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reading material
The material listed below is required reading for the course.
The home exercises and a part of the final projects need that the concepts
described in these references be understood.
For further details or additional information you can look at the
bibliography section
The list follows the sequence of topics of the course and, within a topic,
is in increasing order of complexity.
topics of lectures 1 and 2
- Introduction to Neutrino Astronomy by J. Learned, U. of Hawaii
A one-page summary. Start here so you get the whole picture of what the field is about.
- "Elementary particles: yesterday, today and tomorrow", C. Quigg.
BeamLine, Spring 1997, vol27, no.1.
ps file,
pdf file
- "Pauli's Ghost", M. Riordan.
BeamLine, Fall 2001, vol31, no.3.
ps file,
pdf file
- "The Reines-Cowan Experiments", F. Reines, C. Cowan.
Los Alamos Science, Celebrating the Neutrino, number 25, 1997
pdf file
- "The Enigmatic World of Neutrinos", B. Kayser.
BeamLine, Fall 2001, vol31, no.3.
ps file,
pdf file
from Los Alamos Science, Celebrating the Neutrino, number 25, 1997:
- "The Reines-Cowan Experiments", F. Reines, C. Cowan.
- "The oscillating neutrino. An introduction to neutrino masses and mixings", R. Slansky, S. Rabi, T. Goldman, G. Garvey
The first part only. The parts 'Neutrino masses: how to add them to the standard model' and 'Family mixing and the origin
of mass' are beyond the level of this course. and
- "Excorcising_Ghosts. In Pursuit of the Missing Solar Neutrinos", A. Hime.
- "What have we learned about Solar Neutrinos?", J. Bahcall
Beamline, Fall/Winter 1994, vol 24, no. 3.
ps file,
pdf file,
(Note that the discovery of neutrino oscillations by Super-Kamiokande and the confirmation by
SNO, have solved the solar neutrino problem. However these two readings give a good account of the mechanisms in the Sun which produce neutrinos as well as a description of what was the problem, which lasted for about 30 years!)
topics of lecture 3 and 4
- "Inner space and outer space", M. Turner.
BeamLine, Fall 1997, vol27, no.3.
ps file,
pdf file
- "Neutrinos have mass", J. Learned.
BeamLine, Spring 1999, vol29, no.3.
ps file, pdf file
- "The Astro-Particle-Cosmo Connection", V. Trimble.
BeamLine, Spring 1997, vol27, no.1.
ps file,
pdf file
- "Neutrinos and Supernovae", M. Herant et al.
Los Alamos Science, Celebrating the Neutrino, number 25, 1997
- "In Water or Ice?", J. Learned, M. Riordan
Beamline, Fall 1995, vol25, no.3
ps file,
pdf file
- "Lectures on High Eenergy neutrino astronomy", F. Halzen
astro-ph/0506248.
pdf file
(figure missing in page 13 here, eps format, pdf format
- "High Energy Particles from the Universe", R. Ong
Proceedings of the XIX International Symposium on Lepton and Photon Interactions at High Energies,
Stanford University, August 9-14, 1999.
pdf file, ps file
- "Results from the AMANDA neutrino telescope", The AMANDA collaboration
ps file,
pdf file
A summary of the topics that a neutrino detector studies. Section 3.7 is out of the
scope of this course. The paper might be a bit over the level of the course. Do not try to understand
everything, but it will give you an overview of what neutrino detectors do.
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