Prof.Dr.H.V.Klapdor-Kleingrothaus

Teilchenphysik ohne Beschleuniger (Non Accelerator Particle Physics)

Experimental and theoretical research in the areas of
Double Beta Decay, Dark Matter Searches and Physics beyond the Standard Model

Preliminary Program of BEYOND03

Program of BEYOND03 and FOTOS (Status 07.07.2003):

Fourth International Conference on
Physics Beyond the Standard Model
"BEYOND THE DESERT"

Fundamental Experiments and Theoretical Developments in Particle Physics
Accelerator-, Non-Accelerator and Space Approaches

Castle Ringberg, Tegernsee, Germany, 9-14 June 2003


09.06, Monday 10.06, Tuesday 11.06, Wednesday 12.06, Thursday 13.06, Friday 14.06, Saturday


Monday, 9 June

18:00 - 20:00 REGISTRATION - RECEPTION


09.06, Monday 10.06, Tuesday 11.06, Wednesday 12.06, Thursday 13.06, Friday 14.06, Saturday


Tuesday, 10 June

9:00 - 9:05 OPENING OF THE CONFERENCE

Chairman of BEYOND Conferences - H.V. Klapdor-Kleingrothaus (MPI, Heidelberg, Germany)

SUSY/SUGRA Phenomenology and Cosmic Microwave Background I

Chairman: H.V. Klapdor-Kleingrothaus (MPI, Heidelberg, Germany)

9:05 - 9:35 Pran Nath (Boston MA, Boston, USA): "20 Years of SUGRA"

9:35 - 10:05 Richard Arnowitt (Texas A&M,Texas, USA): "Dark Matter, Muon g - 2 And Other Accelerator Constraints"

10:05 - 10:35 Ulf Danielsson (Uppsala Univ., Sweden): "Can MAP and Planck Map Planck Physics?"

10:35 - 11:05 COFFEE BREAK

Cosmological Neutrinos, Cosmic Microwave BackgroundII - Fundamental Constants

Chairman: Mayeul Arminjon (CNRS, Grenoble, France)

11:05 - 11:35 Eiichiro Komatsu (Princeton Univ., USA): "Determination of Cosmological Parameters from Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) Observations"

11:35 - 11:55 Christian Spiering (DESY-IFH, Zeuthen, Germany): "Search for High Energy Neutrinos with AMANDA"

11:55 - 12:25 Harald Fritzsch (München, Max Planck Inst., Germany): "Are the Fundamental Constants Really Constant? "

12:30 - 14:00 LUNCH

Fundamental Symmetries I and Tests of General Relativity

Chairman: Harald Fritzsch (München, Max Planck Inst., Germany)

14:00 - 14:30 Irina Dymnikova (Olsztyn, Poland) : "Cosmological Term, Mass and Space-Time Symmetries"

14:30 - 15:00 Helmut Rauch (Atominstitut der Oesterreichischen Univers., Wien, Austria): "Application of Neutron Interferometry for Tests of Fundamental Physics Questions"

15:00 - 15:25 Ernst Maria Rasel (Universitaet Hannover, Germany): "Atom Interferometry in the Laboratory and by Satellites "

Dark Matter Search I

Chairman: Richard Arnowitt (Texas A&M,Texas, USA)

15:25 - 15:55 Rita Bernabei (INFN, Rome, Italy): "Dark Matter with DAMA-LIBRA"

15:55 - 16:25 COFFEE BREAK

Dark Matter Search II

Chairman: Richard Arnowitt (Texas A&M,Texas, USA)

16:25 - 16:45 David Cline (Univ. of California, Los Angeles, USA): "Future Dark Matter Detections from the US Perspective"

Gamma-Ray Astronomy, Gravitational Waves

Chairman: Barbara Ricci (INFN and Univ., Ferrara, Italy):

16:45 - 17:15 Peter Aufmuth (MPI für Gravitationsphysik, Hannover, Germany): "The Search for Gravitational Waves. Status and Perspectives"

17:15 - 17:40 Eckart Lorenz (München, MPI, Germany): "Gamma-Ray Astronomy at High Sensitivity - Status and Perspectives"

Superheavy Elements

Chairman: Helmut Rauch (Atominstitut der Oesterreichischen Univers., Wien, Austria)

17:40 - 18:10 Dieter Ackermann (Johannes Gutenberg Univ. Mainz and GSI, Darmstadt, Germany): "Achievements and Perspectives in the Search for Superheavy Elements"

