Quarks, Leptons, and Their Constituents


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From 5 to 15 August 1984, a group of 79 physicists from 61 laboratories in 26 countries met in Erice for the 22nd Course of the International School of Subnuclear Physics. The countries represented were Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, People's Republic of China, Denmark, the Federal Republic of Germany, France, Greece, Hungary, Iran, Israel, Italy, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, the Netherlands, Pakistan, Poland, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, the United Kingdom, the United States of America. The School was sponsored by the Italian Ministry of Public Education (MPI), the Italian Ministry of Scientific and Technologi cal Research (MRST), the Regional Sicilian Government (ERS), and the Weizmann Institute of Science. The programme of the School was devoted to a review of the most significant results in theoretical and experimental research work on the interactions between what we believe today are the point like constituents of the world: quarks and leptons. It should however not be forgotten that many problems are still to be understood: especially in the forefront of the correla tion between quarks and leptons. This game started in 1966 with the proposal for "leptonic quarks" and went on with "preons" and "rishons" just to quote the most famous attempts to unify these two worlds.




New Fields And Strings In Subnuclear Physics, Proceedings Of The International School Of Subnuclear Physics


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In August/September 2001, a group of 75 physicists from 51 laboratories in 15 countries met in Erice, Italy to participate in the 39th Course of the International School of Subnuclear Physics. This volume constitutes the proceedings of that meeting. It focuses on the theoretical and phenomenological developments in string theory, as well as in all the other sectors of subnuclear physics. In addition, experimental highlights are presented and discussed.




From Quarks and Gluons to Quantum Gravity


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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 OCo together with John Stewart Bell, Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett and Isidor Isaac Rabi OCo of the OC Ettore MajoranaOCO Centre for Scientific Culture, this School being the first of its 114 Schools now in existence. Contents: Mini-Courses on Basics: Physics of QCD Instantons (E V Shuryak); Confinement and Duality (M J Strassler); Status of Super String Theory (E Verlinde); Perturbative Quantum Gravity (G ''t Hooft); Experimental Highlights: Highlights from Gran Sasso Laboratory (A Bettini); Experimental Highlights from Super-Kamiokande (Y Totsuka); The Fermilab Experimental Physics Program (R Tschirhardt); Special Sessions for New Talents: Application of the Large- N c Limit to a Chiral Lagrangian with Resonances (O Cata); Towards the Finite Temperature Gluon Propagator in Landau Gauge YangOCoMills Theory (A Maas); Hermes Measurements of the Nucleon Spin Structure (J Wendland); and other papers. Readership: High energy, experimental and theoretical physicists."




Subnuclear Physics


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For the Galvani Bicentenary Celebrations, the University of Bologna and its Academy of Sciences singled out subnuclear physics as the field of scientific research to be associated with this important event, as it would best illustrate, for the new generation of students, the challenge inherent in fundamental sciences. Subnuclear physics has represented, ever since it was born, the new frontiers of Galilean science. In his opening lecture delivered on the first day of the new academic year, Professor Antonino Zichichi analytically reviewed the basic conceptual developments and main discoveries achieved in subnuclear physics since its birth in the 20th century. Given the importance of this field of fundamental research, Professor Zichichi was invited to expand the contents of his lecture into a book, and the outcome is this volume.




Old and New Forces of Nature


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During August 1985, a group of 95 physicists from 61 laboratories in 24 countries met in Erice for the 23rd Course of the International School of Subnu clear Physics. The countries represented were: Algeria, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, France, the Federal Republic of Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Marocco, Norway, Pakistan, the Peoples' Republic of China, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, the United Kindom, and the United States of America. The School was sponsored by the European Physical Society (EPS), the Italian Ministry of Public Education (MPI), the Italian Ministry of Scientific and Technological Research (MRST), the Sicilian Regional Government (ERS), and the Weizmann Institute of Science. This year's programme was devoted to the key point of present times: do new substructures and therefore new forces of nature exist, in addition to the well-known ones? This key point was reviewed from the theoretical point of view, keeping both eyes open on the checking of theories versus experimental facts. This is way a large spectrum of basic experiments and theoretical works having their roots in the known fundamental forces, have been discussed in great detail by world specialists. I hope the reader will enjoy the book as much as the students enjoyed the School, and the most attractive part of it, the discussions sessions. Thanks to the scientific work these discussions have been reproduced as closely as possible to the real event.




