Particle Physics and the Universe: Proceedings of the 9th Adriatic meeting, Sept. 2003, Dubrovnik (Springer Proceedings in Physics)

The Adriatic Meetings have traditionally been conferences on the most - vanced status of science. They are one of the very few conferences in physics aiming at a very broad participation of young and experienced researchers with di?erent backgrounds in particle physics. Particle physics has grown into a highly multi-faceted discipline over the sixty years of its existence, mainly because of two reasons: Particle physics as an experimental science is in need of large-scale laboratory set-ups, involving typically collaborations of several hundreds or even thousands of researchers and technicians with the most diverse expertise. This forces particle physics, being one of the most fundamental dis- plines of physics, to maintain a constant interchange and contact with other disciplines, notably solid-state physics and laser physics, cosmology and - trophysics, mathematical physics and mathematics. Since the expertise necessary in doing research in particle physics has become tremendously demanding in the last years, the ?eld tends to organize purely expert conferences, meetings and summer schools, such as for detector development, for astroparticle physics or for string theory. TheAdriaticMeetingthroughitsentirehistoryhasbeenaplaceforest- lishing exchange between theory and experiment. The 9th Adriatic Meeting successfully continued this tradition and even intensi?ed the cross-discipline communication by establishing new contacts between the community of c- mologists and of particle physicists. The exchange between theorists and - perimentalists was impressively intensive and will certainly have a lasting e?ect on several research projects of the European and world-wide physics community. The Neutrino Mass Matrix — From A 4 to Z 3 ....Pages 3-13 Neutrinos — Inner Properties and Role as Astrophysical Messengers....Pages 15-26 Lepton Flavor Violation in the SUSY Seesaw Model: An Update....Pages 27-38 Sterile Neutrino Dark Matter in the Galaxy....Pages 39-45 Supernovae and Dark Energy....Pages 47-57 Semiclassical Cosmology with Running Cosmological Constant....Pages 59-71 Limits on New Inverse-Power Law Forces....Pages 73-82 Quantum Gravity Phenomenology and Lorentz Violation....Pages 83-98 On the Quantum Width of a Black Hole Horizon....Pages 99-112 The Internal Structure of Black Holes....Pages 113-123 Microscopic Interpretation of Black Hole Entropy....Pages 125-138 Dark Matter Experiments at Boulby Mine....Pages 139-143 Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays and the Pierre Auger Observatory....Pages 145-153 Self-Accelerated Universe....Pages 155-162 Charge and Isospin Fluctuations in High Energy pp-Collisions....Pages 163-167 Superluminal Pions in the Linear Sigma Model....Pages 169-172 Comments on Noncommutative Field Theories....Pages 175-188 Seiberg-Witten Maps and Anomalies in Noncommutative Yang-Mills Theories....Pages 189-196 Renormalisation Group Approach to Noncommutative Quantum Field Theory....Pages 197-207 Noncommutative Gauge Theories via Seiberg-Witten Map....Pages 209-217 The Noncommutative Standard Model and Forbidden Decays....Pages 219-232 The Dressed Sliver in VSFT....Pages 233-241 M5-Branes and Matrix Theory....Pages 243-250 Brane Gravity....Pages 251-259 Stringy de Sitter Brane-Worlds....Pages 261-271 Finite Unified Theories and the Higgs Mass Prediction....Pages 273-284 Non-Commutative GUTs, Standard Model and C, P, T Properties from Seiberg-Witten Map....Pages 285-292 Noncommutative Gauge Theory on the q -Deformed Euclidean Plane....Pages 293-297 A Multispecies Calogero Model....Pages 299-301 Divergencies in Noncommutative SU (2) Yang-Mills Theory....Pages 303-306 Gauge Theory on the Fuzzy Sphere and Random Matrices....Pages 307-311 Waiting for Clear Signals of New Physics in B and K Decays....Pages 315-331 Electron-Positron Linear Collider....Pages 333-343 New Source of CP Violation in B Physics?....Pages 345-358 LHC Physics....Pages 359-371 Precision Calculations in the MSSM....Pages 373-386 Theoretical Aspects of Heavy Flavour Physics....Pages 387-397 Hard Exclusive Processes and Higher-Order QCD Corrections....Pages 399-413 Strings in the Yang-Mills Theory: How They Form, Live and Decay....Pages 415-430 Constraining New Physics from the Muon Decay....Pages 431-434 Jets in Deep Inelastic Scattering and High Energy Photoproduction at HERA....Pages 435-446 CP Violation from Orbifold: From Examples to Unification Structures....Pages 447-450 Doubly Projected Functions in Out of Equilibrium Thermal Field Theories....Pages 451-455 Nonfactorizable Contributions in $$\overline {B^0 } $$ → D s /+ D s /− and $$\overline {B_s^0 } $$ → D + D − Decays....Pages 457-460 On the Geometry of Gauge Field Theories....Pages 461-464 On the Singlet Penguin in B → Kη′ Decay....Pages 465-468 Bjorken-Like Limit versus Fermi-Watson Approximation in High Energy Hadron Diffraction....Pages 469-472 Some Aspects of Radiative Corrections and Non-Decoupling Effects of Heavy Higgs Bosons in Two Higgs Doublet Model....Pages 473-476 Towards a NNLO Calculation in Hadronic Heavy Hadron Production....Pages 477-480 Jet Physics at CDF....Pages 481-486

The focus of the contributions contained in this proceedings is the interplay between cosmology, astroparticle physics and particle physics, both from the theoretical and experimental point of view. The Adriatic Meetings have traditionally been one of the very few physics conferences devoted to the most advanced status of science, while aiming at a very broad participation of both young and experienced researchers with diverse backgrounds in particle physics.

"The focus of the contributions contained in this proceedings is the interplay between cosmology astroparticle physics and particle physics, both from the theoretical and experimental point of view. The Adriatic Meetings have traditionally been one of the very few physics conferences devoted to the most advanced status of science while aiming at a very broad participation of both young and experienced researchers with diverse backgrounds in particle physics."--Jacket After the new experimental results of KamLAND [1] on top of those of SNO [2] and SuperKamiokande [3], etc. [4], we now have very good knowledge of 5 parameters: