Particle and high-energy physics

The areas covered in this volume include: duality in string theory and supersymmetric gauge theories; phenomenological applications of string theory; strings in curved spacetime; quantum gravity; SUSY conformal field theories; QCD strings; aspects of mathematical physics, including: mirror symmetry, W-algebras, representation theory.

This conference covered recent developments, both experimental and theoretical, in the study of hadron spectroscopy.

This symposium was organized in order to discuss recent developments and future perspectives in intermediate-energy heavy-ion physics.

The Fifth International Conference on Calorimetry in High Energy Physics was held Sept.

The topic of the internal spin structure of the nucleon has become an unusually active subfield of particle and nuclear physics, together with the relevant technologies.

By collecting contributions of the many scientists who have interacted with Sergio Fubini and shared his friendship and enthusiasm for unraveling the ultimate mysteries of matter, this book offers a panorama of recent and interesting achievements in experimental and theoretical particle physics, gauge and string theories and the like.

These proceedings comprise the contents of a major international conference on Perspectives of the Interacting Boson Model.

This volume contains the proceedings of the above meeting which attracted over 100 physicists from the United States, Canada, and Europe.

This meeting discussed the experimental results and theoretical aspects in the field of high energy physics, with special reference to the top quark observation, heavy flavor physics and symmetry-breaking mechanisms.

This book gives an overview of present and future particle accelerator experiments, and also of astroparticle physics experiments.

The proceedings provide a topical survey of the static and dynamical magnetic properties of condensed matter studied by neutron scattering which has been the key technique in this field for a long time.

The structure of matter is intimately related to the fundamental role played by many-fermion systems.

This volume presents the most updated research reviews on the topics of QCD, Lightcone Quantization and Hadron Phenomenology.

The proceedings of the first meeting on "e;New Worlds in Astroparticle Physics"e; focus on the joint field of particle physics and astrophysics.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the XVIII International Symposium on Lepton-Photon Interactions.

This volume gathers the latest experimental results from HERA and captures new trends in HERA phenomenology.

This volume covers all aspects of particle detection using calorimetric techniques.

The main goal and impact of modern string theory is to provide a consistent quantum theory of gravity.

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.