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出版商:
Springer
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出版日期:
2025-11-25
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售價:
$5,760
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貴賓價:
9.5 折
$5,472
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語言:
英文
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頁數:
327
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裝訂:
Hardcover - also called cloth, retail trade, or trade
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ISBN:
3032019354
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ISBN-13:
9783032019356
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相關分類:
物理學 Physics
商品描述
This book reports on the full-stack experimental search (from inception to discovery) of the first observation of neutrino-induced fission. Over fifty years ago, physicists predicted that neutrinos, such as those from supernova or nuclear reactors, could fission heavy nuclei. This "new way to split the atom" could serve as an exciting new way to observe low-energy neutrinos and would also play an important role in the creation of heavy nuclei in neutrino-rich astrophysical environments--for instance, in the R-process for nucleosynthesis. The challenge in detecting this interaction and thus confirming its existence was twofold: the neutrino interacts only rarely; and the targets of interest must be fissionable, and therefore already produce large radioactive backgrounds. This landmark thesis describes the inception, design, construction, and operation of the first measurement of neutrino-induced fission and the presentation of the first exciting results from the work. It is the first measurement of neutrino-induced fission and the first measurement of a neutrino cross-section on an unstable nucleus. The work is an open door for new experiments designed to search for new "NuFission" interactions and find new applications for this new approach to neutrino detection.
商品描述(中文翻譯)
本書報告了第一個觀測到中微子誘發裂變的全堆疊實驗搜尋（從構想到發現）。五十多年前，物理學家預測來自超新星或核反應堆的中微子可以使重核裂變。這種「分裂原子的全新方式」可能成為觀測低能中微子的令人興奮的新方法，並在中微子豐富的天體物理環境中重核的形成中扮演重要角色——例如，在核合成的R過程中。檢測這一相互作用並確認其存在的挑戰有兩方面：中微子的相互作用非常罕見；而感興趣的目標必須是可裂變的，因此已經產生大量的放射性背景。這篇具有里程碑意義的論文描述了中微子誘發裂變的首次測量的構思、設計、建造和運行，以及該工作的首次令人興奮的結果的呈現。這是中微子誘發裂變的首次測量，也是對不穩定核的中微子截面進行的首次測量。這項工作為設計新實驗以搜尋新的「NuFission」相互作用並尋找這種新方法在中微子檢測中的新應用打開了一扇大門。
作者簡介
Tyler Johnson is a postdoctoral associate at Yale University in the Physics Department and Wright Laboratory. His work centers around the development of Rydberg atom-based microwave photon sensors for the axion direct-detection experiment RAY and cryogenics for the ALPHA experiment. Additionally, he works on the neutrinoless double beta decay experiments CUORE and CUPID. He received a Ph.D. in physics from Duke University in 2025. His doctoral research focuses on developing novel particle detectors to study neutrino-nuclear interactions, specifically elucidating the existence of a new way to split the atom with neutrinos called neutrino-induced nuclear fission or "nuFission." Tyler was an Arms Control fellow for the Stanford US-Russia Forum, Alfred Sloan Foundation Minority Ph.D. scholar, NNSA Anti-neutrino Ph.D. fellow, Robert C. Richardson fellow, Goshaw Family fellow, and previously a Mellon-Mays Undergraduate fellow. At Duke, he sat on the Finance Committee for the Board of Trustees, the Capital Sub-Committee in service of the Finance Committee, the Board of Trustees Strategic Engagement Program, Duke's University Center for Exemplary Mentoring Advisory Board, President's Council on Black Affairs, the Advisory Committee on Investment Responsibility, the Search Committee for the Trinity Dean of Arts and Sciences, and the Young Trustee Nominating Committee. He also spent time at Italy's National Institute for Nuclear Physics, Fermi National Accelerator Lab, and Oak Ridge National Lab. Tyler received his Bachelor's in physics from the University of Chicago.
作者簡介(中文翻譯)
泰勒·約翰遜（Tyler Johnson）是耶魯大學物理系及懷特實驗室的博士後研究員。他的研究重點是開發基於瑞德堡原子的微波光子感測器，用於阿克西翁直接探測實驗RAY，以及為ALPHA實驗提供低溫技術。此外，他還參與無中微子雙β衰變實驗CUORE和CUPID。他於2025年在杜克大學獲得物理學博士學位。他的博士研究專注於開發新型粒子探測器，以研究中微子與核子的相互作用，特別是闡明一種新的利用中微子進行原子分裂的方式，稱為中微子誘導核裂變（neutrino-induced nuclear fission）或「nuFission」。
泰勒曾擔任史丹佛美國-俄羅斯論壇的軍備控制研究員、阿爾弗雷德·斯隆基金會少數族裔博士生獎學金獲得者、NNSA反中微子博士生獎學金獲得者、羅伯特·C·理查森獎學金獲得者、戈肖家庭獎學金獲得者，以及之前的梅隆-梅斯本科獎學金獲得者。在杜克大學，他曾擔任董事會財務委員會成員、財務委員會服務的資本小組委員會成員、董事會戰略參與計劃成員、杜克大學卓越導師中心諮詢委員會成員、總統黑人事務委員會成員、投資責任諮詢委員會成員、文理學院院長搜尋委員會成員，以及年輕董事提名委員會成員。他還曾在意大利國家核物理研究所、費米國家加速器實驗室和橡樹嶺國家實驗室工作。泰勒在芝加哥大學獲得物理學學士學位。
