Particles, Strings and Cosmology: Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium Pascos 99 Lake Tahoe, California 10-16 December 1999

by Cheung, Kingman; Gunion, John F.; Mrenna, Stephen

• ISBN13: 9789810243883
• ISBN10: 981024388X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-09-01
• Publisher: WORLD SCIENTIFIC PUB CO INC

Summary

The PASCOS (International Symposium on Particles, Strings and Cosmology) series brings together the leading experts and most active young researchers in the closely related fields of elementary particle physics, string theory and cosmology/astrophysics. These areas of research have become increasingly intertwined in recent years, each having direct impact on the others. In particular, there has been a dramatic expansion of ideas from particle theory and string theory that have vast impact on cosmology, especially our picture of the early universe and its evolution. Correspondingly, the proliferation of data regarding the early universe, and its increasing precision, has begun to strongly constrain the theoretical models. Meanwhile, observations of neutrino oscillations and cosmic ray excesses, and limits on new physics from colliders and other particle experiments, as well as the resulting restrictions on theoretical and phenomenological modeling, are becoming ever stronger. During PASCOS99, it became clear that the long-awaited era of convergence of these fields is truly at hand.The proceedings of PASCOS99 reflect the accelerating overlap and convergence of the fields of elementary particles physics, string theory and cosmology/astrophysics. Plenary reviews by leading figures in these fields provide perspectives on these interrelationships and up-to-the-minute summaries of recent progress in the various areas. Parallel talk summaries focus on many of the topics within each field of greatest current interest and activity. Both the plenary and parallel writeups are designed to be descriptive in nature and avoid being overly technical. As a result, the volume can serve as a usefulreference for students and professionals in all three fields. Careful referencing allows fu

