesisSolar NeutrinosNeutrino Properties — TheoreticalNeutrino Properties — ExperimentalORLaND, Oak Ridge Laboratory for Neutrino DetectorsDark MatterDouble Deta-Decay Readership: Researchers and graduate students in particle physics, nuclear physics and astrophysics. Keywords:Standard Model;Dark Matter;Neutrino Oscillation;Double Beta-Decay;Nucleosynthesis
Solar Neutrinos - Proceedings Of The 5th International Solar Neutrino Conference by Meyer Mikko,Zuber Kai Pdf
In 2018 solar physics and neutrino research celebrated various historical highlight events. Among them were 80 years of the paper by Hans Bethe discussing solar fusion cycles as energy source of stars, the first results from the Homestake chlorine experiment celebrating 50 years as well as the discovery of neutrino oscillations 20 years ago by Super-Kamiokande. Since the last International Solar Neutrino Conference in 1997, solar neutrino detection was recognized by two Nobel Prizes, given to Raymond Davis Jr. (2002) and Arthur McDonald (2015).The present proceedings volume is based on the given talks and provides a comprehensive and detailed overview of recent developments and discoveries in the field of solar neutrino physics. Articles were written by renowned experts of their field and cover a wide range in experiments and theory from current and future solar neutrino measurements, elemental abundances, nuclear astrophysics, helioseismology, impact on general neutrino physics and more. Further contributions focus on experiments like Homestake, SAGE and GALLEX which are widely known as historic milestones in the field of solar neutrino physics.
Neutrino Physics by Hans V. Klapdor,Bogdan Povh Pdf
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.
Neutrinos and Implications for Physics Beyond the Standard Model by R Shrock Pdf
This important book presents the proceedings of the conference “Neutrinos and Implications for Physics Beyond the Standard Model”, put on by the Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics, State University of New York at Stony Brook. The observation of neutrino masses and lepton mixing constitutes the first confirmed evidence for physics beyond the Standard Model. This evidence includes the measured deficiency of charged current reactions induced by solar neutrinos and the anomalous zenith angle distribution of atmospheric neutrinos. A profound question now facing theorists is: What do these observations imply for new physics? At the conference, members of the major experiments gave an update on current experimental evidence from solar and atmospheric neutrino data for neutrino oscillations, and status reports from KamLAND and MiniBooNE. Leading theorists also reported on neutrinoless double beta decay, high energy neutrino scattering and precision electroweak data, theoretical models for neutrino masses and lepton mixing, and constraints from neutrino data, etc. Since neutrino physics is at present one of the most exciting areas of particle physics, this volume should be of interest to a wide variety of students and researchers in physics. Contents:Introduction to the Conference (R Shrock, Stony Brook)Necessary Subtlety and Unnecessary Subtlety (C N Yang, Stony Brook/Beijing/CUHK)Neutrinos, Past and Present (M Goldhaber, BNL)Solar Models: An Historical Overview (J N Bahcall, IAS, Princeton)Solar Neutrino Results from Super-Kamiokande (Y Takeuchi, ICRR, Tokyo)Results from the Pure D2O Phase of the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (F A Duncan, Queen's Univ.)Results from Super-Kamiokande on Atmospheric Neutrino and Limits on Matter Instability (C Saji, ICRR, Tokyo)Oscillation Investigations in Soudan 2: Atmospheric νμ → ντ and n → (in Iron (A Mann, M Sanchez & T Kafka, Tufts Univ.)sin2 θW from Neutrino Scattering at NuTeV (K S McFarland, Univ. of Rochester)MINOS: The Physics Program and Construction Status (K Lang, Univ. of Texas)Status of the OPERA Experiment on the CNGS Neutrino Beam (P Migliozzi, INFN Napoli)Status of Borexino (A Ianni, Gran Sasso National Lab)Implications from Current Data for Neutrino Masses and Mixing, and Some Sensitivities of Future Experiments (K Whisnant, Iowa State University)Neutrino Masses, Oscillations, and Tests with Future Superbeams and a Neutrino Factory (M Lindner, Tech. Univ. Munich)Neutrino Masses with Dynamical Electroweak Symmetry Breaking (T Appelquist, Yale Univ.)SO(10) GUT Models and Their Present Success in Explaining Mass and Mixing Data (C H Albright, Northern Illinois