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• GENERAL PURPOSE

• PROGRAM

• PARALLEL SESSIONS PROGRAM

• POSTERS

• GENERAL PUBLIC CONFERENCE (IN FRENCH)

 The XIVth Rencontres de Blois, entitled "Matter-Antimatter Asymmetry", will be held at the Château Royal de Blois, France, from Sunday, June 16th, to Saturday, June 22nd, 2002. The picturesque old French town of Blois, famous for its XIV-XVIIth century château, is located 170 km (100 miles) from Paris, in the beautiful region of the "Châteaux de la Loire".

 The Conference is devoted to a multidisciplinary study of matter-antimatter asymmetry and, in particular, from the point of view of particle physics, astrophysics and cosmology. A number of topics, such as the practical applications of antimatter in medical imaging, of particular interest to non-specialists, will also be briefly covered.

 More than thirty years after the discovery of CP violation in the kaon system, precision experiments with kaons at CERN and Fermilab have demonstrated the existence of direct CP violation, opening a window on a hitherto poorly explored part of particle physics.

 On the one hand, two experiments devoted mainly to CP violation in B mesons, BABAR and Belle, are beginning to test CP violation in the Standard Model in a decisive way.

 On the other hand, balloon experiments and the space-based AMS project are circumscribing precise limits on the cosmological abundance of antimatter.

 Finally, the fundamental problem of cosmological matter-antimatter asymmetry at a Grand Unification scale or at the Electroweak phase transition has been the object of intense theoretical activity in recent years.

 The conference will consist of plenary sessions for invited talks and parallel sessions for relatively short contributed papers. Posters are also welcomed.

 The subjects covered in the plenary sessions will include:

- Antimatter in the Universe, astronomical and astrophysical constraints, space-based searches, primordial vs. recent antimatter;
- CP violation in particle physics, direct CP violation and rare decays in the K system and critical tests of CP violation in B physics;
- Cosmological matter-antimatter asymmetry, present status of cosmological models, sources of baryon/lepton number violation, out-of-equilibrium situations;
- Antimatter experiments and tests of CPT;
- Experimental and observational prospects, up-coming B physics experiments, dipole moment experiments;
- CP violation in neutrino physics, up-coming measurements of cosmological parameters and of extraterrestrial antimatter abundance.

Four parallel sessions are also foreseen, covering the following topics:

- CP, T and CPT violation;
- CP violation in B mesons;
- Cosmology, baryogenesis and extraterrestrial antimatter;
- Extended models (supersymmetry, Higgs, extra dimensions).

 Details of the scientific program will be made available on the conference web pages as they become available.

Participants wishing to present their work orally in a parallel session should refer to the conference abstract submission form . Please use this form so that we can program the parallel sessions efficiently, since the time available for parallel sessions is very limited; you should indicate the expected duration of your contribution, but please be aware that you may be required to shorten it.

 Participants wishing to make a poster contribution should also fill in the electronic abstract submission form .

PROGRAM

The conference will consist of plenary sessions for invited talks, some parallel sessions for relatively short contributed papers and posters. There will be a coffee break in the middle of the morning and afternoon, lunch and dinner will be served at the Château. The program is as follows: named speakers have confirmed their participation and the titles of their contributions, of course however there may still be unforeseen last minute changes.

Arrival in Blois, final registration.

• Cosmic antimatter - F.W. Stecker (NASA-Goddard)
  
• Cosmological matter-antimatter asymmetry - A.D. Dolgov (INFN, ITEP)
  
• CP violation: an historical review - L. Wolfenstein (Carnegie Mellon)
  
  

• Constraints on antimatter in the Universe from observations - J. Paul (Saclay)
  
• Antimatter production near a Black Hole Horizon - L. Titarchuk (NASA-Goddard)
  
• The AMS experiment - M. Pohl (Geneva)
  
• The BESS results and prospects - M. Nozaki (Kobe)
  
  

• Antimatter measurements with the HEAT balloon experiment - S. Coutu (Pennsylvania)
  
• The balloon experiments and the PAMELA project - M. Simon (Siegen)
  
• The production of antimatter in our galactic backyard - J. Orloff (Clermont-Ferrand)
  
  

Tuesday, June 18

9h00-12h30: CP violation. Chairperson

14h00-14h30: Use of antimatter to functional investigation of the brain : positron emission tomography- A. Syrota (Orsay)

14h45-18h15: CP violation in B mesons. Chairperson

17h00: General public conference (in french) - A. Syrota (CEA)

Wednesday, June 19

8:00-12h30 - excursion, to Château de Chenonceau and/or Clos Lucé

14h00-18h30: Parallel Sessions PS1, PS2, PS3 and PS4 .

Evening - General public conference (in french) -- H. Reeves

Thursday, June 20

9h00-12h: Baryon Number in the Universe. Chairperson

14h00-17h30: Antimatter in the Lab. Chairperson

Evening: conference banquet

Friday, June 21

9h00-12h30: CPT and T Symmetries. Chairperson

14h00-17h30: Future. Chairperson

Saturday, June 22

9h00-11h30: Summaries. Chairperson

Afternoon: Departure

Poster contributions will be posted up at the beginning of the conference, and will stay up for the entire duration of the meeting; there is no poster session as such and participants will be free to consult the posters whenever they wish.

PARALLEL SESSIONS PROGRAM

Wednesday, June 19

14h00-18h30: Parallel Sessions PS1: CP, T and CPT violations in kaons-
Conv. Ed Blucher, Marc Knecht and Renaud Le Gac.

