Autorentext
Jonathan Link is a full tenured professor in the Physics Department at Virginia Tech and director and co-founder of Virginia Tech's Center for Neutrino Physics. He is the author of 130 published papers, and has given 85 invited conference talks, seminars and colloquia. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Davis in 2001 and was a postdoctoral fellow at Columbia University starting in 2001, before taking a tenure track position at Virginia Tech in 2006. Dr. Link first worked in experimental neutrino physics in 2001 as a member of the MiniBooNE collaboration. In 2003 he initiated a new reactor neutrino experimental effort with the intension of conducting the most sensitive search for the last neutrino mixing angle, 13. This domestic US effort known as Braidwood was eventually passed over for support by the US DOE, which instead selected the less costly Chinese effort, Daya Bay. In 2006 he joined Daya Bay, and was awarded the DOE's Outstanding Junior Investigator Award for my proposed work on that project. In 2012, Daya Bay was the first to measure 13, and he shared the 2016 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics for his contribution to the Daya Bay project. Going forward, he is engaged in multiple concepts for future neutrino experiments. First, he is a member of the DUNE collaboration, which is a accelerator-based long baseline experiment, with the goal of measuring the CP violating phase in the neutrino mixing matrix, and determining the neutrino mass hierarchy. Second, he has become very interested in the ongoing question of the existence of light sterile neutrinos. In 2007, along with Raju Raghavan, he was the first to propose using a radioactive neutrino source, such as 51Cr, to search for sterile neutrinos using a detector designed for solar neutrino studies. In 2011, he co-organized a workshop know as Sterile Neutrinos at the Crossroads.

Zusammenfassung

Neutrinos have a smaller mass than any other known particle and are the subject of intense recent studies, as well as this book. The author provides a coherent introduction to the necessary theoretical background and experimental methods used by modern neutrino physicists. It's designed as a one-stop reference addressing what is currently known about the neutrino hypothesis, discovery of the neutrino, theory of weak interactions, solar neutrino puzzle, and neutrino oscillation. It then gives a detailed account of practical approaches for study of precision oscillations, neutrino mass and other neutrino properties, sterile neutrinos, and neutrino messengers from space and Earth's interior.

Inhalt

The Neutrino Hypothesis. Discovery of Neutrinos. Neutrinos and the Weak Interaction. The Solar Neutrino Puzzle. Neutrino Oscillations. Neutrino Sources. Neutrino Interactions with Matter. Detecting Neutrinos. Precision Neutrino Oscillation Physics. The Neutrino Mass. Are Neutrinos their Own Antiparticle? Neutrino Magnetic Moment and Other Novel Properties. Light Sterile Neutrinos. Neutrinos from Beyond