Particle and high-energy physics

This book has been prepared to celebrate the 65th birthday of Gabriele Veneziano and his retirement from CERN in September 2007.

Nanoscale miniaturization and femtosecond laser-pulse spectroscopy require a quantum mechanical description of the carrier kinetics that goes beyond the conventional Boltzmann theory.

Axions are peculiar hypothetical particles that could both solve the CP problem of quantum chromodynamics and at the same time account for the dark matter of the universe.

Strangeness nuclear physics bears a broad impact on contemporary physics since it lies at the intersection of nuclear and elementary particle physics, having, moreover, significant implications to the astrophysics of compact objects.

This book gives an introduction to modern geometry.

By definition, gauge theories - among the cornerstones of fundamental theoretical physics - involve more degrees of freedom than required by the underlying physics.

Homological Mirror Symmetry, the study of dualities of certain quantum field theories in a mathematically rigorous form, has developed into a flourishing subject on its own over the past years.

The exciting experiments of the BABAR and BELLE collaborations have now proven violation of CP symmetry in the neutral B system.

In this volume the full range of astrophysical maserresearch is covered, with contributions from many of theforemost researchers in the field.

Particles with fractional statistics interpolating betweenbosons and fermions have attracted considerable interestfrom mathematical physicists.

In modern mathematical physics, classical together with quantum, geometrical and functional analytic methods are used simultaneously.

The theory of Quantum Groups is a rapidly developing areawith numerous applications in mathematics and theoreticalphysics, e.

The XII Max Born Symposium has a special character.

The aim of this book is to give graduate students an overview of quantum gravity but it also covers related topics from astrophysics.

Experimental progress over the past few years has made it possible to test a n- ber of fundamental physical concepts related to the motion of electrons in low dimensions.

Photoproduction of pions from complex nuclei has become an investigative tool for (1) the detailed form of the elementary photopion amplitude, (2) the pion-nucleus optical potential, (3) nuclear structure, and (4) off-shell and medium effects on the elementary amplitude in nuclear processes.

The International School on Physics and Astrophysics of Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECR2000) was held at the Observatoire de Paris-Meudon on June 26-29, 2000.

Quantum Optics is a rapidly progressing field well suited to probe the many fundamental issues raised by the subtleties of quantum physics.

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The question of a possible temporal variation of the fundamental constants was raised by Paul Dirac in his "e;large number hypothesis"e; in 1937.

Optical Solitons represent one of the most exciting and fascinating concepts in modern communications, arousing special interest due to their potential applications in optical fibre communication.

The traditional purpose of the Adriatic Meeting is to present most advanced scienti?

After a century of successes, physicists still feel the need to probe the limits of the validity of theories based on special relativity.

This is the second volume in a series of lecture notes based on the highly s- cessful Euro Summer School on Exotic Beams that has been running yearly since 1993 (apart from 1999) and is planned to continue to do so.

Using the successful standard model of particle physics but without clear guidance beyond it, it is a di?

A mathematically consistent formulation of relativistic quantum electrodynamics (QED) has still to be found.

This volume presents the lecture notes of the 24th Advanced Course of the Swiss Society for Astrophysics and Astronomy in March 1994 at Les Diablerets.

Lasers and Nuclei describes the generation of high-energy-particle radiation with high-intensity lasers and its application to nuclear science.

Addressing graduate students and researchers, this book gives a very detailed theoretical and computational description of multiple scattering in solid matter.

Currently, relativistic quantum mechanics is considered an advanced topic only accessible to students who have already received considerable training in non-relativistic quantum mechanics.

This book comprehensively describes recent developments in the research of renormalizable quantum gravity, focusing on its application to physics beyond the Planck scale, particularly in inflationary cosmology.

This book presents an in-depth review of the recent interdisciplinary studies that have shed light on the mechanisms of the creation, energy transfer, and measurement of the dressed photon.

Precision measurements of the Higgs boson's properties are a powerful tool to look for deviations from the predictions of the Standard Model (SM) of particle physics.

This book introduces readers to the fascinating world of quantum chromodynamics (QCD) and quarks and gluons, the elementary constituents of protons, neutrons, and all hadrons.

This book guides readers into the realm of particle accelerators, which have served as indispensable tools for fundamental research, energy development, medical therapy, industrial applications, national security, etc.

The eigenstate thermalization hypothesis (ETH) is a successful framework providing criteria for thermalization in isolated quantum systems.

In this monograph, the authors present their recently developed theory of electromagnetic interactions.

This volume is the result of two international workshops; Infinite Analysis 11 - Frontier of Integrability - held at University of Tokyo, Japan in July 25th to 29th, 2011, and Symmetries, Integrable Systems and Representations held at Universite Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France in December 13th to 16th, 2011.