The Physics of Neutrino Interactions

A comprehensive introduction to neutrino physics with detailed description of neutrinos and their properties.

A comprehensive treatment of neutrino interactions, this advanced text is suitable for both undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well as academicians in the field of neutrino physics. It presents a theoretical framework for describing relativistic particles and discusses the phenomenological theory of weak interactions.The study of neutrinos and their interaction with matter has made many important contributions to our present knowledge of physics. This advanced text introduces neutrino physics and presents a theoretical framework for describing relativistic particles. It gives a pedagogical description of the neutrino, its properties, the standard model of electroweak interactions, and neutrino scattering from leptons and nucleons. Focusing on the role of nuclear effects, the discussion extends to various processes of quasielastic, inelastic, and deep inelastic scattering from nucleons and nuclei. Neutrino sources, detection and oscillation, along with the role of neutrinos in astrophysics and motivation for the need of physics beyond the standard model are discussed in detail. This topical book will stimulate new ideas and avenues for research, and will form a valuable resource for advanced students and researchers working in the field of neutrino physics.