Probing the weak force with neutrinos Available to Purchase

Interest in neutrino physics has surged up recently, partly because the “little neutral ones” are being groomed for the job (for which they alone are qualified) of probing the interiors of stars. Among elementary particles the neutrino is unique. This is because—as far as we know—it alone interacts with other particles only through the Fermi, or weak, interaction. In this article we will discuss how recent experiments, with new accelerators and detectors, such as the ones at CERN and Fermi Lab, have shed new light on some of the fundamental questions regarding the weak interactions. We will review the recent discoveries of neutral weak currents that conserve strangeness, parity violation and point‐like neutrino collisions, as well as some of the implications of these experiments to particle theory.