Cosmo-99: Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Particle Physics and Theearly Universe, Ictp, Trieste, Italy Held on September 27 - October 2, 1999

by Cotti, U.

• ISBN13: 9789810244569
• ISBN10: 9810244568
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-09-01
• Publisher: WORLD SCIENTIFIC PUB CO INC

Table of Contents

Preface	v
Dark Matter
Dark-Matter Overview
B. Sadoulet
Results from DAMA Experiments	1	(7)
P. Belli
Neutralinos as Relic Particles: Implications of the Theoretical Uncertainties in the Neutralino-Nucleon Cross-Section	8	(7)
F. Donato
Hide and Seek with Neutralino Dark Matter WIMP	15	(7)
L. Roszkowski
Relic Abundance of Dark Matter Particles: New Formulation and New Result of Abundance Calculation	22	(8)
M. Yoshimura
CP Violating Phases and the Dark Matter Problem	30	(8)
T. Falk
Wimpzillas
E. Kolb
A Phenomenology of the Dark Energy
A. Albrecht
Death of Baryonic Dark Matter in our Galactic Halo
K. Freese
Dark Matter Annihilation at the Center of the Galaxy	38	(5)
P. Gondolo
Dark Mirror Matter
Z. Berezhiani
Susy Dark Matter at the LHC
D. Denegri
A Theoretical Review of Axion	43	(11)
J. Kim
Dark Matter Caustics	54	(8)
P. Sikivie
W. Kinney
Cosmological Implications of Supersymmetric CP Violating Phases	62	(4)
S. Khalil
Possible Observational Evidences of Non-baryonic (Non-compact) Microlenses	66	(5)
A. Zakharov
High Energy Cosmic Rays
Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays from Superheavy Relic Particles
V. Berezinsky
Cosmic Ray Conundra
A. De Rujula
The Most Energetic Particles in the Universe	71	(6)
E. Roulet
D. Harari
S. Mollerach
Cosmic Rays Signatures of Massive Relic Particles	77	(14)
S. Sarkar
Energies in the Universe
The Cosmological Constant, Nothing or Everything?: Observation Confronts Theory
L. Krauss
Quintessence in Tensor-Scalar Theories of Gravity	91	(7)
N. Bartolo
M. Pietroni
Energy Conditions and Their Cosmological Implications	98	(15)
M. Visser
C. Barcelo
Global Topology of the Universe
G. Starkman
Observed Smooth Energy is Anthropically Even More Likely as Quintessence Than as Cosmological Constant	113	(5)
S. Bludman
Supernovae Data: Cosmological Constant or Ruling Out the Cosmological Principle?	118	(4)
M. N. Celerier
Extended Quintessence: Imprints on the Cosmic Microwave Background Spectra	122	(4)
C. Baccigalupi
F. Perrotta
S. Matarrese
Can the Inflaton and the Quintessence Scalar be the Same Field?	126	(4)
F. Rosati
Big Bang Nucleosynthesis
The Current Status of Big Bang Nucleosynthesis and Related Observations	130	(8)
K. A. Olive
Cosmology, Big Bang Nucleosynthesis, and Neutrinos
A. Dolgov
Lithium-6: A Probe of the Early Universe	138	(8)
K. Jedamzik
Inflation
Inflation and Creation of Matter in the Universe
A. Linde
Current Issues for Inflation	146	(7)
D. Lyth
Spinodal Inflation and Metric Perturbations: Applications of Non-equilibrium Quantum Field Theory to Inflation
R. Holman
Supergravity in Cosmology
R. Kallosh
Preheating and Supergravity
L. Kofman
Nonthermal Production of Dangerous Relics in the Early Universe	153	(7)
R. Riotto
New Inflation in Supergravity and Its Observational Implications	160	(7)
M. Kawasaki
Stochastic Gravitational Waves Backgrounds: A Probe for Inflationary and Non-inflationary Cosmology	167	(7)
M. Giovannini
Fermion Preheating
J. Baacke
Preheating the Dilaton	174	(4)
L. E. Mendes
A. Mazumdar
Non-perturbative Production of Gravitinos After Inflation	178	(4)
A. L. Maroto
A. Mazumdar
Metric Perturbations and Inflationary Phase Transitions	182	(4)
D. Cormier
R. Holman
Interacting Fields in Robertson-Walker Cosmologies	186	(4)
C. Molina-Paris
P. R. Anderson
S. A. Ramsey
Nonperturbative Production of Fermions and the Baryon Asymmetry	190	(4)
M. Peloso
Preheating of Bosons in Supersymmetric Hybrid Inflation	194	(4)
M. Bastero-Gil
S. F. King
J. Sanderson
CMB and Structure Formation
CMB: Present and Future
S. Dodelson
An Update on Non-Gaussianity in the COBE Data
P. Ferreira
