ABSTRACT

This book discusses how the physics community came to know so much about the neutrino. It is designed to examine the history of the neutrino from its unsuspected beginnings in the discovery of radioactivity at the end of the nineteenth century to current experiments on the mass of the neutrino.

chapter 1|48 pages

The Road to the Neutrino

chapter 2|28 pages

The Neutrino Hypothesis

chapter 3|36 pages

Toward a Universal Fermi Interaction

chapter 4|34 pages

Fermi’s Theory: The Final Act

chapter 6|36 pages

How Much? The Mass of the Neutrino

chapter 7|30 pages

How Many? Whose?

chapter 8|34 pages

The Missing Solar Neutrinos

chapter 9|30 pages

Neutrino Oscillations

chapter |6 pages

Conclusion: There Are Neutrinos