Particle and high-energy physics

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.

This book constitutes the proceedings of a workshop on 'Exclusive and Semi-exclusive Processes at High Momentum Transfer', sponsored by the Institute for Nuclear Theory (Seattle) and the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (Jefferson Laboratory).

This workshop brought together theorists actively working in studies of QCD and general aspects of dynamics in non-Abelian gauge theories.

This volume focusses on four main topics: structure functions, tests of quantum chromodynamics, physics at the highest Q2 and p2T, and high energy scattering and diffraction.

The conference NSTAR 2000 was part of a series of conferences and workshops that began in New York in 1988.

This proceedings volume brings together the contributions of experts from different fields within the nuclear physics community.

During the last three decades supersymmetry has grown into one of the busiest theoretical avenues of particle physics.

This book covers various experimental and theoretical aspects of multiparticle production in high energy interactions from lepton-lepton, lepton-hadron, hadron-hadron, hadron-nucleus and heavy ion collisons.

The quark confinement mechanism is one of the most difficult problems in particle physics, and is listed as the 7 difficult mathematical problems of the new millennium.

This book represents the proceedings of a symposium held during the centennial meeting of the American Physical Society.

This volume deals with the electroweak interactions at low and high energies.

This volume summarizes our contemporary understanding of the deconfinement transition in QCD at finite temperature and chemical potential.

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

This proceedings volume presents current developments in nuclear physics which are driven by new experimental facilities (e.

Charmonium suppression is a promising signal of quark-gluon plasma.

This volume contains the contributions of 47 leading researchers in high energy physics, both theorists and experimentalists, from all over the world.

This volume encompasses current issues in the physics of baryons, including their spectroscopy and quark-gluon substructure, and investigations with electroweak and strong interacting probes.

Electrostatic particle accelerators are used in a number of fields, such as nuclear physics, atomic physics, materials science, accelerator mass spectrometry, environmental science and even art.

This volume presents introductory lectures on the Standard Model and Higgs physics, as well as QCD.

These lecture notes discusses the developments both in the theoretical understanding of the physics and mathematics of magnetic monopoles as well as the ways in which they can be detected experimentally.

The purpose of this workshop is to discuss the various pictures of color confinement and its consequences on the properties of hadrons.

Deciphering the script for the Big Bang has now become a joint effort of particle physicists and cosmologists.

This book is dedicated to Prof H Miyazawa in commemoration of his 60th birthday.

Quarks '90 covers various topics in the theory of elementary particles and quantum fields (including perturbative and non-perturbative QCD, sphalerons, topological field theory, strings and superstrings, physics in TeV region), astrophysics and cosmology as related to particle physics.

These proceedings consist of a series of detailed pedagogical lectures on a variety of theoretical and experimental topics.

Some topics covered during the workshop include String Theory, Conformal Field Theory, Physics in 2+1 Dimensions, String Phenomenology and Quantum Cosmology.

The book centers mainly on the geometrical ideas on hadron scattering as generated by C-N Yang and his collaborators.

This volume reviews the most recent progress on new exact solutions of the Yang-Mills SU(2) gauge field equations.

This is an excellent book on dual model and string theories.

This book is a collection of original papers on dynamical gauge symmetry breaking, and is intended for graduate students and researchers in theoretical physics (elementary particle physics and others) who have an understanding of basic quantum field theory.