SEARCH FOR THE "TOTALLY UNEXPECTED" IN THE LHC ERA

SEARCH FOR THE "TOTALLY UNEXPECTED" IN THE LHC ERA
Proceedings of the International School of Subnuclear Physics

Erice, Sicily, Italy, 29 August - 7 September 2007

CONTENTS


FRONT MATTER	i
Opening Lecture
BEYOND HIGGS William A. Bardeen	1
Hot Theoretical Topics
Is N=8 Supergravity Ultraviolet Finite? Z. BERN	25
Extremal Black Holes and Attractors Sergio Ferrara, Kuniko Hayakawa and Alessio Marrani	41
Exotic Mesons L. MAIANI	111
The Entropic Principle and the Landscape in SUSY Gauge Theories H. OOGURI	117
Warped Dimensions L. RANDALL	129
Unitarity in the Brout-Englert-Higgs Mechanism for Gravity G. 't HOOFT	131
QCD Problems
AdS/CFT and Light-Front QCD Stanley J. Brodsky and Guy F. de Téramond	139
Physics of the light quarks H. Leutwyler	185
BFKL equation and anomalous dimensions in N=4 SUSY L.N. Lipatov	225
The Color Glass Condensate and the Glasma: Two Lectures Larry McLerran	237
Highlights from Laboratories
Highlights from CERN: from the Big Bang to cutting edge innovation R. AYMAR	265
Highlights from Gran Sasso E. COCCIA	275
Highlights from CNGS&OPERA: The Detection of Neutrino Interactions in the Emulsion/Lead Target of the OPERA Experiment Y. DECLAIS	281
Highlights from RHIC B. JACAK	287
Highlights from Fermilab P. J. ODDONE	293
Seminars on Specialized Topics
PROBLEMS WITH THREE NEUTRINOS Alessandro Bettini	299
DOUBLE BETA DECAY ETTORE FIORINI	315
Rare Decays in the 3^rd Family M. GIORGI	333
Cosmology and the Unexpected Edward W. Kolb	337
Complexity at the Fundamental Level: Consequences for LHC A. ZICHICHI	365
Special Sessions for New Talents
Vertexing and Flavour Tagging at the International Linear Collider Erik Devetak	371
The Standard Model Higgs Search at the Tevatron Wade Fisher	381
Effective Potentials in de Sitter Background and Application to the MSSM Björn Garbrecht	391
Tuning The Vertex Detector Simulation of H1 Mira Krämer	401
Numerical calculation of electron g-2 at 4 loops in QED S. Laporta	409
Spinors and Unitarity-Cuts Pierpaolo Mastrolia	419
Exploring the Physics Frontier with ν_e's and $\bar \nu _\mu $'s in MINOS J. P. Ochoa-Ricoux	429
Modified Dispersion Relations and trans-Planckian Physics Massimiliano Rinaldi	437
A LARGE TPC PROTOTYPE FOR THE INTERNATIONAL LINEAR COLLIDER P. SCHADE	447
Lepton flavour violation: hints on the SUSY seesaw A. M. Teixeira	457
Background Simulations for the International Linear Collider Adrian Vogel	467
A HADRONIC CALORIMETER FOR THE INTERNATIONAL LINEAR COLLIDER N. WATTIMENA	477
Closing Ceremony
BACK MATTER	485

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