Particle and high-energy physics

This volume constitutes the proceedings of the first conference on the specific subject of radiative corrections (quantum effects) to physical processes within the framework of the minimal supersymmetric standard model (MSSM).

This book contains the proceedings of the IXth Jorge Andre Swieca Summer School - Particles and Fields - held at Campos do Jordao in February 1997.

In this volume recent developments in the nonperturbative aspects of string theory, duality in N = 1 string compactifications, orientifolds and F-theory as well as the matrix model description of M-theory are reported.

The introduction of spin is believed to be a necessary tool if one wishes to quantize general relativity.

This volume addresses the important questions at the interface of particle physics, cosmology and nuclear astrophysics.

This book discusses recent developments in both the theoretical and the experimental aspects of QCD.

Madam Chien Shiung Wu, the great physicist of 20th century physics, passed away in February 1997.

This book contains many topics on the nonperturbative aspects of quantum field theory, including gauge theories, QCD vacuum and confinement, chiral symmetry breaking, instantons and monopoles, lattice physics and random matrices.

This book focuses on a new development of spin giant resonances in nuclei.

This book presents recent results on experimental and theoretical studies of the interaction of heavy ions with nuclei at low and intermediate energies: the dynamics of fusion and decay of complex nuclear systems, the synthesis of superheavy elements, the synthesis and properties of exotic nuclei close to the proton and neutron driplines, nuclear fission, nuclear structure, and reactions with stable and radioactive ion beams.

The frontiers of beam research point to increasingly high energy, greater brightness and lower emittance beams with ever-increasing particle species.

Effective field theory (EFT), a technique used extensively in particle physics, provides a framework for systematically describing nuclear systems in a way consistent with quantum chromodynamics, the underlying theory of strong interactions.

Although perturbative QCD has progressed much in the last few years, the notion of diquarks is still useful and vital and many short cuts induced by diquarks can still be very efficient for simulating nonperturbative effects in the intermediate energy region (from a few GeV to some 10-20 GeV), where a whole new generation of machines is being planned and will, hopefully, become operative in the near future.

The proceedings of the Lake Louise Winter Institute for 1998 deal with strong interactions.

The Predeal International Summer School, held at the Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Bucharest, Romania, is a prestigious scientific event.

This volume outlines the status of fundamental physics at the threshold of the 21st century.

In June 1997, fifty-seven of the world's best students gathered at TASI '97 in Boulder, Colorado, USA, to attend an intensive series of lectures on the theory and phenomenology of supersymmetry, supergravity and supercolliders.

The purpose of the School and Workshop was to study recent topics in QCD and hadron physics from various points of view.

The subject of the exact renormalization group started from pioneering work by Wegner and Houghton in the early seventies and, a decade later, by Polchinski, who formulated the Wilson renormalization group for field theory.

This volume provides a broad picture of the current understanding of electroweak and strong interactions, according to most recent experimental results from some of the world's largest particle accelerators: LEP II, Tevatron, HERA and SPS.

CP violation is essential to understanding the universe in which we live.

This proceedings volume covers many aspects of the latest developments in B physics (exclusive and inclusive charmless B decays), CP violation within and beyond the Standard Model, perturbative QCD and its application to B physics, spin physics, and supersymmetry phenomenology.

Multiparticle dynamics is tightly connected with the fundamental properties of the QCD vacuum.

Already in 1997, the topics included in this meeting had been enlarged to include all different phases and phase transitions relevant on laboratory scales or in cosmology.

This volume contains the proceedings of the Workshop on Physics with an Electron-Polarized Ion Collider (EPIC-99), jointly sponsored by the Indiana University Cyclotron Facility and Nuclear Theory Center, and the Institute for Nuclear Theory, University of Washington.

This volume discusses theoretical and experimental activities in the investigation of nucleon and nuclear structure by electromagnetic and hadronic probes at intermediate and high energies.

The 14th 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.

Supersymmetry, supergravity and superstring are the most popular research topics in particle physics.

The method of effective field theory (EFT) is ideally suited to deal with physical systems containing separate energy scales.

From August to September 1998, a group of 75 physicists from 52 laboratories in 15 countries met in Erice, Italy, for the 36th Course of the International School of Subnuclear Physics.

The Second International Conference on Fission and Properties of Neutron-Rich Nuclei continued the emphasis on fission models, fission processes, properties of neutron-rich nuclei and new directions.

It is known that nuclear shells play a particularly important role in the collective motion of nuclear matter and, as a consequence, determine the structure of nuclei, nuclear dynamics, nuclear decay models, etc.

In this volume, precision tests of the Standard Model and a wide spectrum of physics beyond it, such as supersymmetry, grand unification and the fermion mass problem, are covered.

The physics of neutrinos has acquired a rapidly increasing role within the realm of particle physics.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the X Jorge Andre Swieca Summer School - Particles and Fields.

The interest in understanding the physical world that we live in, the origin of its formation and evolution, is reflected in the world-wide activities in Europe, the USA and Japan to set up powerful research facilities providing beams of radioactive nuclei of various kinds, and beams of extremely large energies.

This volume contains lectures on several topics of great current relevance in strong interaction physics.

Of late, the fields of astroparticle physics, particle physics and nuclear physics have been developing at a dramatic speed.

This volume concentrates on three main areas of current research in high energy physics: (1) multiparticle and diffractive production in perturbative and nonperturbative QCD, (2) confinement-deconfinement mechanism and the RHIC physics, and (3) interface between high-energy collisions and cosmic-ray/astro-physics.

Professor Vadim Soloviev, an outstanding Russian nuclear theorist, was the founder of the Dubna school of nuclear structure.

The International Conference on Calorimetry in High Energy Physics has become the major forum for presenting the latest developments of calorimetry techniques.

This volume presents a selection of current developments in quantum chromodynamics, with some emphasis on the borderline between the perturbative and the nonperturbative regime.

The ELOISATRON (ELN) Project aims at a future proton supercollider with 100-500 TeV energy per beam and 1034-1036 cm-2s-1 luminosity.

The idea of neutrino oscillations was suggested in 1957 by B Pontecorvo, immediately after the discovery of parity violation in -decay.

This volume contains the proceedings of the 'Workshop on Lightcone QCD and Nonperturbative Hadron Physics', held in Adelaide, Australia, in December 1999.