Proceedings of the Workshop on Quantum Infrared Physics

by Workshop on Quantum Infrared Physics; Muller, Berndt; Fried, H. M.

• ISBN13: 9789810221737
• ISBN10: 9810221738
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1995-07-01
• Publisher: World Scientific Pub Co Inc

Table of Contents

Preface
The Unreliability of the Perturbative Method in Non-Abelian Models	p. 3
Horizon Condition Holds Pointwise on Finite Lattice with Free Boundary Conditions	p. 10
Can an Infrared-Vanishing Gluon Propagator Confine Quarks?	p. 18
Renormalization of Scale Invariant Field Theories	p. 31
Dependence of Holomorphicity of the Gauge Coupling Constant on the Mass Matrix in Susy Theories	p. 41
Infrared Technology in Perturbative QCD Calculations	p. 51
Subtleties and Fancies in Gauge Theory Non-Trivial Vacuum	p. 56
Fixed Points, Saddle Points and Universality	p. 71
Elimination of Color in 1+1-Dimensional QCD	p. 77
Gauge Invariant Regulator and Renormalization Group	p. 83
Adiabatic Gauge Theory	p. 90
Entropy and Vacuum-Induced Quantum Decoherence	p. 95
Hard Thermal Loops and Collective Excitations	p. 105
Thermal Field Theory and its Application to Astrophysics	p. 113
The Infrared Sensitivity of Nonabelian Debye Screening	p. 116
Exact Sum Rules at Finite Temperature and Chemical Potential and Their Application to QCD	p. 121
Hard Diffraction and Rapidity Gaps	p. 129
Phenomenology of the Soft Pomeron	p. 138
The Theory of the Soft Pomeron	p. 154
Dual Parton Model for Soft Hadronic Collisions	p. 167
Higher-Order Lipatov Kernels and the QCD Pomeron	p. 177
An Angle Representation of QCD	p. 188
Non-Perturbative Solutions of Schwinger Equation	p. 196
Dimensional Transition in Gauge Theories	p. 200
Multiple Solutions in Quantum Field Theory	p. 205
Infrared Quantum Fluctuations and the Cosmological Constant Problem	p. 212
Long-Range Forces, Infrared Divergences, and Bound-State QED	p. 227
Recent Progress in Positronium Physics	p. 235
QED Bound State Methods	p. 244
New Developments in the Theory of Muonium Hyperfine Splitting	p. 262
Status of the Theory of the Hydrogen Lamb Shift	p. 281
Behavior of Total and Elastic Cross Sections at Very High Energies	p. 291
Do We Understand Total Cross-Sections?	p. 303
High Energy Hadronic Collision as Diffusion Process and Heterotic Pomeron	p. 313
Screening Corrections in High Energy Hadron and Photoproduction Reactions	p. 321
Sudakov Corrections in Hard Exclusive Processes	p. 331
Yang Millsian Field Theory and Riemannian Geometry	p. 341
Effective Lagrangian for Constituent Quarks	p. 351
Dual QCD and the Determination of Quarkonium Masses	p. 363
Linear Response Theory: The Roper Resonance	p. 375
Nonperturbative Effects in Low Energy Effective Theories of QCD	p. 383
Generalized Chiral Perturbation Theory	p. 393
Gauged Linear [sigma]-Model and Nucleon Structure	p. 401
Microscopic Description of Chiral Solitions?	p. 411
Abelian Action for Quark Confinement	p. 421
Finite Temperature Effective Potential for Spontaneously Broken [actual symbol not reproducible] Theory	p. 428
The Infrared Sector of QCD from Lattice Simulations	p. 433
Exact [actual symbol not reproducible] Condensates in [actual symbol not reproducible]	p. 438
The Free Energy of Hot QED at Three and a Half Loops	p. 443
New Truths About Old Friends	p. 446
A Quantum Gravitational Mechanism for Exiting Inflation	p. 450
Strange Particles and Quark-Gluon Plasma	p. 460
On the Self-Coherence of the Hadron High-Energy total Cross-Section Data	p. 475
The Odderon Intercept in Perturbative QCD	p. 484
Generalized Theory of Gravitation	p. 489
Electroweak Physics at LEP	p. 500
Chaos in Nonabelian Gauge Theories	p. 509
Soft Photon Production in Quark-Gluon Plasma	p. 519
Many-Body Structure in Hamiltonian QCD	p. 525
List of Participants	p. 533
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