Neutrino

'I have postulated a particle that cannot be detected,' declared the physicist Wolfgang Pauli. And it was to take many years, much patience, and great ingenuity to catch an indirect glimpse of the elusive neutrino, and win the crate of champagne Pauli wagered on the discovery. This is the story of how the most extraordinary of particles-without charge, almost without mass, passing through matter over aeons before interacting with anything at all-was sought and found, and how neutrino astronomy is now giving us views deep into the hearts of distant galaxies.

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Neutrino

'I have postulated a particle that cannot be detected,' declared the physicist Wolfgang Pauli. And it was to take many years, much patience, and great ingenuity to catch an indirect glimpse of the elusive neutrino, and win the crate of champagne Pauli wagered on the discovery. This is the story of how the most extraordinary of particles-without charge, almost without mass, passing through matter over aeons before interacting with anything at all-was sought and found, and how neutrino astronomy is now giving us views deep into the hearts of distant galaxies.

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Neutrino

Neutrino

by Frank Close
Neutrino

Neutrino

by Frank Close

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Overview

'I have postulated a particle that cannot be detected,' declared the physicist Wolfgang Pauli. And it was to take many years, much patience, and great ingenuity to catch an indirect glimpse of the elusive neutrino, and win the crate of champagne Pauli wagered on the discovery. This is the story of how the most extraordinary of particles-without charge, almost without mass, passing through matter over aeons before interacting with anything at all-was sought and found, and how neutrino astronomy is now giving us views deep into the hearts of distant galaxies.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780199574599
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Publication date: 11/28/2010
Pages: 176
Product dimensions: 5.40(w) x 7.80(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Frank Close, OBE, is Professor of Physics at Oxford University and a Fellow of Exeter College. He was formerly vice president of the British Association for Advancement of Science, Head of the Theoretical Physics Division at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, and Head of Communications and Public Education at CERN. He is the author of several books, including The Void (OUP, 2007) and the best-selling Lucifer's Legacy (OUP, 2000). He was the winner of the Kelvin Medal of the Institute of Physics for his "outstanding contributions to the public understanding of physics."

Table of Contents

Ray Davis vii

Foreword ix

1 A Desperate Remedy 1

2 Seeing The Invisible 19

3 Winning The Lottery 29

4 Is The Sun Still Shining? 43

5 How Many Solar Neutrinos? 59

6 Underground Science 71

7 One, Two, Three 86

8 More Missing Neutrinos 106

9 'I Feel Like Dancing, I'm So Happy' 119

10 Extragalactic Neutrinos 134

11 Reprise 152

Notes 167

Index 171

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