The proceedings contains reviews and short communications on the following topics: status of the standard model, rare decays and CP violation, heavy quark physics, neutrino physics, Higgs bosons and electroweak breaking, nonperturbative effects in electroweak interactions, physics beyond the standard models, quantum chromodynamics and strong interactions.

Collider experiments have become essential to studying elementary particles. In particular, lepton collisions such as e⁺e⁻ are ideal from both experimental and theoretical points of view, and are a unique means of probing the new energy region, sub-TeV to TeV. It is a common understanding that a next-generation e⁺e⁻ collider will have to be a linear machine that evades beam-energy losses due to synchrotron radiation. In this book, physics feasibilities at linear colliders are discussed in detail, taking into account the recent progress in high-energy physics.

The high energy electron-positron linear collider is expected to provide crucial clues to many of the fundamental questions of our time: What is the nature of electroweak symmetry breaking? Does a Standard Model Higgs boson exist, or does nature take the route of supersymmetry, technicolor or extra dimensions, or none of the foregoing? This invaluable book is a collection of articles written by experts on many of the most important topics which the linear collider will focus on. It is aimed primarily at graduate students but will undoubtedly be useful also to any active researcher on the physics of the next generation linear collider.

The proceedings report results on all aspects of high energy photon interactions on photon, proton and Pomeron targets. There are significant contributions from the LEP experiments, from ZEUS and H1, from CLEO II and from the TRISTAN experiments in Japan, accompanied by extensive theoretical discussion and predictions for future gamma-gamma colliders.

This book presents a comprehensive overview of high energy physics. It covers the whole range of results from the colliders and fixed-target experiments as well as the astrophysics topics related to particle physics. Also discussed are the problems of proton structure, electroweak physics, non-perturbative QCD and heavy quarks.