The Subnuclear Series - Vol. 34
EFFECTIVE THEORIES AND FUNDAMENTAL INTERACTIONS
Proceedings of the International School of Subnuclear Physics
Erice, Sicily, Italy 3 - 12 July 1996
edited by Antonio Zichichi (European Physical Society, Switzerland)
This book is a unique report on the frontiers of subnuclear physics presented by world specialists in a clear, rigorous and simple way.
The problem of the physical vacuum is presented in the opening lecture by T D Lee and the effective string-theoretical approach to cosmological vacua by G Veneziano. Effective theoretical approaches to light and heavy quark physics are presented by H Leutwyler and M Neubert. V N Gribov discusses the quark confinement and N Seiberg the problem of finding the effective actions in supersymmetric theories. A detailed analysis confronting electroweak theory with the high precision experimental data is presented by D Schildknecht. The great specialist in membrane theory, M Duff, presents the latest results of the 11-dimensional approach, while the finite temperature effective theories are discussed by M Shaposhnikov. The unification and the physics beyond the standard model constitute the content of the lectures by R Barbieri and D Nanopoulos. The experimental data from LEP and Hera are presented by M Pohl and G Wolf. N F Ramsey, the world specialist in the field, discusses how to explore the universe with atomic clocks. An elusive Z¢ is the subject of a specialised seminar by P Frampton.
This volume contains the reports presented by a selected group of "new talents" on various topics in the field of subnuclear physics.
Contents:
- Opening Lecture: The Physical Vacuum as a
Condensate (T D Lee)
- Theory and Phenomenology: The Theory of Quark Confinement (V N Gribov)
- Light-Quark Effective Theory (H Leutwyler)
- Heavy-Quark Effective Theories (M Neubert)
- Electroweak Theory Confronting Precision Data (D Schildknecht)
- Effective Field Theory and Physics Beyond the Standard Model (R Barbieri)
- Unified Theories with U(2) Flavour Symmetry (R Barbieri)
- Lectures on Supersymmetric Gauge Theories and Electric–Magnetic Duality (N Seiberg)
- An Amusing Cosmology from the String Effective Action (G Veneziano)
- Ten to Eleven: It is Not Too Late (M J Duff)
- Finite-Temperature Effective Theories (M E Shaposhnikov)
- Flipped No-Scale Supergravity: A Synopsis (D V Nanopoulos)
- Specialised Seminar: Exploring the Universe with Atomic Clocks (N F Ramsey)
- An Elusive Z¢ Coupled to Beauty (P H Frampton)
- Physics Results: Status and Perspectives: Recent Results from LEP (M Pohl)
- Recent Results from HERA (G Wolf)
- Universality Features in Multihadronic Final States (A Zichichi)
- Special Sessions for New Talents: Field Theory Near the Critical Temperature (J Berges)
- Measurement of the Lifetime of the Tau Lepton (M Biasini)
- Study of the K0s – K0s Final State in Two-Photon Collisions (S Braccini)
- Toward an Effective Theory of Small-x QCD (C Ewerz)
- Status of the Chrous Experiment and Study of Charm Production (J Herin)
- Colour-Suppressed Hadronic B Meson Decays (Y Y Keum)
- CP Violation in Non-leptonic Two-Body Decays of Charmed Mesons (P Santorelli)
- Spectroscopy of Solar Neutrinos: Present Status and Future Prospects (S Schönert)
- pp S-Wave Interaction and 0++ Particles (B-S Zou)
Readership: High energy, experimental and theoretical physicists.
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Pub. date: Nov 1997 |
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