Prelace
Acknowledgements
Author Biography
Part I The Standard Model of Particle Physics
1 Historical overview of particle physics
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Photons
1.3 Electrons
1.4 Protons
1.5 Neutrons
1.6 Neutrinos
1.7 Positrons
1.8 Muons
1.9 Pions
1.10 Antiprotons and antirteutrons
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2 Classification of subatomic particles and their interactions
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Leptons
2.3 Gauge bosons
2.4 Feynman diagrams
Problems
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3 Evidence for quarks
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Coulombic scattering
3.3 Magnetic moment of the neutron
3.4 Excited states of the neutron and proton
3.5 Meson production
3.6 Deep inelastic scattering
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4 Hadronic structure and interactions
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Structure of mesons
4.3 Structure of baryons
4.4 Quarks, gluons and color
4.5 Understanding decays and reactions
Problems
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5 The Higgs boson
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Spontaneous symmetry breaking
5.3 The Higgs field
5.4 The search for the Higgs boson
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Part II Neutrino oscillations
6 Solar neutrinos
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Solar fusion processes
Problem
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7 Radiochemical neutrino experiments
7.1 Introduction
7.2 The Homestake Mine experiment
7.3 SAGE
7.4 GALLEX/GNO
7.5 Calibration of gallium experiments
Problem
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8 Properties of neutrinos
8.1 Introduction
8.2 Dirac and Majorana neutrinos
8.3 Neutrino flavors and Cabibbo mixin
8.4 Neutrino flavor mixing and the MSW effect
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9 Kamiokande and Super-Kamiokande
9.1 Introduction
9.2 Cherenkov radiation
9.3 Kamiokande and Super-Kamiokande
9.4 Solar neutrino experiments
9.5 Atmospheric neutrino experiments
9.6 Accelerator neutrino experiments
9.7 Supernova neutrinos
9.8 Proton decay experiments
Problems
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10 Sudbury Neutrino Observatory
10.1 Introduction
10.2 Sudbury Neutrino Observatory
10.3 Analysis of SNO data
Problem
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11 Scintillator experiments
11.1 Introduction
11.2 Borexino
11.3 KamLAND
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12 Neutrino masses and their implications
12.1 Introduction
12.2 Neutrino masses
12.3 Cosmological implications of neutrino mass
12.4 Neutrino magnetic moment
Problem
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