CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- Fundamentals of Particle Interactions -- Standard Model and Beyond A. Bartl and S. Hesselbach -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Standard Model Physics -- 2.1. Electroweak Radiative Corrections -- 2.2. Higgs Boson Searches -- 3. Grand Unification -- 4. Supersymmetry -- 5. Extra dimensions -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Neutrinos -- Neutrino Masses, Mixing and Oscillations S. Petcov -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Neutrino Oscillations in Vacuum -- 3. Matter-Enhanced Transitions -- 4. Analytic Description of the Solar Neutrino Oscillations -- 5. The Neutrino Mixing Parameters -- 6. Instead of Conclusions -- References -- Short and Long Baseline Neutrino Experiments D. Autiero -- 1. Introduction to neutrino oscillations -- 2. The short baseline experiments at CERN -- 3. The LSND and Karmen experiments (1993-2001) -- 4. MiniBooNE -- 5. The CHOOZ and Palo Verde experiments -- 6. K2K -- 7. MINOS -- 8. The CNGS program -- 9. ICARUS -- 10. OPERA -- 11. Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Atmospheric Neutrino Oscillations G. Giacomelli and M. Giorgini -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Atmospheric neutrino flux calculations -- 3. Results from the Soudan 2 experiment -- 4. Results from the MACRO experiment -- 5. Results from the SuperKamiokande experiment -- 6. Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Solar and Reactor Neutrinos D. F. Cowen -- 1. The Solar Neutrino Problem -- 2. The Early Detectors -- 2.1. Homestake -- 2.2. GALLEX and SAGE -- 2.3. Kamiokande and SuperKamiokande -- 3. The Solution to the Solar Neutrino Problem -- 3.1. The Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO) -- 3.2. The Kamioka Liquid-scintillator Anti-Neutrino Detector (KamLAND) -- 4. Conclusion -- References -- Neutrino Astronomy J. Carr -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Composition of the Universe -- 3. Astronomy with Neutrinos.

4. Extreme Cosmic Sources of High Energy Radiation -- 5. Techniques of Neutrino Telescopes -- 6. Neutrino Telescope Projects -- 7. Potential Sources for Neutrino Telescopes -- 8. Existing Results -- 9. Conclusions -- References -- Dark Matter -- Dark Matter and Dark Energy P. Ullio -- 1. The dark side of the Universe -- 2. Towards the era of precision cosmology -- 2.1. The long-standing issue of dark matter -- 2.2. The surprise of dark energy -- 2.3. The structure formation picture -- 3. Dark energy in a particle physics context -- 4. Relic particles as dark matter candidates -- 5. WIMP dark matter identification -- 6. Conclusions -- References -- Dark Matter Searches R. Bernabei -- 1. Introduction -- 2. A direct detection experiment: DAMA/Nal -- 3. The model-independent result of DAMA/Nal -- 4. Some corollary model-dependent quests for a candidate -- 5. Comparison with other direct and indirect detection experiments -- 6. Conclusions and perspectives -- References -- Axion Searches K. Zioutas -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Relic axions -- 3. Solar axions -- 4. Massive axions or axion-like particles -- 5. Underground experiments -- 6. Axions in Laboratory Experiments -- 6.1. v-experiments -- 6.2. Vacuum Birefringence -- 6.3. Shining Through Wall -- 6.4. Atomic/Nuclear Transitions -- 7. Conclusions -- References -- Magnetic Monopole Searches G. Giacomelli and L. Patrizii -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1. Properties of magnetic monopoles -- 1.2. Monopole detectors -- 2. "Classical Dirac monopoles" -- 3. GUT monopoles -- 4. Cosmological and astrophysical bounds -- 5. Intermediate mass magnetic monopoles -- 6. Nuclearites and Q-balls -- 7. Conclusions. Outlook -- References -- Cosmic Rays and Astrophysics -- Cosmic Rays at Extreme Energies R. Cester -- 1. Introduction -- 2. C.R. from the Galaxy -- 2.1. Fermi Acceleration mechanisms -- 2.2. C.R. motion in the ISM.

