Particles and the Universe : Proceedings of the Eighteenth Lake Louise Winter Institute - Lake Louise, Alberta, Canada, 16-22 February 2003.

By: Astbury, AContributor(s): Campbell, B. A | Khanna, F. CMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: Singapore : World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd, 2004Copyright date: ©2004Description: 1 online resource (425 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9789812702777Subject(s): Nuclear astrophysics -- Congresses | Particles (Nuclear physics) -- CongressesGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Particles and the Universe : Proceedings of the Eighteenth Lake Louise Winter Institute - Lake Louise, Alberta, Canada, 16-22 February 2003DDC classification: 539.7 LOC classification: QC793.L34 2003Online resources: Click to View
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Intro -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Contents -- I. Exploring QCD with Heavy Ion Collisions M. D. Baker -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Machine and Detectors -- 3. Strongly Interacting Bulk Matter -- 3.1. How Much Matter? -- 3.2. Elliptic Flow: Evidence for Collective Motion -- 3.3. Hanbury-Brown Twiss Effect: More Dynamics -- 3.4. Characterizing the Bulk Matter -- 3.5. "Little Bang Cosmology" -- 3.6. Summary: Bulk Matter -- 4. Probing the Earliest, Hottest Part of the Collision -- 4.1. Electromagnetic and Hidden Flavor Probes -- 4.2. Hadron Suppression: Jet Quenching? -- 4.3. Is Jet Quenching the Only Possible Explanation? -- 4.4. Initial or Final State Effect? -- 5. Some Puzzles at RHIC -- 5.1. Scaling Puzzle I: Baryon/Meson Differences -- 5.2. Scaling Puzzle II: Similarity of A A and e+e- at High Energy -- 6. The Latest Results from RHIC -- 7. Summary -- Acknowledgments -- References -- II. Physics @ Future Accelerators J. Ellis -- 1. Roadmap to Physics beyond the Standard Model -- 1.1. So you think you have problems? -- 1.2. The Electroweak Vacuum -- 1.3. W h y supersymmetry? -- 1.4. Hints of Supersymmetry -- 1.5. Constraints on Supersymmetric Models -- 1.6. Benchmark Supersymmetric Scenarios -- 2. LHC -- 3. Linear e+e- Colliders -- 3.1. TeV-scale Linear Colliders -- 3.2. CLIC -- 3.3. yy Colliders -- 4. Neutrino Factories -- 4.1. Neutrino Masses? -- 4.2. Models of Neutrino Masses and Mixing -- 4.3. Neutrino Oscillations -- 4.4. Concept for a Neutrino Factory -- 4.5. The Leptogenesis Connection -- 5. Muon Colliders -- 5.1. A p+p- Higgs Factory -- 5.2. Higher-Energy p+p- Colliders -- 6. In the Aftermath of WMAP -- 6.1. Cosmological Inflation -- 6.2. Could the Inflaton be a Sneutrino? -- 7. Conclusions -- References -- III. B Physics and CP Violation R. V. Kowalewski -- 1. Flavor Physics with B Mesons -- 2. Quark mixing -- 3. B factory basics.
3.1. Asymmetric e+e- B factories -- 4. B hadron decay -- 4.1. Theoretical picture of B decay -- 4.2. Exclusive semileptonic decays and |Veb| -- 4.3. Inclusive sernileptonic decays -- 5. BO BO oscillations -- 6. CP violation -- 6.1. CP violation in B decay -- 6.2. Measuring Unitarity Angles with CP Asymmetries -- 6.2.1. sin2,B -- 6.2.2. sin2a -- 6.3. CP Asymmetries in B Decays -- 7. Rare decays -- 8. Summary -- Acknowledgements -- References -- IV. Nuclear Astrophysics and Nuclei Far from Stability H. Schatz -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The r-process -- 3. Novae -- 4. Type I X-ray bursts -- 4.1. Normal X-ray bursts -- 4.2. Superbursts -- References -- V. Neutrino Physics: Status and Prospects K. Scholberg -- 1. Neutrinos and Weak Interactions -- 2. Neutrino Mass and Oscillations -- 2.1. The Experimental Game -- 3. The Experimental Evidence -- 3.1. Atmospheric Neutrinos -- 3.1.1. Long Baseline Experiments -- 3.2. Solar Neutrinos -- 3.3. LSND -- 4. Where Do We Stand? -- 5. What's Next for Two-flavor Oscillations? -- 5.1. LSND Neutrino Parameter Space -- 5.2. Solar Neutrino Parameter Space -- 5.3. Atmospheric Neutrino Parameter Space -- 6. Beyond Two-Flavor Oscillations -- 6.1. The Next Step: e3 Mixing -- 6.1.1. Off-Axis Beams -- 6.1.2. Reactor Experiments -- 6.2. Leptonic CP Violation and Mass Hierarchy -- 7. Non-Oscillation Neutrino Physics -- 7.1. Kinematic Neutrino Mass Experiments -- 7.2 . Double Beta Decay -- 7.3. Neutrino Magnetic Moment -- 7.4. Supernova Neutrinos -- 7.5. Cosmology -- 7.6. Neutrino Astrophysics -- 8. Summary -- References -- Semileptonic B Decays at LEP: Extraction of VCB and B D **tv P. Amaral -- 1. Introduction: Bo D*+ at LEP -- 2. D** orbitally excited charm mesons -- 3. B D**O at LEP - mass resonance analysis -- 4. OPAL new result on B D -- 5. Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- References -- B Physics at CDF K. Anikeeu.
