Present and Future of High-Energy Physics

Summarizes, in terms of the standard model of elementary particles, the present state of our understanding of high-energy physics and presents a view of how to go beyond this standard model. Phenomenological aspects are stressed, concerning feasible extensions to the standard model.

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Recent collaboration between theory and experiments in high-energy physics has had fruitful results. The contributions to this volume clearly summarize, in terms of the standard model of elementary particles, the present understanding of high-energy physics and present an outlook on how to go beyond this standard model. Phenomenological aspects are stressed, outlining possible extensions of the standard model, with main topics covering higher order corrected electroweak interactions, CP violation, quark flavour mixing, lattice QCD, and dynamical electroweak symmetry breaking. Many new experiments are described, which explore high-energy physics either by using the highest accelerators available or by very high precision experiments for rare processes. Including a variety of theoretical models proposed beyond the parameters of the standard model, this volume presents a global view of knowledge in the high-energy physics field and also offers a view into the future of the subject.