Recent Developments in Particle Physics and Cosmology

Branco, G. C. (EDT); Shafi, Q. (EDT); Silva-Marcos, Joaquim I. (EDT)

ISBN 10: 0792371828 / ISBN 13: 9780792371823

Editore: Springer, 2001

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• Titolo: Recent Developments in Particle Physics and Cosmology
• Editore: Springer
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0792371828
• ISBN 13: 9780792371823
• Rilegatura: Brossura
• Condizione: New

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Riassunto

This text surveys developments in some of the most important topics in particle physics and cosmology, including neutrino physics, CP violation, B-physics, baryogenesis, dark matter, inflation, supersymmetry, unified theories, large extra-dimensions and M-theory. It contains lectures and talks presented at the NATO ASI 2000 in Cascais-Portugal by some of the most prominent physicists working in this field of research and it is specially useful for Ph.D. students and postdoctorates, and physicists in general who want to know about the developments in particle physics and cosmology. It also provides important results given by experimentalists in neutrino physics, CP violation and dark matter.

Contenuti

Preface. List of Contributors. Part 1: Neutrino Physics. 1. Super-Kamiokande's Past, Present and Future; M.R. Vagins. 2. News about v's; E.Kh. Akhmedov. 3. Patterns for the Neutrino Mass Matrices and Mixings; G.C. Branco, J.I. Silva-Marcos. 4. Solving the Solar and Atmospheric Neutrino Problems with SUSY; J.C. Romão. 5. Bi-maximal Neutrino Mixing and Anomalous Flavour U(1); Q. Shafi, Z. Tavartkiladze. Part 2: CP Violation and B Physics. 1. CP Violation; T. Nakada. 2. B Physics and CP Violation; R. Fleischer. 3. Theoretical Estimate(s) of the CP-violating Quantity epsilon'/epsilon in Kappa --> 2pi Decays; J.O. Eeg. 4. Link between Neutrino Oscillations and CP Violation within Supersymmetric Unification; J.C. Pati. Part 3: Cosmology, Baryongenesis, Dark Matter and Inflation. 1. Introduction to Big Bang Cosmology; S. Sarkar. 2. Some Aspects of Baryogenesis and Lepton Number Violation; W. Buchmüller. 3. Large Evidence for Dark Energy from a Study of Type Ia Supernovae; G. Goldhaber. 4. Dark Matter and Large Scale Structure I, II and III; J.R. Primack. 5. Searching for SUSY Dark Matter - The Directional Rate and the Modulation Effect; J.D. Vergados. 6. Supersymmetric Hybrid Inflation; G. Lazarides. 7. Hybrid Inflation and Supergravity; G. Panagiotakopoulos. Part 4: Strings, Extra Dimensions, SUSY and Unification. 1. String Physics and Large Extra Dimensions at Low Energies; I.Antoniadis. 2. Sub-Millimeter Extra Dimensions and TeV Scale Quantum Gravity; G. Dvali. 3. Large Top Mixing from Extra Dimensions; F. del Aguila, J. Santiago. 4. Minimal Extension of the MSSM; K. Tamvakis. 5. Higgs Masses and S-Spectrum Predictions in Finite Unified Theories; T. Kobayashi, et al. 6. Chiral Phase Transitions in an External Field; C.N. Leung. List of Participants.