Experimental Neutrino Physics

Neutrinos have a smaller mass than any other known particle and are the subject of intense recent studies, as well as this book. The author provides a coherent introduction to the necessary theoretical background and experimental methods used by modern neutrino physicists. It's designed as a one-stop reference addressing what is currently known about the neutrino hypothesis, discovery of the neutrino, theory of weak interactions, solar neutrino puzzle, and neutrino oscillation. It then gives a detailed account of practical approaches for study of precision oscillations, neutrino mass and other neutrino properties, sterile neutrinos, and neutrino messengers from space and Earth's interior.

中微子比其他已知粒子質量更小，是近期研究的焦點，也是本書的主題。作者提供了一個有條理的介紹，包括現代中微子物理學家所需的理論背景和實驗方法。本書旨在成為一本全面的參考資料，介紹了目前對中微子假設、中微子的發現、弱作用理論、太陽中微子之謎以及中微子振盪的了解。接著，它詳細介紹了研究精確振盪、中微子質量和其他中微子性質、無中微子、以及來自太空和地球內部的中微子訊息的實際方法。

Jonathan Link is a full tenured professor in the Physics Department at Virginia Tech and director and co-founder of Virginia Tech's Center for Neutrino Physics. He is the author of 130 published papers, and has given 85 invited conference talks, seminars and colloquia. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Davis in 2001 and was a postdoctoral fellow at Columbia University starting in 2001, before taking a tenure track position at Virginia Tech in 2006. Dr. Link first worked in experimental neutrino physics in 2001 as a member of the MiniBooNE collaboration. In 2003 he initiated a new reactor neutrino experimental effort with the intension of conducting the most sensitive search for the last neutrino mixing angle, θ13. This domestic US effort known as Braidwood was eventually passed over for support by the US DOE, which instead selected the less costly Chinese effort, Daya Bay. In 2006 he joined Daya Bay, and was awarded the DOE's Outstanding Junior Investigator Award for my proposed work on that project. In 2012, Daya Bay was the first to measure θ13, and he shared the 2016 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics for his contribution to the Daya Bay project. Going forward, he is engaged in multiple concepts for future neutrino experiments. First, he is a member of the DUNE collaboration, which is a accelerator-based long baseline experiment, with the goal of measuring the CP violating phase in the neutrino mixing matrix, and determining the neutrino mass hierarchy. Second, he has become very interested in the ongoing question of the existence of light sterile neutrinos. In 2007, along with Raju Raghavan, he was the first to propose using a radioactive neutrino source, such as 51Cr, to search for sterile neutrinos using a detector designed for solar neutrino studies. In 2011, he co-organized a workshop know as Sterile Neutrinos at the Crossroads.

Jonathan Link是維吉尼亞理工大學物理系的全職教授，也是維吉尼亞理工大學中微子物理中心的主任和共同創辦人。他是130篇發表論文的作者，並發表了85次邀請的會議演講、研討會和學術報告。他於2001年在加州大學戴維斯分校獲得博士學位，並於2001年開始在哥倫比亞大學擔任博士後研究員，之後於2006年在維吉尼亞理工大學擔任終身職位。Link博士於2001年首次參與了MiniBooNE合作項目，從事實驗性的中微子物理研究。2003年，他發起了一項新的反應堆中微子實驗，旨在進行對最後一個中微子混合角度θ13的最敏感搜索。這個名為Braidwood的美國國內項目最終未獲得美國能源部的支持，而是選擇了成本較低的中國項目Daya Bay。2006年，他加入了Daya Bay項目，並因其在該項目上的工作提案而獲得了美國能源部的傑出初級研究員獎。2012年，Daya Bay首次測量到θ13，他因對Daya Bay項目的貢獻而獲得了2016年突破性基礎物理學獎。未來，他將參與多個未來中微子實驗的概念。首先，他是DUNE合作項目的成員，該項目是一個基於加速器的長基線實驗，旨在測量中微子混合矩陣中的CP破壞相位，並確定中微子質量層次。其次，他對存在輕型無中性中微子的問題非常感興趣。2007年，他與Raju Raghavan共同提出使用放射性中微子源（如51Cr）來搜索無中性中微子，並使用專為太陽中微子研究設計的探測器。2011年，他共同組織了一個名為Sterile Neutrinos at the Crossroads的研討會。