Non-accelerator Particle Physics, - Rilegato

Klapdor-Kleingrothaus, H. V.; Staudt, A.

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0750303050 ISBN 13: 9780750303057

Casa editrice: CRC Press, 1995

Riassunto

The past decade has seen the emergence and rapid development of particle physics experiments performed in underground laboratories and other non-accelerator installations. Such work allows profound questions of particle physics beyond the capabilities of modern accelerators to be attacked. At a time when elementary particle physics has reached a stage at which it places extreme requirements on new generations of accelerators, such work increases in importance.
This book provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to this interdisciplinary field of physics, bringing together research in particle and nuclear physics with astrophysics and cosmology. The first three chapters describe the current Standard Models of particle physics and cosmology, including an account of the limitations of particle accelerators and the need for non-accelerator experiments to tackle many unsolved problems in fundamental physics and astrophysics. Chapters 4-12 discuss in detail major open questions including proton decay, neutron oscillations and electric dipole moment, neutrino mass, double beta decay, neutrino oscillations, magnetic monopoles, dark matter, fractionally charged particles, the fifth force, and time dependence of natural constants. Each chapter gives the theoretical background and discusses experimental techniques currently being used or planned.
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Dr. A. Staudt is currently employed at Bayer AG, Leverkusen, as Project Manager in R&D.

Contenuti

Modern elementary particle theories: The elementary constituents of matter; The elementary interactions; Symmetries and invariances; Gauge theories and the standard model; Models of grand unification; The description of neutrinos; Outlook. Accelerator particle physics: Energy scales of accelerators; Physics at the accelerators of the 1990s; Outlook. The early universe and particle physics: The cosmological standard model; Inflationary models; The primordial nucleosynthesis. Proton decay: Baryon decay; Predictions of the lifetime of the proton; Proton decay experiments. Neutron-antineutron oscillations, and electric dipole moment of the neutron: Electric dipole moment of elementary particles; Measurement of neutron electric dipole moment; Neutron-antineutron oscillations. Experiments to determine the neutrino mass: Direct determination of the neutrino mass; Double beta decay; The supernova SN1987A. Neutrino oscillations: Introduction to neutrino oscillations; The formal theory; Experiments on neutrino oscillations. Magnetic monopoles: Introduction, historical overview; Theoretical concepts Detection of magnetic monopoles; Experimental results. The search for dark matter in the universe: Evidence for dark matter; Candidates for dark matter; Experiments to detect dark matter. Particles with a fractional charge: The quark confinement; Experiments to search for free quarks. Fifth force: theoretical expectations and experimental status: Introduction; Theoretical expectations; Experimental search for a fifth force. Time dependence of natural constants: Introduction; Theoretical predictions; Experiments to search for time dependence. Bibliography. Index.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: CRC Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0750303050
• ISBN 13: 9780750303057
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 534