THE ROLE OF NEUTRINOS, STRINGS, GRAVITY, AND VARIABLE COSMOLOGICAL CONSTANT IN ELEMENTARY PARTICLE PHYSICS

By SOPHIA JACKSON

CONTENTS THE COSMOLOGICAL CONSTANT IS NOT REALLY A CONSTANT RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN GRAVITATIONAL THEORY AND AN INTRINSIC COSMOLOGICAL PARAMETER QUINTESSENCE AND COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND COSMIC ACCELERATION AND A NATURAL SOLUTION TO THE COSMOLOGICAL CONSTANT PROBLEM BEYOND THE STANDARD MODEL SPONTANEOUS VIOLATION OF LORENTZ AND CPT SYMMETRY TOPICS IN LORENTZ AND CPT VIOLATION DARK MATTER CAUSTICS MANIFEST SUPERSYMMETRY AND BACKGROUND RAMOND FLUX NEUTRINO PHYSICS AND COSMOLOGY SUPERNOVA II NEUTRINO BURSTS AND NEUTRINO MASSIVE MIXING A NEUTRINO COMPONENT OF ULTRA HIGH ENERGY COSMIC RAYS? PROBING THE NATURE OF NEUTRINOS AT PION FACTORIES INCLUSIVE NEUTRINO AND ANTINEUTRINO REACTIONS IN IRON AND AN INTERESTING RELATION NATURE’S HIGHEST ENERGY PARTICLE ACCELERATORS NATURE’S HIGHEST ENERGY PARTICLE ACCELERATORS THE ORIGIN OF ALL COSMIC RAYS: A SPACE-FILLNG MECHANISM PRIMORDIAL BLACK HOLES AND THE ASYMMETRICAL DISTRIBUTION OF SHORT GRB EVENTS EXPLORING THE EXTREME UNIVERSE WITH THE GAMMA-RAY LARGE AREA SPACE TELESCOPE THE LATEST DEVELOPMENTS IN HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS AND COSMOLOGY COMMENTS ON SUPERSYMMETRY EXTRA DIMENSIONS AND THE ACCELERATING UNIVERSE FIELD THEORY CORRELATORS AND STRING THEORY A MICROSCOPIC BASIS FOR THE ENTROPY OF ADS3 BLACK HOLE CP-VIOLATION IN B-DECAYS: STATUS AND PROSPECTS OF BABAR NEW EXPERIMENT ON SPNING PROTONS’ VIOLENT COLLISIONS THE GRAND UNIFIED THEORY OF CLASSICAL QUANTUM MECHANICS