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This volume collects the edited tutorial lectures given at The Second International Summer School in High Energy Physics in Mugla, Turkey, in September 2006 - an annual event with international participation and a special focus on work done in the regions of central Asia. With emphasis on the standard model and beyond, lectures were devoted to presenting an introduction and update to many relevant topics.

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The hep-conference held in Israel in 1997 gives a complete survey of the most interesting developments in high energy physics. This volume is an important source of reference for all researchers in the field. ... Read more

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The 32nd International Conference on High Energy Physics belongs to the Rochester Conference Series, and is the most important international conference in 2004 on high energy physics. The proceedings provide a comprehensive review on the recent developments in experimental and theoretical particle physics. The latest results on Top, Higgs search, CP violation, neutrino mixing, pentaquarks, heavy quark mesons and baryons, search for new particles and new phenomena, String theory, Extra dimension, Black hole and Lattice calculation are discussed extensively. The topics covered include not only those of main interest to the high energy physics community, but also recent research and future plans. ... Read more

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Although gravity is the dominant force of nature at large distances (from intermediate scales to the Hubble length), it is the weakest of forces in particle physics, though it is believed to become important again at very short scales (the Planck length). The conditions created in particle accelerators are similar to those at the time of the early universe. While particle physics offers insight to early universe physics, there is a need to understand gravity at extremes of large and short distances to further understand cosmology and the development of the universe. Gravitation: From the Hubble Length to the Planck Length fulfills this need by providing an overview of relativistic astrophysics, early universe physics, cosmology, and their interface with particle physics.

Written by international experts, this reference presents up-to-date information on classical relativity, astrophysics, and theoretical and experimental particle physics. The introduction sets the scene and provides a context for the remaining chapters. Chapters cover an extensive array of topics, from refined experimental techniques in gravitational physics to cosmology and the quantum frontier. The book concludes with a discussion of the connection among particles, fields, strings, and branes.

This compilation shows how gravity plays a fundamental role in astronomy, astrophysics, and cosmology by exploring domains from the microscopic, such as black holes, to superclusters of galaxies that form the large-scale texture of the present-day cosmos. Moreover, with its theoretical and experimental focus on the foundations of gravity, Gravitation proves to be an invaluable resource for current and future research. ... Read more

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The C2CR series provides a forum in which physicists from different, yet closely related, sub-disciplines get together and explore the interfaces and overlaps. Low-x particle physics at colliders finds connections with very high energy cross sections encountered in cosmic rays, which also has bearing on neutrino astrophysics. The overlaps between various approaches to dark matter, in direct searches, in cosmology and in colliders are all too obvious. These issues are highlighted in the challenges faced by those who develop simulation packages for various physics processes.

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This annual SUSY conference has become the world's largest international meeting devolted to new ideas in high energy physics. The main subject of the conference is theoretical and phenomenological aspects of supersymmetric theories, and dark matter and dark energy, and other comological connections. New, interesting results from various experimental groups are increasingly presented at the conference as well. With roughly 200 plenary and parallel presentations, SUSY08 will likely deliver energy and enthusiasm of both theorists and experimentalists who are searching the frontier of high energy physics.

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As its predecessors, this, the eleventh ASI on Techniques and Concepts of High Energy Physics discusses the latest advances in the field, with contributions which are sufficiently detailed to be useful to advanced graduate students looking for an introduction to contemporary ideas in high energy physics, but not so long as to be burdensome.The present volume covers a wide range of topics from particle detectors to string theory at a level that should be useful to advanced graduate students specializing in experimental high energy physics. The volume includes a timely historical perspective on the past thirty years of the field. ... Read more

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All papers have been peer-reviewed. In this volume, recent significant advances in strong interaction physics are presented and discussed. The new results mainly concern the hadron spectroscopy and the interquark potential, the large baryonic density and high temperature regimes. Astrophysical consequences, the present knowledge of nucleon spin Physics; together with news in relativistic heavy ion collisions are also discussed. One of the most promising approaches for the description of strong interaction Physics, namely the AdS/QCD correspondence, is presented. Aspects of heavy quark systems are considered, and the role of present and future experiments is analyzed.

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The book is a collection of review articles on the most outstanding topics in the physics of heavy flavours. The book written exclusively by theorists reviews in detail the theoretical structure of heavy flavour physics within the standard model and its confrontation with existing experimental data. The physics of the top quark and of the Higgs play an important role in this book. Beginning with radiative electroweak corrections and their impressive tests at LEP and Hadron Colliders, the book summarizes the present status of quark mixing, CP violation and rare decays. The dynamics of exclusive D and B meson decays, the tau-Lepton physics and the newly discovered heavy quark symmetries are discussed in detail. The impact of strong interactions on weak decays is clearly visible in many articles. An important part of the book constitutes the physics of heavy flavours at LEP, HERA and hadron colliders. Another important topic is the possible role of heavy flavours in the spontaneous symmetry breaking of gauge symmetries. Finally the most recent advances in lattice calculations of the properties of heavy flavours and the lattice studies of the dynamics of heavy flavours are presented. ... Read more

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Even after more than 40 years of experimentation we have not observed the decay of the basic constituent of everyday matter: the proton. So far, the proton appears to be completely stable. This is very puzzling because reasonable models of physics predict that protons after living very long should break apart into lighter particles such as electrons, muons, and pions. Over the last several decades both the experiments and the theory of particles have become increasingly sophisticated. The latest and best experiment (Super-Kamiokande) is in the Kamioka mine in Japan: it has monitored 20,000 tons of water for more than 3 years to see decays of protons; none has been found. Yet the sheer size and precision of this experiment has allowed it to find evidence for neutrino mass by observing oscillations of neutrinos generated in the earth's atmosphere by high energy cosmic rays from outer space. Similar detectors in the past have observed neutrinos from the Sun as well as from Supernova explosions. This workshop was intended to find the next step in this process of experimentation. Should we continue the search for proton decay? The answer from this conference seems to be a definite yes! However, the answer for what sensitivity to achieve seems to be mixed. Regardless of the exact answer about the type and size of the next detector, this project will be much larger than any of the previous projects. Therefore we need to create a consensus in the international physics community and also explore the likely synergistic impact of such a project on other fields of research such as neutrino physics and astrophysics. ... Read more

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This volume is composed of the proceedings of the Annual Trieste Summer School on High Energy Physics and Cosmology, held in Italy in 1996. It covers many leading research areas in these fields. ... Read more

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The first of two volumes presenting an overview of the important research areas in which Professor H. Überall has done his life's work and constitutes a festschrift for this distinguished physicist. Each chapter is intended to serve as a bridge between advanced textbooks and the most recent research literature, thereby providing a valuable reference for active researchers as well as for graduate students. ... Read more

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Proceedings of the 2nd Latin American Symposium on High Energy Physics & the 1st Tropical Workshop on Particle Physics & Cosmology held in San Juan, Puerto Rico, April 1-7 & 8-11, 1998. ... Read more

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The main purpose of the workshop was to review both experimental and theoretical aspects of the field of Diffraction in High Energy Particle Physics. The topics covered include diffraction in electron-nucleon collisions, forward physics in Hadron-hadron collisions, new results in polarization and spin physics, diffraction in heavy ion collisions, etc. New developments to identify significant progress and prospects for the Large Hadron Collider were largely discussed.