by Vladimir G Baryshevsky (Belarusian State University, Belarus)

Table of Contents (128k)
Preface (103k)
Chapter 1: Introduction (82k)

The various phenomena caused by refraction and diffraction of polarized elementary particles in matter have opened up a new research area in the particle physics: nuclear optics of polarized particles. Effects similar to the well-known optical phenomena such as birefringence and Faraday effects, exist also in particle physics, though the particle wavelength is much less than the distance between atoms of matter. Current knowledge of the quasi-optical effects, which exist for all particles in any wavelength range (and energies from low to extremely high), will enable us to investigate different properties of interacting particles (nuclei) in a new aspect.

This pioneering book will provide detailed accounts of quasi-optical phenomena in the particle polarization, and will interest physicists and professionals in experimental particle physics.

• Nuclear Optics of Polarized Matter. Nuclear Pseudomagnetism:
  • Refraction and Mirror Reflection From a Matter–Vacuum Plane Boundary
  • Neutron Spin “Optical” Rotation in Matter with Polarized Nuclei. Nuclear Pseudomagnetism
  • Gamma–Optics of Polarized Matter
  • Diffraction of Particles in Polarized Crystals
  • Diffraction of Neutrons and γ-Quanta in Crystals Exposed to Variable External Fields
  • Positronium and Muonium Spin Rotation and Oscillations
  • Particle “Optical” Spin Rotation at Violation of Space–Reflection Symmetry (P) and Time Reversal Invariance (T)
  • Time–Reversal Violating Optical Gyrotropy and Birefringence of Matter
  • Phenomenon of Time–Reversal Violating Magnetic Field Generation by a Static Electric Field and Electric Field Generation by a Static Magnetic Field
• “Optical” Spin Rotation and Birefringence Effect of High–Energy Particles:
  • “Optical” Spin Rotation of High-Energy Particles in a Nuclear Pseudomagnetic Field
  • The Phenomenon of Birefringence (Spin Oscillation and Spin Dichroism) of Particles with Spin S ≥ 1
  • Ω^–-Hyperon Spin Birefringence and Quark Rescattering
  • “Optical” Spin Rotation and Birefringence of Particles in a Storage Ring and Measurement of the Particle EDM, Tensor Electric and Magnetic Polarizabilities
  • On the Influence of a Weak Pseudomagnetic Field on Neutrino Oscillations and Collective Processes in the Matter of a Supernova (Neutron Stars) and Neutrino Gas
• Channeling and High–Energy Nuclear Optics in Crystals:
  • Channeling of High-Energy Particles in Crystals
  • The Phenomenon of Spin Rotation of Particles Moving in Bent Crystals and Measurement of the Magnetic Moment of Short–Lived Particles and Nuclei
  • A Channeled Fast Particle as a Two-Dimensional (One-Dimensional) Relativistic Atom
  • Interference of Independently Generated Beams of γ-Quanta
  • Influence of Multiple Scattering and Energy Losses on Emission of γ-Quanta by High–Energy Particles in a Medium
  • Principles of the Quantum Theory of Emission of γ-Quanta in Crystals
  • Synchrotron–Type Radiation Processes in Crystals and Polarization Phenomena Accompanying Them