1. Introduction -- 2. Triggers and Data Samples -- 2.1. Di-muon Trigger. J/ Sample -- 2.2. Displaced Track + Lepton Trigger. 1 D Sample -- 2.3. Displaced Vertex + High pr Tracks Trigger. TTT Sample -- 3. Conclusions -- Acknowledgment -- References -- Triple and Quadric Gauge Couplings a t LEPP I. Bailey -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Charged Triple Gauge Coupling -- 3. Quartic Gauge Coupling -- 4. Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Recent Results on New Phenomena from DO F. Beaudette -- 1. Search for Large Extra Dimensions -- 1.1. Di-electromagnetic channel -- 1.2. Di-muon channel -- 2. R-parity violating Supersymmetry (SUSY) in the di-electron+jets channel -- 3. SUSY search in the tri-lepton channel -- 4. Gauge mediated SUSY breaking in di-photon channels -- 5. First generation leptoquarks -- 6. Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Search for a Fourth Generation b'-Quark a t the Delphi Experiment at LEP N. Castro -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Data samples and event generators -- 3. Analyses description -- 3.1. FCNC bbuull topology search -- 3.2. FCNC bbuuqq topology search -- 3.3. CC ccqqlu topology search -- 4. Results and conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- References -- CLEO Results on B D*p and B Dr G. P. Chen -- 1. Introduction -- 2. B D*p -- 2.1. Branching Fractions -- 2.2. Helicity Amplitudes -- 3. Isospin Analysis of B DT -- 4. Summary -- References -- SUSY Searches and Measurements with the ATLAS Experiment at the Large Hadron Collider D. Costanzo -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Supersymmetry reach with ATLAS -- 3. Inclusive SUSY searches with ATLAS -- 4. Sparticles mass measurement with ATLAS -- 5. Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Measurement of the W Boson Mass at LEP J. D'Hondt -- 1. Achievements of LEP towards WW events -- 2. Applied analysis methods -- 3. Systematic uncertainties.
4. Measurement of Colour Reconnection -- 5. Preliminary results -- Acknowledgments -- References -- In-Situ Calibration of the CMS Electromagnetic Calorimeter D. I. Futyan -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The CMS Electromagnetic Calorimeter -- 3. The Electron/Photon High Level Trigger -- 3.1. Performance -- 4. Int ercalibrat ion Strategy -- 4.1. Precalibration -- 4.2. In-Situ Intercalibration Using Electrons From W ev Events -- 4.3. Symmetry Intercalibration -- 4.4. Intercalibration Using Electrons From Z e+e- Events -- 5. Summary -- References -- Spin Physics and Ultra-Peripheral Collisions at STAR C. A. Gagliardi -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Spin Physics -- 3. Ultra-Peripheral Collisions -- References -- Latest Results on Time-Dependent CP Violation from Belle T. J . Gershon -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Procedure to Measure Time-Dependent CP Violation -- 3. Results -- 3.1. b ccs Transitions -- 3.2. b uud Tmnsitions -- 4. Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Global Observables and Identified Hadrons in the PHENIX Experiment at RHIC H. -A. Gufstafsson -- 1. Introduction -- 2. RHIC and PHENIX -- 3. Global observables -- 3.1. Centrality selection -- 3.2. Charged particle multiplicity and Transverse Energy distributions -- 4. Identified hadrons -- 4.1. Transverse Momentum Spectra -- 4.2. Mean Transverse Momentum -- 5. Particle Ratios -- References -- LEP Limits on Higgs Boson Masses in the SM, in the MSSM and in General 2HD Models S. Haug -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Limit on the SM Higgs boson mass -- 3. Limits on the neutral MSSM Higgs boson masses -- 4. Limit on the charged 2HD model Higgs boson mass -- 5. Summary -- References -- The AMS-02 Experiment R. Henning -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Physics Motivation for AMS-02 -- 2.1. Search for Cosmic Antimatter: -- 2.2. Search for Dark Matter -- 2.3. Other Physics -- 3. The AMS-02 Detector.
