Searching For The Unexpected At Lhc And The Status Of Our Knowledge

Searching For the Unexpected At LHC and the Status of Our Knowledge: Proceedings of the International School of Subnuclear Physics 2011

Proceedings of the International School of Subnuclear Physics, ISSP 2014, 52nd Course, ERICE, Erice, 24 June – 3 July 2014.

In June 2016, a group of 167 physicists from 31 countries have met in Erice to participate in the 54th Course of the International School of Subnuclear Physics. The main focus of this year's course has been the new frontiers of Physics in the LHC-2 Era and in all labs the world over, as well as the new frontiers in related fields.

The main focus of this year's Proceedings of the 53rd Course of the International School of Subnuclear Physics is the future of physics, including the new frontiers in other fields.

This book is the proceedings of the International School of Subnuclear Physics, ISSP 2012, 50th Course — ERICE, 23 June 2013 – 2 July 2012. This course was devoted to the celebrations of the 50th Anniversary of the Subnuclear Physics School which was started in 1961 by Antonino Zichichi with John Bell at CERN and formally established in 1962 by Bell, Blackett, Weisskopf, Rabi and Zichichi in Geneva (CERN). The lectures covered the latest and most significant achievements in theoretical and in experimental subnuclear physics. Contents:QCD Celebrations and Gold-Medal to Murray Gell-Mann:Opening Remarks (A Zichichi)Some Reminiscences of Research Leading to QCD and Beyond (M Gell-Mann)The Erice Centre, Gell-Mann, QCD, the Effective Energy and Complexity (A Zichichi)History of QCD (H Fritzsch)On the History of the Strong Interaction (H Leutwyler)Colour Transparency and Saturation in QCD (D Schildknecht)Glue-mesons: Their Conception Needs All of QCD in the Infrared (P Minkowski)Quark Masses in QCD (C A Dominguez)The Quark Model and QCD (F Close)Key Steps Toward the Creation of QCD — Notes on the Logic and History of the Genesis of QCD (T Y Cao)Hot Theoretical Topics:Perturbative Gravity from Gauge Theory (Z Bern)Black Holes and Supersymmetry (L Andrianopoli, R D'Auria and S Ferrara)Composite Weak Bosons at the LHC (H Fritzsch)High Energy Scattering in QCD and in Quantum Gravity (L N Lipatov)One-Parameter Model for the Superworld (D V Nanopoulos et al.)Beyond Relativistic Quantum String Theory (G 't Hooft)Hot Experimental Topics:Borexino Latest Results (G Bellini)Highlights from LHC (P Bloch)Highlights from ATLAS (P Jenni)Origin and Status of Luna at Gran Sasso (C Broggini)Highlights from ALICE (P Giubellino)Highlights from BNL-RHIC (M J Tannenbaum)Origin and Status of the Gran Sasso INFN Laboratory (L Votano)Seminars on Specialized Topics:Status of Opera (D Autiero)The Origin and Status of the Third Neutrino (A Bettini)High Energy Physics and Gravitational Waves (E Coccia)Four Decades of Computing in Subnuclear Physics — from Bubble Chamber to LHC (J Knobloch)The LAA Project and the Consequences on LHC (H Wenninger)Complexity and the QGCW Project (A Zichichi)Special Sessions for New Talents:Patterns of Flavour Violation at the Dawn of the LHC Era (M V Carlucci)Precise Measurement of the W Boson Mass with the DØ Detector (R Lopes de Sá)QFT and Unification of Knot Theories (A Sleptsov)Hunting in Daya Bay Neutrino Experiment (F Zhang)Vacuum Stability in the SM and the Three-loop β-function for the Higgs Self-interaction (M F Zoller)Closing Ceremony:DiplomasAwardsParticipantsGroup Photo Readership: Directed to experts and advanced-level students in the field of Theoretical and Experimental Subnuclear Physics. Keywords:Quantum Chromodynamics;Complexity;Fundamental Level;LHC Results;Higgs-SUSY;Particle Physics;Quantum Gravity;Black Holes

