The Gregory Breit Centennial Symposium: Yale University, USA

by Gregory Breit Centennial Symposium (1999 Yale University); Iachello, Francesco; Kusnezov, Dimitri F.; Hughes, Vernon W.; Hughes, Vernon W.; Iachello, Francesco; Kusnezov, Dimitri F.; Breit, Gregory

• ISBN13: 9789810245535
• ISBN10: 981024553X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-04-01
• Publisher: WORLD SCIENTIFIC PUB CO INC

Summary

Proceedings of the Gregory Breit Memorial Symposium, devoted to the legacy of Gregory Breit and to a number of topics in physics, including nuclear physics, atomic physics, and particle physics. The symposium was held October 22-26, 1999, at Yale University.

Table of Contents

Preface	xiii
Program of the Gregory Breit Centennial Symposium	1	(4)
Introductory Remarks about Gregory Breit	5	(10)
Vernon W. Hughes
The Legacy of Gregory Breit
Topics from High Precision Test of Quantum Electrodynamics	15	(20)
Toichiro Kinoshita
Introduction	15	(1)
Lepton Magnetic Moment Anomaly	15	(5)
Relativistic Two-Body Bound States	20	(8)
Various Determinations of α	28	(1)
Concluding Remarks	29	(6)
Helium Fine Structure, from Breit Interaction to Precise Laser Spectroscopy	35	(18)
F. Minardi
M. Inguscio
Introduction: Helium Atom and the Fine Structure Constant α	35	(1)
Breit's Two-Electron Theory...	35	(3)
...and Developments	38	(1)
Experiments	39	(3)
The Florence Experiments	42	(6)
Fine Structure Constant Determinations and Perspectives	48	(5)
The Isotope Shift	53	(26)
E.W. Otten
Introduction	53	(1)
The Discovery of the Nuclear Volume Effect in Isotope Shift	54	(2)
Early Theory of Isotope Shift	56	(3)
Survey of First Generation Results	59	(6)
Second Generation of IS Physics	65	(3)
Discussion of IS Systematics	68	(5)
Present Trends in Isotope Shift Measurements	73	(6)
Gregory Breit and the Fermion-Fermion Interaction	79	(8)
G.E. Brown
The Breit Interaction	79	(4)
The Nucleon-Nucleon Interaction	83	(4)
Ultra-Relativistic Nuclei: A New Frontier	87	(10)
L. McLerran
Two Fundamental Issues	87	(1)
The Ultra-Relativistic Nucleus	88	(3)
The High Density of Mesons	91	(1)
Experimentally Probing High Density QCD	92	(1)
AA Scattering	92	(3)
Basic Physics We Want to Study	95	(2)
Supersymmetry in Nuclei	97	(10)
F. Iachello
Supersymmetry	97	(1)
Supersymmetry in Nuclei	98	(5)
Supersymmetry in Nuclei Confirmed	103	(2)
Implications to Other Fields	105	(1)
Conclusions	105	(2)
100 Years of the Quantum - The Glory and the Shame	107	(10)
John Archibald Wheeler
Banquet Addresses
On Gregory Breit	117	(6)
McAllister Hull
Remarks from a Family Member	123	(2)
Ralph Wyckoff
Martin Klein
Frontiers of Nuclear Physics
Color, Spin and Flavor-Dependent Forces in Quantum Chromodynamics	125	(20)
R.L. Jaffe
Introduction	127	(1)
Basics: Regularities of the Q-Q Interaction	127	(3)
Baryons	130	(3)
Mesons	133	(4)
Back to Basics: Spectroscopic Rules for QN	137	(1)
Baryons and Dibaryons	138	(3)
Colorspin in Quark Matter	141	(4)
Nuclear Structure with Stable and Radioactive Beams	145	(36)
R.F. Casten
Introduction	145	(2)
Nuclear Structure	147	(10)
Studies with Stable Beams and Targets	157	(10)
The Study of Exotic Nuclei with RNBs	167	(11)
Conclusion	178	(3)
Equation of State of Nuclear Matter	181	(18)
Claus-Konrad Gelbke
Introduction	181	(1)
Measuring Temperatures	182	(4)
Observing Radial Expansion	186	(2)
Measuring the Space-Time Characteristics	188	(3)
Observing the Effects of Pressure	191	(4)
Summary and Outlook	195	(4)
Electric Dipole Tests of Time Reversal Symmetry	199	(18)
Norman F. Ramsey
Introduction	199	(2)
Neutron Beam Experiments	201	(1)
Trapped Neutron Experiments	202	(3)
Atomic and Molecular Electric Dipole Moment Experiments	205	(5)
Theoretical Implications	210	(7)
Laboratory Studies of Astrophysical Nuclear Reactions	217	(10)
C. Rolfs
Introduction	217	(1)
Nuclear Astrophysical Rates	218	(2)
The LUNA-Project	220	(2)
Other Rapidly Developing Experimental Techniques	222	(1)
Summary	223	(4)
Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider Physics	227	(24)
John W. Harris
Introduction	227	(7)
The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider Experiments	234	(17)
Gregory Breit: July 14, 1899- September 11, 1981	251	(20)
McAllister Hull
(Bibliographical Memoirs from the National Academy of Sciences)
Introduction	251	(1)
Personal History	252	(5)
Professional History	257	(12)
Biographical Memoirs: Selected Bibliography	269	(2)
Work on the Super and the Study of Atmospheric Ignition	271	(10)
A Brief Reminiscence by McAllister Hull	271	(3)
Gregory Breit's declassified report	274	(7)
Bibliography of Gregory Breit	281