Non-Accelerator Particle Astrophysics

The volume presents a broad coverage of this timely subject. The work is up-to-date and detailed enough to constitute a fine reference for experimental as well as for theoretical physicists, but also maintains an informative pedagogical tone so that it can serve as the basis for a modern course on the subject.

Major sections include fundamentals of particle physics with results from accelerator experiments, the particle-cosmology interface, neutrino physics, large scale searches for proton decay and for exotic matter in the universe, neutrino astronomy, the physics of cosmic rays and gamma ray astronomy. A portion of the volume deals with facilities and instrumentation for particle astrophysics and on data acquisition.

Sample Chapter(s)
Foreword (35 KB)
Introduction to the Electroweak Standard Model (325 KB)

• Introduction to the Electroweak Standard Model (A Masiero)
• Beyond the Standard Model (G F Giudice)
• Introduction to Cosmology (E Kolb)
• An Introduction to the Solar Neutrino Problem and Its Possible Neutrino Physics Solutions (S Petcov)
• Solar and Supernovae Neutrinos (D Vignaud)
• Atmospheric Neutrinos (J Stone)
• Physics at the Neutrino Telescope (M Baldo-Ceolin)
• Long Baseline Neutrino Beams (R Carrigan, Jr.)
• Magnetic Monopole Searches (G Giacomelli)
• Double Beta Decay (E Fiorini et al.)
• Anti-Matter Search in the Primary Cosmic Rays (G Barbiellini)
• The Search for Gravitational Waves (M Cerdonio)
• The INFN Programme of Non-Accelerator Particle Physics (F Bobisut)
• Kamiokande and Superkamiokande (M Nakahata)
• and other papers