Studenikin A.I. (ed.). Particle physics at the year of astronomy

World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd. 2011, 451 p.
The 14th Lomonosov Conference on Elementary Particle Physics was held
at the Moscow State University (Moscow, Russia) on August 19-25, 2009 under the
Patronage of the Rector of the Moscow State University Victor Sadovnichy.
The conference was organized by the Faculty of Physics and Skobeltsyn
Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Moscow State University in cooperation with the
Interregional Centre for Advanced Studies and supported by the Joint Institute for
Nuclear Research (Dubna), the Institute for Nuclear Research (Moscow), the Budker
Institute of Nuclear Physics (Novosibirsk) and the Institute of Theoretical and
Experimental Physics (Moscow). The Russian Foundation for Basic Research, the
Russian Agency for Science and Innovation, the Russian Academy of Sciences, the
Dmitry Zimin "Dynasty" Foundation and the Russian Agency for Atomic Energy
sponsored the conference.
It was more than twenty years ago when the first of the series of
conferences (from 1993 called the "Lomonosov Conferences"), was held at the
Department of Theoretical Physics of the Moscow State University (June 1983,
Moscow). The second conference was held in Kishinev, Republic of Moldavia,
USSR (May 1985).
After the four years break this series was resumed on a new conceptual
basis for the conference programme focus. During the preparation of the third
conference (that was held in Maykop, Russia, 1989) a desire to broaden the
programme to include more general issues in particle physics became apparent.
During the conference of the year 1992 held in Yaroslavl it was proposed by myself
and approved by numerous participants that these irregularly held meetings should
be transformed into regular events under the title "Lomonosov Conferences on
Elementary Particle Physics". Since then at subsequent meetings of this series a
wide variety of interesting things both in theory and experiment of particle physics,
field theory, astrophysics, gravitation and cosmology were included into the
programmes. It was also decided to enlarge the number of institutions that would
take part in preparation of future conferences.
Mikhail Lomonosov (1711-1765), a brilliant Russian encyclopaedias of the
era of the Russian Empress Catherine the 2nd, was world renowned for his
distinguished contributions in the fields of science and art. He also helped establish
the high school educational system in Russia. The Moscow State University was
founded in 1755 based on his plan and initiative, and the University now bears the
name of Lomonosov.
The 6th Lomonosov Conference on Elementary Particle Physics (1993) and
all of the subsequent conferences of this series were held at the Moscow State
University on each of the odd years. Publication of the volume "Particle Physics,
Gauge Fields and Astrophysics" containing articles written on the basis of
presentations at the 5th and 6th Lomonosov Conferences was supported by the
Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (Rome, 1994). Proceedings of the 7th and 8th
Lomonosov Conference (entitled "Problems of Fundamental Physics" and
"Elementary Particle Physics") were published by the Interregional Centre forAdvanced Studies (Moscow, 1997 and 1999). Proceedings of the 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th
and 13th Lomonosov Conferences (entitled "Particle Physics at the Start of the New
Millennium", "Frontiers of Particle Physics", "Particle Physics in Laboratory, Space
and Universe", "Particle Physics at the Year of 250th Anniversary of Moscow
University" and "Particle Physics on the Eve of LHC") were published by World
Scientific Publishing Co. (Singapore) in 2001, 2003, 2005, 2006 and 2009,
correspondently.
The physics programme of the 14th Lomonosov Conference on Elementary
Particle Physics (August 19-25, 2009) included review and original talks on wide
range of items such as neutrino and astroparticle physics, electroweak theory,
fundamental symmetries, tests of standard model and beyond, heavy quark physics,
non-perturbative QCD, quantum gravity effects, physics at the future accelerators.
Totally there were more than 350 participants with 143 talks including 43 plenary
(25 min) talks, 38 session (20 min) talks, 47 brief (15-10 min) reports and 15 poster
presentations. One of the goals of the conference was to bring together scientists,
both theoreticians and experimentalists, working in different fields, so that no
parallel sessions were organized at the conference. The Round table discussion on
"The Year of Astronomy: Astroparticle Physics and Frontiers of the Universe" was
held during the last day of the 14th Lomonosov Conference.
Following the tradition that has started in 1995, each of the Lomonosov
Conferences on particle physics has been accompanied by a conference on problems
of intellectuals. The 8th International Meeting on Problems of Intelligentsia held
during the 13th Lomonosov Conference (August 29, 2007) was dedicated to
discussions on the issue "Intelligentsia and World Crisis".
The success of the 14th Lomonosov Conference was due in a large part to
contributions of the International Advisory Committee and Organizing Committee.
On behalf of these Committees I would like to warmly thank the session
chairpersons, the speakers and all of the participants of the 14th Lomonosov
Conference and the 8th International Meeting on Problems of Intelligentsia.
We are grateful to the Rector of the Moscow State University, Victor
Sadovnichy, the Vice Rector of the Moscow State University, Vladimir Belokurov,
the Dean of the Faculty of Physics, Vladimir Trukhin, the Directors of the Joint
Institute for Nuclear Research, Victor Matveev, the Director of the Budker Institute
of Nuclear Physics, Alexander Skrinsky, and the Vice Dean of the Faculty of
Physics of the Moscow State University, Anatoly Kozar for the support in
organizing these two conferences.
This volume is dedicated to the memory of the late Alexey Sisakian, the
Director of the Institute for Nuclear Research, who for many years provided very
important help in organizing of the Lomonosov conferences.
I would like to thank Tom Browder, Giorgio Chiarelli, Dmitri Denisov,
Guido Drexlin, Richard Dubois, Antonio Ereditato, Bellisario Esposito, Paolo
Franzini, Peter Jenni, Takuya Hasegawa, Cristina Lazzeroni, Tsuyoshi Nakaya,
Monica Pepe-Altarelli, Luc Poggioli, Frank Porter, David Reitze, Uwe Schneekloth,
Stefan Schoenert, Christian Spieling, Christian Stegmann, Horst Wahl, GastonWilquet, Bolek Wyslouch for their help in planning of the scientific programme of
the meeting and inviting speakers for the topical sessions of the conference.
Special thanks are due to Alexander Suvorinov (the Russian Agency for
Science and Innovations) and Valery Rachkov (the Russian State Corporation for
Atomic Energy) for their very valuable help.
Furthermore, I am very pleased to mention Ilya Balantsev, Alexander
Grigoriev and Alexey Lokhov, the Scientific Secretaries of the conference, Andrey
Egorov, Hamid Gadimi, Mila Polyakova, Konstantin Kiselyev, Ilya Tokarev,
Svetlana Esakova, Tanyusha Pogorelova and Maria Skrigolovskaya for their very
efficient work in preparing and running the meeting.
These Proceedings were prepared for publication at the Interregional Centre
for Advanced Studies with support by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research,
the Russian Agency for Science and Innovations and the Russian Agency for
Atomic Energy.