16th Conference on Flavor Physics and CP Violation


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Presenting the proceedings of FPCP 2018, this book reviews the status quo of flavor physics and discusses the latest findings in this exciting area. Flavor physics has been instrumental in the formulation and understanding of the standard model, and it is possible that the direction of new physics will be significantly influenced by flavor sector, also known as the intensity frontier, making it possible to indirectly test the existence of new physics up to a very high scale, beyond that of the energy frontier scale accessible at the LHC. The book is intended for academics around the globe involved in particle physics research, professionals associated with the related technologies and those who are interested in learning about the future of physics and its prospects and directions.




Workshop on Frontiers in High Energy Physics 2019


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This book presents the proceedings of The International Workshop on Frontiers in High Energy Physics (FHEP 2019), held in Hyderabad, India. It highlights recent, exciting experimental findings from LHC, KEK, LIGO and several other facilities, and discusses new ideas for the unified treatment of cosmology and particle physics and in the light of new observations, which could pave the way for a better understanding of the universe we live in. As such, the book provides a platform to foster collaboration in order to provide insights into this important field of physics.




Flavor Physics and the TeV Scale


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The ?avor sector carries the largest number of parameters in the Standard Model of particle physics. With no evident symmetry principle behind its existence, it is not as well understood as the SU(3)×SU(2)×U(1) gauge interactions. Yet it tends to be underrated, sometimes even ignored, by the erudite. This is especially so on the verge of the LHC era, where the exploration of the physics of electroweak symmetry breaking at the high energy frontier would soon be the main thrust of the ?eld. Yet, the question of “Who ordered the muon?” by I. I. Rabi lingers. We do not understand why there is “family” (or generation) replication. That three generations are needed to have CP violation is a partial answer. We do not understand why there are only three generations, but Nature insists on (just about) only three active neutrinos. But then the CP violation with three generations fall far short of what is needed to generate the baryon asymmetry of the Universe. We do not understand why most fermions are so light on the weak symmetry breaking scale (v. e. v. ), yet the third-generation top quark is a v. e. v. scale particle. We do not understand why quarks and leptons look so different, in particular, why neutrinos are rather close to being massless, but then have (at least two) near maximal mixing angles. We shall not, however, concern ourselves with the neutrino sector. It has a life of its own.




Frontiers in Physics - 2019 Editor's Choice


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Frontiers in Physics – FPHY – is now in its eighth year. Up to last year, the journal received a slowly increasing trickle of manuscripts, and then during the summer… Boom! The number of manuscripts we receive started increasing exponentially. This is of course a signal to us who are associated with the journal that we are on the right track to build a first-rate journal spanning the entire field of physics. And it is not the only signal. We also see it in other indicators such as the number of views and downloads, Impact Factor and the Cite Score. Should we be surprised at this increase? If I were to describe FPHY in one word, it would be “innovation”. Attaching the names of the reviewers that have endorsed publication permanently to the published paper is certainly in this class. It ensures that the reviewers are accountable; furthermore, the level of transparency this implies ensures that any conflict of interest is detected at the very beginning of the process. The review process itself is innovative. After an initial review that proceeds traditionally, the reviewers and authors enter a back-and-forth dialog that irons out any misunderstanding. The reviewers retain their anonymity throughout the process. The entire review process and any question concerning editorial decisions is fully in the hands of active scientists. The Frontiers staff is not allowed to make any such decision. They oversee the process and make sure that the manuscript and the process leading to publication or rejection upholds the standard. FPHY is of course a gold open access journal. This is the only scientific publication model that is compatible with the information revolution. A journal’s prestige is traditionally associated with how difficult it is to publish there. Exclusivity as criterion for desirability, is a mechanism we know very well from the consumer market. However, is this criterion appropriate for scientific publishing? It is almost by definition not possible to predict the importance of a new idea – otherwise it would not have been new. So, why should journals make decisions on publishing based on predicting the possible importance of a given work. This can only be properly assessed after publication. Frontiers has removed “importance” from the list of criteria for publication. That the work is new, is another matter: the work must be new and scientifically correct. It would seem that removing the criterion of “importance” would be a risky one, but it turns out not to be. The Specialty Chief Editors who lead the 18 sections that constitute FPHY, have made this selection of papers published in FPHY in 2019. We have chosen the papers that we have found most striking. Even though this is far from a random selection, they do give a good idea of what PFHY is about. Enjoy! We certainly did while making this selection. Professor Alex Hansen (Field Chief Editor)




Journeys Through The Precision Frontier: Amplitudes For Colliders (Tasi 2014) - Proceedings Of The 2014 Theoretical Advanced Study Institute In Elementary Particle Physics


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This volume is a compilation of the lectures at TASI 2014. The coverage focuses on modern calculational techniques for scattering amplitudes, and on the phenomenology of QCD in hadronic collisions. Introductions to flavor physics, dark matter, and physics beyond the Standard Model are also provided. The lectures are accessible to graduate students at the initial stages of their research careers.




