The Role of Neutrinos, Strings, Gravity, and Variable Cosmological Constant in Elementary Particle Physics

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxi

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2. The Cosmological Constant is not Really a Constant

   1. Recent Developments in Gravitational Theory and an Intrinsic Cosmological Parameter

      • Behram N. Kursunoglu

      Pages 3-14

   2. Quintessence and Cosmic Microwave Background

      • Paul H. Frampton

      Pages 15-31

   3. Cosmic Acceleration and a Natural Solution to the Cosmological Constant Problem

      • Philip D. Mannheim

      Pages 33-46

3. Beyond the Standard Model

   1. Spontaneous Violation of Lorentz and CPT Symmetry

      • Don Colladay

      Pages 49-55

   2. Topics in Lorentz and CPT Violation

      • V. Alan Kostelecký

      Pages 57-68

   3. Dark Matter Caustics

      • P. Sikivie, W. Kinney

      Pages 69-76

   4. Manifest Supersymmetry and Background Ramond FLux

      • L. Dolan

      Pages 77-88

4. Neutrino Physics and Cosmology

   1. Supernova II Neutrino Bursts and Neutrino Massive Mixing

      • David B. Cline

      Pages 91-102

   2. A Neutrino Component of Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays?

      • G. Domokos, S. Kovesi-Domokos

      Pages 103-111

   3. Probing the Nature of Neutrinos at Pion Factories

      • Ali R. Fazely

      Pages 113-123

   4. Inclusive Neutrino and Antineutrino Reactions in Iron and an Interesting Relation

      • Stephan L. Mintz

      Pages 125-136

5. Nature’s Highest Energy Particle Accelerators

   1. Nature’s Highest Energy Particle Accelerators

      • Elliott D. Bloom

      Pages 139-147

   2. The Origin of all Cosmic Rays: A Space-Filling Mechanism

      • Stirling A. Colgate, Hui Li

      Pages 149-155

   3. Primordial Black Holes and the Asymmetrical Distribution of Short GRB Events

      • David B. Cline

      Pages 157-168

   4. Exploring the Extreme Universe with the Gamma-Ray Large Area Space Telescope

      • S. Ritz

      Pages 169-175

6. The Latest Developments in High Energy Physics and Cosmology

   1. Comments on Supersymmetry Extra Dimensions and the Accelerating Universe

      • D. B. Lichtenberg

      Pages 179-183

   2. Field Theory Correlators and String Theory

      • S.S. Pinsky, U. Trittmann, J.R. Hiller

      Pages 185-214

   3. A Microscopic Basis for the Entropy of AdS3 Black Hole

      • S. Fernando, F. Mansouri

      Pages 215-230

   4. CP-Violation in B—Decays Status and Prospects of \( \bar B \)

      • Carsten Hast for the BABAV Collaboration

      Pages 231-239

th The 29 International Conference was held as the first one of the millennium at its Fort Lauderdale venue. These conferences began, with High Energy Physics being the main topic, by introducing gradually cosmology into its programs. These proceedings of the 2000 conference reflect the variety of topics and ideas discussed. Our future conferences will be designed somewhat akin to the early Coral Gables Conferences where we shall seek some convergence of ideas. For this reason various committees have been formed from among the participating physicists. The committees and their memberships are listed in these proceedings. We further decided for the first time to include some graduate student participants in our future meetings for which also a committee has already been established. The topics will demonstrate a more activist structure of the Coral Gables Conferences, for example the duality of the gravitational forces and expansion of the universe will be discussed from this point of view since it conveys a convergence to the ideas of quintessence versus the ordinary theory, which are considered as the cause of the expansion of the universe. We further wish to announce that the future conferences will assume a collective organization where several committees as listed in these proceedings will have their input into the conference. We have now introduced new topics and ideas, which referred especially to the attractive and repulsive nature of the gravitational force. These proceedings of the conference contain a variety of topics and ideas.

• Cosmology
• Dark matter
• Gamma ray
• Gravity
• Neutrino
• Particle Physics
• Particle accelerator
• Quantum mechanics
• Universe

• Global Foundation, Inc., Coral Gables

  Behram N. Kursunoglu

• Florida International University, Miami

  Stephan L. Mintz

• University of Miami, Coral Gables

  Arnold Perlmutter

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