Particle Physics and the Universe (eBook)

Preface 8
Contents 11
Neutrinos, Astroparticle Physics, Cosmology and Gravity 15
The Neutrino Mass Matrix – From A4 to Z3 16
Neutrinos – Inner Properties and Role as Astrophysical Messengers 27
Lepton Flavor Violation in the SUSY Seesaw Model: An Update 39
Sterile Neutrino Dark Matter in the Galaxy 51
Supernovae and Dark Energy 58
Semiclassical Cosmology with Running Cosmological Constant 69
Limits on New Inverse-Power Law Forces 82
Quantum Gravity Phenomenology and Lorentz Violation 92
On the Quantum Width of a Black Hole Horizon 108
The Internal Structure of Black Holes 122
Microscopic Interpretation of Black Hole Entropy 133
Dark Matter Experiments at Boulby Mine 147
Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays and the Pierre Auger Observatory 152
Self-Accelerated Universe 161
Charge and Isospin Fluctuations in High Energy pp- Collisions 169
Superluminal Pions in the Linear Sigma Model 174
Strings, Branes, Noncommutative Field Theories and Grand Unification 178
Comments on Noncommutative Field Theories 179
Seiberg-Witten Maps and Anomalies in Noncommutative Yang- Mills Theories 193
Renormalisation Group Approach to Noncommutative Quantum Field Theory 201
Noncommutative Gauge Theories via Seiberg- Witten Map 212
The Noncommutative Standard Model and Forbidden Decays 221
The Dressed Sliver in VSFT 235
M5-Branes and Matrix Theory 244
Brane Gravity 252
Stringy de Sitter Brane-Worlds 261
Finite Unified Theories and the Higgs Mass Prediction 272
Non-Commutative GUTs, Standard Model and C, P, T Properties from Seiberg- Witten Map 284
Noncommutative Gauge Theory on the q- Deformed Euclidean Plane 292
A Multispecies Calogero Model 297
Divergencies in Noncommutative SU(2) Yang- Mills Theory 300
Gauge Theory on the Fuzzy Sphere and Random Matrices 304
Standard Model – Theory and Experiment 309
Waiting for Clear Signals of New Physics in B and K Decays 310
Electron-Positron Linear Collider 327
New Source of CP Violation in B Physics? 338
LHC Physics 352
Precision Calculations in the MSSM 365
Theoretical Aspects of Heavy Flavour Physics 379
Hard Exclusive Processes and Higher- Order QCD Corrections 390
Strings in the Yang-Mills Theory: How They Form, Live and Decay 405
Constraining New Physics from the Muon Decay 421
Jets in Deep Inelastic Scattering and High Energy Photoproduction at HERA 425
CP Violation from Orbifold: From Examples to Unification Structures 437
Doubly Projected Functions in Out of Equilibrium Thermal Field Theories 441
Nonfactorizable Contributions in B0 . D+s D-sand B0s . D+D- Decays 446
On the Geometry of Gauge Field Theories 450
On the Singlet Penguin in B . K. Decay 454
Bjorken-Like Limit versus Fermi- Watson Approximation in High Energy Hadron Diffraction 458
Some Aspects of Radiative Corrections and Non- Decoupling Effects of Heavy Higgs Bosons in Two Higgs Doublet Model 462
Towards a NNLO Calculation in Hadronic Heavy Hadron Production 466
Jet Physics at CDF 470
About the Meeting 476
International Advisory Committee 476
National Advisory Committee 476
Organizing Committee 476
List of Participants 477