The Weak Interaction in Nuclear, Particle and Astrophysics. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: K. Grotz.
• Authors: Grotz, K
• Contents: 2.3.3 Relationship between β-, β+ decay, electron and neutrino capture -- 2.4 Double beta decay -- 2.4.1 Matrix elements for double beta decay -- 2.5 Limits of the classical theory -- 2.5.1 Renormalisation of the axial vector current -- 2.5.2 Meson decay -- 2.5.3 High-energy behaviour: unitarity violation, non-renormalisability -- 3: Nuclear structure and beta decay -- 3.1 General importance -- 3.2 Beta decay and collective nuclear excitations -- 3.2.1 GT decay and charge exchange reactions -- 3.3 Sum rules for allowed beta decay -- 3.4 Nuclear matrix elements for beta decay -- 3.4.1 Independent particle model -- 3.4.2 The pairing model -- 3.4.3 The TDA method -- 3.4.4 The RPA method -- 3.5 Quenching of the Gamow-Teller strength -- 3.6 Matrix elements for double beta decay -- 3.6.1 Matrix elements for 2v ββ decay in particular models -- 3.6.2 Matrix elements for 0v ββ decay -- 4: Gauge theories -- 4.1 The gauge principle -- 4.1.1 Global internal symmetries -- 4.1.2 Local (=gauge) symmetries -- 4.2 SU(2), a first step towards the weak interaction -- 4.2.1 SU(2) transformations of the doublet (á. 8.1 The collapse of heavy stars and the weak interaction -- 8.1.1 Weak reactions in the core of heavy stars, neutrino emission from supernova explosions -- 8.1.2 Deleptonisation, gravitational collapse and supernova explosion -- 8.2 Synthesis of heavy elements in the universe -- 8.2.1 The r-process -- 8.2.2 Explosive helium burning -- 8.2.3 Cosmochronometers and the age of the universe -- 9: GUT and cosmology -- 9.1 The cosmological standard model -- 9.2 Limits of the standard model -- 9.2.1 Curvature of the universe -- 9.2.2 The horizon problem -- 9.2.3 Magnetic monopoles -- 9.2.4 Baryon asymmetry, CP violation -- 9.3 Inflation -- 9.3.1 Solution of cosmological problems in the inflationary universe -- 9.4 The cosmological constant É -- 9.4.1 'Observational' restrictions on É -- 9.4.2 The A problem -- 9.5 Neutrinos in the cosmos -- 9.5.1 The mass density p0 -- 9.5.2 Cosmological restrictions for the neutrino mass -- A: Appendix -- A.1 Relativistically invariant equations of motion in quantum mechanics -- A.1.1 The Klein-Gordon equation -- A.1.2 The Dirac equation -- A.2 Second quantisation, field operators -- A.2.1 Creation and annihilation operators -- A.2.2 Quantum fields -- A.3 Lagrange formalism -- A.3.1 Lagrangian density of the Dirac field -- A.3.2 Lagrangian density of an electron with electromagnetic interaction, Feynman diagrams -- A.4 Discrete symmetries of a Dirac field -- A.4.1 Parity transformation -- A.4.2 Charge conjugation (particle-antiparticle conjugation) -- A.4.3 Time reversal -- A.4.4 Handed Dirac fields, charge conjugation and CP conjugation -- A.5 Lie groups and continuous symmetry transformations -- A.5.1 Definition of a Lie group -- A.5.2 Group representations -- A.5.3 The SU(n) groups -- A.5.4 Noether's theorem -- A.5.5 The Wigner-Eckart theorem -- References -- Index.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : CRC Press
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource (475 pages)
• Subjects: 539.7544; Nuclear physics; Nuclear physics; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781351094146; 1351094149; 1351077244; 9781351077248
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