CHASING THE GHOST: NOBELIST FRED REINES AND THE NEUTRINO

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A mixture of memoir and biography, Chasing the Ghost: Nobelist Fred Reines and the Neutrino tells a deeply human story that appeals both to scientists and non-scientists. Although the book relates to the important discovery of neutrinos, it is more intimately about Fred Reines than the technical details of neutrino physics. Narrated in a fashion to interest and excite the reader, the science presented here is accessible to a broad audience. Coursing through Reines' life, his various challenges and encounters, the book reveals constants of his persona. Reines displayed a sustained consistency as a respected leader, admired by students and colleagues as a fount of big ideas and ambition. A continuing source of inspiration and motivation to others, his most basic consistency was his passion for science. The quest for knowledge about the wondrous universe is a profoundly human endeavor. Fred Reines' life and his unremitting scientific curiosity are emblematic of that truth. "This book is a most welcome account about Frederick Reines and his great contributions to neutrino physics and astrophysics. The methods he designed in the 1950s to discover neutrinos in nuclear reactor experiments are still being used. His later work included the detection of atmospheric neutrinos which was a forerunner to the discovery of neutrino oscillations, the ability of neutrinos to change from one type to another. This finding was a significant step to other experiments that aim to answer profound questions about the nature of the universe including why it is composed of matter." Takaaki Kajita Nobel Laureate in Physics Neutrino Researcher, University of Tokyo "Cole has provided a compelling personal and scientific account of a remarkable pioneer in Neutrino Physics." Arthur B McDonald Nobel Laureate in Physics Director of the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory Professor, Queen's University, Ontario, Canada Sample Chapter(s) Preface Chapter 1: Challenge, Determination, and Thinking Big Contents: Foreword Preface Beginnings: Challenge, Determination, and Thinking Big Language, Science, and the Ghost Particle Becoming: Becoming a Physicist The Einstein Letter, the Hidden City, and the Bomb From Bombs to Neutrinos Discovery: Explosive Ideas Hanford and Savannah River Clyde Cowan Moving: Moving to Case Institute New Dean, New University Transition Years at Irvine Expressions: The "Other" Fred: Music, Performance, Musings Science and Religion Classroom Teacher Validation: IMB and a Decade of Joy and Frustration Super-K, SNO, and Oscillations The Nobel Prize and the Last Years The Legacy Grows Epilogue Appendix Acknowledgements Endnotes Index Readership: Particle physicists, aspiring physicists, science educators, and general public.

Interacting Gravitational, Electromagnetic, Neutrino and Other Waves

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This book is devoted to researchers who would like to investigate interactions among gravitational waves and matter fields beyond linear order, including the phenomena of memory effects, gravitational Faraday rotation, soft theorems, and formations of spacetime singularities due to the mutual focus of gravitational waves. Readers only require a basic understanding of general relativity to understand the materials. The book starts with an overview on the fundamentals of the Newman-Penrose formalism and a brief introduction to distribution theory, with which the author systematically develops a mathematical description of spacetimes of colliding plane waves. Then, the author presents a frame-independent definition of polarization of a plane gravitational wave in a curved spacetime, studies in detail the gravitational Faraday rotation of two plane gravitational waves, and shows that each of them can serve as a medium to the other precisely due to their nonlinear interactions. Exact solutions are also presented, which represent a variety of models including the collisions of two plane gravitational waves and the collisions of a plane gravitational wave with a dust shell, a massless scalar wave, an electromagnetic wave, or a neutrino wave. The formation of spacetime singularities due to nonlinear interactions and the effects of gravitational wave polarization on the nature of singularities are also explored. Sample Chapter(s) Preface Chapter 1: Fundamentals of Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity Contents: Preface List of Figures Fundamentals of Einstein's Theory of General Relativity Plane Gravitational Waves Colliding Plane Gravitational Waves Collision of Pure Gravitational Plane Waves Collisions of Gravitational Waves with Matter Fields Isometries to Interiors of Black Holes Concluding Remarks Bibliography Index Readership: Graduate students, postdocs, and researchers in investigations of gravitational waves and their nonlinear interactions among themselves and with matter fields.