In this thesis, the author develops new high-power millimeter wave techniques for measuring the hyperfine structure of positronium (Ps-HFS) directly for the first time in the world. Indirect measurement of Ps-HFS in the literature might have systematic uncertainties related to the use of a static magnetic field. Development of the millimeter wave devices supports the precise determination of Ps-HFS by directly measuring the Breit-Wigner resonant transition from o-Ps to p-Ps without the magnetic field. At the same time, the width of the measured Breit-Wigner resonance directly provides the lifetime of p-Ps. This measurement is the first precise spectroscopic experiment involving the magnetic dipole transition and high-power millimeter waves. The development of a gyrotron and a Fabry-Pérot cavity is described as providing an effective power of over 20 kW, which is required to cause the direct transition from o-Ps to p-Ps. Those values measured by the newly developed millimeter wave device pave the way for examining the discrepancy observed between conventional indirect experiments on Ps-HFS and the theoretical predictions of Quantum Electrodynamics.

Hot Theoretical Topics: Ultraviolet Behavior of N=8 Supergravity (L J Dixon); Is the Best Superstring Model NP Complete? (M R Douglas); Erice Lecture on Microscopic Gravity (G Dvali); Supergravity: Foundations and Applications (S Ferrara); Orienfold String Vacua and Strings at the LHC (D Luest); Seminar on Specialized Topics: Status of Dark Matter and Neutrino Physics (A Bettini); Experimental Evidence for Pointlike Baryons at q2 = 4MB2 (S Pacetti); Neutrino Masses, Dark Matter, Baryon Asymmetry and Inflation can be Explained at Once (M Shaposhnikov); Results from RHIC with Implications for LHC (M J Tannenbaum); Quantum Gravity without Space-Time Singularities or Horizons (G 't Hooft); Diffraction in Deep Inelastic Electron Proton Scattering at HERA (G Wolf); The Lesson Needed for the Future (A Zichichi); Highlights from Laboratories: Highlights from RHIC (P R Sorensen); The LHC and Beyond — The Energy Frontier (R D Heuer); Highlights from the Gran Sasso Underground Laboratory (E Coccia); Highlights from Fermilab (S J Parke); Special Sessions for New Talents: Radiation Damage Studies for Silicon Sensors for the XFEL (H Perrey); Notes on Chern–Simons Theory in the Temporal Gauge (A Smirnov); Dark Matter via Many Copies of the Standard Model (A Vikman).

Beyond Higgs / W.A. Bardeen -- Is N = 8 supergravity ultraviolet finite? / Z. Bern -- Extremal black holes and attractors / S. Ferrara -- Exotic mesons / L. Maiani -- The entropic principle and the landscape in SUSY gauge theories / H. Ooguri -- Warped dimensions / L. Randall -- Unitarity in the Brout-Englert-Higgs mechanism for gravity / C. 'tHooft -- AdS/CFT and light-front QCD / S.J. Brodsky -- Physics of the light quarks / H. Leutwyler -- BFKL equation and anomalous dimensions in N = 4 SUSY / L.N. Lipatov -- The color glass condensate and the glasma / L. McLerran -- Highlights from CERN / R. Aymar -- Highlights from Gran Sasso / E. Coccia -- Highlights from the CNGS & OPERA / Y. Declais -- Highlights from RHIC / B. Jacak -- Highlights from fermilab / P.J. Oddone -- Problems with three neutrinos / A. Bettini -- Double beta decay / E. Fiorini -- Rare decays in the 3rd family / M. Giorgi -- Cosmology and the unexpected / E.W. Kolb -- Complexity at the fundamental level : consequences for LHC / A. Zichichi -- Vertexing and flavour tagging at the international linear collider / E. Devetak -- The standard model Higgs search at the tevatron / W. Fisher -- Effective potentials in de Sitter background and application to the MSSM / B. Garbrecht -- Tuning the vertex detector simulation of H1 / M. Kramer -- Numerical calculation of electron g-2 at 4 loops in QED / S. Laporta -- Spinors and unitarity-cuts / P. Mastrolia -- Exploring the physics frontier with v[symbol]'s and v[symbol]'s in MINOS / J.P. Ochoa-Ricoux -- Modified dispersion relations and trans-planckian physics / M. Rinaldi -- A large TPC prototype for the international linear collider / P. Schade -- Lepton flavour violation : hints on the SUSY seesaw / A.M. Teixeira -- Background simulations for the international linear collider / A. Vogel -- A hadronic calorimeter for the international linear collider / N. Wattimena