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Fundamental Interactions - Proceedings Of The 23Rd Lake Louise Winter Institute 2008.
This book contains pedagogical lectures on both theoretical and experimental particle physics, cosmology, and atomic trap physics. Numerous additional contributions provide up-to-date information on new experimental results from accelerators, underground laboratories, and nuclear astrophysics. This...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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World Scientific
2009.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover13;
- CONTENTS
- Preface
- Contents
- 1. New Physics and the LHC G. Altarelli
- 1. The programme of LHC physics
- 2. The Higgs problem
- 3. Theoretical bounds on the SM Higgs
- 4. Precision tests of the standard electroweak theory
- 5. The physics of flavour
- 6. Problems of the Standard Model
- 6.1. Dark matter and dark energy
- 6.2. The hierarchy problem
- 7. Supersymmetry: the standard way beyond the SM
- 8. Little Higgs models
- 9. Extra dimensions
- 10. Effective theories for compositeness
- 11. The anthropic solution
- 12. Conclusion
- Acknowledgments
- References
- II. Very High Energy Cosmic Rays: Results from the Pierre Auger Observatory C.E. Covault
- 1. Scientific Motivation
- 2. The Pierre Auger Observatory
- 3. Auger Operations, Performance, and Observations
- 4. Results from Pierre Auger Observatory
- 4.1. Cosmic Ray Energy Spectrum
- 5. Auger Cosmic Ray Composition
- 5.0.1. Shower Depth Measurements
- 5.0.2. Upper limits on Photon Fraction
- 5.0.3. Limits on Neutrinos
- 5.1. Detection of Anisotropy at the Highest Energies
- 6. Anisotropy and the case for Auger North:
- 6.1. R & D Plans for Auger North
- 7. Conclusions
- Acknowledgments
- References
- III. Neutrinos at Lake Louise S. Davidson
- 1. Outline
- 2. An overview of the history of neutrinos
- 3. Helicity, Chirality and All that ...
- 5. Neutrino Deficits-More than "lNeak Interactions Required?
- 6. To write a mass for VL ... Dirac or Majorana
- 6.1. Mass matrices: Dirac or Majorana
- 6.2. Counting mixing matrix phases: 1 for Dirac, 3 for Majorana
- 7. So, finally ... observables
- 8. Oscillations in vaccuum
- 8.1. Comment: why two (not three) flavour analysis is relevant?
- 9. Oscillations in matter
- 9.1. Matter of varying density
- 10. Bounds on the neutrino mass scale
- 10.1. The cosmological bound
- 10.2. Majorana masses and Neutrinoless double beta decay
- 10.3. Ov2 -what can we learn?
- 10.4. n p + e + v : mv distorts e spectrum
- 10.5. For fun: what about n + VCNB P + e
- 11. Models: the seesaw
- 11.1. Neutrino masses in the one generation seesaw
- 11.2. The See-Saw in three generations
- 12. Small mv from small couplings and loops: RPV SUSY
- 12.1. Diagrams for ml/ in RPV
- 13. Questions
- Acknowledgements
- References
- IV. Physics Impact of the Tevatron D.C. O'Neil
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The Top Quark
- 2.1. Top Quark Production and Decay
- 2.2. Advanced Analysis Techniques
- 2.3. Top Pair Production
- 2.4. Single Top Quark Production
- 2.5. Top Quark Summary
- 3. Electroweak Studies
- 3.1. W Mass and Width
- 3.2. Electroweak Fits and the Mass of the Higgs
- 3.3. Di-boson Production
- 4. QeD Studies
- 5. B P hysics
- 5.1. Bs Mixing
- 5.2. CP- Violating Phase in Bs Mixing
- 6. BSM Searches
- 6.1. SUSY
- 6.2. Extra Dimension Searches
- 6.3. Lepton Compositeness
- 6.4. Searches Summary
- 7. Higgs Searches
- 7.1. Higgs Boson Production and Decay
- 7.2. Current Results
- 7.3. Higgs Searches Summary and Prospects
- 8. Conclusions
- References
- V. Cosmology and the LHC V Rubakov
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Cosmology in a nutshell
- 2.1. F'riedmann-Robertson- Walker metric
- 2.2. Redshift.