The school aims at equipping PhD students in the field of astrophysical tests of fundamental physics with theoretical, phenomenological and numerical tools at the forefront of their field of research.

We study N=∞ lattice gauge theory at finite temperature by Monte Carlo methods using an asymmetric coupling version of the twisted Equchi-Kawai model. The data favor a first-order deconfining ...

We consider the three-dimensional Dirac equation in spherical coordinates with coupling to static electromagnetic potential. The space components of the potential have angular (non-central) dependence ...

We have searched for the lepton-flavor-violating decay D0→e±μ∓ in 204 pb−1 of e+e− annihilation data at Ec.m.=29 GeV from the Mark II detector. No candidates were found; we estimate an upper limit on ...

Formulae for the line-of-sight and transverse comoving distances, proper motion distance, angular diameter distance, luminosity distance, k-correction, distance modulus, comoving volume, lookback time ...

We describe a model for the π − p → π + π − n reaction that contains one-point, two-point and three-point diagrams with nucleons or deltas in intermediate states. The pieces with N * which do not ...

The requirement that P and T be approximately conserved in the color gauge theory of strong interactions without arbitrary adjustment of parameters is analyzed. Several possibilities are identified, ...

We calculate the O( α s 3 ) radiative corrections to Higgs boson production in hadronic colliders in the infinite top-quark mass limit. Our calculation is valid for energy scales and Higgs boson ...

Four-point correlation functions are calculated for the basic operators in 2D conformal invariant theories with the central charge of the corresponding Virasoro algebra C ≤1. Based on these results, ...

(Translated from the Russian abstract of the first edition): For the first time in the world literature, the theory of vacuum quantum effects in external electromagnetic and gravitational fields is ...

The electric dipole moment of the Λ hyperon has been measured to be dΛ=(−3.0±7.4)×10−17e cm.