The physics of massive neutrinos
Book
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OSTI ID:5736650
- National Science Foundation (US)
- CEN, Sallay (FR)
- Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Menlo Park, CA (United States)
After arguing the neutrino mass is not unlikely, and briefly considering the search for evidence of this mass in decay processes, this book examines the physics and phenomenology of neutrino oscillation. The authors discuss the physics of Majorana neutrinos (neutrinos which are their won antiparticles). The authors first establish a number of basic properties of such neutrinos without sing any field theory. The authors then introduce the field theory description of a Majorana particle, and use it to treat such processes as neutrinoless double beta decay. Finally, having studied Majorana neutrinos, we turn to the treatment of neutrino masses in gauge theories, and derive the see-saw relation, which explains why neutrino masses are so small by relating them to the inverse of a large mass scale.
- OSTI ID:
- 5736650
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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