Table of Contents

Preface	v
Organizing and Advisory Committees	vii
Strings, Branes and Theoretical Particle Physics
Plenary Talks
On Realistic Brane Worlds from Type I Strings	1	(8)
Fernando Quevedo
Gravity Is Noise	9	(8)
Vipul Periwal
Limits on the Size of Extra-Dimensions	17	(11)
I. Antoniadis
Some Reflections on Moduli, Their Stabilization and Cosmology	28	(18)
Michael Dine
New Directions for New Dimensions: From Strings to Neutrinos to Axions to	46	(11)
Keith R. Dienes
Kaluza-Klein Black Holes in String Theory	57	(10)
Finn Larsen
Cosmology of Brane Models	67	(8)
Csaba Csaki
Entropy Bounds, Holography and Generalized Second Law in Cosmology	75	(7)
Ram Brustein
Excision of `Repulsion' Singularities: A Spacetime Result and Its Gauge Theory Analogue	82	(9)
Amanda W. Peet
The Complementarity of the Tevatron and LHC for Testing the MSSM Through SM-Like Higgs Boson Searches	91	(9)
S. Mrenna
The General Soft Supersymmetry Breaking Lagrangian and the Origins of CP Violation	100	(8)
Gordon Kane
Parallel Talks
Phenomenological Survey of a Minimal Superstring Standard Model	108	(4)
Gerald B. Cleaver
Duality, Equivalence, Mass and the Quest for the Vacuum	112	(6)
Alon E. Faraggi
Supersymmetry Breaking Through Transparent Extra Dimensions (A.K.A. Gaugino Mediation)	118	(5)
Graham D. Kribs
On Standard Model Higgs and Superstring Theories	123	(4)
Afsar Abbas
Effective Cosmological Constants from Supergravity	127	(4)
C. Grojean
Gravity on the Brane?	131	(4)
Andrew Chamblin
Extra Dimension Kaluza-Klein Excitations and Electroweak Symmetry Breaking	135	(6)
J.F. Gunion
Cosmological 3-Brane Solutions	141	(4)
P. Kanti
Mini-Review on Collider Signatures for Extra Dimensions	145	(11)
Kingman Cheung
Electroweak Symmetry Breaking by Extra Dimensions	156	(4)
Hsin-Chia Cheng
Geometrical Interpretation of Quantum Formalism	160	(4)
O.A. Olkhov
Radiative Higgs-Sector CP Violation in the MSSM	164	(6)
Apostolos Pilaftsis
CP Violation Universal One-Loop Corrections and Heterotic M-Theory	170	(5)
G.V. Kraniotis
CP Violation in the SM and Beyond in the Hadronic B Decays	175	(6)
Xiao-Gang He
Electric Dipole Moments of Diamagnetic Atoms and Constraints on the CP SUSY Phases	181	(4)
M. Pospelov
Reconstruction of the Chargino Parameters	185	(4)
J. Kalinowski
Signals of CP Violation in Distributions of tt Decay Products at Linear Colliders	189	(5)
B. Grazadkowski
Measuring the Relative CP-Even and CP-Odd Yukawa Couplings of a Higgs Boson at a Muon-Collider Higgs Factory	194	(4)
J. Pliszka
Discrete Ambiguities in B-Decay CP Asymmetries and the Search for New Physics	198	(6)
David London
Probing Lepton Flavor Violation	204	(4)
Douglas W. McKay
A New Approach to Texture Analysis of Quark Mass Matrices	208	(4)
Guo-Hong Wu
Naturalness Re-Examined: Implications for Supersymmetry Searches	212	(6)
K.T. Matchev
Flavor Violation as a Probe of the MSSM Higgs Sector	218	(4)
Christopher Kolda
Constraints on Hidden Sector Gaugino Condensation	222	(5)
Brent D. Nelson
Effective Potential Calculations of the MSSM Lightest CP-Even Higgs Boson Mass	227	(4)
Ren-Jie Zhang
Bounds on ``Charginos Nearly Degenerate with the Lightest Neutralino'' Mass from Precision Measurements	231	(4)
M. Maltoni
Bounds on Extra Quark-Lepton Generations from Precision Measurements	235	(4)
M. Maltoni
Could a Lepton Be the Zee Boson?	239	(4)
Otto C.W. Kong
Angular Distributions in Higgs Decays	243	(3)
R.E. Allen
Early Universe Physics: Particles and Large Scale Structure
Plenary Talks
Signatures of Non-Baryonic Dark Matter	246	(4)
Joseph Silk
Galaxy Cluster Baryon Fractions, Cluster Surveys and Cosmology	250	(10)
Joseph J. Mohr
Observational and Theoretical Constraints on Ωmatter	260	(8)
Joel R. Primack
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Early Science Results	268	(9)
Joshua A. Frieman
CMB Anistropies: Status and Boomerang	277	(10)
J.E. Ruhl
Parallel Talks
Leptogenesis in Inflationary Universe	287	(4)
T. Asaka
Global String Evolution and Axion Emission	291	(4)
Masahide Yamaguchi
Extra Dimensions and the Horizon Problem	295	(6)
Daniel J.H. Chung
Q-Ball Formation and Its Properties	301	(4)
S. Kasuya
Supersymmetric Electroweak Baryogenesis and CP Violation	305	(5)
Michal Brhlik
Bubbles from Dark Energy?	310	(4)
Jochen Weller
Cosmic Magnetic Fields from Particle Physics	314	(6)
Ola Tornkvist
What Can Galaxy Cluster Evolution Tell Us About the Universe	320	(6)
James Robinson
The CMB Success of Adiabatic CDM	326	(4)
Lloyd Knox
Evidence for Compact Dark Matter in Galactic Halos	330	(4)
Afsar Abbas
A Sterile Neutrino Neeed for Heavy-Element Nucleosynthesis	334	(7)
David O. Caldwell
Pixel Microlensing Dark Matter Searches	341	(4)
Edward A. Baltz
The Small-Scale Velocity Dispersion and Future Redshift Surveys	345	(4)
J.E. Baker
Neutrinos, Dark Matter, Cosmic Rays, Gamma Ray Bursts
Plenary Talks
High Energy Neutrino Astronomy: PASCOS 99	349	(12)
Francis Halzen
Accelerator Neutrino Oscillation Experiments	361	(8)
Andrew O. Bazarko
Gamma-Ray Bursts	369	(8)
Eli Waxman
Overview of Neutrino Oscillation Physics	377	(9)
V. Barger
Solar and Atmospheric Neutrinos	386	(8)
Takaaki Kajita
Neutralinos as Dark Matter	394	(8)
Toby Falk
Experimental Searches for Dark Matter	402	(9)
Daniel A. Bauer
Parallel Talks
Mirror Dark Matter	411	(12)
R.N. Mohapatra
Unitarity Constraints on Neutrino Mass and Mixings	423	(6)
A.B. Balantekin
Neutrino Oscillations and Elementarity in Leptonic Matter	429	(5)
Subhash Rajpoot
Hierarchical Majorana Scales in the Seesaw Model	434	(4)
Guo-Hong Wu
Cosmic Ray Antiprotons	438	(7)
Dallas C. Kennedy
Leptogenesis and the Small-Angle MSW Solution	445	(6)
Haim Goldberg
Particle Accelerator Experiment
Plenary Talks
Latest Results from HERA	451	(8)
A. Mehta
Lastest Results From LEP	459	(8)
Gary Taylor
New Physics at Run II and New Limits from Run I at DØ	467	(8)
P. Van Gemmeren
New Physics with CDF in Run I and Run II	475	(8)
Andrei Nomerotski
Progress in X-Band Linear Collider Program	483	(6)
Raymond E. Frey
Muon Collider Status	489	(8)
Panagiotis Spentzouris
Parallel Talks
Measurement of the Strange Quark Forward-Backward Asymmetry Around the Z° Peak	497	(4)
E. Boudinov
A Measurement of τ Hadronic Branching Fractions and τ Polarisation at Delphi	501	(4)
M.E. Pol
B-Physics at LEP, SLD and CDF	505	(6)
V. Canale
Search for SUSY Particles in Nearly Mass-Degenerate Scenarios with the Delphi Detector at LEP2	511	(5)
A. Perrotta
Some Studies of the τ-Lepton with Data from the Delphi Detector	516	(4)
B. Stugu
Topics in W+ W- Physics Measurements with Delphi	520	(5)
B. Golob
Exotic Searches in Delphi at LEP	525	(5)
M. Espirito Santo
Higgs Boson Searches at LEP Up to √s = 202 GeV	530	(6)
Andre Sopczak
Search for High Mass Resonances at HERA	536	(4)
Stefano Dusini
MSSM Higgs Searches Using τ Decay Modes at CMS	540	(4)
E. Meschi
A Novel Approach for Measuring the Beta-Neutrino Angular Correlation in Nuclear Beta Decav	544	(5)
M. Beck
Electroweak Results from SLC/SLD	549	(4)
Raymond E. Frey
Conference Schedule	553	(7)
List of Participants	560