Y2 Neutrino Physics
Material for the 2010-11 course for PwPPC students.
First lecture is Tues. 9 Nov. 2010, Physics West 106, at 1200; thereafter, Mondays (Nuffield G22) and Tuesdays (West 106) until end of term in following weeks. Please use references given below each lecture in the
Reading List.
Written lecture notes are not distributed but all transparencies/handouts are given below.
- Lecture 3 (4 slides/page)
- The Number Of Neutrino Species, D. Denegri, B. Sadoulet, M. Spiro, published in Rev.Mod.Phys.62:1,1990.
- Feynman diagrams (for documentation, not calculations), see also Halzen+Martin: p8, p77.
- Neutrino existence discussion, see also Winter: Sect. 2.1, 2.3, Sutton: pp.10-31.
- Lecture 6 (4 slides/page)
- Parity: See also Halzen+Martin: p254, Perkins (2nd Ed.): Sect. 6.4,6.5, Sutton: pp 44-50, Martin, pg. 189.
- C.S. Wu, E. Ambler, R.W. Hayward, D.D. Hoppes, R.P. Hudson, "Experimental Test of Parity Conservation in Beta Decay", Phys. Rev. 105, 1413 (1957).
- Lecture 11 (4 slides/page)
- Measurement of theTotal Active 8B Solar Neutrino Flux at the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory with Enhanced Neutral Current Sensitivity , S.N.Ahmed et al, Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 181301 (2004)
- Next generation double-beta decay experiments: metrics for their evaluation , F T Avignone III et al 2005 New J. Phys. 7 6
- Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay Experiments , K.Zuber, Acta Physica Polonica B Vol. 37, No. 7, July 2006, page 1905
- Outlook for the future, see various reviews at ICFA Seminar, SLAC, Oct. 2008
- Review of different aspects of neutrino physics
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