Neutrino oscillation (N.O.) is the only firm evidence of the physics beyond the Standard Model of particle physics and is one of the hottest topics in elementary particle physics today. This book focuses on the N.O., from its history to the future prospects, from the basic theories to the experiments.

Various phenomena of N.O. are described intuitively with thorough explanations of the fundamental physics behind well-known formulations. For example, while many textbooks start with a discussion of the mixing matrix, this book stresses that N.O. is caused by the transition amplitudes between different neutrino flavors, and that the purpose of N.O. experiments is to measure transition amplitudes and think of its origin. The current understanding of neutrino oscillation is also summarized using the most up-to-date measurements, including the recently measured neutrino mixing angle 13 , and the future prospects of N.O. studies are described as well.

The level ofthis book makes it a bridge between introductory textbooks and scientific papers.

Contains detailed descriptions of experiments, from motivation to results including very recent discoveries Gives a complete derivation of important formulas such as three-flavor oscillation and matter effect Contains many examples to explain the formalism of neutrino oscillation phenomena Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Autorentext

The author, Dr. Fumihiko Suekane, is a professor of Research Center for Neutrino Science, Tohoku University, Japan. He is an elementary particle physicist. He contributed to the discovery of the reactor neutrino oscillation as a core member of the KamLAND experiment. He was awarded the Koshiba prize and Breakthrough group prize for the achievement. Recently he suceeded to measure the last neutrino mixing angle Theta-13 He is also interested in teaching intuitive and concrete particle physics and have written some text books. He won Blaise Pascal Chairs (BPC) by Promotion of Neutrino Science and was invited as a guest researcher at Laboratoire AstroParticule & Cosmologie, Paris, in 2017- 2018. This book is an outcome of his activities as BPC while he was staying at APC lab.

Klappentext

Neutrino oscillation (N.O.) is the only firm evidence of the physics beyond the Standard Model of particle physics and is one of the hottest topics in elementary particle physics today. This book focuses on the N.O., from its history to the future prospects, from the basic theories to the experiments.

Various phenomena of N.O. are described intuitively with thorough explanations of the fundamental physics behind well-known formulations. For example, while many textbooks start with a discussion of the mixing matrix, this book stresses that N.O. is caused by the transition amplitudes between different neutrino flavors, and that the purpose of N.O. experiments is to measure transition amplitudes and think of its origin. The current understanding of neutrino oscillation is also summarized using the most up-to-date measurements, including the recently measured neutrino mixing angle 13 , and the future prospects of N.O. studies are described as well.

The levelof this book makes it a bridge between introductory textbooks and scientific papers.

Inhalt
Introduction.- Neutrinos and Weak Interactions in the Standard Model.- Particle Oscillations.- Neutrino Oscillation.- Experiments.- Present Status.- Future Possibilities of Neutrino Oscillation Experiments.- Appendix.