Status of Theoretical Understanding and of Experimental Power for LHC Physics and Beyond

50th Anniversary Celebration of the QuarkProceedings of the International School of Subnuclear Physics

Proceedings of the International School of Subnuclear Physics, ISSP 2014, 52nd Course, ERICE, Erice, 24 June – 3 July 2014.

Contents:

• Opening Lecture:

  • A Lesson for the Future of Our Science. My Testimony on Lord Patrick M S Blackett (A Zichichi)

• Celebration Lecture:

  • Concrete Quarks (G Zweig)

• Status of Theoretical Understanding:

  • Higher Curvature Supergravity, Supersymmetry Breaking and Inflation (S Ferrara)
  • Problems with Ultrahigh-energy Neutrino Interactions (D Schildknecht)
  • Gauge Theories on the Coulomb Branch (J H Schwarz)
  • Canonical Methods in Deterministic Quantum Mechanics (G't Hooft)

• Status of Experimental Power:

  • Dark Matter Searches (A Bettini)
  • Highlights from ALICE (P Giubellino)
  • Planck Highlights (A Riazuelo)
  • Highlights from BNL and RHIC 2014 (M J Tannenbaum)
  • The QGCW Project (H Wenninger)
  • Complexity and New Physics (A Zichichi)

• Discussions:

  • The Mass Hierarchy and Physics Beyond the Standard Theory (I Antoniadis)
  • Recent Developments in Scattering Amplitudes (Z Bern)
  • Gravity as the Square of a Gauge Theory (M J Duff)
  • The INFN Vision for Neutrino Physics (F Ferroni)
  • Probing Subnuclear Structure with Neutrinos (J Knobloch)
  • Another Look at Quadratic Divergencies (H Nicolai)

• Closing Ceremony:

  • Diplomas and Awards
  • Participants

Readership: Directed to experts and advanced-level students in the field of Theoretical and Experimental Subnuclear Physics.