Particles, Strings and Cosmology

The Table of Contents for the full book PDF is as follows:

• Symposium Organization
• Preface
• Welcoming Remarks to the Second International Symposium on Particles, Strings, and Cosmology, March 25 - March 30, 1991 Michael A. Baer, Provost, Northeastern University John A. Curry, President, Northeastern University
• NEW RESULTS FROM ACCELERATORS
  • New Particles Searches at CDF
  • A Very Heavy t?
  • The Top Quark Threshold: Measurable, Calculable, and Rich in Information
  • The SSC Physics Program
  • Studies for a Tau-Charm Factory
• NON-ACCELERATOR PHYSICS AND NEUTRINO PHYSICS
  • Direct Measurements of Neutrino Mass — A Status Report
  • Neutrino Oscillations — Current Status and Future Prospects
  • Advances in Gallex Till Spring 1991
  • Detection of Elementary Particles Using Superconducting Phonon Sensors on Silicon Crystals
  • Implications of a 17 keV Neutrino
  • Simpson’s 17 keV Neutrino and the Dirac Neutrino Hypothesis
• STANDARD MODEL AND BEYOND
  • Precision Tests of Electroweak Theory and “New Physics”
  • Lepton Family Flavor Violation in a Class of String Models
  • Experimental Prospects for Observing Family-Number Violating Decays
  • Recent Progress in 4-D String Model Building
  • Phenomenology of Supersymmetric Higgs Bosons: From LEP to LHC and SSC
  • The KM Matrix, t-Quark Mass and Rare Kaon Decays
  • Bosonic Technicolor and the Flavor and Family-Mass-Hierarchy Problems
  • Strong CP Conservation in Aspon Model
  • Dynamical Mass Generation and Renormalization of a Supersymmetric Nonlinear σ Model
  • Reviving Grand Unification
• PHYSICS AT THE ELECTRO-WEAK SCALE
  • Minimal Dynamical Electroweak Symmetry Breaking
  • Baryon–Number Violation at the Electroweak Scale
  • N-Particle Amplitudes for Large N
• RELATIVISTIC ASTROPHYSICS AND COSMOLOGY
  • The Chronology Protection Conjecture
  • Cosmological Structure Formation
  • Cosmic Strings and the Large Scale Structure of the Universe
  • Natural Inflation
  • Strings in/and Inflation
  • Ultrahigh Energy Neutrinos From Active Galactic Nuclei
  • Constraints on Dirac Neutrino Masses From SN1987A and The 17 keV Neutrino
• QUANTUM GRAVITY AND 2D GRAVITY
  • Nonperturbative Quantum Gravity: The Emergence of Discrete Structure at the Planck Scale
  • Avoiding Criticality in Strings
  • Two-Dimensional String Theory
  • Topological Supergravity
  • Field Theory of Matrix Models and Strings
  • Triple-Scaling
  • Geometry of Strings Through Gauss Map
• STRING THEORY
  • Strings Beyond Superstring
  • Mirror Manifolds: A Brief Review and Progress Report
  • An Exactly Soluble Superconformal Theory from a Mirror Pair of Calabi-Yau Manifolds
  • Mirror Symmetry in String Theory and Fractional Transformations
  • Effective Theories and Thresholds in Particle Physics
  • Supersymmetry Breaking in Superstring Theory
  • A Possible New Dimension at 1 TeV
  • Implications of Target Space Duality
  • Non-Harmonic Gauge Coupling Constants in Supersymmetry and Superstring Theory
  • Loop Corrections to Superstring Effective Theories and Sigma-Model Anomalies
  • Renormalization Group Equation for String Field Theory and Matrix Models
  • Practical Applications of Superstrings: New One-Loop Rules for Gauge Theories
  • Solitons in String Theory
• MISCELLANEOUS TOPICS
  • Differential Calculus on Quantum Planes
  • Chern-Simons Gauge Theory for D = 10 Supersymmetric QED
  • Testing the Standard Model of CP Violation in All Manner of B Decay Modes
  • A Natural Origin of Families and Mass Scales through Supersymmetry and Compositeness
  • The Anomalous Magnetic Moment of the Muon
• SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM AND PARTICIPANTS
  • Scientific Program of PASCOS 91
  • PASCOS-91 Participants
  • Photographs