Frontiers in strong interactions


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Predicted and Totally Unexpected in the Energy Frontier Opened by LHC


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Antonino Zichichi has contributed to Predicted and Totally Unexpected in the Energy Frontier Opened by Lhc as an editor.Zichichi-Univ of Bologna, Italy, Natl Inst of Nuclear Physics, Italy




Elastic And Diffractive Scattering: Proceedings Of The International Conference On The Viiith Blois Workshop


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This book contains various experimental and theoretical reports on the status and prospects of one of the most interesting and difficult areas of modern high energy physics — elastic and diffractive scattering. One can find here general trends and problems, and original ideas on particle interactions and structure.




Multiparticle Dynamics - Proceedings Of The Xxvi International Symposium


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This volume discusses the most recent results on multiparticle production. These include the differences between quark and gluon jets from LEP at CERN, the search for the disoriented chiral condensate at Fermilab, the existence (or not) of the quark-gluon plasma and the large rapidity gaps in Hera physics. In many different experimental situations, the subject of multiparticle dynamics remains alive.Main speakers: J Antos, B J May, J D Bjorken, P Sondereger, I Tserruya, R C Hwa, R Ugoccioni, A Giovannini, C Grupen, A de Angelis, G Thompson, J Kwiecinski, B Andersson.




Extreme States of Matter in Strong Interaction Physics


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The thermodynamics of strongly interacting matter has become a profound and challenging area of modern physics, both in theory and in experiment. Statistical quantum chromodynamics, through analytical as well as numerical studies, provides the main theoretical tool, while in experiment, high-energy nuclear collisions are the key for extensive laboratory investigations. The field therefore straddles statistical, particle and nuclear physics, both conceptually and in the methods of investigation used. This course-tested primer addresses above all the many young scientists starting their scientific research in this field, providing them with a general, self-contained introduction that emphasizes in particular the basic concepts and ideas, with the aim of explaining why we do what we do. To achieve this goal, the present text concentrates mainly on equilibrium thermodynamics: first, the fundamental ideas of strong interaction thermodynamics are introduced and then the main concepts and methods used in the study of the physics of complex systems are summarized. Subsequently, simplified phenomenological pictures, leading to critical behavior in hadronic matter and to hadron-quark phase transitions are introduced, followed by elements of finite-temperature lattice QCD leading to the important results obtained in computer simulation studies of the lattice approach. Next, the relation of the resulting critical behavior to symmetry breaking/restoration in QCD is clarified before the text turns to the study of the QCD phase diagram. The presentation of bulk equilibrium thermodynamics is completed by studying the properties of the quark-gluon plasma as new state of strongly interacting matter. The final chapters of the book are devoted to more specific topics which arise when nuclear collisions are considered as a tool for the experimental study of QCD thermodynamics.




New Frontiers in Physics


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At the Frontier of Particle Physics


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Landau's theoretical minimum, Laudau's seminar, ITEP in the beginning of the 1950's / B.L. Ioffe -- pt. 9. ch. 36. QCD and weak interactions of light quarks / J. Bijnens -- ch. 37. Heavy quarkonium dynamics / A.H. Hoang -- pt. 10. ch. 38. Monopoles, vortices and strings: confinement and deconfinement in 2 + 1 dimensions at weak coupling / I.I. Kogan and A. Kovner -- pt. 11. ch. 39. Uses of effective field theory in lattice QCD / A.S. Kronfeld -- ch. 40. Loop equations and nonperturbative QCD / A. Dubin and Y. Makeenko







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