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GALILEO GALILEI CELEBRATIONS
Four Hundred Years Since the Birth of MODERN SCIENCE

INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF NUCLEAR PHYSICS

23rd Course: NEUTRINOS IN ASTRO, PARTICLE AND NUCLEAR PHYSICS

ERICE-SICILY: 18 - 26 SEPTEMBER 2001

Sponsored by the:

• Deutsche Forschungsgemelnschaft
• European Physical Society
• Italian Ministry of University and Scientific Research
• Sicilian Regional Government

PROGRAMME AND LECTURERS

Neutrino oscillations at accelerators (LSND, KARMEN, Mini Boone)

• A. BAZARKO, Princeton University, NJ, USA

Dark Matter

• R. BERNABEI, University "Tor Vergata" of Rome , I

The boomerang experiment and the curvature of the universe

• P. de BERNARDIS, University "La Sapienza" of Rome, I

Long baseline neutrino oscillation experiments

• M. DOUGLAS, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA

Double beta decay

• H. EJIRI, University of Osaka, J

Sudburry Neutrino Observatory

• A. Hallin, Queens University, Kingston, CDN

Solar neutrinos

• T. Kirsten, MPI, Heidelberg, D

Tritium decay and the neutrino mass

• V.M. Lobashev, Institute for Nuclear Research, Moscow, RU

Neutrinos and supernovae explosions

• A. Mezzacappa, Oak Ridge National Lab., TN, USA

Neutrinos and physics beyond the standard model

• R.M. Mohapatra, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA

Cosmology, strings and neutrinos

• H.P. Nilles, University of Bonn, D

High Energy Neutrino Astrophysics with the AMANDA Neutrino telescope

• C. Spiering, DESY-Zeuthen, D

Neutrino oscillations at reactors (Kamland)

• A. Suzuki, University of Sendai, J

Sterile neutrinos

• R. Volkas, University of Melbourne, AUS

PURPOSE OF THE COURSE

Neutrinos have always been interesting particles since they were postulated by Wolfgang Pauli in a famous letter from Zürich to a little conference on radioactivity in Tübingen from December 4, 1930. They can perhaps be the key to new physics beyond the standard model: We have strong indications that neutrinos show flavor oscillations, which requires that neutrinos are massive. This is suggested by the missing solar neutrinos (Cl, Ga, Kamiokande, Super-Kamiokande experiments) and the LSND experiment at Los Alamos. Grand unified theories and the supersymmetric model suggest strongly that neutrinos are Majorana particles and thus identical with their antiparticles. This would allow the neutrinoless double beta decay.

In cosmology the neutrinos with other particles determine the expansion rate of the early universe. They can contribute to hot dark matter. They are an essential ingredient for supernova explosions. See also: http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/erice/

APPLICATIONS

• Interested candidates should send a letter to the Director of the School:
  Professor Dr Amand FAESSLER
  Universitaet Tuebingen
  Auf der Morgenstelle 14
  D-72076 Tuebingen, Germany
  Tel: ++49.7071.2976370
  Fax: ++49.7071.295388

E-mail: Erice2001@uni-tuebingen.de

specifying:

i) date and place of birth together with present nationality;
ii) degree and other academic qualifications;
iii) present position and place of work.

A. FAESSLER DIRECTOR OF THE SCHOOL

A. ZICHICHI DIRECTOR OF THE CENTRE