Particle Physics and the Universe: Proceedings of the 9th Adriatic meeting, Sept. 2003, Dubrovnik(98 Springer Proceedings in Physics)

The Adriatic Meetings have traditionally been conferences on the most - vanced status of science. They are one of the very few conferences in physics aiming at a very broad participation of young and experienced researchers with di?erent backgrounds in particle physics. Particle physics has grown into a highly multi-faceted discipline over the sixty years of its existence, mainly because of two reasons: Particle physics as an experimental science is in need of large-scale laboratory set-ups, involving typically collaborations of several hundreds or even thousands of researchers and technicians with the most diverse expertise. This forces particle physics, being one of the most fundamental dis- plines of physics, to maintain a constant interchange and contact with other disciplines, notably solid-state physics and laser physics, cosmology and - trophysics, mathematical physics and mathematics. Since the expertise necessary in doing research in particle physics has become tremendously demanding in the last years, the ?eld tends to organize purely expert conferences, meetings and summer schools, such as for detector development, for astroparticle physics or for string theory. TheAdriaticMeetingthroughitsentirehistoryhasbeenaplaceforest- lishing exchange between theory and experiment. The 9th Adriatic Meeting successfully continued this tradition and even intensi?ed the cross-discipline communication by establishing new contacts between the community of c- mologists and of particle physicists. The exchange between theorists and - perimentalists was impressively intensive and will certainly have a lasting e?ect on several research projects of the European and world-wide physics community.

Table of Contents:
Neutrinos, Astroparticle Physics, Cosmology and Gravity.- The Neutrino Mass Matrix — From A4 to Z3.- Neutrinos — Inner Properties and Role as Astrophysical Messengers.- Lepton Flavor Violation in the SUSY Seesaw Model: An Update.- Sterile Neutrino Dark Matter in the Galaxy.- Supernovae and Dark Energy.- Semiclassical Cosmology with Running Cosmological Constant.- Limits on New Inverse-Power Law Forces.- Quantum Gravity Phenomenology and Lorentz Violation.- On the Quantum Width of a Black Hole Horizon.- The Internal Structure of Black Holes.- Microscopic Interpretation of Black Hole Entropy.- Dark Matter Experiments at Boulby Mine.- Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays and the Pierre Auger Observatory.- Self-Accelerated Universe.- Charge and Isospin Fluctuations in High Energy pp-Collisions.- Superluminal Pions in the Linear Sigma Model.- Strings, Branes, Noncommutative Field Theories and Grand Unification.- Comments on Noncommutative Field Theories.- Seiberg-Witten Maps and Anomalies in Noncommutative Yang-Mills Theories.- Renormalisation Group Approach to Noncommutative Quantum Field Theory.- Noncommutative Gauge Theories via Seiberg-Witten Map.- The Noncommutative Standard Model and Forbidden Decays.- The Dressed Sliver in VSFT.- M5-Branes and Matrix Theory.- Brane Gravity.- Stringy de Sitter Brane-Worlds.- Finite Unified Theories and the Higgs Mass Prediction.- Non-Commutative GUTs, Standard Model and C, P, T Properties from Seiberg-Witten Map.- Noncommutative Gauge Theory on the q-Deformed Euclidean Plane.- A Multispecies Calogero Model.- Divergencies in Noncommutative SU(2) Yang-Mills Theory.- Gauge Theory on the Fuzzy Sphere and Random Matrices.- Standard Model — Theory and Experiment.- Waiting for Clear Signals of New Physics in B and K Decays.- Electron-PositronLinear Collider.- New Source of CP Violation in B Physics?.- LHC Physics.- Precision Calculations in the MSSM.- Theoretical Aspects of Heavy Flavour Physics.- Hard Exclusive Processes and Higher-Order QCD Corrections.- Strings in the Yang-Mills Theory: How They Form, Live and Decay.- Constraining New Physics from the Muon Decay.- Jets in Deep Inelastic Scattering and High Energy Photoproduction at HERA.- CP Violation from Orbifold: From Examples to Unification Structures.- Doubly Projected Functions in Out of Equilibrium Thermal Field Theories.- Nonfactorizable Contributions in $$\overline {B^0 } $$ ? Ds/+Ds/? and $$\overline {B_s^0 } $$ ? D+D? Decays.- On the Geometry of Gauge Field Theories.- On the Singlet Penguin in B ? K?? Decay.- Bjorken-Like Limit versus Fermi-Watson Approximation in High Energy Hadron Diffraction.- Some Aspects of Radiative Corrections and Non-Decoupling Effects of Heavy Higgs Bosons in Two Higgs Doublet Model.- Towards a NNLO Calculation in Hadronic Heavy Hadron Production.- Jet Physics at CDF.