Neutrino
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 23 February 2012
- ISBN 9780199695997
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages192 pages
- Size 196x129x14 mm
- Weight 206 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 11 black and white illustrations 0
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Short description:
Neutrinos are as near to nothing as anything we know, and so elusive that they are almost invisible. Frank Close tells the story of the neutrino, explaining their growing significance, and looking at how neutrino astronomy is at the threshold of enabling us to look into distant galaxies and to finding echoes of the Big Bang.
MoreLong description:
What are neutrinos? Why does nature need them? What use are they?
Neutrinos are perhaps the most enigmatic particles in the universe. Formed in certain radioactive decays, they pass through most matter with ease. These tiny, ghostly particles are formed in millions in the Sun and pass through us constantly. For a long time they were thought to be massless, and passing as they do like ghosts they were not regarded as significant. Now we know they have a very small mass, and there are strong indications that they are very important indeed. It is speculated that a heavy form of neutrino, that is both matter and antimatter, may have shaped the balance of matter and antimatter in the early universe.
Here, Frank Close gives an account of the discovery of neutrinos and our growing understanding of their significance, also touching on some speculative ideas concerning the possible uses of neutrinos and their role in the early universe.
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Table of Contents:
A desperate remedy
Seeing the invisible
Winning the lottery
Is the Sun still shining?
How many Solar neutrinos?
Underground science
One, two, three
More missing neutrinos
'I feel like I'm dancing I'm so happy'
Extragalactic neutrinos
Reprise
