Neutrino Physics

This book provides a comprehensive examination of neutrinos, covering their research history and theory, as well as their applications in other fields. The new edition delves into new results on neutrino cross sections, solar neutrinos, neutrinos from supernovae, and high energy neutrinos, as well as new experimental results.

Kai Zuber is the Head of Department for Nuclear Physics at TU Dresden and the creator and leader of the COBRA-Project. He obtained his Ph.D from the University of Heidelberg, where he worked within the Heidelberg-Moscow double beta decay experiment.Prof. Zuber is currently a collaborator on a number of high profile experiments, including the SNO+experiment; the GERDA double beta decay experiment; the Borexino experiment at the Gran Sasso Laboratory; the COMET-experiment at J-PARC; and the ISOLTRAP experiment at CERN. In 2016, Prof. Zuber was part of a team of collaborators awarded the prestigious Breakthrough Prize for Fundamental Physics for his work on the fundamental discovery and exploration of neutrino oscillations, revealing a new frontier beyond, and possibly far beyond, the standard model of particle physics.

1. Important historical experiments. 2. Properties of neutrinos. The standard model of particle physics. 4. Neutrinos as a probe of nuclear structure. 5. Neutrino masses and physics beyond the standard model. 6. Direct neutrino mass searches. 7. Double Beta-decay. 8. Neutrino oscillations. 9. Atmospheric neutrinos. 10. Solar neutrinos. 11. Neutrinos from supernovae. 12. Ultra-high energetic cosmic neutrinos. 13. Neutrinos in cosmology. 14. Summary and outlook