Studenikin A.I. (ed.). Frontiers of particle physics

World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd. 2003, 349 p.
The 10th Lomonosov Conference on Elementary Particle Physics was held
at the Moscow State University (Moscow, Russia) on August 23-29, 2001.
The conference was organized by the Faculty of Physics of the Moscow
State University and the Interregional Centre for Advanced Studies and supported
by the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (Dubna), the Institute of Theoretical and
Experimental Physics (Moscow), and the Institute for Nuclear Research (Moscow).
The Ministry of Industries, Science and Technologies of Russia, the Russian
Foundation for Basic Research, and International Association for the promotion of
co-operation with scientists from the New Independent States of the former Soviet
Union (INTAS) sponsored the conference.
It was nineteen years ago when the first of the series of conferences (from
1993 called the "Lomonosov Conferences"), was held at the Department of
Theoretical Physics of the Moscow State University (June 1983, Moscow). The
second conference was held in Kishinev, Republic of Moldavia, USSR (May 1985).
After the four years break this series was resumed on a new conceptual
basis for the conference programme focus. During the preparation of the third
conference (that was held in Maykop, Russia, 1989) a desire to broaden the
programme to include more general issues in particle physics became apparent. At
subsequent meetings of this series (Minsk, Republic of Byelorussia, USSR, 1990;
Yaroslavl, Russia, 1992) a wide variety of interesting things both in theory and
experiment of particle physics, field theory, gravitation and astrophysics were
included into the programmes. During the conference of 1992 in Yaroslavl it was
proposed by myself and approved by numerous participants that these irregularly
held meetings should be transformed into regular events under the title "Lomonosov
Conferences on Elementary Particle Physics". It was also decided to enlarge the
number of institutions that would take part in preparation of future conferences.
Mikhail Lomonosov (1711-1765), a brilliant Russian encyclopaedias of the
era of the Russian Empress Catherine the 2nd, was world renowned for his
distinguished contributions in the fields of science and art. He also helped establish
the high school educational system in Russia. The Moscow State University was
founded in 1755 based on his plan and initiative, and the University now bears the
name of Lomonosov.
The 6th Lomonosov Conference on Elementary Particle Physics (1993) and
all of the subsequent conferences of this series were held at the Moscow State
University on each of the odd years. Publication of the volume "Particle Physics,
Gauge Fields and Astrophysics" containing articles written on the basis of
presentations at the 5th and 6th Lomonosov Conferences was supported by the
Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (Rome, 1994). Proceedings of the 7 and 8
Lomonosov Conference ( entitied "Problems of Fundamental Physics" and
"Elementary Particle Physics") were published by the Interregional Centre for
Advanced Studies (Moscow, 1997 and 1999). Proceedings of the 9th Lomonosov Conference ("Particle Physics at the Start of the New Millennium") were published
by World Scientific Publishing Co. ( Singapore, 2001).
The physics programme of the 10th Lomonosov Conference on Elementary
Particle Physics included review and original talks on wide range of items such as
fundamental symmetries, electroweak theory, tests of standard model and beyond,
heavy quark physics, non-perturbative QCD, neutrino physics, astroparticle physics,
quantum gravity effects, physics at the future accelerators. Totally there were 79
talks including 22 review (40-45 min) talks, 14 session (30-25 min) reports and 43
brief (20 min) reports.
Following the tradition that has started in 1995, each of the Lomonosov
Conferences on particle physics has been accompanied by a conference on problems
of intellectuals. The 4th International Meeting on Problems of Intellectuals has been
held during the last day of the 10th Lomonosov Conference. The subject of the
Meeting was specified as follows: "International Co-operation of Intellectuals".
During this meeting discussion on co-operation between scientists and intellectuals
was organized. One of the talks was devoted to international collaboration on
synchrotron radiation, there were also several talks on more general issues of
international co-operation of scientists and the role of intellectuals in providing
stable development of the human civilization. The two talks presented on this
Meeting are also included into these proceedings.
On behalf of the Organizing Committee I should like to warmly thank the
session chairpersons, the speakers and all of the participants of the 10th Lomonosov
Conference and the 4th Meeting on Problems of Intellectuals.
We are grateful to the Rector of the Moscow State University, Victor
Sadovnichy, the Dean of the Faculty of Physics of the Moscow State University,
Vladimir Trukhin, the Director of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Vladimir
Kadyshevsky, the Director of the Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics,
Mikhael Danilov, the Director of the Institute for Nuclear Research, Victor
Matveev, and John Bleimaier (Princeton, USA) for the support in organizing these
two conferences.
I should like to thank Lev Okun, Andrey Kataev and Yuri Simonov for
their help in planning of the scientific programme of the meeting. Special thanks are
due to Patrick Janot and Jan Nassalski for their valuable help in inviting speakers for
the topical sessions of the conference.
Furthermore, I am very pleased to mention Andrey Egorov, the Scientific
Secretary of the conference, and Alexey Illarionov for their very efficient work in
preparing and running the meeting.
These Proceedings were prepared for publication and sponsored by the
Interregional Centre for Advanced Studies with support by the Faculty of Physics of
the Moscow State University, the Ministry of Industries, Science and Technologies
of Russia, the Russian Foundation for Basic Research, the INT AS grant number 01-
MO-194, and anonymous gift in memory of Mikhail Mikhailovich Okolodkoff
(1854-1919), Colonel of the Russian Tsar Army.