Particle and high-energy physics

This book describes the memorable theoretical work that motivated the construction of the electron-positron accelerators at CERN and SLAC, and the monumental experimental effort that led to a verification of the main theoretical expectations at these laboratories and at Fermilab.

One of the main challenges in nuclear and particle physics in the last 20 years has been to understand how the proton's spin is built up from its quark and gluon constituents.

These proceedings honor the long careers in theoretical particle physics of B H J McKellar and G C Joshi, who established theoretical particle physics research at the University of Melbourne.

This book is centered on the most pressing unsolved problem in elementary particle physics - the mass generation of particles.

This book consists of a series of lectures to cover every facet of the modern version of lattice QCD.

These proceedings are devoted to a wide variety of both theoretical and experimental, areas in particle physics.

This proceedings volume contains the latest developments in particle physics in collider experiments.

Belonging to the prestigious Rochester Conference Series, ICHEP 2006 is the most important international conference in 2006 on high energy physics.

Noncommutative geometry provides a powerful tool for regularizing quantum field theories in the form of fuzzy physics.

Chiral Dynamics 2006 is the 5th International Workshop which examines the implications and the development of an approximate low-energy solution to the QCD Lagrangian based upon Chiral Symmetry.

This is the sequel to the first volume to treat in one effective field theory framework the physics of strongly interacting matter under extreme conditions.

Cooper pairing of fermions is a profound phenomenon that has become very important in many different areas of physics in the recent past.

While perturbative QCD methods fully describe experimental results at high energies, and chiral perturbation theory is the low energy effective theory of the strong interactions, a form of duality is observed connecting these two regimes.

This book reviews the status of a very exciting field - neutrino oscillations - at a very important time.

These proceedings comprise cutting-edge contributions by researchers at the frontiers of beam physics, free-electron-based light sources, and advanced accelerators.

This proceedings volume contains the latest results from the field of particle physics.

This volume features contributions by the leading authorities on the physics of unstable nuclei.

This volume is a collection of lectures given by distinguished physicists from around the world, covering the most recent advances in theoretical physics and the latest results from current experimental facilities.

Exclusive reactions are becoming one of the major sources of information about the deep structure of nucleons and other hadrons.

The International Symposium on "e;Exotic States of Nuclear Matter"e; was a unique opportunity to review and discuss the many aspects of nuclear matter under extreme conditions and the corresponding possible exotic states like hyperonic matter, kaon condensates, and quark matter, which can appear both in astrophysical compact objects like neutron stars and in heavy ion collision experiments.

This edition of the private and scientific correspondence of Sir Rudolf Peierls gives a unique insight into the life and work of one of the greatest theoretical physicists of the 20th century.

Dark matter remains one of the central mysteries in modern physics, although modern astronomical observations and particle physics experiments are providing vital clues in uncovering its true nature.

This book is devoted to the investigation of the strongly interacting hadrons - to a quark model operating with effective color particles, constituent quarks, massive effective gluons and diquarks.

This book, like its first edition, addresses the fundamental principles of interaction between radiation and matter and the principle of particle detectors in a wide scope of fields, from low to high energy, including space physics and the medical environment.

The exploration of the subnuclear world is done through increasingly complex experiments covering a wide range of energies and in a large variety of environments - from particle accelerators and underground detectors to satellites and space laboratories.

This book presents a history of the Midwestern Universities Research Association (MURA) during its lifetime from the early 1950s to the late 1960s.

After decades of research and development, emission detectors have recently become the most successful instrumentation used in modern fundamental experiments searching for cold dark matter, and are also considered for neutrino coherent scattering and magnetic momentum neutrino measurement.

This proceedings volume provides a comprehensive overview of the selected reports given at the International Workshops on Very High Multiplicity Physics from 2000 through 2007.

Particle accelerators are a major invention of the 20th century.

Murray Gell-Mann is one of the leading physicists of the world.

This proceedings volume is devoted to a wide variety of items, both in theory and experiment, of particle physics such as tests of the Standard Model and beyond, physics at the future accelerators, neutrino and astroparticle physics, heavy quark physics, non-perturbative QCD, quantum gravity effects and cosmology.

This book contains material from the lecture courses conducted at the Theoretical Advanced Study Institute (TASI, Colorado, USA) on high energy physics and cosmology in 2008.

This book is a unique summary of the results of a long research project undertaken by the authors on discreteness in modern physics.

This book provides a self-contained description of the measurements of the magnetic dipole moments of the electron and muon, along with a discussion of the measurements of the fine structure constant, and the theory associated with magnetic and electric dipole moments.

This memorial volume on the work of Wolfgang Kummer brings together articles devoted to the history of high energy physics with detailed coverage on the scientific concepts and scientific institutions, in particular CERN - and the underlying physics involved.

The reactor-based laboratory at the Institut Laue-Langevin is recognized as the world's most productive and reliable source of slow neutrons for the study of low energy particle and nuclear physics.

Too often descriptions of detectors focus on the 'what' and not the 'why'.

Transversity 2008, the second workshop on "e;Transverse polarization phenomena in hard processes"e; follows the first one held in Como after three years.

This is a sequel to the World Scientific volume edited by Gerald E Brown in 1994 entitled "e;Selected Papers, with Commentary, of Tony Hilton Royle Skyrme"e;.

This book contains pedagogical lectures on both theoretical and experimental particle physics, cosmology, and atomic trap physics.

This volume covers recent developments in the major areas of theoretical physics.

Whenever systems are governed by continuous chains of causes and effects, their behavior exhibits the consequences of dynamical symmetries, many of them far from obvious.

This is a review volume containing articles written by experts on current theoretical topics in the subject of Quark-Gluon Plasma created in heavy-ion collisions at high energy.

Dark matter and dark energy are one of the central mysteries in modern physics, although modern astrophysical and cosmological observations and particle physics experiments can and will provide vital clues in uncovering its true nature.

This book contains the Proceedings of the Seventh Meeting on CPT and Lorentz Symmetry, held at Indiana University in Bloomington on June 20-24, 2016.

The book "e;Channeling 2008"e;, Charged and Neutral Particles Channeling Phenomena, is formed by the same title conference contributions.

Supersymmetry is at an exciting stage of development.

The exploration of the subnuclear world is done through increasingly complex experiments covering a wide range of energy and performed in a large variety of environments from particle accelerators, underground detectors to satellites and space laboratory.

This volume captures the contents of the talks given at the Workshop on Applications of High Intensity Proton Accelerators held at Fermilab Oct 19-21, 2009.