From Quarks and Gluons to Quantum Gravity

by Zichichi, Antonino

• ISBN13: 9789812386137
• ISBN10: 9812386130
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-03-01
• Publisher: WORLD SCIENTIFIC PUB CO INC

Summary

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. The purpose of the School was to focus attention on the theoretical and phenomenological developments in gauge theories, as well as in all the other sectors of subnuclear physics. Experimental highights from the most relevant sources of new data were presented and discussed, including the latest news on theoretical developments in quantizing the gravitational forces. This volume constitutes the proceedings of the School. It is dedicated to the memory of Victor Frederick Weisskopf, a founder -- together with John Stewart Bell, Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett and Isidor Isaac Rabi -- of the "Ettore Majorana" Centre for Scientific Culture, this School being the first of its 114 Schools now in existence.

Table of Contents

Lattice Field Theory and SU(N) Gauge Theories	p. 1
Symmetries and Quasi-Particles in Hot QCD	p. 44
Physics of QCD Instantons	p. 105
Confinement and Duality	p. 154
Probing Grand Unification Through Neutrino Oscillations, Leptogenesis and Proton Decay	p. 194
Status of Super String Theory	p. 237
Perturbative Quantum Gravity	p. 249
Proton Structure and Its Flavor Decomposition	p. 270
Selected Highlights from the First Heavy Ion Runs at RHIC	p. 304
Highlights from Gran Sasso	p. 313
Experimental Highlights from Super-Kamiokande	p. 348
The Fermilab Experimental Physics Program	p. 384
Interpretation of the Search for Neutral Higgs Bosons at OPAL in a CP-Violating MSSM Scenario	p. 391
Application of the Large-N[subscript c] Limit to a Chiral Lagrangian with Resonances	p. 402
Towards the Finite Temperature Gluon Propagator in Landau Gauge Yang-Mills Theory	p. 411
Hermes Measurements of the Nucleon Spin Structure	p. 420
Prizes and Scholarships	p. 429
Participants	p. 432
Table of Contents provided by Blackwell. All Rights Reserved.