Lepton and photon interactions at high energies: proceedings of the XXII International Symposium, Sweden 30 June-5 July 2005

Richard Brenner, Carlos P de los Heros, Johan Rathsman9789812566621, 981-256-662-7

The Lepton-Photon symposiums – as represented by the contributions in this volume – are among the most popular conferences in high energy physics since they give an in-depth snapshots of the status of the field as provided by leading experts. This volume covers the latest results on flavor factories, quantum chromodynamics (QCD), electroweak physics, dark matter searches, neutrino physics and cosmology, from a phenomenological point of view. It also offers a glimpse of the immediate future of the field through summaries on the status of the next generation of high energy accelerators and planned facilities for astroparticle physics. The review nature of the articles makes the volume particularly useful to students, as well as being of interest to established researches in high-energy physics and related fields.

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Table of contents :
Contents……Page 22
Editors’ Foreword……Page 6
Symposium Organization and Acknowledgments……Page 8
Symposium Photos……Page 14
ELECTROWEAK PHYSICS AND BEYOND……Page 25
Top Quark Measurements……Page 27
Electroweak Measurements……Page 40
Search for Higgs and New Phenomena at Colliders……Page 53
Electroweak Symmetry Breaking Circa 2005……Page 65
Probing the Hierarchy Problem with the LHC……Page 78
The LHC Machine and Experiments……Page 90
Experimental Signatures of Strings and Branes……Page 93
FLAVOUR PHYSICS……Page 107
CP Violation in B Mesons……Page 109
CKM Parameters and Rare B Decays……Page 122
New K Decay Results……Page 136
Charm Decays Within the Standard Model and Beyond……Page 137
Heavy Flavor Oscillations and Life Times……Page 150
Heavy Flavor, Quarkonium Production and Decay……Page 151
Quark Mixing and CP Violation – the CKM Matrix……Page 165
QCD Effects in Weak Decays……Page 179
Rare Decays and CP Violation Beyond the Standard Model……Page 180
QCD AND HADRON STRUCTURE……Page 193
Has the Quark-Gluon Plasma Been Seen?……Page 195
Have Pentaquark States Been Seen?……Page 209
Developments in Perturbative QCD……Page 223
Quantum Chromodynamics at Colliders……Page 237
Hard Diffraction – 20 Years Later……Page 250
Polarization in QCD……Page 264
QCD and String Theory……Page 276
NEUTRINO PHYSICS……Page 289
Atmospheric and Accelerator Neutrinos……Page 291
Review of Solar and Reactor Neutrinos……Page 302
Neutrino Physics at Short Baseline……Page 316
Direct Neutrino Mass Measurements……Page 322
Double Beta Decay: Experiment and Theory……Page 334
Neutrino Oscillations and Masses……Page 348
ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS AND COSMOLOGY……Page 361
Ultra High Energy Neutrino Telescopes……Page 363
Dark Matter Searches……Page 374
Exploring the Universe with Different Messengers……Page 387
Dark Energy and Dark Matter from Cosmological Observations……Page 388
Ultra-High-Energy Cosmic Rays……Page 400
FUTURE PERSPECTIVES AND FACILITIES……Page 413
Future Facilities in Astroparticle Physics and Cosmology……Page 415
Particle Detector R&D……Page 416
Physics at Future Linear Colliders……Page 428
R&D for Future Accelerators……Page 441
Status of the International Linear Collider Project……Page 454
SUMMARY TALK……Page 455
Lepton Photon Symposium 2005: Summary and Outlook……Page 457
PUBLIC TALK……Page 469
The Universe is a Strange Place……Page 471
Symposium Programme……Page 487
List of Contributed Papers……Page 495
List of Contributed Posters……Page 513
Participants……Page 517
Author Index……Page 529