Effective Theories - Proceedings Of The Advanced School


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This volume contains the proceedings of one of the first schools devoted to effective field theories. This subject has recently raised great interest in high energy physics and has become extremely useful in the analysis of experimental data. The lectures cover a wide spectrum of applications of effective field theories with a pedagogical approach, also paying attention to the most recent developments.




Electroweak Theory: Proceedings Of The Advanced School On Electweak Theory


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Contents:Quark Mixing and CP Violation (F J Gilman)Heavy Quark Effective Theory (A V Manohar)Introduction to Low-Energy Supersymmetry (G F Giudice)An Introduction to Dynamical Electroweak Symmetry Breaking (R S Chivukula)Hadron Colliders, the Top Quark, and the Higgs Sector (C Quigg)Physics Potential of LEP2 and NLC (R Miquel)Precision Tests of the Electroweak Theory (P Langacker) Readership: High energy physicists. Keywords:




Educational Effectiveness and Ineffectiveness


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This book is a critical assessment of the knowledge base on educational effectiveness, covering a period of five decades of research. It formulates a “lean” theory of good schooling, and identifies and explains instances of “ineffectiveness”, such as low effect sizes of malleable conditions, for which expectations are highly strung. The book presents a systemic outlook on educational effectiveness and improvement, as it starts out from an integrated multi-level model that comprises system level, school level and instructional conditions. It offers a classification of school improvement strategies and scenarios for system level educational improvement. Above all, the analysis is very systematic, comprehensive and strongly grounded in theory. The book includes a case study analysis of various strands of improvement-oriented educational policy in the Netherlands as an illustration of some of the arguments used.




Eighth Marcel Grossmann Meeting, The: On Recent Developments In Theoretical And Experimental General Relativity, Gravitation, And Relativistic Field Theories - Proceedings Of The Meeting (In 2 Parts)


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Since 1975, the Marcel Grossmann Meetings have been organized to provide opportunities for discussing recent advances in gravitation, general relativity and relativistic field theories, emphasizing mathematical foundations, physical predictions and experimental tests. The objective of these meetings is to facilitate exchange among scientists that may deepen our understanding of space-time structures and to review the status of ongoing experiments aimed at testing Einstein's theory of gravitation from either the ground or space.The Eighth Marcel Grossmann Meeting took place on 22-27 June, 1997, at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. The scientific program included 25 plenary talks and 40 parallel sessions during which 400 papers were presented. The papers that appear in this book cover all aspects of gravitation, from mathematical issues to recent observations and experiments.










Modern Perspectives in Lattice QCD: Quantum Field Theory and High Performance Computing


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The book is based on the lectures delivered at the XCIII Session of the École de Physique des Houches, held in August, 2009. The aim of the event was to familiarize the new generation of PhD students and postdoctoral fellows with the principles and methods of modern lattice field theory, which aims to resolve fundamental, non-perturbative questions about QCD without uncontrolled approximations. The emphasis of the book is on the theoretical developments that have shaped the field in the last two decades and that have turned lattice gauge theory into a robust approach to the determination of low energy hadronic quantities and of fundamental parameters of the Standard Model. By way of introduction, the lectures begin by covering lattice theory basics, lattice renormalization and improvement, and the many faces of chirality. A later course introduces QCD at finite temperature and density. A broad view of lattice computation from the basics to recent developments was offered in a corresponding course. Extrapolations to physical quark masses and a framework for the parameterization of the low-energy physics by means of effective coupling constants is covered in a lecture on chiral perturbation theory. Heavy-quark effective theories, an essential tool for performing the relevant lattice calculations, is covered from its basics to recent advances. A number of shorter courses round out the book and broaden its purview. These included recent applications to the nucleon--nucleon interation and a course on physics beyond the Standard Model.




Particle Physics of Brane Worlds and Extra Dimensions


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A comprehensive account of new models of extra dimensions which form an important part of present-day high-energy physics.




I. Ya Pomeranchuk and Physics at the Turn of the Century


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This conference was dedicated to the memory of the great scientist and teacher I Ya Pomeranchuk on the occasion of his 90th birthday. It was multidisciplinary and covered those fields of physics where Pomeranchuk made outstanding contributions OCo including high energy physics, quantum field theory, theory of liquid helium, condensed matter physics, physics of electromagnetic processes in matter, and astrophysics. Most of the plenary talks and reports were given by Pomeranchuk''s former students and coworkers. The proceedings volume provides an excellent review of some important areas of modern physics and reflects the Pomeranchuk school''s contributions to modern physics. It is useful for graduate students, lecturers and researchers in high energy physics, quantum field theory and condensed matter physics. The proceedings have been selected for coverage in: . OCo Index to Scientific & Technical Proceedings- (ISTP- / ISI Proceedings). OCo Index to Scientific & Technical Proceedings (ISTP CDROM version / ISI Proceedings). Contents: The Life and Legacy of Pomeranchuk (L B Okun); Cosmology at the Turn of Centuries (A D Dolgov); Anisotropic Colored Superfluids (J Hosek); String Models and Hadron Excited States on the Regge Trajectories (G S Sharov); Spherical Spinors on the Sphere (A A Abrikosov, Jr); Induced Quantum Long-Range Interactions in General Relativity (I B Khriplovich & G G Kirilin); Radiation from Chiral Cosmic Strings (E O Babichev & V I Dokuchaev); Massive Primordial Black Holes in Hybrid Inflation (S G Rubin); Metallic Conductivity in Disordered Electron Systems (B N Narozhny); Quasi-Solvable Quantum Many-Body Systems of Inozemtsev Type (T Tanaka); and other papers. Readership: Researchers and graduate students in astro-, high-energy, low-temperature, mathematical and theoretical physics."