The new SDSS-III mapping project, called the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey, or BOSS, collected its first astronomical data - a milestone called achieving "first light" - on a thousand galaxies and quasars on Sept.

The standard model of particle physics predicts the existence and mass of this particle, which is a baryon, like protons and neutrons, and is made up of two strange quarks and a bottom quark.

bring together 15 lectures by scientists from the US, Europe, and Japan who discuss the basic experimental data and future prospects for experiments on neutrino oscillations, neutrino interactions and the measurement of properties, the standard model of particles and their interactions, other models of the solar energy cycle and big-band cosmology, the impact of neutrinos on astrophysical phenomena, and the origins of neutrino masses and possible role in the baryon asymmetry of the universe.