Particle and high-energy physics

This book provides in a pedagogical way some up-to-date reviews of properties of strongly interacting matter produced at RHIC, analytical approaches to QCD, and nuclear and high-energy astrophysics.

The physics of nuclear collective motion was pioneered by A Bohr and B R Mottelson 50 years ago.

In the year 2000, the city of Bologna was the European Capital for Culture.

The symposium and workshop "e;Continuous Advances in QCD / Arkadyfest"e; was the fifth in the series of meetings organized by the William I Fine Theoretical Physics Institute at the University of Minnesota.

The proceedings of the 4th Italy-Japan Symposium on Heavy Ion Physics cover the following fields of nuclear physics: heavy ion nuclear reactions; nuclei under extreme conditions; nuclear astrophysics; photon detectors and physics; technology of RI beams and experimental instrumentation; application of RI beams.

This book deals with recent topics in the field of ion beam cooling.

This book contains written versions of the presentations made at the 4th International Workshop on the Identification of Dark Matter (IDM 2002), held in York, UK, in September 2002.

This book focuses on the physics of exclusive processes at high momentum transfer and their description in terms of generalized parton distributions, perturbative QCD, and relativistic quark models.

This volume contains the invited talks and contributed papers presented at the workshop on "e;Testing QCD Through Spin Observables in Nuclear Targets"e;, held at the University of Virginia in April 2002.

The 2002 International Symposium on Cosmology and Particle Astrophysics (CosPA2002) was held from May 31 to June 2, 2002, in Taipei, Taiwan.

This book focuses on current topics in astronomy, astrophysics and nuclear astrophysics.

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

This volume of proceedings deals with a wide variety of topics - both in theory and in experiment - in particle physics, such as electroweak theory, tests of the Standard Model and beyond, heavy quark physics, nonperturbative QCD, neutrino physics, astroparticle physics, quantum gravity effects, and physics at the future accelerators.

String phenomenology offers a bridge between the excitement and novelty that typified theoretical physics in recent years and experimental reality.

The SEWM2002 workshop, like the ones before, brought together theoretical physicists working on thermal field theory and, more generally, on (resummation) techniques for deriving effective actions based on QCD and the electroweak standard model of elementary particle physics, but describing nonstandard situations.

This book gives a detailed, up-to-date account of the Lense-Thirring effect and its implications for physics and astrophysics.

This book provides an update on our understanding of strong interaction, with theoretical and experimental highlights included.

This volume contains the proceedings of the GDH 2002 symposium.

This book covers a wide range of problems in elementary particle production physics - particle fluctuations and correlations, diffractive processes, soft and hard processes in quantum chromodynamics, heavy ion collisions, etc.

This book deals with the latest developments in the area of three-quark systems.

Paul Adrian Maurice Dirac (1902-84) is one of the icons of modern physics.

This book covers recent advances in the physics of nucleon resonances, including new experimental results from laboratories in the USA, Europe, and Asia, and new developments in effective field theories, quark models, and lattice gauge theory.

The discovery of neutrino oscillations in 1998 initiated efforts to form a group to work on the detailed study of the phenomenon; this study is now supported by a grant-in-aid in the specific field of neutrinos from the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports.

The International Symposium on Frontiers of Science was held to celebrate the 80th birthday of Chen Ning Yang, one of the great physicists of the 20th century and arguably the most-admired living scientist in China today.

This volume presents the important recent progress in both theoretical and phenomenological issues of strong coupling gauge theories, with/without supersymmetry and extra dimensions, etc.

This book presents more than 100 papers devoted to the understanding of fission processes and neutron-rich nuclei.

This important book presents the proceedings of the conference "e;Neutrinos and Implications for Physics Beyond the Standard Model"e;, put on by the Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics, State University of New York at Stony Brook.

This book contains a wide spectrum of articles which report the current research progress in topics concerning the dynamics of multiparticle production in high energy collision processes, with emphasis on nonperturbative aspects of QCD.

In August/September 2002, a group of 78 physicists from 50 laboratories in 17 countries met in Erice, Italy, to participate in the 40th Course of the International School of Subnuclear Physics.

This book is useful to people working or planning to work in the field of linear accelerators.

C N Yang, one of the greatest physicists of the 20th Century, was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1957, jointly with T D Lee, for their investigation of the relationship (parity symmetry) between left- and right-handed states, leading to a discovery that astounded the world of physics - the nonconservation of parity by elementary particles and their reactions.

This book constitutes the proceedings of a workshop which originated from a discussion with Professor A Zichichi in March 2001.

This invaluable book is an extensive set of lecture notes on various aspects of non-perturbative quantum chromodynamics - the fundamental theory of strong interaction on which nuclear and hadronic physics is based.

This invaluable proceedings contains contributions from leading scientists in astrophysics, cosmology and related fields such as gravitation and elementary particles physics.

The Fourth International Workshop on New Worlds in Astroparticle Physics was the latest in the biennial series, held in Faro, Portugal.

This volume contains reports on state-of-the-art studies relevant to signal detection in important scientific areas such as environmental, industrial and biomedical monitoring.

This is a collection of review articles and more specialized papers on the main issues of early universe physics.

This invaluable book is a historical account of the Cornell Electron Storage Ring and its main detector facility, CLEO, from their beginnings in the late 1970's until the end of data collection at particle energies above the threshold for B meson production in June 2001.

This is an updated version of the book published in 1985.

This volume contains contributions to the XXI International Symposium on Lepton and Photon Interactions at High Energies, held at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.

This book contains the contributions to the Workshop on the Physics and Applications of High Brightness Electron Beams, held in July 2002 in Sardinia, Italy.

The original edition of Introduction to Nuclear and Particle Physics was used with great success for single-semester courses on nuclear and particle physics offered by American and Canadian universities at the undergraduate level.

The possible upgrade of LHC or a future generation of colliders at the extreme limits of energy and luminosity will require detectors based on very advanced technological solutions to fully exploit the physics opportunities offered.

This book makes a global survey of nonperturbative aspects of quantum chromodynamics (QCD) from the viewpoints of mathematical, elementary-particle and hadron physics, including recent lattice-QCD results.

This book covers some recent advances in string theory and extra dimensions.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the fifth in a series of meetings dealing with the nuclear fission process, mainly at low excitation energy.

Originally invented for generating the first artificial nuclear reactions, particle accelerators have undergone, during the past 80 years, a fascinating development that is an impressive example of the inventiveness and perseverance of scientists and engineers.

This volume contains lectures presented at the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Annual Hampton University Graduate Studies at the Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility (HUGS at CEBAF) Summer Schools.

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

This is the proceedings of the International Symposium on Origin of Matter and Evolution of Galaxies which was held near Tokyo, Japan, in November 2003.