Subatomic Physics

11.15. References 375
11.15 References
General theory and experimental facts on beta decay are describe in: H. J. Lipkin,
Beta Decay for Pedestrians, North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1962; C. S. Wu and
S. A. Moszkowski in Beta Decay, Wiley-Interscience, New York, 1966; and E.J.
Konopinski, The Theory of Beta Radioactivity, International Series of Monographs
on Physics, Oxford, 1966, cover nuclear beta decay lucidly and in depth up to
∼1965. Enphasis on modern issues can be found in: B. Holstein, Weak Interactions
in Nuclei, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 1989; K. Grotz and
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The weak interaction is discussed in more general terms in L.B. Okun, Leptons and
Quarks, North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1982; E.D. Commins and P.H. Bucksbaum,
Weak Interactions of Leptons and Quarks, Press Syndicate University of Cambridge,
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Particle Physics, Cambridge University Press, 1988. The latter includes copies of
the original papers of many of the milestone discoveries.
A summary of the development of the weak interactions over a thirty year stretch
can be found in Thirty Years Since Parity Nonconservation, A Symposium for T.D.
Lee, (R. Novick, ed.) Birkhäuser, Boston, 1988. For a History of Weak Interactions,
see T.D. Lee in Elementary Processes at High Energy, (A. Zichichi, ed.) Academic
Press, New York, 1971, p. 828. Many of the influential papers on weak interactions,
including a translation of Fermi’s classic work, are reprinted in P.K. Kabir, The
Development of Weak Interaction Theory, Gordon and Breach, New York, 1963.
Original papers, with introductory discussions, are also collected in C. Strachan,
The Theory of Beta Decay, Pergamon, Elmsford, N. Y., 1969.
There have been numerous reviews on various aspects of the weak interactions.
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Neutrinos and Double-Beta Decay: F. Boehm, P. Vogel, Physics of massive neutrinos,
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