New Physics Frontiers In The Lhc - 2 Era, The - Proceedings Of The 54th Course Of The International School Of Subnuclear Physics


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In June 2016, a group of 167 physicists from 31 countries have met in Erice to participate in the 54th Course of the International School of Subnuclear Physics. The main focus of this year's course has been the new frontiers of Physics in the LHC-2 Era and in all labs the world over, as well as the new frontiers in related fields.




Heavy Flavor Physics


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The conference covered both the experimental and theoretical progress in the field of heavy quark physics and is of interest to readers who wish to stay current with the forefront of research in this field.




At the Frontier of Particle Physics


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Introduction / M. Shifman -- Introducing Boris Ioffe / B.V. Geshkenbein -- Boris Lazarevich Ioffe is 75 / I.B. Khriplovich -- ch. 1. Pages of the past. A top secret assignment / B.L. Ioffe. Editor's comments. Snapshots from the 1950's / Yu. F. Orlov -- ch. 2. The making of QCD. Quantizing the Yang-Mills field / L.D. Faddeev. The discovery of asymptotic freedom and the emergence of QCD / D.J. Gross. Editor's note. Recollections on dimensional regularization and related topics / C.G. Bollini. Historical curiosity: how asymptotic freedom of the Yang-Mills theory could have been discovered three times before Gross, Wilczek, and politzer, but was not / M. Shifman -- ch. 3. From hadrons to nuclei: crossing the border / S.R. Beane [und weitere] -- ch. 4. Chiral dynamics / H. Leutwyler -- ch. 5. Aspects of chiral symmetry / A. Smilga -- ch. 6. Nucleons as chiral solitons / D. Diakonov and V. Yu. Petrov -- ch. 7. Chiral QCD: baryon dynamics / U. MeiBner -- ch. 8. Hadrons in the 1/N expansion / A.V. Manohar -- ch. 9. QCD inequalities / S. Nussinov -- ch. 10. Regge poles in QCD / A.B. Kaidalov -- ch. 11. Small x physics and the colored glass condensate / L. McLerran -- ch. 12. On Gribov's ideas on confinement / A. Vainshtein -- ch. 13. QCD in a finite volume / P. van Baal -- ch. 14. Compact variables and singular fields in QCD / F. Lenz and S. Wörlen -- ch. 15. Instanton-induced effects in QCD / E.V. Shuryak -- ch. 16. Perturbative QCD and the parton structure of the nucleon / W.-K. Tung -- ch. 17. Multiloop evolution of the QCD coupling constant and quark masses / K.G. Chetyrkin -- ch. 18. Multi-parton amplitudes in QCD / Z. Bern -- ch. 19. Generalized parton distributions / A. Radyushkin -- ch. 20. Analytical QCD and multiparticle production / V.A. Khoze, W. Ochs and J. Wosiek -- ch. 21. Space-time picture of high energy scattering / H.G. Dosch -- ch. 22. High-energy QCD and Wilson lines / I. Balitsky -- ch. 23. Exclusive processes in quantum chromodynamics and the light-cone Fock representation / S.J. Brodsky -- ch. 24. Quark-hadron duality / M. Shifman -- ch. 25. QCD sum rules, a modern perspective / P. Colangelo and A. Khodjamirian -- ch. 26. Topics in the heavy quark expansion / N. Uraltsev -- ch. 27. Weak decays of heavy quarks / F. De Fazio -- ch. 28. Renormalons and power corrections / M. Beneke and V.M. Braun -- ch. 29. Confinement, magnetic Z[symbol] symmetry and low-energy effective theory of gluodynamics / A. Kovner -- ch. 30. Flux tubes and confinement in the Seiberg-Witten theory: lessons for QCD / A. Yung -- ch. 31. Millennial messages for QCD from the superworld and from the string / M.J. Strassler -- ch. 32. The center symmetry and its spontaneous breakdown at high temperature / K. Holland and U.-J. Wiese -- ch. 33. 2D model field theories and finite temperature and density / V. Schön and M. Thies -- ch. 34. Hot and dense QCD / A.V. Smilga -- ch. 35. The condensed matter physics of QCD / K. Rajagopal and F. Wilczek




At The Frontier Of Particle Physics: Handbook Of Qcd (In 3 Vols)


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This book consists of reviews covering all aspects of quantum chromodynamics as we know it today. The articles have been written by recognized experts in this field, in honor of the 75th birthday of Professor Boris Ioffe. Combining features of a handbook and a textbook, this is the most comprehensive source of information on the present status of QCD. It is intended for students as well as physicists — both theorists and experimentalists.Each review is self-contained and pedagogically structured, providing the general formulation of the problem, telling where it stands with respect to other issues and why it is interesting and important, presenting the history of the subject, qualitative insights, and so on. The first part of the book is historical in nature. It includes, among other articles, Boris Ioffe's and Yuri Orlov's memoirs on high energy physics in the 1950's, a note by B V Geshkenbein on Ioffe's career in particle physics, and an essay on the discovery of asymptotic freedom written by David Gross.