Particle and high-energy physics

Collider experiments have become essential to studying elementary particles.

The conference focused on the current status of baryon spectroscopy, form factors and structure functions, electroweak interactions and symmetries, strange and exotic states, chiral perturbation theory, heavy quark physics, and medium modifications, through plenary session summaries and reviews and parallel session reports of recent experimental and theoretical advances.

After about three decades of experimental and theoretical efforts, the structure of the nucleon (proton and neutron) is now fairly well understood based on quantum chromodynamics, but only if averaged over its spin.

The proceedings of the 'Workshop on Gammasphere Physics' report on forefront physics done with Gammasphere and other large gamma-ray detector arrays around the world.

These proceedings contain the contributions of the world's leading experts in Quantum Chromodynamics.

CRIS (Catania Relativistic Ion Studies) is a new series of Topical Conferences to be held at regular intervals in Catania or in its environs.

The Raman Emission by X-rays (REX-I) Workshop focused on Raman Scattering of x-rays mostly from Synchrotron Radiation Sources.

The confinement mechanism of the quarks in QCD is one of the most challenging and open problems in physics.

The volume presents an up-to-date survey of spin physics at the very high energies of present and future colliders.

This volume addresses four major topical areas: imaging detectors for astrophysics application, noble liquid compound, medical application and high energy application.

The 28th conference from the Rochester series was the major high energy physics conference in 1996.

The proceedings of this series of annual symposia represent an extensive summary of the experimental and theoretical status of high energy physics at hadron colliders.

In this book, leading researchers in theoretical and experimental particle physics summarize the recent developments in their areas of expertise.

These proceedings contain the lecture notes of the topics covered during the Summer School as well as the contributions from the Workshop.

In this volume, the structure and reactions of radioactive nuclei are described.

An elementary act of charge transfer determines a variety of phenomena in physics, chemistry and biology.

This book is devoted to phenomena that are of interest to both particle and nuclear physicists.

This workshop is the fourth of a series initiated in Durham (March 93), followed by Eilat (February 94) and Paris (April 95).

The "e;Physics in Collision"e; conference aims to provide an overview of the main topics of high energy physics.

During the week of 3-8 June 1996, approximately 83 theoretical (and 2 experimental) physicists interested in the current problems of Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) gathered at the American University of Paris, France, to present and discuss a total of 59 papers on Collisions, Confinement, and Chaos in QCD.

The week-long Lake Louise Winter Institute starts with three days of pedagogical lectures by invited speakers, and the remainder of the time is for short presentations on current research topics.

The scope of the international meeting covered a broad range of the recent developments in nuclear physics, from heavy-ion collisions from Coulomb barrier through relativisitc energies (using stable and radioactive beams), to some applications of nuclear physics and other research fields.

The purpose of the workshop is to discuss both local and global geometrical and topological effects in quantum systems, in the context of the new methods of investigation.

Experiments using highly polarized intense beams and targets, and theoretical studies of spin and polarization phenomena, are now providing us with numerous additional details of the electroweak and strong interactions and the structure of matter.

This book collects a series of papers presented at the XXIV International Meeting on Fundamental Physics.

There can be little doubt now that 90-99% of the Universe comprises dark matter.

This volume contains the talks presented at the International Workshop on Aspects of Dark Matter in Astro- and Particle Physics (DARK '96).

The study of QCD in the confinement regime poses some of the most difficult problems of fundamental physics at present.

Multiscale Phenomena play an essential role in the dynamics of many complex systems.

It has been well recognized that the study of the excitations of the nucleon can shed light on the nonperturbative aspects of QCD.

The past year has witnessed truly remarkable developments in our understanding of string theory.

This volume discusses the most recent results on multiparticle production.

At this workshop, there are two pedagogical lectures on heavy quark effective theory and heavy quarkonium, given by B Grinstein and E Braaten.

This workshop held in Valencia, following the earlier meetings organized at UIMP in 1991 and 1993 was open to all who wished to attend and addressed the basic issues in elementary particle physics research for the coming decade, with emphasis on the new physics topics pertaining to the electroweak sector, supersymmetry and neutrino physics, as well as the related experimentation at the new CERN accelerators LEP200 and LHC.

The purpose of this meeting was to cover selected topics of high current interest in the interplay between cosmology and fundamental physics.

This volume contains the proceedings of the Topical course on Frontiers of Accelerator Technology, jointly organized by the CERN Accelerator School, the KEK Accelerator School and the US Particle Accelerator School.

These proceedings will contain both general reviews on particle physics, astrophysics and cosmology and detailed discussions on some specific topics.

These proceedings contain selected topics covering various fields of collective motion and nuclear dynamics, ranging from low to high energies, from nuclear structure to reaction mechanisms, from regular stable to chaotic systems, and from fragmentation to fusion.

The Proceedings contain lectures given at the 8th annual Physics Summer School held at The Australian National University.

This was a joint meeting of the Johns Hopkins Workshop and PASCOS.

The purpose of the symposium is to discuss current experimental and theoretical studies of weak and electromagnetic interactions in nuclei, emphasizing fundamental problems of particle, nuclear and astrophysics.

This proceedings volume contains contributions from leading scientists working on modelling and numerical simulation of flows through porous media and on mathematical analysis of the equations associated to the modelling.

This book deals with the most recent achievements in the following areas of high energy physics: physics of e+e- collisions, lepton-nucleon scattering, relativistic heavy ion collisions (the quest for quark-gluon plasma), and multiparticle production.

The proceedings contain the lectures and contributions given at the workshop on double-beta decay and related topics, which was held at the ETC* (European Centre for Theoretical Studies), Trento, Italy, between April 24 and May 5, 1995.

The proceedings report results on all aspects of high energy photon interactions on photon, proton and Pomeron targets.