Atomic and molecular physics

This volume is devoted to different facets of QCD, stressing non-perturbative, analytic and lattice formulations, scattering solutions and approximations, and the understanding of recent RHIC experiments.

The proceedings of DIS 2001 present the most updated status of deep inelastic scattering (DIS) physics.

This is a collection of invited talks and oral contributions presented by the leading scientists in their fields, summarizing the most recent progress of, and new prospects for, nuclear physics research.

The XV International Conference on Laser Spectroscopy brought together spectroscopists from all over the world working in the very diverse and still growing field of laser spectroscopy.

In this volume, the following topics are discussed: study of intermediate and low energy heavy ion collisions, nuclear structure at high spin, nuclei far from stability, radioactive ion beam physics and development of experimental facilities.

Bose-Einstein condensation of dilute gases is an exciting new field of interdisciplinary physics.

In view of the rapid growth in both experimental and theoretical studies of multi-photon processes and multi-photon spectroscopy of atoms, ions and molecules in chemistry, physics, biology, materials science, etc.

In view of the rapid growth in both experimental and theoretical studies of multi-photon processes and multi-photon spectroscopy of atoms, ions and molecules in chemistry, physics, biology, materials science, etc.

This book contains the proceedings of the Gregory Breit Centennial Symposium.

This volume is a compilation of significant papers by leading scientists exploring exciting frontiers of physics.

Lattice field theory is the most reliable tool for investigating non-perturbative phenomena in particle physics.

The Cortona Conference is a biennial meeting of all Italian groups from about 20 universities who are active in theoretical nuclear physics.

This book deals with the properties and fusion dynamics of very heavy nuclei.

In this volume, the main results of the last sixty years of research in nuclear fission are summarized, showing how ideas advanced from the beginning, for nuclei have also found useful applications in the new area of atomic clusters.

This book contains important contributions from top international scientists on the-state-of-the-art of femtochemistry and femtobiology at the beginning of the new millennium.

The main purpose of this book is to present, in a comprehensive and progressive way, the appearance of universal limit probability laws in physics, and their connection with the recently developed scaling theory of fluctuations.

The Lake Louise Winter Institute is held annually to explore recent trends in physics.

This book is an up-to-date survey of the science and technology of creating polarized beams and polarized targets.

This volume contains many excellent articles presenting the most recent progress in high energy physics and the current interesting problems concerning flavor physics.

This is the fourth and last volume of the invaluable publication At the Frontier of Particle Physics: Handbook of QCD.

This book covers the following topics: (1) meson and hadron production by real and virtual photon interaction with nucleons and nuclei; (2) astrophysical studies via photoreactions and hadron reactions; (3) new technologies for the electromagnetic probes and detector development; (4) nuclear structure studies with electromagnetic probes; (5) fundamental symmetries with electromagnetic probes and related problems.

This book presents material that includes introductory reviews of astrophysics, the status of electroweak theories, Higgs searches, and precision tests of the standard model.

The generalization of QCD from three to NC colors, developed in 1974 by Nobel laureate Gerard 't Hooft, has proved to be an extraordinarily useful and robust theoretical extension for studying the behavior of strong interaction physics.

This book is devoted to the theory and phenomenology of transverse-spin effects in high-energy hadronic physics.

This book discusses fundamental problems in quantum physics, with emphasis on quantum coherence and decoherence.

In August/September 2001, a group of 75 physicists from 51 laboratories in 15 countries met in Erice, Italy to participate in the 39th Course of the International School of Subnuclear Physics.

The 12th Joint Workshop on Electron Cyclotron Emission and Electron Cyclotron Resonance Heating (EC-12) was held in Aix-en-Provence (France) from May 13 to 16, 2002.

The physics of nuclear collective motion was pioneered by A Bohr and B R Mottelson 50 years ago.

In the year 2000, the city of Bologna was the European Capital for Culture.

The symposium and workshop "e;Continuous Advances in QCD / Arkadyfest"e; was the fifth in the series of meetings organized by the William I Fine Theoretical Physics Institute at the University of Minnesota.

This important proceedings volume highlights the major scientific achievement of the last decade in atomic physics, namely the creation of the gaseous Bose-Einstein condensate, which was featured prominently at the XVIII International Conference on Atomic Physics (ICAP2002).

This book is a tribute to the life and work of J Q Chen.

In view of the rapid growth in both experimental and theoretical studies of multi-photon processes and multi-photon spectroscopy of atoms, ions and molecules in chemistry, physics, biology, materials science, etc.

This book presents an in-depth discussion on molecular electronics in an easy-to-understand manner, aiming at chemists, computer scientists, surface scientists, physicists, and applied mathematicians.

The Lake Louise Winter Institute is held annually to explore recent trends in high energy physics in an informal setting.

This completely revised second edition of our hugely popular book invites the reader to explore ten of the most important areas of modern physics: Symmetry, Lasers, Superconductivity, Bose-Einstein Condensation, Nanoscience, Quantum Computation, Chaos and Fractals, Stellar Evolution, Particles, and Cosmology.

In 2001, the Nobel Foundation celebrated the 100th anniversary of the first Nobel Prize, and all previous Nobel laureates were invited to attend the Nobel ceremonies in Stockholm.

This conference was the third meeting organized in the framework of the European LOCNET project.

The SEWM2002 workshop, like the ones before, brought together theoretical physicists working on thermal field theory and, more generally, on (resummation) techniques for deriving effective actions based on QCD and the electroweak standard model of elementary particle physics, but describing nonstandard situations.

The 9th Conference on Problems in Theoretical Nuclear Physics was organized as part of the project "e;Theoretical Physics of Nuclei and Many-Body Systems"e; involving 17 Italian universities and sponsored by the Italian Ministry of Research and University.

This volume contains the proceedings of the third meeting in the series of symposia and workshops on nuclear medium effects.

Hadronic atoms provide a unique laboratory for studying hadronic interactions essentially at threshold.

This volume contains papers based on the workshop "e;Energy and Information Transfer in Biological Systems: How Physics Could Enrich Biological Understanding"e;, held in Italy in 2002.

This book covers recent advances in the physics of nucleon resonances, including new experimental results from laboratories in the USA, Europe, and Asia, and new developments in effective field theories, quark models, and lattice gauge theory.

This book is a collection of reviews and essays about the recent wide-ranging developments in the areas of quantum physics.

This book presents the state of the art in reactor dosimetry as applied to nuclear power plants and to high performance research reactors, accelerator-driven systems and spallation sources.

This volume presents the state of the art in the research on new possibilities for communication and computation based on quantum theory and nonlocality, as well as related directions and problems.

This symposium was held in honour of Yuri Oganessian for his laurea honoris causa conferred by the University of Messina, and to celebrate Giorgio Giardina's 60th birthday.

This book contains a wide spectrum of articles which report the current research progress in topics concerning the dynamics of multiparticle production in high energy collision processes, with emphasis on nonperturbative aspects of QCD.