Particles and the Universe: Proceedings of the Eighteenth Lake Louise Winter Institute Lake Louise, Alberta, Canada; 16-22 February 2003

by Astbury A.; Campbell, B. A.; Khanna, F. C.; Vincter, M. G.

• ISBN13: 9789812388100
• ISBN10: 9812388109
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-06-01
• Publisher: World Scientific Pub Co Inc

Summary

The Lake Louis Winter Institute is held annually to explore recent trends in physics. Pedagogical and review lectures are presented by invited experts. A topical workshop is held in conjunction with the Institute, with contributed presentations by participants.

Table of Contents

Preface
Exploring QCD with heavy ion collisions	p. 1
Physics @ future accelerators	p. 31
B physics and CP violation	p. 91
Nuclear astrophysics and nuclei far from stability	p. 118
Neutrino physics : status and prospects	p. 132
Semileptonic B decays at LEP : extraction of V[subscript CB] and B [approaches] D **lv	p. 162
B physics at CDF	p. 168
Triple and quadric gauge couplings at LEP2	p. 175
Recent results on new phenomena from DO	p. 181
Search for a fourth generation b'-Quark at the Delphi experiment at LEP	p. 187
CLEO results on B [approaches] D*[rho] and B [approaches] D[pi]	p. 193
SUSY searches and measurements with the ATLAS experiment at the large hadron collider	p. 199
Measurement of the W Boson mass at LEP	p. 205
In-situ calibration of the CMS electromagnetic calorimeter	p. 211
Spin physics and ultra-peripheral collisions at STAR	p. 218
Latest results on time-dependent CP violation from Belle	p. 224
Global observables and identified hadrons in the PHENIX experiment at RHIC	p. 230
LEP limits on Higgs Boson masses in the SM, in the MSSM and in general 2HD models	p. 236
The AMS-02 experiment	p. 242
Rare B decays in BaBar	p. 248
Recent results in B-physics and prospects for Higgs searches at D0	p. 254
The HARP Hadron production experiment and its significance for neutrino factory design	p. 260
A Monte Carlo test of the optimal jet definition	p. 266
Single photoelectron detection in LHCB pixel HPDS	p. 272
Nonequilibrium phase transitions in the early universe	p. 278
Recent results in electroweak and top physics at D0	p. 284
Searches for Higgs Bosons beyond SM and (standard) MSSM at LEP	p. 290
Polarization dependence of basic interactions in strong magnetic fields	p. 297
Selected charm physics results from BaBar	p. 303
Searches for new physics at HERA	p. 309
Quantum chaos in the gauge fields at finite-temperature	p. 314
Galactic dark matter searches with gas detectors	p. 320
Measurement of W polarisation with L3 at LEP	p. 326
A search for CP violation in, and a dalitz analysis of D[superscript0][approaches][pi][superscript minus][pi][superscript+][pi][superscript0] decays in CLEO II.V	p. 332
Measurement of high-P[subscript [tau]] and leptonic observables with the PHENIX experiment at RHIC	p. 338
Nonequilibrium evolution of correlation functions	p. 344
Recent results from Belle	p. 350
Renormalization-group improvement of effective actions beyond summation of leading logarithms	p. 356
Neural current detectors in the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory	p. 362
Energy and particle flow measurements at HERA	p. 368
High PT jet production and [alpha][subscript s] measurements in electron-proton collisions	p. 374
Study of the e[superscript +]e[superscript minus][approaches]Ze[superscript +]e[superscript minus] process at LEP	p. 380
Investigation of Higgs Bosons in the low mass region with ATLAS	p. 386
Unified approach for modelling neutrino and electron nucleon scattering cross sections from high energy to very low energy	p. 392
Charmonium and B-Quark production at HERA-B	p. 398
AMS01 results	p. 404
List of participants	p. 411
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