Weak and Electromagnetic Interactions at High Energies: Cargse 1975, Part B [Paperback]

Phenomenology of Weak Interactions.- 1. V-A theory from ?- and ?-decay to inelastic neutrino scattering.- 1.1 ?-decay.- 1.2 ?-decay.- 1.3 Universality.- 1.4 High energy neutrino scattering.- 1.5 Low energy hadronic matrix elements.- 2. Cabibbo theory, current algebra and chiral symmetry.- 2.1 The Cabibbo theory of currents.- 2.2 Current algebra and chiral symmetry.- 2.3 The Goldberger-Treiman and Adler-Weisberger relations.- 2.4 Soft pion theorems for leptonic K-decay..- 3. Is the non-leptonic weak interaction a V-A current-current coupling?.- 3.1 Strangeness conserving transitions: parity violation in nuclear physics.- 3.2 Strange particle decay.- 3.3 SU(3) transformation properties.- 3.4 Soft pion theorems and the ?I = 1/2 rule.- 4. Neutral currents  direct and induced.- 4.1 Induced neutral currents.- 4.2 Direct neutral current couplings.- 4.3 Fitting neutral currents into the V-A picture: a new quantum number?.- 5. Gauge theories and weak interaction phenomenology.- 5.1 Radiative corrections to ?-decay.- 5.2 Induced strangeness changing neutral currents.- 5.3 Non-leptonic decays and the ??I? = 1/2 rule.- 5.4 Parity violation in nuclear transitions.- 5.5 Charm phenomenology.- References.- Parity Violating effects in Atoms.- 1. Introduction.- Emission and absorption of circularly polarized photons.- Estimate of PC.- 2. Specific experiments in ordinary atoms.- Parity violating effects in muonic atoms.- References.- High Energy Neutrino Interactions.- 1. Structure of weak interactions.- 1.1 Introduction.- 1.2 The Salam-Weinberg model.- 1.3 Experimental evidence of the existence of neutral currents in neutrino lepton interactions.- 1.4 Hadronic neutral currents.- 1.5 Experimental evidence for the existence of hadronic neutral currents. Recent results..- 1.6 What are they if not neutral currents?.- 1.7 Simultaneous production of two muons.- 1.8 Search for charms in bubble chamber experiments  two candidates.- References.- 2. Neutrino nucleon interactions (charged curl