| Super-Kamiokande Neutrino Oscillations and the Supersymmetric Model | p. 1 |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Neutrino Oscillations | p. 2 |
| Atmospheric Neutrinos and the Super-Kamiokande Experiment | p. 3 |
| Supersymmetry and Neutrino Oscillations | p. 7 |
| Summary | p. 12 |
| References | p. 13 |
| New Developments in Neutrino Physics | p. 15 |
| Introduction | p. 15 |
| Neutrino Mixing | p. 16 |
| Neutrino Oscillations | p. 19 |
| The Status of Neutrino Oscillations | p. 22 |
| Neutrino Masses and Mixing from Oscillation Data | p. 27 |
| Conclusions | p. 31 |
| References | p. 32 |
| Neutrino Masses: from Fantasy to Facts | p. 35 |
| Introduction | p. 35 |
| Mechanisms for Neutrino Mass | p. 36 |
| Neutrino Indications for New Physics | p. 46 |
| Reconciling the Neutrino Puzzles | p. 57 |
| Conclusion | p. 60 |
| References | p. 61 |
| Perspectives of Double-Beta and Dark-Matter Searchas Windows to New Physics | p. 69 |
| Motivation for the Search for Double-Beta Decay and a Future Perspective: GENIUS | p. 69 |
| Double-Beta Decay and Particle Physics | p. 70 |
| Double-Beta Decay Experiments: Present Status and Results | p. 78 |
| Double-Beta Experiments: The GENIUS Project | p. 86 |
| Conclusion | p. 97 |
| References | p. 98 |
| Improved Tests of Muon and Electron Flavor Symmetryin Muon Processes | p. 105 |
| Introduction | p. 105 |
| Theoretical Motivation for LFV Searches | p. 107 |
| Overview of LFV Searches Using Muons | p. 108 |
| The MECO -N → e-N Experiment | p. 112 |
| Summary | p. 126 |
| References | p. 126 |
| Chiral Symmetries in Nuclear Physics | p. 129 |
| General Ideas | p. 129 |
| Why Chiral Symmetry? | p. 130 |
| SU(3) × SU(3) | p. 131 |
| The Non-linear Realization of Chiral Symmetry | p. 133 |
| Lagrangian | p. 135 |
| Mean-Field Approximation | p. 142 |
| Nuclear Matter | p. 144 |
| Nuclei and Hypernuclei | p. 145 |
| Hadronic Matter at High Temperature and Density | p. 155 |
| Conclusions | p. 164 |
| References | p. 166 |
| Fundamental Nuclear Structure Symmetriesin Double-Beta Decay Processes | p. 169 |
| Introduction | p. 169 |
| Spontaneous and Dynamical Breaking of Mean-Field Symmetriesin the pn-QRPA and the Description of Double-Beta Decay Transitions | p. 169 |
| A Comparative Study on the Validity of the Renormalized Random Phase Approximation | p. 176 |
| Collective Description of Nuclear Double-Beta Decay Transitions | p. 191 |
| References | p. 197 |
| Recent Highlights on Neutrino-Nucleus Interactions | p. 199 |
| Introduction | p. 199 |
| The Theory of Neutrino-Nucleus Interactions | p. 201 |
| The Latest Experimental Data and its Comparison with Theoretical Predictions | p. 211 |
| Implications to Astrophysical and Atmospheric Neutrinos | p. 219 |
| Conclusions and Outlook | p. 222 |
| References | p. 223 |
| Leptogenesis in Supersymmetric Hybrid Inflation | p. 227 |
| Introduction | p. 227 |
| Hybrid Inflation | p. 228 |
| Baryogenesis via Leptogenesis | p. 231 |
| The `Left-Right' Model | p. 237 |
| References | p. 244 |
| Phenomenological and Cosmological Aspects of the Breaking of the Electroweak and Global Symmetries in the MSSM and the NMSSM | p. 247 |
| The Effective Mixing Angle in the MSSM | p. 247 |
| Formulation of the Problem | p. 249 |
| Decoupling of log(Msusy/MZ) in the Effective Mixing Angle | p. 252 |
| Numerical Analysis and Results | p. 262 |
| R-Symmetries and the NMSSM | p. 274 |
| References | p. 281 |
| World-Volume Supermembrane Instantons in the Light-Cone Frame | p. 285 |
| Introduction | p. 285 |
| Matrix Model and Membranes | p. 286 |
| Self-Dual Membranes | p. 289 |
| Integrability | p. 290 |
| Multistring Solutions | p. 294 |
| Supersymmetries | p. 296 |
| References | p. 298 |
| Index | p. 301 |
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