4th Symposium on Prospects in the Physics of Discrete Symmetries (DISCRETE2014)

Abstract

The DISCRETE 2014: Fourth Symposium in the Physics of Discrete Symmetries took placeat King's College London, Strand Campus, London WC2R 2LS, from Tuesday, December 22014 till Saturday, December 6 2014. This is the fourth Edition of the DISCRETE conferenceseries, which is a biannual event, having been held previously in Valencia (Discrete'08), Rome(Discrete2010) and Lisbon (Discrete2012).The topics covered at the DISCRETE series of conferences are: T, C, P, CP symmetries;accidental symmetries (B, L conservation); CPT symmetry, decoherence and entangled states,Lorentz symmetry breaking (phenomenology and current bounds); neutrino mass and mixing;implications for cosmology and astroparticle physics, dark matter searches; experimentalprospects at LHC, new facilities. In DISCRETE 2014 we have also introduced two new topics:cosmological aspects of non-commutative space-times as well as PT symmetric Hamiltonians(non-Hermitian but with real eigenvalues), a topic that has wide applications in particle physics and beyond.The conference was opened by the King's College London Vice Principal on Research andInnovation, Mr Chris Mottershead, followed by a welcome address by the Chair of DISCRETE2014 (Professor Nick E. Mavromatos). After these introductory talks, the scientific programmeof the DISCRETE 2014 symposium started. Following the tradition of DISCRETE seriesof conferences, the talks (138 in total) were divided into plenary-review talks (25), invitedresearch talks (50) and shorter presentations (63) — selected by the conveners of each session in consultation with the organisers — from the submitted abstracts. We have been fortunate to have very high-quality, thought stimulating and interesting talks at all levels, which, together with the discussions among the participants, made the conference quite enjoyable. There were 152 registered participants for the event.