3.1. Design Considerations -- 3.2. Subdetectors -- 4. Conclusion -- References -- Rare B Decays in BaBar A. Hicheur -- 1. Motivations -- 2. Radiative and electroweak penguins -- 2.1. b sy -- 2.2. B K(*)l+l -- 3. Hadronic rare decays -- 3.1. Gluonic penguins -- 3.2. Suppressed tree transition -- References -- Recent Results in B-Physics and Prospects for Higgs Searches at DO M. Hohlfeld -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The DO Detector in Run II -- 3. The DO B Physics Program -- 3.1. Measurement of the Average B Lifetime -- 3.2. Prospects for a Measurement of the Ab Lifetime -- 3.3. Prospects for measuring CP Violation -- 3.4. B mixing -- 4. Higgs Physics at D -- 4.1. Associated Production W/ZH with H bb -- 4.2. H WW lulu -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- The HARP Hadron Production Experiment and Its Significance for Neutrino Factory Design L. C. Howlett -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Neutrino Factory -- 2.1. Overview -- 2.2. Required hadron production data -- 3. The HARP Experiment -- 3.1. Experimental setup -- 3.2. Suitability of results for neutrino factory requirements -- 4. Summary -- References -- A Monte Carlo Test of the Optimal Jet Definition E. Jankowski -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Jet algorithms -- 3. Optimal Jet Definition -- 4. Details of the test -- 5. Results -- 6. Summary -- References -- Single Photoelectron Detection in LHCB Pixel HPDS S. Jolly -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Performing the Minimisation -- 3. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Nonequilibrium Phase Transitions in the Early Universe S. P. Kim -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Phase Transitions -- 3. Kibble-Zurek Mechanism -- 4. Nonequilibrium Phase Transitions -- 5. Domain Growth and Topological Defect Density -- 6. Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Recent Results in Electroweak and Top Physics at DO M. Klute -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Tevatron and the DO detector.
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Intro -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Contents -- I. Exploring QCD with Heavy Ion Collisions M. D. Baker -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Machine and Detectors -- 3. Strongly Interacting Bulk Matter -- 3.1. How Much Matter? -- 3.2. Elliptic Flow: Evidence for Collective Motion -- 3.3. Hanbury-Brown Twiss Effect: More Dynamics -- 3.4. Characterizing the Bulk Matter -- 3.5. "Little Bang Cosmology" -- 3.6. Summary: Bulk Matter -- 4. Probing the Earliest, Hottest Part of the Collision -- 4.1. Electromagnetic and Hidden Flavor Probes -- 4.2. Hadron Suppression: Jet Quenching? -- 4.3. Is Jet Quenching the Only Possible Explanation? -- 4.4. Initial or Final State Effect? -- 5. Some Puzzles at RHIC -- 5.1. Scaling Puzzle I: Baryon/Meson Differences -- 5.2. Scaling Puzzle II: Similarity of A A and e+e- at High Energy -- 6. The Latest Results from RHIC -- 7. Summary -- Acknowledgments -- References -- II. Physics @ Future Accelerators J. Ellis -- 1. Roadmap to Physics beyond the Standard Model -- 1.1. So you think you have problems? -- 1.2. The Electroweak Vacuum -- 1.3. W h y supersymmetry? -- 1.4. Hints of Supersymmetry -- 1.5. Constraints on Supersymmetric Models -- 1.6. Benchmark Supersymmetric Scenarios -- 2. LHC -- 3. Linear e+e- Colliders -- 3.1. TeV-scale Linear Colliders -- 3.2. CLIC -- 3.3. yy Colliders -- 4. Neutrino Factories -- 4.1. Neutrino Masses? -- 4.2. Models of Neutrino Masses and Mixing -- 4.3. Neutrino Oscillations -- 4.4. Concept for a Neutrino Factory -- 4.5. The Leptogenesis Connection -- 5. Muon Colliders -- 5.1. A p+p- Higgs Factory -- 5.2. Higher-Energy p+p- Colliders -- 6. In the Aftermath of WMAP -- 6.1. Cosmological Inflation -- 6.2. Could the Inflaton be a Sneutrino? -- 7. Conclusions -- References -- III. B Physics and CP Violation R. V. Kowalewski -- 1. Flavor Physics with B Mesons -- 2. Quark mixing -- 3. B factory basics.

