Bruno Pontecorvo and the neutrino
2014; Institute of Physics; Volume: 57; Issue: 5 Linguagem: Inglês
10.3367/ufne.0184.201405g.0531
ISSN1468-4780
Autores Tópico(s)Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies
ResumoThis paper commemorates the 100th anniversary of the birth of the great scientist and neutrino researcher Bruno Pontecorvo. His major contributions are reviewed, including the radiochemical method of neutrino detection, the idea of the universality of the weak interaction, and the proposal of an accelerator experiment to prove that and are different particles. Pontecorvo's fundamental idea of neutrino masses, mixing, and oscillations is discussed in detail, as is the development of this idea by Pontecorvo and Gribov and Pontecorvo and the author.
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