Univ./FNAL)Symmetries of Neutrino Mixing (P F Harrison, Queen Mary Univ. of London & W G Scott, Rutherford Appleton Lab)Overview of SUSY GUT Models of Neutrino Mixing (S M Barr, Bartol Research Insititute)Local Symmetries Beyond the Standard Model Indicated by Neutrino Results (R N Mohapatra, Univ. of Maryland)Some Implications of Models with Large Extra Dimensions (S Nussinov, Tel Aviv Univ.)Alternatives to the Seesaw: Extra Z's and Constraints on Large Extra Dimensions (P Langacker, Univ. of Pennsylvania)Prospects for Conventional Long-Baseline Oscillation Experiments and Comparison with a Neutrino Factory (D A Harris, FNAL)Very Long Baseline Neutrino Oscillation Experiments for Precise Measurements of Oscillation Parameters and Search for CP Violation (M V Diwan, BNL)Hyper-Kamiokande — A Next Generation Water Cherenkov Detector (K Nakamura, KEK)Physics with Cosmic Neutrinos, PeV to ZeV (T J Weiler, Vanderbilt Univ.)Ultrahigh Energy Neutrinos (S I Dutta, SUNY at Stony Brook, M H Reno, Univ. of Iowa, I Sarcevic, Univ. of Arizona)Experiments for Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay (S R Elliot, LANL)To Be or Not to Be? — First Evidence for Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay (H V Klapdor-Kleingrothaus, Max Planck Institute)A National Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory (T J Bowles, LANL)Probing Grand Unification Through Neutrino Oscillations, Leptogenesis, and Proton Decay (J C Pati, Univ. of Maryland) Readership: Graduate students in theoretical physics. Keywords:Neutrinos;Electroweak Symmetry;Oscillations
Neutrino Physics and Astrophysics by Ettore Fiorini Pdf
Neutrino '80 held at the Ettore Majorana Center for Scientific Culture in Erice, was the tenth of a series of International Confer ences on Neutrino Physics and Astrophysics. It also marked the fiftieth anniversary of the first mention, by Wolfgang Pauli, of a neutral particle emitted in beta decay. The conference occurred at a very propitious time in neutrino physics: the possibility of a non-zero neutrino mass and of neutrino oscillations has obvious implications of great importance in neutrino astrophysics and cosmology, as well as in the grand unified theories. In order to encourage contacts and discussions among the various experts in different branches of neutrino physics and astrophysics, the conference was based only on plenary sessions, and mainly on review talks. Short communications were accepted only if they bore new and unexpected results which could not be covered in the appro priate review. I would like to thank the participants for their understanding of this often unpopular rule. I take this opportunity to express my gratitude to the members of the International Advisory Committee, to George Marx, Secretary of the on-going International Neutrino Committee, to the rapporteurs and session chairmen. Thanks are especially due to Antonino Zichichi, Director of the Ettore Majorana Centre for Scientific Culture, for the warm and generous hospitality extended to us, and to Alberto Gabriele and Pinola Savalli for their untiring efforts to make our stay in Erice as enjoyable as fruitful.
Neutrino Physics by John N. Bahcall,W. C. Haxton,K. Kubodera Pdf
Neutrinos play a key role in many areas of particle physics, nuclear physics and astrophysics. The recent discovery of neutrino oscillation has given the first hint of new physics beyond the standard model. Clearly, it is extremely important to study further the oscillation and other fundamental properties of neutrinos. It is also important to improve our knowledge of neutrino-nucleus reactions, which are crucial for understanding a large class of astrophysical phenomena. These and many other interesting questions can be investigated at stopped pion neutrino facilities like the one planned for the Spallation Neutron Source at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The purpose of the Carolina Symposium was twofold: (1) to explore and exchange ideas on the latest developments in general frontiers of neutrino physics and related fields; (2) to address specific issues pertaining to the above-mentioned stopped pion neutrino facility. Among the topics covered in the proceedings are: cosmology and neutrino; standard,model tests with neutrinos; neutrino oscillation, experiments and theories; dark matter search; double beta-decay; rare events detection techniques; the solar neutrino problem; supernova explosion; nucleosynthesis; and the ORLaND project.