18:10 - 18:40 Vladimir Utyonkov (JINR, Dubna, Russia): "Superheavy Elements - Status of Research in Dubna"

18:40 - 20:00 DINNER

First Evening for Discussions

Search for New Physics at Colliders I

Chairman: Jihn E. Kim (Seoul Nation. Univ., Korea)

20:00 - 20:25 Michael Hebert (Univers. of California, Irvine, USA): "Status and Perspectives of MECO, the Muon to Electron Conversion Experiment"

20:25 - 20:50 Stefan S"oldner-Rembold (Fermi. Lab., USA) : "Recent D0 Results at Run II"

Fundamental Symmetries II

Chairman: Irina Dymnikova (Olsztyn, Poland)

20:50 - 21:15 Mayeul Arminjon (CNRS, Grenoble, France): "Gravitational Energy Loss and Binary Pulsars in the Scalar Ether-Theory of Gravitation"

21:15 - 21:35 Lorenzo Iorio (Univ. di Bari, Bari, Italy): "Is it possible to test directly General Relativity in the Gravitational Field of the Moon?"

Wednesday, 11 June


09.06, Monday 10.06, Tuesday 11.06, Wednesday 12.06, Thursday 13.06, Friday 14.06, Saturday


Cosmology and Neutrinos

Chairman: Pran Nath (Boston MA, Boston, USA)

09:00 - 09:25 Steen Hannestad (Univ. of Odense, Denmark): "Neutrino Physics From Cosmological Observations"

09:25 - 09:50 Kenji Ishihara (ICRR, Sendai, Japan): "Latest Results from KAMLAND and Consequences"

09:50 - 10:15 George Ewan (Queen's Univ., Ontario, Canada): "Solar Neutrino Observations at the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory"

10:15 - 10:40 Ernest Ma (Univ. of California, Riverside, USA): "The Neutrino Mass Matrix - New Developments"

10:40 - 11:10 COFFEE BREAK

Double Beta Decay and Neutrino Oscillations I

Chairman: Nikos Mavromatos (King's College London, UK)

11:10 - 11:40 Hans Volker Klapdor-Kleingrothaus (MPI für Kernphysik, Heidelberg, Germany): "First Evidence for Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay - and World Status of the Absolute Neutrino Mass"

11:40 - 12:00 Antonella Incicchitti (INFN, Rome, Italy): "The Search for Rare Processes With DAMA/LXe"

12:00 - 12:15 Gabriel Chardin (DAPNIA, CEA/Saclay, France) : "The Search for Rare Processes With EDELWEISS"

12:30 - 14:00 LUNCH

Highest Energy Cosmic Rays

Chairman: Peter Aufmuth (MPI für Gravitationsphysik, Hannover, Germany)

14:00 - 14:25 Hans Bluemer (Karlsruhe Univ., Germany): "Status and Perspectives of the Pierre Auger Observatory"

14:25 - 14:40 Ken'ichi Tsuchiya (ICRR, Univ. of Tokyo, Japan): "Status of an Atmospheric Cherenkov Imaging Camera for the CANGAROO-III Experiment and Perspectives of the Field"

Neutrino Oscillations II

Chairman: Steen Hannestad (Univ. of Odense, Denmark)

14:40 - 15:05 Takashi Kobayashi (KEK, Tsukuba, Japan): "Indications of Neutrino Oscillation in a 250 km Long-Baseline Experiment"

15:05 - 15:25 Alessandro Mirizzi (Bari U. & INFN, Bari, Italy): "Supernova Neutrino Oscillations: an Analytical Approach"

15:25 - 15:45 Francesco Villante (Ferrara Univ., Italy): "BBN Bounds on Neutrino Oscillations"

15:45 - 16:15 COFFEE BREAK

Dark Matter III

Chairman: Peter Herczeg (Los Alamos, USA)

16:15 - 16:35 Gabriel Chardin (DAPNIA, CEA/Saclay, France): "Latest Results from the EDELWEISS Dark Matter Search"

16:35 - 16:50 Hans Volker Klapdor-Kleingrothaus (MPI für Kernphysik, Heidelberg, Germany): "GENIUS-TF - Status of the Project"

Dark Matter IV and Axions

Chairman: Paolo Salucci (SISSA, Trieste, Italy)

16:50 - 17:10 Stefano Scopel (Univ. of Torino and INFN, Italy): "Light Relic Neutralinos"