3. From Galactic to Extra-Galactic C.R. -- 4. Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECR) -- 4.1. The Greisen-Zatseping-Kuz'min (GZK) effect -- 4.2. The sources -- 4.2.1. Bottom-up models -- 4.2.2. Top-down models -- 5. Experimental Overview -- 5.1. Detection and Analysis methods -- 5.1.1. Arrays of Surface Detectors (3D) -- 5.1.2. Fluorescence Fly's Eye Detectors (FD) -- 5.2. Experimental Results -- 5.3. The new generation of experiments -- 5.4. Future Outlook -- References -- Photons and Antimatter in Space G. Barbiellini and F. Longo -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Antimatter in Space -- 3. High energy gamma astrophysics -- Conclusion -- References -- Astroparticle Physics from Space S. Cecchini -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Why observations from space -- 3. What is Dark Matter? -- 4. What is the nature of Dark Energy? -- 5. How did the Universe begin? -- 6. Conclusions -- References -- Gravitational Waves -- Theory of Gravitational Waves J. C. Miller -- 1. Basic ideas -- 2. What does GR tell us about gravitational waves? -- 3. How do gravitational waves interact with matter? -- 4. How is gravitational wave emission linked to changes in the source? -- 5. Order of magnitude estimates -- 6. Summary of astronomical sources of gravitational waves -- 7. Gravitational waves and the binary pulsar PSR 1913+16 -- Further reading -- Gravitational Waves and their Detection E. Coccia -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Gravitational Waves and Detectable Sources -- 3. Resonant Mass Detectors -- 3.1. The resonant body -- 3.2. The motion sensor -- 3.3. Noise -- 3.4. The future of resonant-mass detectors -- 4. Interferometric detectors -- 5. Interferometers' noises -- 5.1. Seismic noise -- 5.2. Thermal noise -- 5.3. Shot noise -- 6. Conclusions -- References -- Accelerator-Based Physics -- The LEP Legacy G. Giacomelli and R. Giacomelli -- 1. Introduction.

2. Precision electroweak measurements -- 3. QCD -- 4. New particle searches -- 5. Historical and sociological aspects -- 6. Conclusions -- Acknowledgements. -- References -- Future Accelerators, Neutrino Factories, and Muon Colliders R. A. Carrigan, Jr. -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Accelerators from now to 2009 -- 3. The next decade (2010-2019) -- 3.1. Linear collider -- 3.2. Muon colliders -- 3.3. Super beams, neutrino factories, and beta beams. -- 4. Visionary possibilities (2020 and beyond) -- 5. Summary -- References -- Large Scale Facilities -- Detectors and Data Acquisition D. F. Cowen -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Similarities -- 2.1. Photomultipller Tubes -- 2.2. Data Acquisition -- 2.3. Other Similarities -- 3. The Differences -- 3.1. SNO and KamLAND -- 3.2. AMANDA and IceCube -- 3.3. ANITA -- 3.4. Pierre Auger -- 3.5. CDMS-II -- 4. Conclusions -- References -- Large Scale Computing P. Capiluppi -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Applications of Large Scale Computing -- 2.1. LHC Experiments -- 3. Complexities of Data Management -- 4. Distributed Computing and Data Access -- 5. Grid Computing -- 6. Computing Models and basic components -- 7. Measuring the Model's performances: Data Challenges -- 7.1. First results from LHC Experiments' Data Challenges -- 8. Perspectives on missing components -- 9. Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- References -- The World of Science -- Science, Technology and Society G. Giacomelli and R. Giacomelli -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Science popularization -- 3. Scientific outreach in Internet -- 4. Conclusions -- References -- The Universe: Today, Yesterday and Tomorrow T. Regge -- 1. Remembering Goedel -- 2. Avogadro and Mendeleyev -- 3. The beauty of Flaws and the infinite universe -- 4. The very small and the very large -- One Hundred Years of Science R. A. Carrigan, Jr. -- 1. Introduction.

2. Particle Physics and Accelerator Science -- 3. Cosmology -- 4. Space -- 5. DNA -- 6. Computing -- 7. Summing Up -- References -- Appendices -- Summaries of the Poster Sessions Y. Becherini, Z. Sahnoun and A. Zakharov -- List of Participants.