Towards New Milestones in Our Quest to Go Beyond the Standard Model


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This volume is a collection of lectures given by distinguished physicists from around the world, covering the most recent advances in theoretical physics and the latest results from current experimental facilities.Following one of the principal aims of the School ? to encourage and promote young physicists to achieve recognition at an international level ? the students who distinguished themselves for the excellence of their research were given the opportunity to publish their presentations in this volume.




What We Would Like Lhc To Give Us - Proceedings Of The International School Of Subnuclear Physics


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This book is the proceedings of the International School of Subnuclear Physics, ISSP 2012, 50th Course — ERICE, 23 June 2013 - 2 July 2012. This course was devoted to the celebrations of the 50th Anniversary of the Subnuclear Physics School which was started in 1961 by Antonino Zichichi with John Bell at CERN and formally established in 1962 by Bell, Blackett, Weisskopf, Rabi and Zichichi in Geneva (CERN). The lectures covered the latest and most significant achievements in theoretical and in experimental subnuclear physics.




What Is Known And Unexpected At Lhc - Proceedings Of The International School Of Subnuclear Physics


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Contents:Hot Theoretical Topics:Harmony of Scattering Amplitudes: From QCD to N = 8 Supergravity (Z Bern)The Measure Problem in Cosmology (R Bousso)Black Holes and Qubits (M J Duff)Perturbative and Non-Perturbative Aspects of N = 8 Supergravity (S Ferrara)The Gravitational S-Matrix: Erice Lectures (S B Giddings)Seminars on Specialized Topics:Direct Evidence of Oscillation from II to III Family Neutrinos (Y Declais)Probing the Small Distance Structure of Canonical Quantum Gravity using the Conformal Group (G 't Hooft)The QGCW Project — Technological Challenges to Study the New World (H Wenninger)Highlights from Laboratories:The LHC and Beyond — Status, Results and Perspectives (R D Heuer)Highlights from FERMILAB (P J Oddone)Anti- and Hypermatter Research at the Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research FAIR (H Stoecker)Highlights from BNL-RHIC (S Vigdor)Highlights from GRAN SASSO (L Votano)Highlights from ISS-AMS (S C C Ting)Special Sessions for New Talents:Four-Qubit Entanglement: Lessons of a Black Hole (L Borsten)A Simple Way to Take into Account Back Reaction on Pair Creation (P Burda)Search for a High-Mass Higgs Boson at the Tevatron (D Gerbaudo)Twisted Strings in Extended Abelian Higgs Model (A Lukács)Positronium Hyperfine Splitting (A Miyazaki)How I Failed to Find any New Fundamental Particles (M Mulhearn) Readership: Graduate students, researchers and academics in the field of subnuclear physics. Keywords:Black Holes;QCD;SUSY;QED;Collider;Attractors




The Most Unexpected at LHC and the Status of High Energy Frontier


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Hot Theoretical Topics: Ultraviolet Behavior of N=8 Supergravity (L J Dixon); Is the Best Superstring Model NP Complete? (M R Douglas); Erice Lecture on Microscopic Gravity (G Dvali); Supergravity: Foundations and Applications (S Ferrara); Orienfold String Vacua and Strings at the LHC (D Luest); Seminar on Specialized Topics: Status of Dark Matter and Neutrino Physics (A Bettini); Experimental Evidence for Pointlike Baryons at q2 = 4MB2 (S Pacetti); Neutrino Masses, Dark Matter, Baryon Asymmetry and Inflation can be Explained at Once (M Shaposhnikov); Results from RHIC with Implications for LHC (M J Tannenbaum); Quantum Gravity without Space-Time Singularities or Horizons (G 't Hooft); Diffraction in Deep Inelastic Electron Proton Scattering at HERA (G Wolf); The Lesson Needed for the Future (A Zichichi); Highlights from Laboratories: Highlights from RHIC (P R Sorensen); The LHC and Beyond — The Energy Frontier (R D Heuer); Highlights from the Gran Sasso Underground Laboratory (E Coccia); Highlights from Fermilab (S J Parke); Special Sessions for New Talents: Radiation Damage Studies for Silicon Sensors for the XFEL (H Perrey); Notes on Chern–Simons Theory in the Temporal Gauge (A Smirnov); Dark Matter via Many Copies of the Standard Model (A Vikman).