Electroweak Processes in External Electromagnetic Fields / Edition 1

by Alexander Kuznetsov, Nickolay Mikheev

Overview

Usually, it is not easy to define the main dates of creation of a new science – the birth date, when the first distinct idea was generated, and the - turity date, when the science manifested itself as a separate and consistent discipline. For particle astrophysics, the science that has developed very - tensively over the last two decades, the birth is most likely to be dated to the beginning of the 1930s. Just then, after the discovery of a neutron by J. Chadwick in 1932, the concept of a neutron star was proposed by L.D. L- dau, and independently by W. Baade and F. Zwicky. The maturation of this science can be more or less confidently be dated to 1987 when extragal- tic neutrinos were registered for the first time from the supernova SN1987A explosion in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of our Milky Way. There are at least two excellent books on the topic written by G.G. R- felt: Stars as Laboratories for Fundamental Physics (Univ. Chicago Press, Chicago 1996) and by H.V. Klapdor-Kleingrothaus and K. Zuber: Particle Astrophysics. 2nd ed. (Inst. of Phys., Bristol 2000), where the basics of this new science can be studied. However, new facts and ideas appear so fast that it is necessary for specialists to follow not only journal papers but also electronic preprints, in order to keep abreast of the latest developments.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780387400747
Publisher:	Springer New York
Publication date:	10/01/2003
Series:	Springer Tracts in Modern Physics , #197
Edition description:	2004
Pages:	120
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.01(d)

Table of Contents

Solutions of the Dirac Equation in an External Electromagnetic Field.- Fermion Propagator in an External Electromagnetic Field.- Generalized Two-Point Loop Amplitude in an External Electromagnetic Field.- Tree-Level Quantum Processes in an External Field.- Loop-Level Quantum Processes in an External Electromagnetic Field.