CONFLUENCE OF COSMOLOGY, MASSIVE NEUTRINOS, ELEMENTARY PARTICLES, AND GRAVITATION

By D. GIZAD

CONTENTS SECTION I NEUTRINO PHYSICS ON THE MASS OF THE NEUTRINO THE TWO GRAVITATING MASSIVE NEUTRINO PAIRS THE CURRENT STATUS OF LIGO SOLAR NEUTRINOS: AN OVERVIEW THREE-NEUTRINO VACUUM OSCILLATION SOLUTIONS TO THE SOLAR AND ATMOSPHERIC ANOMALIES ARE THERE FOUR OR MORE NEUTRINOS? NEUTRINO REACTIONS IN NUCLEI AND NEUTRINO BACKGROUNDS SECTION II RECENT PROGRESS ON NEW AND OLD IDEAS IS THE COSMOLOGICAL CONSTANT NON-ZERO? CHERN-SIMONS VIOLATION OF LORENTZ AND PTC SYMMETRIES IN ELECTRODYNAMICS SPIN-DEPENDENT FORCES BETWEEN QUARKS IN HADRONS SUPER KAMIOKANDE DATA ON PROTON LIFETIME AND SUPERGRAVITY MODELS DIRECT DETECTION OF DARK MATTER AND GRAND UNIFICATION BREAKING LORENTZ SYMMETRY IN QUANTUM FIELD THEORY SECTION III SPIN AND STATISTICS SPIN STRUCTURE WITH LEPTON BEAMS SPIN AND STATISTICS FOR QUANTUM HALL QUASI-PARTICLES WITH ANTIFERROMAGNETIC SPIN CHAINS SMALL VIOLATIONS OF STATISTICS SECTION IV STRINGS QUANTIZED MEMBRANES SUPERSYMMETRIC WILSON LOOPS AND SUPER NON-ABELIAN STOKES THEOREM TYPEIIB STRINGTHEORYON ADS3XS3XT4 FROM THREEBRANES TO LARGE N GAUGE THEORIES