Confluence of Cosmology, Massive Neutrinos, Elementary Particles, and Gravitation

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvi

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2. Neutrino Physics

   1. On the Mass of the Neutrino

      • Edward Teller

      Pages 3-4

   2. The Two Gravitating Massive Neutrino Pairs

      • Behram N. Kursunoglu

      Pages 5-23

   3. The Current Status of LIGO

      • David H. Reitze, Qi-Ze Shu, David B. Tanner, Sanichiro Yoshida, Guenakh Mitselmakher

      Pages 25-36

   4. Solar Neutrinos: An Overview

      • J. N. Bahcall

      Pages 37-52

   5. Three-Neutrino Vacuum Oscillation Solutions to the Solar and Atmospheric Anomalies

      • Kerry Whisnant

      Pages 53-61

   6. Are There Four or More Neutrinos?

      • Kerry Whisnant

      Pages 63-70

   7. Neutrino Reactions in Nuclei and Neutrino Backgrounds

      • S. L. Mintz, M. Pourkaviani

      Pages 71-81

3. Recent Progress on New and Old Ideas

   1. Is the Cosmological Constant Non-Zero?

      • Paul H. Frampton

      Pages 85-93

   2. Chern-Simons Violation of Lorentz and PTC Symmetries in Electrodynamics

      • Roman Jackiw

      Pages 95-100

   3. Spin-Dependent Forces Between Quarks in Hadrons

      • D. B. Lichtenberg

      Pages 101-109

   4. Super Kamionkande Data on Proton Lifetime and Supergravity Models

      • Pran Nath, R. Arnowitt

      Pages 111-120

   5. Direct Detection of Dark Matter and Grand Unification

      • R. Amowitt, Pran Nath

      Pages 121-126

   6. Breaking Lorentz Symmetry in Quantum Field Theory

      • Don Colladay

      Pages 127-132

4. Spin and Statistics

   1. Spin Structure with Lepton Beams

      • B. W. Filippone

      Pages 135-147

   2. Spin and Statistics for Quantum Hall Quasi-Particles

      • Jon Magne Leinaas

      Pages 149-161

   3. On the Correspondence Between Strongly Coupled QED ₂ and QCD ₂ with Antiferromagnetic Spin Chains

      • F. Berruto, G. Grignani, P. Sodano

      Pages 163-172

   4. Small Violations of Statistics

      • O. W. Greenberg

      Pages 173-194

5. Strings

   1. Quantized Membranes

      • Chiara R. Nappi

      Pages 197-205

   2. Supersymmetric Wilson Loops and Super Non-Abelian Stokes Theorem

      • Robert L. Karp, Freydoon Mansouri

      Pages 207-218

Justbefore the preliminary programof Orbis Scientiae 1998 went to press the news in physics was suddenly dominated by the discovery that neutrinos are, after all, massive particles. This was predicted by some physicists including Dr. Behram Kusunoglu, who had apaper published on this subject in 1976 in the Physical Review. Massive neutrinos do not necessarily simplify the physics of elementary particles but they do give elementary particle physics a new direction. If the dark matter content ofthe universe turns out to consist ofneutrinos, the fact that they are massive should make an impact on cosmology. Some of the papers in this volume have attempted to provide answers to these questions. We have a long way to go before we find the real reasons for nature’s creation of neutrinos. Another neutrino-related event was the passing of their discoverer, Fredrick Reines: The trustees of the Global Foundation, members of the Orbis Scientiae 1998, dedicate this conference to Fredrick Reines of the University of California at Irvine. The late Professor Reines was a loyal and active member of these series of conferences on the frontiers of physics and cosmology since 1964. He also sewed as one of the trustees of the Global Foundation for the past three years. Professor Reines discovered the most elusive particle, the neutrino, in 1954. We are proud to say that we recognized the importance of this discovery by awarding him the J.

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