The neutrino story: One tiny particle’s grand role in the cosmos

Preface
Acknowledgements
Contents
Part I
	1 Introduction
	2 Particles as Building Blocks of Matter
		2.1 Protons and Electrons
		2.2 Add the Neutron
		2.3 Particle Spin
		2.4 Particle Helicity
		2.5 Stable and Unstable Particles
		2.6 Matter and Anti-Matter from Einstein\'s Theory of Relativity: The Power of an Algebraic Sign
	3 From Protons and Neutrons to a Zoo of Particles
		3.1 Looking Inside Protons and Neutrons with High Energy Colliders
		3.2 Particles from Cosmic Rays
	4 Order in the Zoo and Quarks
		4.1 Eightfold Way and Quarks Inside Baryons and Mesons
		4.2 Baryons Have Their Own Markers, the Baryon Number (B)
		4.3 Leptons Have Their Own Marker Too: The Lepton Number (L)
	5 Forces That Keep the Universe Together
		5.1 Gravity
		5.2 Black Holes and Gravity
		5.3 Electromagnetic Force
		5.4 Nuclear Force
		5.5 Weak Force
	6 Forces Are Also Caused by Particles
		6.1 Photon, Mesons, and Forces
		6.2 Had the Force Strengths Been Different?
Part II
	7 The Neutrino Is Born as an Idea
		7.1 Missing Energy Puzzle in Beta Ray Emission
		7.2 December Night Ball and Pauli Letter
	8 From Idea to Reality: The Neutrino Story Unfolds in Slow Motion
		8.1 Fermi Theory of Beta Decay
		8.2 Can the Neutrino Be Found?
	9 The Neutrino is Discovered
		9.1 How to Detect a Neutrino
		9.2 From Hanford to Savanna River
		9.3 The Years That Followed the Neutrino Discovery
		9.4 More Neutrino Types Found
		9.5 Charged Weak Force Comes Accompanied by Neutral Weak Force
	10 Standard Model of the Particles and Forces
		10.1 How Charming was the Charm Quark?
		10.2 The Quark Family and Their Interaction
		10.3 Leptons and the Monogamous Neutrinos
	11 Forces in the Standard Model and Symmetries
		11.1 Are the Weak Forces Also from Gauge Symmetry Like the Electric Force?
		11.2 Where Did Mass Come from?
		11.3 Symmetries and Symmetry Breaking
		11.4 Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking
		11.5 Higgs Mechanism
		11.6 The Theory of Strong Force
	12 More Physics Beyond the Standard Model or the End of Physics Now?
		12.1 Future Colliders and New Physics
		12.2 Non-Accelerator Probes of Physics Beyond the Standard Model
	13 Neutrinos Oscillate and Hence They Weigh
		13.1  From Oscillating Swing to Oscillating Neutrino
		13.2 Quantum Mechanics and Neutrino Oscillations
		13.3  Detecting Neutrino Oscillations
		13.4  Ray Davis and Catching of Solar Neutrinos
		13.5  Super-Kamiokande Experiment
		13.6 Atmospheric Neutrino Oscillation
		13.7  Neutrino Oscillations Confirmed by Accelerator and Reactor Neutrinos
		13.8 Understanding the Sun Using Solar Neutrinos
	14 What Have We Learned about Neutrinos from Neutrino Oscillation Experiments?
		14.1 Who Is Heavy and Who Is Light: Mass Ordering of Neutrinos
		14.2 Refraction of Neutrinos in Matter
		14.3 Do Neutrinos Decay?
		14.4 Long Distance Communication Using Neutrinos
		14.5 Using Neutrinos for National Security Purpose
		14.6 Worldwide Effort to a Fuller Understanding of Neutrino Mass
		14.7 Can Neutrino Be Sensitive to Magnetic Forces: The Neutrino Magnetic Moment
		14.8 What Oscillation Experiments Do Not Tell Us
Part III
	15 Mendeleev\'s Periodic Table
	16 A Brief Overview of the Big Bang Theory of the Universe
		16.1 Big Bang Theory vs. Steady State Theory
		16.2 Big Bang Theory Wins
		16.3 Major Events in the Universe\'s Past
	17 The Inflationary Universe
		17.1 Inflation: One Beginning Before Another Beginning
		17.2 Beginning of the Hubble Era after Inflation
	18 From Quarks to Protons and Neutrons and Then to Helium and Beryllium and the Dance of Atoms
		18.1 Big Bang Nucleosynthesis
		18.2  Formation of Galaxies
		18.3 Cosmic Microwave and Neutrino Backgrounds
	19 Stars as the Cooking Pots for Heavy Nuclei
		19.1 Stellar Nucleosynthesis
		19.2  Still Heavier Elements
	20 Neutrino Mass Hints at Mirror Symmetry in Nature
		20.1 Back to Symmetries
		20.2 Mirror Symmetry and Weak Force
		20.3 Mirror Symmetry and Neutrinos
		20.4 Mass and Helicity
		20.5 Mirror Reflection and Neutrino States and Nature of Weak Force
	21 Mirror Symmetric Weak Force and Neutrino Mass
		21.1 Neutrino Mass-Mirror Symmetry Breaking Connection
		21.2  Majorana Neutrinos
		21.3 Seesaw and Majorana Neutrino Mass
		21.4 Testing Majorana Nature of Neutrinos in Experiments
	22 Hints of Other New Physics from Neutrino Mass
		22.1 Mirror Universe Versus Left–Right Symmetry: Two Paths to Parity
		22.2 Grand Unification of Forces and Matter
		22.3 What if Neutrinos Are not Majorana Fermions?
	23 The Origin of Matter and Neutrinos
		23.1 Enter Sakharov
		23.2 The Search for Baryon Number Violation
		23.3 Neutrino Seesaw and Baryon Asymmetry
	24 Dark Universe
		24.1 Dark Matter and Galaxies
		24.2 What is the Dark Matter?
		24.3 Is There a Parallel Universe?
		24.4 Are There Sterile Neutrinos?
		24.5 Can We Communicate with the Mirror World?
	25 Neutrinos from Heavenly Sources
		25.1 Why Look for Neutrinos from Extra-Solar Sources and Extra-Galactic Sources
		25.2 Supernova Neutrinos
		25.3 Neutrinos Observed in the IceCube Experiment in the South Pole
Part IV
	26 Anthropic Principle
		26.1 Why Go Anthropic?
		26.2 Many Universes and the Anthropic Principle
		26.3 Other Examples
	27 What Lies Ahead?
		27.1 ``Near\'\' Future: The First Ten Billion (1010) Years
		27.2 One Hundred Billion Billion (1020) Years
		27.3 Far Future: Beyond the Next Million Trillion Trillion Years 1030 Years
	28 Epilogue
References
Index