[en] Recent results from the B-Factories on radiative decays such as b → s(d)γ, b → s(ell)(ell) and leptonic decay B⁰ → τ⁺τ^- are reviewed

[en] Recent results on the kaon rare decays: K_S → γγ, K_S,L → π⁺π^-e⁺e^- and K_S → π⁰e⁺e^- measured in NA48 experiment at CERN, are presented in this paper. These results are based on data taken in 1998 and 1999, during 2 days in 1999 data was recorded with a factor 200 higher beam intensity than the usual K_S beam, resulting in 2.3 * 10⁸ K_S decays. Among other results the following branching ratios have been computed : BR(K_S → γγ) = (2.58 ± 0.36 ± 0.22)*10^-6, BR(K_L → π⁺π^-e⁺e^-) = (3.1 ± 0.1 ± 0.2)*10^-7, BR(K_S → π⁺π^-e⁺e^-) = (4.3 ± 0.2 ± 0.3)*10^-5 and BR(K_S → π⁰e⁺e^-) < 1.4*10^-7. (A.C.)

[en] ATLAS has developed and deployed event-level selection services based upon event metadata records (''TAGS'') and supporting file and database technology. These services allow physicists to extract events that satisfy their selection predicates from any stage of data processing and use them as input to later analyses. One component of these services is a web-based Event-Level Selection Service Interface (ELSSI). ELSSI supports event selection by integrating run-level metadata, luminosity-block-level metadata (e.g., detector status and quality information), and event-by-event information (e.g., triggers passed and physics content). The list of events that survive after some selection criterion is returned in a form that can be used directly as input to local or distributed analysis; indeed, it is possible to submit a skimming job directly from the ELSSI interface using grid proxy credential delegation. ELSSI allows physicists to explore ATLAS event metadata as a means to understand, qualitatively and quantitatively, the distributional characteristics of ATLAS data. In fact, the ELSSI service provides an easy interface to see the highest missing ET events or the events with the most leptons, to count how many events passed a given set of triggers, or to find events that failed a given trigger but nonetheless look relevant to an analysis based upon the results of offline reconstruction, and more. This work provides an overview of ATLAS event-level selection services, with an emphasis upon the interactive Event-Level Selection Service Interface.

[en] This conference on 'Particle Physics and Cosmology' will emphasize the increasing interplay between high energy accelerator based physics and cosmology. The meeting will be articulated around the results and their impact on current theories from the 3 major new experimental and observational facilities which are coming on line or have recently been commissioned: the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, the Planck satellite, and the Herschel satellite. The topics will include: -) the Standard Model in particle physics, in new data and analyses, -) the search for the Higgs boson, -) theories of and searches for physics beyond the Standard Model, -) heavy flavour physics, -) neutrino physics (astrophysical and laboratory), -) dark matter, dark energy and recent advances in cosmology. This document gathers the program, the slides and some abstracts of the presentations