17:10 - 17:35 Jihn E. Kim (Seoul Nation. Univ., Korea): "Axions as CDM"

Early Universe and Supernova Neutrinos

Chairman: Roland E. Allen (Texas A&M Univers., USA)

17:35 - 18:05 Nikos Mavromatos (King's College London, UK): "Testing Lorentz and CPT Symmetries"

18:05 - 18:20 Irina Krivosheina (MPI für Kernphysik, Heidelberg, Germany and NIRFI, Nishnii-Novgorod, Russia): "SN87A - Historical View about Registration of the Neutrino Signal with KAMIOKANDE, BAKSAN and IMB Detectors"

18:30 - 20:00 DINNER

Second Evening Session: Search for New Physics at Colliders II

Chairman: Ernest Ma (Univ. of California, Riverside, USA)

20:00 - 20:30 Raimond Snellings (NIKHEF, Amsterdam, Netherlands): "Physics Status and Goals of Relativistic Heavy Ion Experiments"

20:30 - 20:50 Sofia Andringa (LIP, Lisboa, Portugal): "Searches for Exotica in DELPHI"

20:50 - 21:10 Rosy Nikolaidou (CEA-Saclay, France): "Final achievements on Higgs Boson Searches at the LEP Collider"

21:10 - 21:30 Luca Brigliadori (Bologna Univ., INFN, Italy): "Searches for Leptoquarks With the OPAL Detector"


09.06, Monday 10.06, Tuesday 11.06, Wednesday 12.06, Thursday 13.06, Friday 14.06, Saturday


Thursday, 12 June

Fundamental Symmetries III, Relic Neutrinos

Chairman: Alon Faraggi (Oxford Univ., Oxford, UK)

09:00 - 09:25 Peter Herczeg (Los Alamos, USA): "The Electric Dipole Moments and CP-Violation Beyond the Standard Model"

09:25 - 09:50 Roland E. Allen (Texas A&M Univers., USA) : "Dark Matter, Quantum Gravity, Vacuum Energy, and Lorentz Invariance"

09:50 - 10:10 Ralf Lehnert (Univ. of Algarve, Faro, Portugal) : "Lorentz Lorentz-Violating Standard-Model Extension"

10:10 - 10:35 Shin'ichiro Ando (University of Tokyo, Japan): "Supernova Relic Neutrinos and Observational Implications for Neutrino Oscillation"

10:35 - 11:05 COFFEE BREAK

GKZ - Effect

Chairman: Filippo Frontera (Univ. and INFN Ferrara, IASF, CNR Bologna, Italy)

11:05 - 11:30 Daniele Fargion (INFN, Roma, Italy) : "Relic Neutrino Masses and the Highest Energy Cosmic Rays"

11:30 - 11:55 Sandor Katz (DESY, Hamburg, Germany): "Electroweak Instantons as a Solution of the Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Ray Puzzle"

Solar Models

Chairman: George Ewan (Queen's Univ., Ontario, Canada)

11:55 - 12:25 Barbara Ricci (INFN and Univ., Ferrara, Italy): "The pp-Chain and the CNO Cycle After SNO and KAMLAND"

12:30 - 14:00 LUNCH

Neutrino Mass II

Chairman: George Ewan (Queen's Univ., Ontario, Canada)

14:00 - 14:20 Shigetaka Moriyama (ICRC, Tokyo, Japan) : "Status and Perspectives of XMASS"

14:20 - 14:40 Guido Drexlin (Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Germany) : "Status of KATRIN - a New Tritium Beta Decay Experiment"

Cold Atoms and Quantum Mechanics

Chairman: Raoul D. Viollier (Univers. of Cape Town, South Africa)

14:40 - 15:05 Ingmar Bergstroem (Univers. of Stockholm, Sweden) : "Contributions to Fundamental Physics Using Penning Traps"

15:05 - 15:35 Gerald Gabrielse (Harvard Univ., Cambridge, USA): "Observation of Cold Antihydrogen"

15:35 - 16:05 Makoto C. Fujiwara (RIKEN, Japan): "Cold Antihydrogen: The First Production and Beyond"

16:05 - 16:30 COFFEE BREAK

Dark Matter V

Chairman: Gerald Gabrielse (Harvard Univ., Cambridge, USA)

16:30 - 16:55 Pierre Sikivie (Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, USA): "Evidence for Ring Caustics in the Milky Way"