-- Theoretical estimation of e'/e

• -" e'/e in the standard model" Ignazio Scimemi
  
• - "Dispersive treatment of K to pi pi" Matthias Buechler
• - "Penguins at large Nc and CP violation" Santiago Peris
  
• - "Matching the EW penguins Q7 and Q8" Joachim Prades
  

-- experimental results

• - "NA48 Measuremnt of Re(e'/e)" Cristina Lazzeroni
  
• - "Kaon Rare Decay Results from NA48" Richard Batley
  
• - "The KTeV Measurement of e'/e " Elizabeth Turner
  
• - "Results on Rare KL Decays from KTeV" Mike Arenton
  
• - "The Semileptonic Charge Asymmetry and CPT Tests from KTeV" Bob Tschirhat
  
• - "A Search for CP Violation in Hyperon Decays by the HyperCP Experiment at Fermilab" Tim Holmstrom
  
  

-- Experimental prospect

• - "A Precision measurement of charged kaon decay parameters" Gianmaria Collazuol
  

14h00-18h30: Parallel Sessions PS2: PS2: CP violation in B mesons -

Conv. Gérard Bonneaud, Luis Oliver and Yoshi Sakai.

-- Belle's contribution

• CPV in charmless hadronic decays of B mesons - Ping Yeh (NTU)
• Study on sin(2ph1 + ph3) measurement - Steve Schrenk ( CINCINNATI)
• CPV in DK decays of B mesons - Takahiro Matsumoto (NAGAYA)

-- BABAR's contribution

• Study of sin(2alpha) measurement - David Kirkby (Irvine)
• Study of D*D* - Justin Albert (Princeton)
• Direct CPV and radiative penguins - Henry Band (Madison)

-- Theoretical contributions

• "Extracting alpha from charmless B decays: status and perspectives"Jerôme Charles (Universite de Marseille)
  
• "Extracting $V_{cb}$ and $V_{ub}$ -- The Challenge for Heavy Quark Theory" Nikolai Uraltsev (Milano Bicocca)
  
• "Determination of strong and weak phases in B_d -> D^*+-D^*-+ and B_s -> D^*+-_sD^*-+_s decays" Zhi-zhong Xing (Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing)
• "Direct CP asymmetry in exclusive charmless B decays and the pQCD approach" Emi Kou (University of Durham)
  
• "Measuring the Weak Phase gamma in Color Allowed B+- --> D0 K+- pi0 Decays" Troels Petersen (LAL, Univ. Paris-Sud, Orsay)
• "Measurement of $\cos 2\beta$ with $B^0 \to J/\psi K^{*0}$, s-quark helicity conservation and CKM matrix" S. T'Jampens (LPNHE, Palaiseau)

14h00-18h30: Parallel Sessions PS3: Cosmology, baryogenesis and search for extraterrestrial antimatter

Conv. Gabriel Chardin and Guido Barbiellini.

Program ( by alphabetical order)

• "Primordial space-time foam as an origin of cosmological matter-antimatter asymmetry"
  Dharam Ahluwalia (Mexico)
  
• " Antimatter from primordial black holes "
  Aurélien Barrau (ISN Grenoble)
  
• "Antimatter in Cosmic rays: the Dark matter - cosmic ray connection"
  Fiorenza Donato (LAPTH, Annecy)
  
• "Leptogenesis and neutrino masses at the TeV scale"
  Thomas Hambye (CPT Marseille)
  
• " Cosmology, baryogenesis and search for extraterrestrial antimatter"
  Maxim Khlopov (Moscow and Meudon)
  
• "Agile and GLAST gamma-ray experiments for exotic matter research"
  Dr. Aldo Morselli (INFN, Roma II)
  
• "Antimatter search with L3 using the obscuration of protons by the moon (L3-Cosmics)"
  Jean-François Parriaud (IPNL Lyon)
  
• " Baryon-dominated universe with macroscopically large antimatter regions"
  Alexander Sakharov (CERN and Moscow)
  
• "A Seesaw-invariant Texture of Lepton Mass Matrices for Leptogenesis and Neutrino Oscillations"
  Zhi-zhong Xing (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
  

14h00-18h30: Parallel Sessions PS4: Extended models

Conv. Jean-Marie Frère and Ignatios Antoniadis.

• "Search for New Physics in B-Factories" Branco Gustavo
  
• "Fermion masses and mixing with thick branes" Rebelo Margarida
  
• "CP violation from dimensional reduction" Nicolas Cosme
  
• "CP violation from 6D Dirac algebra" Dooling David
  
• "Pure Phase Mass Matrix from six Dimensions" Pham Q Hung
  
• "Exclusive non-leptonic decays of D particles." Franco Buccella (Universita di Napoli)
  
  
  
  

POSTERS

GENERAL PUBLIC CONFERENCES (IN FRENCH)

CONFERENCES GRAND PUBLIC (EN FRANCAIS)

Mardi 18 juin

17h00: Les méthodes d'imagegie du cerveau (en Français) - André Syrota (CEA)

Lieu : Ecole d'ingénieur du Val de Loire - 6-8, Rue Anne de Bretagne-41000 Blois
Tél : 02 54 57 25 20 -- Fax : 02 54 57 25 21

Mercredi 19 juin

20h30 : L'avenir de la Terre -- Hubert Reeves

Lieu : La Halle aux grains - , pl. de la République 41005 Blois
Tél : 02.54.90.44.00 Fax : 02.54.90.44.01

Résumé : "Partant de l'observation de l'augmentation de la température de l'atmosphère constatée depuis quelques décénies et projetant sur le futur je tenterai de décrire les différents scénarios prévisibles selon les températures maximales atteintes et l'avenir de la vie dans chaque scénario." H. Reeves

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