3.1. Asymmetric e+e- B factories -- 4. B hadron decay -- 4.1. Theoretical picture of B decay -- 4.2. Exclusive semileptonic decays and |Veb| -- 4.3. Inclusive sernileptonic decays -- 5. BO BO oscillations -- 6. CP violation -- 6.1. CP violation in B decay -- 6.2. Measuring Unitarity Angles with CP Asymmetries -- 6.2.1. sin2,B -- 6.2.2. sin2a -- 6.3. CP Asymmetries in B Decays -- 7. Rare decays -- 8. Summary -- Acknowledgements -- References -- IV. Nuclear Astrophysics and Nuclei Far from Stability H. Schatz -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The r-process -- 3. Novae -- 4. Type I X-ray bursts -- 4.1. Normal X-ray bursts -- 4.2. Superbursts -- References -- V. Neutrino Physics: Status and Prospects K. Scholberg -- 1. Neutrinos and Weak Interactions -- 2. Neutrino Mass and Oscillations -- 2.1. The Experimental Game -- 3. The Experimental Evidence -- 3.1. Atmospheric Neutrinos -- 3.1.1. Long Baseline Experiments -- 3.2. Solar Neutrinos -- 3.3. LSND -- 4. Where Do We Stand? -- 5. What's Next for Two-flavor Oscillations? -- 5.1. LSND Neutrino Parameter Space -- 5.2. Solar Neutrino Parameter Space -- 5.3. Atmospheric Neutrino Parameter Space -- 6. Beyond Two-Flavor Oscillations -- 6.1. The Next Step: e3 Mixing -- 6.1.1. Off-Axis Beams -- 6.1.2. Reactor Experiments -- 6.2. Leptonic CP Violation and Mass Hierarchy -- 7. Non-Oscillation Neutrino Physics -- 7.1. Kinematic Neutrino Mass Experiments -- 7.2 . Double Beta Decay -- 7.3. Neutrino Magnetic Moment -- 7.4. Supernova Neutrinos -- 7.5. Cosmology -- 7.6. Neutrino Astrophysics -- 8. Summary -- References -- Semileptonic B Decays at LEP: Extraction of VCB and B D **tv P. Amaral -- 1. Introduction: Bo D*+ at LEP -- 2. D** orbitally excited charm mesons -- 3. B D**O at LEP - mass resonance analysis -- 4. OPAL new result on B D -- 5. Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- References -- B Physics at CDF K. Anikeeu.

1. Introduction -- 2. Triggers and Data Samples -- 2.1. Di-muon Trigger. J/ Sample -- 2.2. Displaced Track + Lepton Trigger. 1 D Sample -- 2.3. Displaced Vertex + High pr Tracks Trigger. TTT Sample -- 3. Conclusions -- Acknowledgment -- References -- Triple and Quadric Gauge Couplings a t LEPP I. Bailey -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Charged Triple Gauge Coupling -- 3. Quartic Gauge Coupling -- 4. Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Recent Results on New Phenomena from DO F. Beaudette -- 1. Search for Large Extra Dimensions -- 1.1. Di-electromagnetic channel -- 1.2. Di-muon channel -- 2. R-parity violating Supersymmetry (SUSY) in the di-electron+jets channel -- 3. SUSY search in the tri-lepton channel -- 4. Gauge mediated SUSY breaking in di-photon channels -- 5. First generation leptoquarks -- 6. Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Search for a Fourth Generation b'-Quark a t the Delphi Experiment at LEP N. Castro -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Data samples and event generators -- 3. Analyses description -- 3.1. FCNC bbuull topology search -- 3.2. FCNC bbuuqq topology search -- 3.3. CC ccqqlu topology search -- 4. Results and conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- References -- CLEO Results on B D*p and B Dr G. P. Chen -- 1. Introduction -- 2. B D*p -- 2.1. Branching Fractions -- 2.2. Helicity Amplitudes -- 3. Isospin Analysis of B DT -- 4. Summary -- References -- SUSY Searches and Measurements with the ATLAS Experiment at the Large Hadron Collider D. Costanzo -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Supersymmetry reach with ATLAS -- 3. Inclusive SUSY searches with ATLAS -- 4. Sparticles mass measurement with ATLAS -- 5. Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Measurement of the W Boson Mass at LEP J. D'Hondt -- 1. Achievements of LEP towards WW events -- 2. Applied analysis methods -- 3. Systematic uncertainties.

