EDITORIAL INFORMATION

The XXX Rencontres de Moriond were held in 1995 in Villars-sur-Ollon, Switzerland, and in Les Arcs 1800, Savoie, France. These Rencontres were sponsored by the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (INSU, SPM y FP), the Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules (IN2P3), the Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique (DAPNIA), the Ministère de l'Enseignement Supérieur et de la Recherche (programme ACCESS) and the International Science Foundation. The workshop on Dark matter in cosmology, Clocks and Tests of fundamental laws was also sponsored by the National Science Foundation and the Moriond Astrophysics meeting by the Observatoire de Paris-Meudon, the Université de Paris VII and the Centre National d'Études Spatiales.

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GENERAL TABLE OF CONTENTS

-Contents.

-Foreword.

-I. Dark Matter in Cosmology.

-Primordial Nucleosynthesis.
-Interstellar Abundances of the Light Elements.
-Dark Matter and Big Bang Nucleosynthesis.
-X-Ray Observations of Galaxy Clusters.
-X-Ray Observations of Galaxy Clusters and Their Cosmological Implications.
-The Baryon Fraction of Galaxy Clusters and the Universe.
-Cold Molecular Gas as a Component of Dark Matter?
-Compact Objects: A Review of the Candidates.
-Experimental Limits on the Baryonic Component of the Dark Galactic Halo.
-Search for Microlensing of Stars By Low Mass Objects in the Galactic Halo.
-AGAPE and AGAPEROS: Pixel Monitoring for the Detection of Microlensing Events.
-Unraveling the Macho Mystery.
-Baryonic Dark Matter: An Overview.
-Physical Arguments, Favouring Multicomponent Dark Matter.
-Dark Matter as Elementary Particles: To Be or not to Be.
-The Pooltable Analogy to Axion Physics.
-Axions in Astrophysics and Cosmology.
-Experimental Overview of Axion Searches.
-A Second-Generation Cosmic Axion Experiment.
-Present Status of Dark Matter Axion Search in Kyoto.
-How About Vortons?
-Two Neutrino Double Beta Decay of 116Cd Observed with the NEMO-2 Detector.
-The Gotthard Experiment on 136Xe ßß Decay.
-Milano 130Te Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay Search with Thermal Detectors.
-Neutrino Masses, Hot Dark Matter and LSND.
-The Solar Neutrino Problem After the GALLEX Artificial Neutrino Source Experiment.
-Results on tau Neutrino from Colliders.
-Cosmological Neutrinos and Rydberg Atoms.
-Statistical Analysis of Wide-Angle Galaxy Surveys.
-Constraints on the Power Spectrum and Recent Models of Galaxy Formation.
-Void Sizes and CMBR Fluctuations.
-Recent COBE Results.
-Anisotropy in the Cosmic Microwave Backgrounds: Present Status - Future Directions.
-Cosmological Thermal Clumps.
-What Can We Learn from CBR Observations?
-Summary Talk: Dark Matter in Cosmology.

-II. Clocks.

-Atomic Clocks and Time Scales.
-Applications of Accurate and Stable Clocks.
-Prospects for an Improved Superconducting Cavity Stabilized Oscillator Clock.
-Atomic Clock Tests for variations of the Fine Structure Constant alpha.
-Trapped Hg+ Ion Frequency Standard.
-Quantum Mechanically Correlated States and Atomic Clocks.
-Experimental Techniques with Highly Stable Clocks.
-Stable Clocks and General Relativity.
-A Low Temperature Gyroscope Clock for Gravitational Redshift Experiments.
-Cesium Fountains and Micro-Gravity Clocks.
-Paramagnetic Atoms in Solid 4He: A Novel Sample for Testing Time Reversal Invariance?
-Summary Talk on Precision Clocks.

-III. Tests of Fundamental Laws.

-Two-State Vector Description of a Quantum System.
-Searches for T-Odd Interactions in Nuclear Processes: Review of the Theory.
-Review of Neutron Beta Decay.
-New Measurements of the Antineutrino Spin Asymmetry in Beta Decay of the Neutron and Restrictions on the Mass of a Right-Handed Gauge Boson.
-Ultra-Cold Neutrons.
-Determination of the Neutron Lifetime Using Magnetically Trapped Neutrons.
-Superallowed Beta Decay: A Nuclear Probe of the Electroweak Standard Model.
-Measurements of Time Reversal Invariance in Beta-Decay at the Princeton Cyclotron.
-A Measurement of Beta Asymmetry of 19Ne as a Search for Right Handed Currents.
-12N and 107In Polarization-Asymmetry Measurements and Prospects in Muon Decay.
-A Search for Millicharged Particles at SLAC.
-Direct Evidence for T Violation in the Neutral Kaon System.
-A Review of Nucleon Spin Structure Experiments.
-The Neutron Electric Dipole Moment Experiment in Preparation at the ILL.
-Recent Progress in the Development of a New Technique to Measure the Neutron Electric Dipole Moment.
-Experimental Method for T-Violating Neutron Spin Rotation.
-Search for Time-Reversal Non-Invariance in Neutron Beta Decay.
-Study of Time Reversal Violation with Nuclear Beta Decay.
-What Atomic Parity Non-Conservation Can Tell Us.
-What Do We learn from Atomic Physics About Fundamental Symmetries in Nuclei and Particles?
-Properties of a Possible Class of Particles Able To Travel Faster Than Light.
-Nuclear Physics Tests of Fundamental Symmetries: A Summary.

-List of Participants.

OUR REVIEW

The XXX Rencontres de Moriond, in its series Moriond Workshops, was held between January 22 and 29, 1995, and in it participated numerous astrophysicians from all over the world so as to present their latest research with respect to the influence of dark matter in cosmology, the development of more precise atomic clocks, and the design of sophisticated tests to prove basic laws of physics. This book consists, of course, in a gathering of the papers focused on the most advanced of research, which means an important updating of all these issues. The articles are accompanied with plentiful references, graphics and mathematical formulae.

The fast presentation in book format of the lectures held there guarantees a quick transmission and difusion of knowledge to all the levels of modern astrophysics. This is why the task done by Editions Frontières becomes extremely valuable in this sense.