Particle and high-energy physics

This book is one of the most important reference books in Field Theory with permanent value.

This is the first complete account of the construction and finiteness analysis of multi-loop scattering amplitudes for superstrings, and of the guarantee that for certain superstrings (in particular the heterotic one), the symmetries of the theory in the embedding space-time are those of the super-poincare group SP10 and that the multi-loop amplitudes are each finite.

The physics of strongly interacting many-body systems known as nuclear physics is a mature discipline which has achieved a remarkably quantitative success.

There are a number of unanswered questions which indicate that the Standard Model, successful as it is, cannot be the entire story.

This is a commemoration volume to honor Professor M Veltman on the ocassion of his 60th birthday.

Gauge theory, which underlies modern particle physics as well as the theory of gravity, and hence all of physics as we know it today, is itself based on a few fundamental concepts, the consequences of which are often as beautiful as they are deep.

This book provides a readable account of the foundations of QFT, in particular of the Euclidean formulation with emphasis on the interplay between physical requirements and mathematical structures.

This book explains the physics and phenomenology of massive neutrinos.

Successful modeling of quantum chromodynamics with a relativistic quark-soliton field theory has been developed over the past decade.

This book presents the separation-of-variables and T-matrix methods of calculating the scattering of electromagnetic waves by particles.

This book summarizes the considerable progress recently achieved in the understanding of nucleon and nuclear structure by using high energy electrons as a probe.

Professor D Ivanenko is well known for his fundamental contributions to the establishment of the proton-neutron model of nuclei, elaborating the first non-phenomenological theory of nuclear forces.

This volume is a collection of the scientific papers of Frederick Reines.

These lecture notes deal with the problem of collective coordinates in many-body systems, which are treated as gauge systems in (0+1) dimensions.

This book contains an edited comprehensive collection of reprints on the subject of the large N limit as applied to a wide spectrum of problems in quantum field theory and statistical mechanics.

This monograph reviews the recent progress in vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) photoionization and photodissociation processes.

This volume brings together a collection of review talks and popular science papers by the distinguished Soviet theorist Lev Okun.

This book is a survey of methods used in the study of two-dimensional models in quantum field theory as well as applications of these theories in physics.

In elementary particle physics, there are a number of recognizable underlying symmetries which correctly describe spectacular multiplet structure of observed particles.

This volume contains topical papers covering the various aspects of instrumentation in high energy physics.

The interest in membranes and higher dimensional extended geometrical objects was inspired by the great successes of the string and superstring, first in 1968-73 as a theory of hadrons and then since 1984 as a "e;theory of everything"e; - a unified theory of all interactions, including quantum gravity.

Calabi-Yau spaces are complex spaces with a vanishing first Chern class, or equivalently, with trivial canonical bundle (canonical class).

The contents of this book are derived from a celebration of the 70th birthday of Vernon W Hughes.

The study of b quarks has now reached a stage where it is useful to review what has been learned so far and also to look at the implications of future studies.

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

Experimental Techniques in High-Energy Nuclear and Particle Physics is a compilation of outstanding technical papers and reviews of the ingenious methods developed for experimentation in modern nuclear and particle physics.

The aim of the book is to give an introduction to the method of QCD Spectral Sum Rules and to review its developments.

This book presents in a short volume the basics of quantum field theory and many body physics.

The contributions in this conference proceeding present an alternative approach to solving the Quantum Field Theory problem using the variational approach.

This review volume on topological and nontopological chiral solitons presents a global view on the current developments of this field in particle and nuclear physics.

These lectures give an elementary introduction to the important recent developments of the applications of N=1 supergravity to the construction of unified models of elementary particle interactions.

The development in our understanding of symmetry principles is reviewed.

The "e;Scientific Highlights in Memory of Leon Van Hove"e; meeting brought together many distinguished scientists and several top officials of the European Community in honor of Leon Van Hove, an outstanding European scientist who contributed immensely to the research and development of mathematical and theoretical physics.

This volume is a collection of review articles on the most outstanding topics in heavy flavour physics.

Up until now the dominant view of condensed matter physics has been that of an "e;electrostatic MECCANO"e; (erector set, for Americans).

The main purpose of this book is to provide an overview of all phenomena which can be categorized under the general label of "e;electron scattering"e;, and to give a comprehensive description of all spectroscopical techniques related to electron scattering phenomena.

X-ray absorption fine structure (XAFS) is a powerful technique in characterization of structures and electronic states of materials in many research fields including, e.

This book contains selected papers of Prof Nambu who is one of the most original and outstanding particle theorists of our time.

This is a sequel to the review volume Quark-Gluon Plasma.

This series of books covers all areas of computational physics, collecting together reviews where a newcomer can learn about the state of the art regarding methods and results.

This is a collection of important lecture and original articles and commentaries by Martin Perl, discoverer of the tau lepton and the third generation of elementary particles, and this year's Nobel Prize winner.

This book covers a new niche in circular accelerator design, motivated by the promising industrial prospects of recent micromanufacturing methods - X-ray lithography, synchrotron radiation-based micromachining and microanalysis techniques.

The book is devoted to processes at the interaction of high energy charged particles and photons with crystals.

Conformal field theory is an elegant and powerful theory in the field of high energy physics and statistics.

The most important papers of Tony Hilton Royle Skyrme are collected in this volume which also includes commentaries by G Brown and other articles relating to the life and work of Tony Skryme, R Dalitz, E Witten and others.

This is a selection from over 250 papers published by Abdus Salam.

This volume is a compilation of works which, taken together, give a complete and consistent presentation of instanton calculus in non-Abelian gauge theories, as it exists now.