This book gives an overview of present and future particle accelerator experiments, and also of astroparticle physics experiments. Relevant physics is discussed in detail in theoretical contributions.
Novel experiments in astroparticle physics, S. Ting; disovery of the most distant supernovae and the quest for omega, G. Goldhaber et al; status of the SLAC/LBL/LLNL B-factory and the BaBar detector, P. Oddone; recent results of BES group, N. Qi and Z.-P. Zheng; linear collider physics and R&D, R. Orava; a silicon tracker for the anti-matter spectometer on the international space station Alpha, R. Battiston; astroparticle physics, H. Rubinstein; a model-independent approach to solar neutrino experiments, S.M. Bilenky and C. Giunti; astrophysical evidence on physics beyond the standard model, A. Dar; CP-violation without strangeness or electric dipole moments of a neutron, nuclei, atoms, molecules, I.B. Khriplovich; total cross sections - do we understand them? why should we measure them?, A. Martin; the DO detector at Fermilab - recent results and future plans, J.S. Hoftun; physics with electron-electron colliders in the TeV energy region, C.A. Heusch; analysis of electroweak precision data, L.B. Okun; implications of supersymmetry for FNAL, LEP2, future colliders and dark matter searches, G.L. Kane; physics in gama-gama, gama-e collisions, S.S. Gershtein and G.V. Jikia; pion emission from chiral condensates, M. Bander and A.A. Anselm; monopole condensation and colour confinement, A. Di Giacomo; confinement of quarks and gluons, K. Nishijima; virtues of the Haag expansion in quantum field theory, O.W. Greenberg. (Part contents).