Sixty years of double beta decay : from nuclear physics to beyond standard model particle physics / [edited by] H.V. Klapdor-Kleingrothaus.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Klapdor-Kleingrothaus, H. V. (Hans Volker), 1942-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Double beta decay.

Solar neutrinos.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1316 p.)

Other Title:

60 years of double beta decay

Place of Publication:

Singapore ; River Edge, NJ : World Scientific, c2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Nuclear double beta decay is one of the most promising tools for probing beyond-the-standard-model physics on beyond-accelerator energy scales. It is already now probing the TeV scale, on which new physics should manifest itself according to theoretical expectations. Only in the early 1980s was it known that double beta decay yields information on the Majorana mass of the exchanged neutrino. At present, the sharpest bound for the electron neutrino mass arises from this process. It is only in the last 10 years that the much more far-reaching potential of double beta decay has been discovered.

Contents:

Contents ; Preface ; Acknowledgments ; Chapter 1 Double Beta Decay - Historical Retrospective and Perspectives ; 1.1 From the Early Days until the Gauge Theory Era ; 1.1.1 The First Steps in Double Beta Research ; 1.1.2 Double Beta Decay, Gauge Theories and Neutrino Mass

1.2 The Nuclear Physics Side - Nuclear Matrix Elements 1.2.1 A Breakthrough to the Understanding of the Matrix Elements ; 1.2.2 QRPA Calculations Including the pp-Force ; 1.2.3 Shell Model Calculations ; 1.2.4 The Operator Expansion Method ; 1.2.5 β+β+, EC/EC, β+/EC Decay

1.2.6 Matrix Elements for Exchange of Heavy Particles 1.3 Double Beta Decay, Neutrino Mass Models and Cosmological Parameters - Status and Prospects; 1.4 Other Beyond Standard Model Physics: From SUSY and Leptoquarks to Compositeness and Quantum Foam ; 1.4.1 General ; 1.4.2 Doubly Charged Higgs and Pion Double Charge Exchange, and Double Beta Decay

1.4.3 Superstring-Inspired Models, R-Parity Breaking Supersymmetry and Double Beta Decay1.4.4 R-Parity Conserving Supersymmetry and Double Beta Decay; 1.4.5 Leptoquarks and Double Beta Decay ; 1.4.6 Superheavy Neutrinos and Double Beta Decay ; 1.4.7 Compositeness and Double Beta Decay ; 1.4.8 Sterile Neutrinos, Majorons and Double Beta Decay

1.4.9 Lepton Number Violating Interactions, Non-exponential Decay and Time Dependence of the Weak Interaction1.4.10 Test of Lorentz Invariance, Equivalence Principle and Quantum Foam; 1.5 The Experimental Race: From the Late Eighties to the Future ; 1.5.1 General ; 1.5.2 Ionisation and Time Projection Chambers, and Combinations with Plastic Scintillators ; 1.5.3 Scintillation Detectors ; 1.5.4 Semiconductor Detectors

1.5.5 Cryogenic Detectors

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9786611960810

9781281960818

1281960810

9789812811929

9812811923

OCLC:

879025098