4. Measurement of Colour Reconnection -- 5. Preliminary results -- Acknowledgments -- References -- In-Situ Calibration of the CMS Electromagnetic Calorimeter D. I. Futyan -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The CMS Electromagnetic Calorimeter -- 3. The Electron/Photon High Level Trigger -- 3.1. Performance -- 4. Int ercalibrat ion Strategy -- 4.1. Precalibration -- 4.2. In-Situ Intercalibration Using Electrons From W ev Events -- 4.3. Symmetry Intercalibration -- 4.4. Intercalibration Using Electrons From Z e+e- Events -- 5. Summary -- References -- Spin Physics and Ultra-Peripheral Collisions at STAR C. A. Gagliardi -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Spin Physics -- 3. Ultra-Peripheral Collisions -- References -- Latest Results on Time-Dependent CP Violation from Belle T. J . Gershon -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Procedure to Measure Time-Dependent CP Violation -- 3. Results -- 3.1. b ccs Transitions -- 3.2. b uud Tmnsitions -- 4. Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Global Observables and Identified Hadrons in the PHENIX Experiment at RHIC H. -A. Gufstafsson -- 1. Introduction -- 2. RHIC and PHENIX -- 3. Global observables -- 3.1. Centrality selection -- 3.2. Charged particle multiplicity and Transverse Energy distributions -- 4. Identified hadrons -- 4.1. Transverse Momentum Spectra -- 4.2. Mean Transverse Momentum -- 5. Particle Ratios -- References -- LEP Limits on Higgs Boson Masses in the SM, in the MSSM and in General 2HD Models S. Haug -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Limit on the SM Higgs boson mass -- 3. Limits on the neutral MSSM Higgs boson masses -- 4. Limit on the charged 2HD model Higgs boson mass -- 5. Summary -- References -- The AMS-02 Experiment R. Henning -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Physics Motivation for AMS-02 -- 2.1. Search for Cosmic Antimatter: -- 2.2. Search for Dark Matter -- 2.3. Other Physics -- 3. The AMS-02 Detector.

3.1. Design Considerations -- 3.2. Subdetectors -- 4. Conclusion -- References -- Rare B Decays in BaBar A. Hicheur -- 1. Motivations -- 2. Radiative and electroweak penguins -- 2.1. b sy -- 2.2. B K(*)l+l -- 3. Hadronic rare decays -- 3.1. Gluonic penguins -- 3.2. Suppressed tree transition -- References -- Recent Results in B-Physics and Prospects for Higgs Searches at DO M. Hohlfeld -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The DO Detector in Run II -- 3. The DO B Physics Program -- 3.1. Measurement of the Average B Lifetime -- 3.2. Prospects for a Measurement of the Ab Lifetime -- 3.3. Prospects for measuring CP Violation -- 3.4. B mixing -- 4. Higgs Physics at D -- 4.1. Associated Production W/ZH with H bb -- 4.2. H WW lulu -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- The HARP Hadron Production Experiment and Its Significance for Neutrino Factory Design L. C. Howlett -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Neutrino Factory -- 2.1. Overview -- 2.2. Required hadron production data -- 3. The HARP Experiment -- 3.1. Experimental setup -- 3.2. Suitability of results for neutrino factory requirements -- 4. Summary -- References -- A Monte Carlo Test of the Optimal Jet Definition E. Jankowski -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Jet algorithms -- 3. Optimal Jet Definition -- 4. Details of the test -- 5. Results -- 6. Summary -- References -- Single Photoelectron Detection in LHCB Pixel HPDS S. Jolly -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Performing the Minimisation -- 3. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Nonequilibrium Phase Transitions in the Early Universe S. P. Kim -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Phase Transitions -- 3. Kibble-Zurek Mechanism -- 4. Nonequilibrium Phase Transitions -- 5. Domain Growth and Topological Defect Density -- 6. Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Recent Results in Electroweak and Top Physics at DO M. Klute -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Tevatron and the DO detector.

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