Recent Developments in Particle Physics and Cosmology

by NATO Advanced Study Institute on Recent Developments in Particle Physics and Cosmology (2000 : Cascais, Portugal)

• ISBN13: 9780792371816
• ISBN10: 079237181X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-11-01
• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Pub

Summary

This book surveys recent 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 excellent lectures and talks presented at the NATO ASI 2000 in Cascais-Portugal by some of the most prominent physicists working in this exciting field of research and it is specially useful for Ph.D. students and postdocs, and physicists in general who want to know about the latest developments in particle physics and cosmology. It also provides important results given by experimentalists in neutrino physics, CP violation and dark matter.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
List of Contributors	ix
Part I: Neutrino Physics
Super-Kamiokande's Past, Present and Future	1	(36)
M.R. Vagins
News about v's	37	(26)
E.Kh. Akhmedov
Patterns for the Neutrino Mass Matrices and Mixings	63	(26)
G.C. Branco
J.I. Silva-Marcos
Solving the Solar and Atmospheric Neutrino Problems with SUSY	89	(12)
J.C. Romao
Bi-maximal Neutrino Mixing and Anomalous Flavour U(1)	101	(16)
Q. Shafi
Z. Tavartkiladze
Part 2: CP Violation and B Physics
CP Violation	117	(36)
T. Nakada
B Physics and CP Violation	153	(50)
R. Fleischer
Theoretical Estimate(s) of the CP-violating Quantity ∈'/∈ in K → 2π Decays	203	(12)
J.O. Eeg
Link between Neutrino Oscillations and CP Violation within Supersymmetric Unification	215	(4)
J.C. Pati
Part 3: Cosmology, Baryongenesis, Dark Matter and Inflation
Introduction to Big Bang Cosmology	219	(62)
S. Sarkar
Some Aspects of Baryongenesis and Lepton Number Violation	281	(34)
W. Buchmuller
Large Evidence for Dark Energy from a Study of Type Ia Supernovae	315	(16)
G. Goldhaber
Dark Matter and Large Scale Structure I. Cosmological Parameters	331	(18)
J.R. Primack
Dark Matter and Large Scale Structure II. Cold Dark Matter Cosmology: Status and Open Questions	349	(18)
J.R. Primack
Dark Matter and Large Scale Structure III. Probing Galaxy Formation with High Energy Gamma-Rays	367	(18)
J.R. Primack
Searching for SUSY Dark Matter - The Directional Rate and the Modulation Effect	385	(14)
J.D. Vergados
Supersymmetric Hybrid Inflation	399	(22)
G. Lazarides
Hybrid Inflation and Supergravity	421	(12)
C. Panagiotakopoulos
Part 4: Strings, Extra Dimensions, SUSY and Unification
String Physics and Large Extra Dimensions at Low Energies	433	(42)
I. Antoniadis
Sub-Millimeter Extra Dimensions and TeV Scale Quantum Gravity	475	(22)
G. Dvali
Large Top Mixing from Extra Dimensions	497	(10)
F. del Aguila
J. Santiago
Minimal Extension of the MSSM	507	(12)
K. Tamvakis
High Masses and S-Spectrum Predictions in Finite Unified Theories	519	(12)
T. Kobayashi
J. Kubo
M. Mondragon
G. Zoupanos
Chiral Phase Transitions in an External Field	531	(12)
C.N. Leung
List of Participants	543