How Far Are We from the Gauge Forces

ISBN-13: 9781468450880 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 741 str.

Antonio L. Zichichi

Opis

During August 1983, a group of 89 physicists from 59 labora- tories in 23 countries met in Erice for the 21st Course of the International School of Subnuclear Physics. The countries repre- sented were Algeria, Australia, Austria, Canada, Czechoslovakia, the Federal Republic of Germany, Finland, France, Hungary, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Turkey, the United Kingdom, the United States of America, and Yugoslavia. The School was sponsored by the European Physical Society (EPS), the Italian Ministry of Education (MPI), the Italian Ministry of Scientific and Technological Research (MRST), the Sicilian Regional Government (ERS), and the Weizmann Institute of Science. The programme of the School was mainly devoted to a review of the most significant results, both in theory and experiment, obtained in the field of the "electroweak" and of the "colour" forces of nature. The outcome of the Course was to present a clear picture of how far we are from the electronuclear formulation of these basic forces acting between quarks and leptons. And more generally, how far we are from the unification of all gauge forces of nature.

Spis treści

Opening Lecture.- Elementary particle physics today.- Theoretical Lectures.- Discrete mechanics.- Lattice calculations in gauge theory.- The U(1) problem: Instantons, axions, and familons.- Spontaneous supersymmetry breaking in N=1 and N=2 supergravity theories coupled to matter systems.- Seminars on Specialized Topics.- Testing supersymmetry.- Composite W-bosons and their dynamics.- Inclusive decay of heavy flavours.- Spin dependence and tests of QCD.- Review Lectures.- Physics results of the UAI collaboration at the CERN proton-antiproton collider.- Analysis of the hadronic final states at the CERN pp collider.- The problem of new heavy flavors: Top and superbeauty.- QCD at the collider.- Tests of QCD at PETRA.- Status of the glueballs.- Universitality features in (pp), (e+e?), and deep inelastic scattering process.- Celebration of E P Wigner’s Birthday.- Events, laws of nature, and invariance principles.- Closing Ceremony.- Prizes and scholarships.- Participants.