Fundamental Interactions: Proceedings of the 23rd Lake Louise Winter Institute Lake Louise, Alberta, Canada 18-23 February 2008

by Astbury, Alan; Penin, Alexander; Khanna, Faqir; Moore, Roger; Czarnecki, Andrzej

• ISBN13: 9789814280938
• ISBN10: 9814280933
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-06-02
• Publisher: World Scientific Pub Co Inc

Summary

This book contains pedagogical lectures on both theoretical and experimental particle physics, cosmology, and atomic trap physics. Numerous additional contributions provide up-to-date information on new experimental results from accelerators, underground laboratories, and nuclear astrophysics. This combination of pedagogical talks and topical short discussions presents a comprehensive amount of information and latest developments to researchers.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. v
Contents	p. vii
New Physics and the LHC	p. 1
Very High Energy Cosmic Rays: Results from the Pierre Auger Observatory	p. 36
Neutrinos at Lake Louise	p. 56
Physics Impact of the Tevatron	p. 81
Cosmology and the LHC	p. 106
CMK Angle Measurements from BABAR	p. 139
An Overview of Top Quark Analyses from the CMS Collaboration	p. 144
Heavy Quark Production at HERA and Heavy Quark Contributions to the Proton Structure Function	p. 149
Measurement of the Open Charm Cross-Section in 200 GeV Heavy-Ion Collisions at STAR	p. 154
ATLAS Commissioning and Physics with Early Data	p. 159
The OPERA Long Baseline Neutrino Experiment: Status and First Results	p. 164
High Higgs → ¿ ¿ in Association with Z/W Bosons	p. 169
Tau Decays at BABAR	p. 174
Search for Heavy Stable Charged Particles at CMS	p. 179
Higgs Boson Searches at CDF	p. 184
Searches for Physics Beyond the Standard Model at CDF	p. 189
Higga in ATLAS	p. 194
A High-Sensitivity Search for Charged Lepton Flavor Violation at Fermilab	p. 199
Study of ¿ Decays at Belle	p. 204
Exclusive Diffractive Final State in Electron-Proton Collisions	p. 209
Lepton Universality Test and the K+ → ¿+ ¿¿ Experiment at the CERN SPS	p. 214
Charmonium Spectroscopy and Decay at BABAR	p. 219
Prospects for CP Violation Studies at LHCb	p. 224
Neutral and Charged Current Cross Sections and Extraction of Structure Functions and Parton Distributions	p. 229
Prospects of Heavy Flavor Physics at ALICE Using the Electromagnetic Calorimeter	p. 234
Prospects for Rare and Very rare B Decays at LHCb	p. 239
Exclusive ¿&gamm; → <$>+<$>- and ¿¿ → Y¿ → <$>+<$>- ¿ production at CMS	p. 244
Measurements of <$>3 (¿) at Belle	p. 249
High Pt Jets and Photons at DØ	p. 254
Searches for New Physics in EP Collisions	p. 259
The DEAP-CLEAN 3600 KG Liquid-Argon Detector	p. 264
GPD Studies at HERMES	p. 269
SUSY Search at ATLAS	p. 273
Results from Y (5S) at Belle: Strange Beauty and Other Beasts	p. 278
Neutrino Physics with the IceCube Detector	p. 283
The PICASSO Dark Matter Search Experiment	p. 288
A Dark Matter Model Based on Colour Superconductivity	p. 293
Determination of the Strong Phase in D0 → K+ ¿- Using Quantum-Correlated Measurements	p. 298
<$$> Physics at CDF	p. 303
Higgs Searches at DØ	p. 308
B-Quark Semi-Leptonic Decays: Does the C-Quark Mass Matter?	p. 313
Results on Top Quark Physics at DØ	p. 318
Diboson Physics at CDF	p. 323
Galilean Podolsky Electrodynamics	p. 328
Towards Precision Measurements of ¿: CLEO-c's Pivotal Role	p. 333
Quarkonium Production and Polarisation with Early Data at ATLAS	p. 338
Recent B Physics Results at DØ	p. 343
Tap Physics at CDF	p. 348
Inclusive Jet All Measurements at STAR	p. 353
Electroweak Measurements from DØ	p. 358
DØ Results on New Phenomena Searches	p. 363
Search of the Higgs Boson in the WW(*) Decay Channel with the CMS Experiment	p. 368
Testing the Standard Model with Radiative Penguin Decays at BABAR	p. 373
Status of the LHCb Detector	p. 378
New Resonances from B Decay at Belle	p. 383
A Light Injection Calibration System for the T2K ND280 ECal Units	p. 388
Novel Photo-Sensors for the T2K Experiment	p. 393
Status of the EXO Experiment	p. 398
Recent Jet Results and Precision as Measurements from HERA	p. 403
Study of D → K/¿+ve and Measurement of Vcs
List of Participants	p. 413
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