Lecturer: Mikhail Shaposhnikov, Université de Lausanne, Switzerland

• The isotropic and homogeneous Universe, the Robertson-Walker metric.

• The Big-bang cosmology: recombination, nucleosynthesis and baryogenesis

• The inflationary Universe and large scale structures.

• Dark matter

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• E. Kolb and M. Turner, The Early Universe, Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA 1990

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• Cosmology and Particle Physics. By J.A. Peacock (Edinburgh U.). 1998. Prepared for 1998 European School of High-Energy Physics, St. Andrews, Scotland, 23 Aug - 5 Sep 1998. In *St. Andrews 1998, High-energy physics* 197-299.

• Astrophysics and Cosmology. By Juan Garcia-Bellido (Imperial Coll., London). Aug 1999. 78pp. Invited talk at 1999 European School of High-Energy Physics (ESHEP 99), Casta-Papernicka, Slovak Republic, 22 Aug - 4 Sep 1999. e-Print Archive: hep-ph/0004188

Lecturer: Jorge Dias de Deus, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisboa, Portugal

'Heavy Ion Collisions' (The Search for the Quark Gluon Plasma)

The lecture course will be mostly focused on quark-gluon plasma searches. The main questions to be adressed are:

• Why do we believe that the Quark Gluon Plasma (QGP) exists? The QCD predictions.

• Did it occur a cosmological transition from QGP to normal hadrons? The Big Bang and the Little Bang.

• Is there evidence for nuclear collective effects beyond superposition of nucleon-nucleon collisions? Models and data.

• Are the conditions for equilibrium satisfied in heavy ion collisions? Thermal transition versus geometrical transition.

• What are the good signals for the QCD? Order parameters and lots of explanations.

What is true and what is fantasy? The need for new experiments: RHIC and LHC are waiting for us (or vice-versa!).

• Introduction to High Energy Heavy-Ion Collisions, Chenk-Yin Wong, World Scientific (1994).

• Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics, vol.42, Heavy Ion Collisions from nuclear to quark matter, Edited by A. Faessler, Elsevier Science BV (1999).

• Signatures of Quark-Gluon-Plasma Formation in High Energy Heavy Ion Collisions: a critical review, S.A. Bass, M. Gyulassy, H. Stöcker and W. Greiver, hep-ph/9810781, J. Phys. G, Nucl. Part. Phys.

• Hunting down the Quark-Gluon Plasma in Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions, U. Heinz, hep-ph/9902424, Proceedings "Strong and Electroweak Matter ’98", World Scientific (1999).

Lecturer: Alvaro De Rújula, Theory Division, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

• Basic properties of neutrinos, and how we know them.

Experimental limits and vague theoretical ideas on neutrino masses.

• Atmospheric, solar, reactor and accelerator experiments on neutrino oscillations.

• The near and medium-term future.

Lecturer: Gustavo Castelo Branco, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisboa, Portugal

The flavour structure of the standard model (SM). Natural conservation of flavour in the neutral currents of the SM. Charged currents and the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa (CKM) matrix. Counting of the physical parameters. The KM mechanism of CP violation. Rephasing invariant quantities. Unitary triangles and their physical meaning. Spontaneous CP violation (SCPV). Minimal expansions of the SM with SCPV. New sources of CP violation and physics beyond the SM.

Attempts at understanding the patterns of quark masses and mixings. Horizontal symmetries and texture.

CP violation in the kaon sector. CP violation in the B sector. CP asymmetries and the measurement of the angles of the unitary triangle. Tests of the SM and search for physics beyond the SM.=20

• "CP Violation", G.C. Branco, L. Lavoura and J.P.Silva - Oxford press (1999)

• "Heavy flavours", A. Buras and R. Fleischer, Singapore (1998)

• "Tke BaBar Physics Book", Ed.: P. Harrison and Helen Queen.

Lecturer: Ronald Kleiss, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands

A short introduction to perturbative field theory based on the use of Feynman diagrams, and a sketch of the Minimal Standard Model. In brief:

• The concept of path integrals

• Field theory in 0+0 dimension:

• Field theory in higher dimensions:

• Unitarity and its consequences

"The treatment is somewhat non-standard and hence there is not much literature that is directly applicable. However, any good modern textbook on field theory (Weinberg, Lane&Peskin, Quigg...) will certainly be helpful."

Lecturer: Dmitri Kazakov, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia

'Supersymmetry in Particle Physics'

Lecture I

What is supersymmetry?

Motivation in particle physics:

i) unification with gravity

ii) unification of the gauge couplings

iii) solution of the hierarchy problem

iv) beyond GUTs: superstring

Lecture II

Basics of supersymmetry.

Construction of SUSY Lagrangians.

General properties of SUSY models.

Lecture III

SUSY generalization of the Standard Model.

Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM):

i) the field content

ii) Lagrangian

iii) properties of interactions

iv) creation and decay of superpartners

Lecture IV

Breaking of SUSY. Hidden sector.

The soft terms and the mass formulas.

Renormalization group analysis.

Lecture V

Parameter space of the MSSM.

Constrained MSSM.

The fixed point scenario.

Mass spectrum of superpartners.

Lecture VI

The Higgs boson in the SM and MSSM.

Allowed mass range of the SM.

The Higgs potential in the MSSM.

EWSB.

Mass predictions.

Perspectives of observation.

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• D. I. Kazakov, Supersymmetry in Particle Physics: Renormalization Group Viewpoint, Review talk at the Conf. RG-2000, hep-ph/0001257.

Lecturer: Vladimir Braun, Universitat Regensburg, Germany

• Infra-red Safety

• Space-time picture of the gluon Bremstrahlung

• Factorization and OPE

• Resummations

• Confinement and chiral symmetry breaking

• Nonperturbative effects in hard processes

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• G. Sterman, Partons, Factorization and Resummation, TASI Lectures, 1995 e-Print Archive: hep-ph/9606312