Neutrinos in High Energy and Astroparticle Physics

This self–contained modern textbook provides a modern description of the Standard Model and its main extensions from the perspective of neutrino physics. In particular it includes a thorough discussion of the varieties of seesaw mechanism, with or without supersymmetry. It also discusses schemes where neutrino mass arises from lighter messengers, which might lie within reach of the world?s largest particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider. Throughout the text, the book stresses the role of neutrinos due to the fact that neutrino properties may serve as a guide to the correct model of unification, hence for a deeper understanding of high energy physics, and because neutrinos play an important role in astroparticle physics and cosmology. Each chapter includes summaries and set of problems, as well as further reading. INDICE: Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 The Standard Model 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Standard Electroweak Model 2.3 Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking: Mass Generation 2.4 Renormalization 2.5 Higgs boson and unitarity in the Standard Model 2.6 Experimental Tests of the Standard Model 2.7 Other aspects of the Standard Model End of chapter summaries and problem sets Chapter 3 Neutrino Masses and Oscillations 3.1 Two–component formalism 3.2 Majorana and Dirac Quantization 3.3 General case: CP properties 3.4 Lepton mixing matrix 3.5 Neutrino oscillations formalism 3.6 Neutrino oscillation data & parameters End of chapter summaries and problem sets Chapter 4 Neutrinoless double beta decay 4. 1 Neutrino exchange mechanism 4. 2 Black Box theorem End of c hapter summaries and problem sets Chapter 5 The origin of neutrino mass 5.1 High–scale seesaw 5.2 Low–scale seesaw 5.3 Radiative & Hybrid models End of chapter summaries and problem sets Chapter 6 Supersymmetry 6.1 Introduction and Motivation 6.2 SUSY Algebra, Representations and Particle Content 6.3 How to Build a SUSY Model 6.4 The Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model 6.5 Mass Matrices in the MSSM 6.6 Couplings in the MSSM 6.7 Coupling Constant Unification End of chapter summaries and problem sets Chapter 7 Lepton Flavor Violation 7.1 Non–supersymmetric seesaw 7.2 Supersymmetric seesaw End of chapter summaries and problem sets Chapter 8 Spontaneous R Parity Violation 8.1 Introduction 8.2 A Viable Model for Spontaneous R?parity Breaking 8.3 Symmetry Breaking 8.4 Main Features of the Model 8.5 Higgs boson physics End of chapter summaries and problem sets Chapter 9 Bilinear R–Parity Violation 9.1 The Model 9.2 The Scalar Potential 9.3 Mass Matrices in the BRpV Model 9.4 Couplings in the BRpV Model 9.5 Neutrino Masses in the BRpV Model 9.6 Approximate Formulæ for the Neutrino Masses and Mixings End of chapter summaries and problem sets Chapter 10 Phenomenology of Bilinear R Parity Violation 10.1 Introduction 10.2 Neutrino Properties and BRpV Parameters 10.3 Supersymmetric Particle Production 10.4 Supersymmetric Particle Decays End of chapter summaries and problem sets Chapter 11 Leptogenesis and the origin of matter 11.1 Basics 11.2 Seesaw leptogenesis End of chapter summaries and problem sets Chapter 12 The Dark Universe 12.1 Evidence for dark matter 12.2 Stable versus decaying dark matter 12.3 Neutrinos and dark matter 12.4 Dark Energy End of chapter summaries and problem sets Chapter 13 Conclusion and future perspectives Appendices: Important points concerning notation and conventions, More technical results, Tables and equations.

• ISBN: 978-3-527-41197-9
• Editorial: Wiley VCH
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 450
• Fecha Publicación: 24/12/2014
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés