Techniques and concepts of high-energy physics XII : Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute on Techniques and Concepts of High-Energy Physics XII, St. Croix, Virgin Island, U.S.A., 13-24 June 2002

The twelfth Advanced Study Institute (ASI) on Techniques and Con­ cepts of High Energy Physics was held at the Hotel on the Cay in St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands in June 2002. The Institute attracted 11 lecturers and 42 advanced PhD students and recent PhD recipients in experimental particle physics from 14 different countries. The scientific program covered a broad sweep of topics that are expected to remain of interest for many years to come. The topics in this volume complement those in earlier volumes (published by Kluwer) and should be of interest to many physicists. The main financial support for the Institute was provided by the Scientific Affairs Division of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). The Institute was eo-sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), the Florida State Univer­ sity (FSU) - Offices of the Provost and the Dean of Arts and Sciences, the Department of Physics and the FSU High Energy Physics Group - and the Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics (ITEP, Moscow). Front Matter....Pages i-xii The Standard Model and the Top Quark....Pages 1-41 Neutrino Physics....Pages 43-87 The Supersymmetric Universe....Pages 89-157 Weighing the Universe....Pages 159-188 Cosmology, Inflation and the Physics of Nothing....Pages 189-243 Silicon Detectors....Pages 245-271 Gaseous Detectors: Then and Now....Pages 273-339 Nuclei at the Borderline of Their Existence....Pages 341-375 Back Matter....Pages 377-383 Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute, held in St. Croix, Virgin Islands, USA, 13-24 June 2002 The top quark is the least well-studied of the quarks.