16:55 - 17:20 Paolo Salucci (SISSA, Trieste, Italy): "Distribution of Dark Matter in Galaxies"

Dark Matter VI

Chairman: Ulf Danielsson (Uppsala Univ., Sweden)

17:20 - 17:45 Andreas Eckart (I Physikal. Inst., Koeln, Germany) : "The Supermassive Black Hole at the Centre of the Milky Way"

17:45 - 18:10 Raoul D. Viollier (Univers. of Cape Town, South Africa): "Dark Matter and Center of Galaxy"

18:10 - 18:20 Conference Foto

18:20 - 19:00 Excursion Through Castle

19:20 Conference Banquet


09.06, Monday 10.06, Tuesday 11.06, Wednesday 12.06, Thursday 13.06, Friday 14.06, Saturday

Friday, 13 June

Early Universe and Beyond Standard Model II and Satellite Experiments: Gamma Ray Bursts

Chairman: Maxim Khlopov (Rome University, Italy and COSMION, Moscow, Russia)

09:00 - 09:25 Sverker Fredriksson (Lulea Univ. of Technology, Sweden): "Preon Prophecies by the Standard Model"

09:25 - 09:55 Margarida Rebelo (Technical U. of Lisboa, Portugal): "Leptogenesis, CP Violation and Neutrino Data: What Can You Learn?"

09:55 - 10:20 Luis Bento (Univers. de Lisboa, Portugal): "Leptogenesis in a Prompt Decay Scenario"

10:20 - 10:45 Filippo Frontera (Univ. and INFN Ferrara, IASF, CNR Bologna, Italy): "Observation of Gamma-Ray Bursts With BeppoSAX"

10:45 - 11:10 COFFEE BREAK

Superstrings, Cosmoparticle Physics and Underground Experiments II: Proton Decay

Chairman: Pierre Sikivie (Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, USA)

11:10 - 11:40 Alon Faraggi (Oxford Univ., Oxford, UK): "Superstring Phenomenology"

11:40 - 12:10 Maxim Khlopov (Rome University, Italy and COSMION, Moscow, Russia): "Cosmoparticle Physics - the Challenge to the Millenium"

12:10 - 12:30 Fulvio Mauri (INFN, Pavia, Italy) : "ICARUS Experiment: a Second Generation Proton Decay Experiment and Neutrino Observatory at the Gran Sasso Laboratory"

12:30 - 14:00 LUNCH

Neutrino Factories and Underground Experiments II: Neutrinos, Relic Neutrinos

Chairman: Ingmar Bergstroem (Univers. of Stockholm, Sweden)

14:00 - 14:30 Yoshitaka Kuno (Osaka Univ., Japan) : "Neutrino Factories and Muon Colliders"

14:30 - 14:50 Jan-Arys M. Djilkibaev (INR, Moscow, Russia): "The Baikal Experiment - Status and Perspectives"

14:50 - 15:10 Mark Vagins (USA): "Relic Supernova Neutrinos at Super-Kamiokande"

15:10 - 15:30 Maurizio Spurio (INFN & Bologna U., Italy) : "The ANTARES Project and Final Results of Researches With the MACRO Experiment"

15:30 - 16:00 COFFEE BREAK

Superstrings and Planck Physics II, Early Universe II, Dark Matter III

Chairman: Yoshitaka Kuno (Osaka Univ., Japan)

16:00 - 16:25 Archil Kobakhidze (Univ. of Helsinki, Finland): "Grand Unified Theories in Higher Dimensions"

16:25 - 16:50 Rui Neves (Univ. of Algarve, Portugal): "Conformal Bulk Fields, Dark Energy and Brane Dynamics"

16:50 - 17:15 Irina Dymnikova (Olsztyn, Poland) : "Cosmologies with Variable Lambda"

Antimatter Search and Search for New Physics at Colliders III

Chairman: Daniele Fargion (INFN, Roma, Italy)

17:15 - 17:40 Frank Raupach (RWTH, Aachen, Germany): "The physical potential of the AMS-02 on the International Space Station ISS"

17:40 - 18:05 Silvia Costantini (Univ. of Rome and INFN, Italy): "Search for R-Rarity Violation at LEP"

18:05 - 18:15 CLOSING OF CONFERENCE

H.V. Klapdor-Kleingrothaus (MPI, Heidelberg, Germany):

END OF CONFERENCE BEYOND 2003

18:30 - 20:00 DINNER

First Free Evening


Last updated : 07.07.2003 by I.Krivosheina