Table of Contents

Modern elementary particle theories: The elementary constituents of matter; The elementary interactions; Symmetries and invariances; Gauge theories and the standard model; Models of grand unification; The description of neutrinos; Outlook. Accelerator particle physics: Energy scales of accelerators; Physics at the accelerators of the 1990s; Outlook. The early universe and particle physics: The cosmological standard model; Inflationary models; The primordial nucleosynthesis. Proton decay: Baryon decay; Predictions of the lifetime of the proton; Proton decay experiments. Neutron-antineutron oscillations, and electric dipole moment of the neutron: Electric dipole moment of elementary particles; Measurement of neutron electric dipole moment; Neutron-antineutron oscillations. Experiments to determine the neutrino mass: Direct determination of the neutrino mass; Double beta decay; The supernova SN1987A. Neutrino oscillations: Introduction to neutrino oscillations; The formal theory; Experiments on neutrino oscillations. Magnetic monopoles: Introduction, historical overview; Theoretical concepts Detection of magnetic monopoles; Experimental results. The search for dark matter in the universe: Evidence for dark matter; Candidates for dark matter; Experiments to detect dark matter. Particles with a fractional charge: The quark confinement; Experiments to search for free quarks. Fifth force: theoretical expectations and experimental status: Introduction; Theoretical expectations; Experimental search for a fifth force. Time dependence of natural constants: Introduction; Theoretical predictions; Experiments to search for time dependence. Bibliography. Index.