Introduction to the Physics of Electroweak Interactions (eBook)

S. M. Bilenky (Autor)

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2016 | 1. Auflage
288 Seiten
Elsevier Science (Verlag)
978-1-4831-5369-8 (ISBN)

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Introduction to the Physics of Electroweak Interactions is a six-chapter book that first elucidates the deep-inelastic and elastic lepton scattering on nucleons (both cases of polarized and nonpolarized initial particles). Subsequent chapter presents a brief history of the construction of the phenomenological V-A weak interaction Hamiltonian. Other chapters detail the Glashow-Weinberg-Salam unified theory of weak and electromagnetic interactions; the processes in which neutrinos take part; and processes due to neutral currents, deep-inelastic neutrino-nucleon scattering, elastic neutrino-nucleon scattering, and elastic neutrino-electron scattering. This book will be useful to those who wish to master the techniques for calculating the experimentally measured quantities.

Inhalt

Front Cover 1
Introduction to the Physics of Electroweak Interactions 4
Copyright Page 5
Table of Contents 6
Introduction 6
Chapter 1. Deep-inelastic electron scattering on nucléons 12
1.1. Cross-sections. Structure functions 12
1.2. Cross-sections sT and sS. The behaviour of functions W1 and W2 at q2. 0 26
1.3. Deep-inelastic scattering of polarized electrons on polarized protons 36
Chapter 2. Elastic scattering of high-energy electrons by nucléons 46
2.1. Elastic electron scattering on nucléons (unpolarized particles) 46
2.2. Elastic scattering of polarized electrons on polarized nucléons 59
Chapter 3. The phenomenological V-A weak interaction theory 66
Chapter 4. The Glashow-Weinberg-Salam theory 96
Chapter 5. Neutrino processes (charged currents) 139
5.1. The processes .µ(.µ)+N.µ-(µ+) + X(structure functions, general expressionsfor cross-sections) 139
5.2. The processes .µ(.µ)+N.. µ-(µ+) + X (the parton approximation) 151
5.3. The quasielastic processes .µ + n.µ-+p and .µ+ p µ+n 174
Chapter 6. Neutral currents 188
6.1. The neutral current in the gauge SU(2)XU(1) theory 188
6.2. The processes .µ{.-µ)+N . .µ(.-µ) + X 197
6.3. Processes .µ(.-µ)+p ...µ(.-µ)+pñ 209
6.4. Processes v(v) + e . v(v)+e 215
6.5. P - odd asymmetry in deep-inelastic scattering of polarized leptons on nucleons 223
Appendix A: Cross-section (definition, calculation) 236
Appendix B: The Dirac equation 242
Appendix C: Spin states of particles with spin½ . The density matrix of spin ½ particles 260
Appendix D: The Fertz transformation 266
Appendix E: The Feynman metric 268
Appendix F: The system of units h = c =1 272
Appendix G: Deep-inelastic scattering of polarized electrons on polarized nucleons (the parton model) 274
References 282
Index 286

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.12.2016
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Quantenphysik
• Themenwelt: Technik
• ISBN-10: 1-4831-5369-X / 148315369X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4831-5369-8 / 9781483153698