La Thuile 1999

 

 

 

Les Rencontres de Physique de la Vallée d'Aoste

La Thuile, March 1-6, 1999

SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME

 

Session I - Astrophysics and Cosmology

Atmospheric Neutrinos at Superkamiokande (Yoshitaka Itow, ICRR)

Measurements of the Atmospheric Neutrino Flux with the MACRO Detector (Paolo Bernardini, Lecce) Proc.(ps, pdf)

Results from KARMEN (Markus Steidl, Karlsruhe)

Updated Results of CHOOZ (Marco Grassi, Pisa)Proc.(ps, pdf)

Review of Underwater/Ice Neutrino Experiments (Fabrice Hubaut, Marseille)Proc.(ps, pdf)

Search for Neutrino Oscillations at NOMAD (Alexandr Kovzelev, Pavia)

Search for Neutrino Oscillations at CHORUS (Yoshihisa Obayashi, Nagoya)

Observational Review of g-Ray Bursts (Gerald Fishman, NASA-MSFC)Proc.(ps, pdf)

Massive Neutrinos and the Standard Model (Serguey Petcov, SISSA)

Mass Generation Mechanism for Quarks and Neutrinos (Harald Fritzsch,Munich )Proc.(ps, pdf)

Session II –Heavy Flavour Physics

Refined Measurements of the Top Quark Mass (Steve Wimpenny, Riverside)

Single Top Production and Top Quark Properties (Angela Barbaro Galtieri, LBL)Proc.(ps, pdf)

B-Physics at the Tevatron Collider (Alberto Ribon, Padova)

B_s Oscillation, V_ub and Implication on CKM Unitary Matrix (Enrico Piotto, Milano)

B and C Decays at CLEO (Sheldon Stone, Syracuse)

Heavy Flavour and Large pT Physics at HERA (Alessandro Bertolin, Padova)Proc.(ps, pdf)

Indirect Measurement of the Vertex and Angles of the Unitarity Triangle (Salvatore Mele, CERN)

Session III – Hadron Interactions

Jet Physics at the Tevatron Collider (Freedy Nang, Arizona)

ep Cross-Sections and Structure Function and QCD at HERA (Bruno Stella, Roma III)

Low Energy R-scan at BES (Xinchou Lou, Texas)

Quasi-Asymptotic Freedom (Adrian Patrascioiu, Arizona)

Commensurate Scale Relations and Optimal Renormalization (Stan Brodsky, SLAC)Proc.(ps, pdf)

PDF with Errors (David Kosower, Saclay)

Session IV – New Particle Searches

Higgs Search at LEPII (Thomas Greening, Wisconsin)Proc.(ps, pdf)

Exotic Searches at Tevatron Collider (Simona Rolli, Tufts)

Search for New Phenomena at the Tevatron II (Vladimir Sirotenko, Northern Illinois)

SUSY Searches at LEP II (Maurizio Biasini, Perugia)Proc.(ps, pdf)

Limits on New Physics from e+eff pairs with the ALEPH Detector at LEP II (Ian Tomalin, CERN)

Higgs Discovery Potential in Run 2 at the Tevatron (John Conway, Rutgers)Proc.(ps, pdf)

Beyond the Standard Model Physics at HERA (David Williams, Santa Cruz)

Recent Developments in DIS (Stefano Forte, Torino)Proc.(ps, pdf)

Session V – New Facilities

Remembering Bjoern Wiik (Harald Fritzsch, Munich)Proc.(ps, pdf)

Progress of DAPHNE and KLOE (Paolo Franzini, LNF)

Progress of BELLE (Kazunori Hanagaki, Princeton)

The Start of the Asymmetric e+e- SLAC Factory (Riccardo Faccini, San Diego)

The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (Roberto Battiston, Perugia)

Session VI – Physics and Society

QuarkNet (Marjorie Bardeen, Fermilab)Proc.(ps, pdf)

Why should the Public Support Particle Physics? (Frank Close, CERN)

Future NASA Missions: Search for Habitable Planets (Charles Beichman, NASA JPL, CalTech)Proc.(ps, pdf)

Globalization at a Turning Point. Science and Politics (Giulietto Chiesa, La Stampa - Moscow)

Session VII – Round Table

"How to Tackle the Neutrino Mass Problem ?"

Sandro Bettini (LNGS), Achim Geiser (Dortmund), Yoshitaka Itow (ICRR), Peter Litchfield (RAL), Sergej Petcov (SISSA)

Session VIII – CP Violation

Status of the NA48 Experiment on Direct CP Violation in K Decays (Guillaume Unal, LAL)

Recent Results from the KTeV Experiment (Rick Kessler, Chicago)

New Measurement of the Sin 2b at CDF (Franco Bedeschi, Pisa)Proc.(ps, pdf)

CP Violation in Rare Weak Decays (Giancarlo D’Ambrosio, Napoli)Proc.(ps, pdf)

Studies of CP Violation at CLEO (Marina Artuso, Syracuse)

CP as a Window on New Physics (Antonio Masiero, SISSA)

Session IX - Electroweak Interactions

Heavy Baryon Production and Decay (Isi Dunietz, FNAL)

The W mass at the Tevatron Collider (Young-Kee Kim, FNAL)

The W-Mass at LEPII (Niels Kjaer, NIKHEF)

Two and Four Fermion Cross Sections and Couplings at LEP (Kirsten Sachs, Freiburg)

ZZ Couplings with the L3 Detector (Simonetta Gentile, Roma 1)Proc.(ps, pdf)

Production and Decay Properties of the Gauge Bosons at the Tevatron Collider (Sarah Eno, Maryland)

Measurements of Z0 Electroweak Couplings at SLD (Giampiero Mancinelli, Rutgers)

Two-Loop QCD Corrections to the Forward-Backward Asymmetry (Mike Seymour, RAL)

Session X – Outlook

Which Hadron Collider Beyond LHC? (Peter Limon, Fermilab)

The CLIC Study of a Multi-TeV e+e- Linear Collider (Jean-Pierre Delahaye, CERN)

Approaching the Muon Collider (Robert Palmer, BNL)

Ideas on the Origin of the Cosmic Rays (Alvaro De Rujula, CERN)