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The challenges in beam instrumentation and diagnostics for present and future particle accelerator projects are presented. A few examples for advanced hadron and lepton beam diagnostics are given.
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I will briefly review of some highlights of the SuperB physics programme, the status of the accelerator and detector studies, and the future plans.
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