Particle and high-energy physics

The Max Born Symposia started in 1991 and have been held once or twice a year in different places in Lower Silesia.

Quantum chromodynamics is the fundamental theory of strong interactions.

Quantum chaos is becoming a very wide field that ranges from experiments to theoretical physics and purely mathematical issues.

This book provides an authoritative, up to date, overview of the field of chiral dynamics, and also provides an excellent introduction to the field.

The Conference "e;Bologna 2000: Structure of the Nucleus at the Dawn of the Century"e; was devoted to a discipline which has seen a strong revival of research activities in the last decade.

Recently there has been much interest in studying events with tagged forward protons at the existing and forthcoming hadronic colliders, the Tevatron and the LHC.

This volume is devoted to different facets of QCD, stressing non-perturbative, analytic and lattice formulations, scattering solutions and approximations, and the understanding of recent RHIC experiments.

This volume is centered on recent developments in the exploration of hadronic structure through lepton scattering, in the description of hadron physics directly from lattice QCD and non-perturbative QCD models, and in efforts to strengthen the links between these activities.

The proceedings of DIS 2001 present the most updated status of deep inelastic scattering (DIS) physics.

The study of N*s can provide us with critical insights into the nature of QCD in the confinement domain.

This book presents reviews and new findings in the field of the very early universe, where the interests of particle theorists and astrophysicists meet.

Many of the topics in this book are outgrowths of the spectacular new understanding of duality in string theory which emerged around 1995.

In August/September 2000, a group of 80 physicists from 53 laboratories in 15 countries met in Erice, Italy, to participate in the 38th Course of the International School of Subnuclear Physics.

Physicists are pondering on the possibility of simulating black holes in the laboratory by means of various "e;analog models"e;.

This volume presents the possibility of high intensity muon sources whose intensity would be at least 104 higher than that available now.

This volume presents the newest results and developments in the fast-moving field of astroparticle physics.

This book addresses the theoretical, phenomenological and experimental aspects of supersymmetry in particle physics as well as its implications in cosmology.

It is generally felt in the cosmology and particle astrophysics community that we have just entered an era which later can only be looked back upon as a golden age.

In this volume, the following topics are discussed: study of intermediate and low energy heavy ion collisions, nuclear structure at high spin, nuclei far from stability, radioactive ion beam physics and development of experimental facilities.

This volume includes papers about practical aspects of operating accelerators for a variety of purposes, from basic research to materials science.

Neutrinos play a key role in many areas of particle physics, nuclear physics and astrophysics.

Superstring theory and its successor, M-theory, hold promises of a deeper understanding of the Standard Model of particle physics, the unification of the four fundamental forces, the quantum theory of gravity, the mysteries of quantum black holes, Big Bang cosmology and, ultimately, their complete synthesis in a final theory of physics.

This book presents a recent survey of the advances in hadron physics.

The story of the discovery of supersymmetry is a fascinating one, unlike that of any other major development in the history of science.

In this volume, topics such as the AdS/CFT correspondence, non-BPS states, noncommutative gauge theories and the Randall-Sundrum scenario are discussed.

Hadronic radiotherapy uses particle beams to treat tumors located near critical body structures and tumors that respond poorly to conventional photon and electron beam radiotherapy.

In August/September 1999, a group of 68 physicists from 48 laboratories in 17 countries met in Erice, Italy, to participate in the 37th Course of the International School of Subnuclear Physics.

This book contains the proceedings of the Gregory Breit Centennial Symposium.

This book is devoted to the broad subject of flavor physics, embracing the question of what distinguishes one type of elementary particles from another.

Quantum chromodynamics is generally accepted to be the quantum field theory which describes the strong interactions in elementary particle physics.

This book provides a unified description of elementary particle interactions and the underlying theories, namely the Standard Model and beyond.

The XVIII Lisbon Autumn School brought together physicists from different areas, ranging from QCD to condensed matter.

The history of spin in general, and of the nucleon spin structure in particular, has been full of surprises.

This volume in contemporary physics records the blossoming physical activities that have occurred at the turn of the millennium, including the most up-to-date and exciting scientific and technological discoveries of recent years.

Lattice field theory is the most reliable tool for investigating non-perturbative phenomena in particle physics.

The second edition of Non-Perturbative Methods in Two-Dimensional Quantum Field Theory is an extensively revised version, involving major changes and additions.

The objective of the workshop series "e;The Identification of Dark Matter"e; is to assess critically the status of work attempting to identify what constitutes dark matter; in particular, to consider what techniques are currently being used, how successful they are, and what new techniques are likely to improve the prospects for identifying dark matter candidates in the future.

We could be on the threshold of a scientific revolution.

This book presents a series of delightful interviews in which natural objects such as an electron, a black hole, a galaxy, and even the vacuum itself, reveal their innermost secrets - not only what they are but also how they feel.

This book describes baryon models constructed from quarks, mesons and chiral symmetry.

Low energy neutron beams are used to address many questions in nuclear physics, particle physics and astrophysics.

This book contains articles by experts on the plasma phase of quantum chromodynamics, and the plasma phase of electroweak interactions.

This is an invaluable collection of colloquium-type lectures given by some of the most prominent theoretical physicists of today.

This book offers the first strong evidence of the existence of CP violation in neutral B decays extracted from sophisticated B factories in the US and Japan.

This volume covers many different subjects, from very high energy cosmic rays to neutrino physics, gravitational waves and cosmology.

V N Gribov, one of the founders of modern particle physics, shaped our understanding of QCD as the microscopic dynamics of hadrons.

The Lake Louise Winter Institute is held annually to explore recent trends in physics in an informal setting.

This volume is dedicated to Riccardo Giacconi for his sixty-fifth birthday, on the occasion of his being awarded a "e;Laurea Honoris Causa"e; in physics at the University of Rome "e;La Sapienza"e;.