Back Reaction of Cosmological Perturbations	198	(9)
R. H. Brandenberger
The Fractal Universe: Recent Data and Theoretical Developments
L. Pietronero
Distribution of Dark and Luminous Matter in the Universe
R. Schaeffer
Cosmological Implications of a Neutrino Asymmetry	207	(4)
J. Lesgourgues
S. Pastor
Metric Perturbation of the FRW Universe and the Fractal Distribution of the Luminous Matter	211	(4)
R. Mohayaee
Topological Defects
Testing Cosmological Defect Formation in the Laboratory
T. Kibble
Vortex Phases in Condensed Matter and Cosmology	215	(7)
M. Laine
Old and New Cosmic and Other Defect String Models
B. Carter
Dark Matter and Cosmic Strings in Particle Models	222	(7)
X. Zhang
The Fate of Cosmic String Zero Modes	229	(9)
A.-C. Davis
S. C. Davis
W. B. Perkins
New Regime for Dense String Networks	238	(4)
C. S. Aulakh
Dilatonic, Current-Carrying Cosmic Strings	242	(5)
C. N. Ferreira
M. E. X. Guimaraes
J. A. Helayel-Neto
Phase Transitions and Magnetic Fields
High Temperature Symmetry Nonrestoration	247	(7)
B. Bajc
The Origin of Cosmic Magnetic Fields	254	(7)
O. Tornkvist
Primordial Magnetic Fields and Electroweak Baryogenesis	261	(8)
D. Grasso
Wess-Zumino Wallpaper	269	(4)
P. M. Saffin
Non-equilibrium Dynamics of Hot Abelian Higgs Model	273	(4)
A. Rajantie
Mass Shift of Axion in Magnetic Field	277	(4)
N. V. Mikheev
A. Ya. Parkhomenko
L. A. Vassilevskaya
Cosmological Magnetic Fields by Parametric Resonance?	281	(4)
F. Finelli
First-Order Phase Transitions in an Early-Universe Environment	285	(4)
M. Lilley
Q-Balls
Cosmology of Susy Q-balls	289	(7)
A. Kusenko
Q-ball Formation through Affleck-Dine Mechanism	296	(4)
S. Kasuya
Energy Losses of Q-balls in Matter, Earth and Detectors	300	(6)
M. Ouchrif
Neutrinos
Recent Results from Super-Kamiokande	306	(13)
M. Takita
Neutrino Oscillations at the Accelerators/Reactors
S. Mishra
Non-accelerator Neutrino Mass Searches	319	(8)
K. Zuber
Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay and New Physics in the Neutrino Sector	327	(8)
H. V. Klapdor-Kleingrothaus
H. Pas
Theoretical Implications of Recent Neutrino Discoveries	335	(12)
R. N. Mohapatra
Mirror Neutrinos and the Early Universe	347	(7)
R. R. Volkas
Neutrino Scattering in Strong Magnetic Fields	354	(7)
K. Bhattacharya
P. B. Pal
Effects of a General Set of Interactions on Neutrino Propagation in Matter	361	(7)
E. Nardi
Active-sterile Neutrino Oscillations in the Early Universe and the Atmospheric Neutrino Anomaly	368	(4)
P. Di Bari
R-parity Violation and Neutrino Masses	372	(4)
E. J. Chun
Baryogenesis
Recent Progress in Affleck-Dine Baryogenesis	376	(7)
K. Enqvist
Sources for Electroweak Baryogenesis	383	(7)
K. Kainulainen
Supersymmetric Electroweak Baryogenesis
N. Rius
The Quantum Boltzmann Equation in a Nontrivial Background	390	(8)
M. Joyce, K. Kainulainen
T. Prokopec
Making Baryons Below the Electroweak Scale	398	(7)
M. Trodden
Electroweak Baryogenesis from Preheating	405	(7)
J. Garcia-Bellido
Baryon Number Asymmetry Induced by Coherent Motions of a Cosmological Axion-like Pseudoscalar	412	(7)
R. Brustein
D. H. Oaknin
Reconciling Neutrino Oscillations with SO (10) Leptogenesis	419	(9)
E. Nezri
J. Orloff
The Muon Mass and a Neutrino Asymmetry: A Minimal Baryogenesis Mechanism
J. March-Russell
String Cosmology
String Cosmology: An Update
G. Veneziano
Cosmology of Strongly Coupled Strings	428	(9)
P. Binetruy
Cosmological Aspects of Heterotic M-theory	437	(7)
T. Barreiro
B. de Carlos
Remarks of Anomalous U (1) Symmetrics in String Theory	444	(7)
H. P. Nilles
Extra Dimensions
Large Extra Space and Time Dimensions: Some Cosmological Issues	451	(7)
G. Gabadadze
Large Radius Generation and Phase Transitions with Extra Dimensions	458	(7)
K. R. Dienes
E. Dudas
T. Gherghetta
A. Riotto
Our World as an Expanding Shell	465	(7)
M. Gogberashvili
Cosmological Expansion in the Randall-Sundrum Warped Compactification	472	(8)
J. M. Cline
Pre-big Bang String Cosmology and Holography	480
J. Maharana