The Fourth International Conference on Particle Physics Beyond the Standard Model (BEYOND THE DESERT '03 - Accelerator, Non-accelerator and Space Approaches) was held during June 9-14, 2003 at Castle Ringberg, Tegernsee, Germany. Traditionally the Scientific Program of the BEYOND conferences, which we started in 1997, covers most of the prominent topics of modern par~ ticle physics and astrophysics (see CERN Courier November 1997, pp. 16-18, and March 2003, pp. 29-30). At this conference one of the topics on which we put major emphasis were new theoretical developments in extensions of the Stan dard Model by Supergravity - which had its twentieth birthday in this year -, by Superstrings and by Extra Dimensions. Two of the 'inventors' of the first superspace formulation of supergravity - Pran Nath and Richard Arnowit- were participants at this meeting. These topics were discussed by Pran Nath (Boston), Dick Arnowitt (Texas A&M) - who concentrated on the connection to dark matter and g-2 of the muon -, A. E. Faraggi (Oxford, UK), R. E. Allen (Texas A&M) and A. Kobakhidse (Helsinki Univ. ). Fundamental symmetries, including CP violation beyond the Standard Mo del, a possible time variation of the QCD scale, and the status of preons, were dis cussed by Peter Herczeg (Los Alamos), M. N. Rebelo (Lisboa, Portugal), R. Leh nert (Algarve Univ. , Portugal), Harald Fritzsch (Munich) and S. Fredriksson (Lulea Univ. , Sweden).

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This book contains the Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Particle Physics Beyond the Standard Model - BEYOND THE DESERT 2003. Emphasis at BEYOND03 was put on supergravity, which had its twentieth birthday that year, on neutrino physics and dark matter search, and on gravitation and cosmology, and some other very important fields. The book resents a timely and valuable overview of the status and future potential and trends in theoretical and experimental particle physics, in the complementary sectors of accelerator, non-accelerator and space physics.

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I SUSY/SUGRA Phenomenology and Early Universe.- Twenty Years of SUGRA.- Dark MatterMuon g-2 and Other SUSY Constraints.- On CPT Symmetry: Cosmological, Quantum-Gravitational and Other Possible Violations and Their Phenomenology.- II Cosmic Microwave Background.- Determination of Cosmological Parameters from Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) Observations.- Neutrino Physics from Cosmological Observations.- Can Planck See Transplanck?.- III Superstrings and Symmetries.- Superstring Phenomenology in Light of LEP, KamLAND and WMAP.- CP-Violating Electron-Nucleon Interactions and CP-Violation Beyond the Standard Model.- Lorentz-Violating Supergravity.- The Lorentz-Violating Extension of the Standard Model.- A Time Variation of the QCD Scale.- Unification in Higher Dimensions.- Preon Prophecies by the Standard Model.- IV Cosmology and Neutrino Oscillations.- Big Bang Nucleosynthesis and Neutrinos.- Cosmoparticle Physics The Challenge for the Millenium.- Leptogenesis in a Prompt Decay Scenario.- Supernova Neutrino Oscillations: An Analytical Approach.- Neutrino Data, CP Violation, and Cosmological Implications.- Solar Neutrino Measurements at the SUDBURY Neutrino Observatory.- Indications of Neutrino Oscillation in a 250 km Long-Baseline Experiment.- V Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay.- The HEIDELBERG-MOSCOW 76Ge Double Beta Experiment in Gran Sasso 1990-2003 and Status of Absolute Neutrino Mass.- The Search For Rare Processes with DAMA/LXe.- Towards a Background-Free ??-Decay Experiment Using the EDELWEISS Cryogenic Ge Detectors.- XMASS Experiment.- Contributions to Fundamental Physics and Constants Using Penning Traps.- The Neutrino Mass Matrix New Developments.- Single ? and Double 0??? Decays with Majorana Spinors.- VI Fundamental Symmetries and Testsof General Relativity.- Application of Neutron Interferometry for Tests of Fundamental Physics Questions.- Gravitational Energy Loss and Binary Pulsars in the Scalar Ether-Theory of Gravitation.- Cosmological Term, Mass, and Space-Time Symmetry.- Fermions, Bosons and Locality in Special Relativity with Two Invariant Scales.- New Perspectives in Testing the General Relativistic Lense-Thirring Effect.- ??? Geometries from the Point of View of Different Observers.- VII Dark Matter Search Experiments.- Results from DAMA/Nal and Perspectives for DAMA/LIBRA.- GENIUS-Test-Facility Started Operation in GRAN SASSO with First Ten kg of Naked Germanium Detectors in Liquid Nitrogen.- Latest Results from the EDELWEISS WIMP Search.- Direct Search for Dark Matter Particles with Very Large Detectors.- VIII Dark Matter Search Theory.- Why a Ring of Stars at r = 20 kpc?.- The Distribution of Dark Matter in Galaxies: The Core Radius Issue.- The Supermassive Black Hole at the Center of the Milky Way.- Dark Matter at the Center and in the Halo of the Galaxy.- Light Relic Neutralinos.- QCD Axion and Quintessential Axion.- Conformal Bulk Fields, Dark Energy, and Brane Dynamics.- IX Supernova, Relic and Solar Neutrinos.- SN 1987 A Historical View About Registration of the Neutrino Signal with BAKSAN, Kamiokande II, and IMB Detectors.- Relic Supernova Neutrinos in Super-Kamiokande.- Supernova Relic Neutrinos and Observational Implications for Neutrino Oscillation.- The Structure of the Solar Core.- Nuclear Reactions in the Sun after SNO and KamLAND.- X Gamma-Ray Astronomy, Highest Energy Cosmic Rays and GKZ.- Ground-Based Gamma-Ray Astronomy, Status and Perspectives.- Observations of Gamma Ray Bursts with BeppoSAX.- The Physics Potential of AMS: Astrophysics andAstroparticle Physics.- Status and Perspectives of the Pierre Auger Observatory.- Status of an Atmospheric Cherenkov Imaging Camera for the CANGAROO-III Experiment and Perspective of the Field.- Tau Neutrino Astronomy.- Strongly Interacting Neutrinos as the Highest Energy Cosmic Rays.- XI Neutrino Factories Underwater and Underground Experiments.- Neutrino Factory and Muon Factory.- Results from the AMANDA Neutrino Telescope.- The Baikal Neutrino Project: Status and Perspectives.- Status of the ANTARES Experiment.- Final Results of the MACRO Experiment.- ICARUS: A Second-Generation Proton Decay Experiment and Neutrino Observatory at the Gran Sasso Laboratory.- XII Search for New Physics at Colliders.- Results on the Higgs Boson Searches at the LEP Collider.- Towards Final Results on the Search for R-Parity Violation at LEP.- Status and Perspectives of MECO, the Muon to Electron COnversion Experiment.- Recent D? Results at Run II.- Heavy Ion Collisions.- Search for Exotic Couplings at DELPHI.- Searches for Leptoquarks with the OPAL Detector at LEP.- XIII Gravitational Waves.- The Search for Gravitational Waves Status and Perspectives.- XIV Superheavy Elements.- Achievements and Perspectives in the Search for Super Heavy Elements.- Superheavy Elements Status of Research in Dubna.- Author Index.- List of Participants.