Perspectives in Particles and Fields: Cargèse 1983

ISBN-13: 9781475703719 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 598 str.

Maurice Levy; Jean-Louis Basdevant; David Speiser

Opis

The 1983 Cargese Summer Institute on Particles and Fields was organized by the Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris (M. LEVY and J.-L. BASDEVANT), C.E.R.N. (M. JACOB), the Universite Catholique de Louvain (D. SPEISER and J. WEYERS), and the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (R. GASTMANS). After 1975, 1977, 1979, and 1981, it was the fifth time they joined their efforts for organizing this Summer Insti- tute. This school was characterized by simultaneous progress in the theory of elementary particles and by impressive experimental advances. On the theoretical front, one witnessed the new developments in lattice gauge theories, which explore the world of strongly interacting par- ticles in a non-perturbative way, and progress in a better understan- ding of the unity of all interactions based on supersymmetry. The experimentalists were roud to announce the discovery of the interme- diate vector bosons; W- and ZO, at C.E.R.N., while physicists working with e+e- colliding beams continued to probe more deeply the validity of the theoretical models of strong, weak and electromagnetic inter- actions. We owe many thanks to all those who have made this Summer Insti- tute possible Thanks are due to the Scientific Committee of NATO and its Presi- dent for a generous grant and especially to the head of the Advanced Study Institute Program and his collaborators for their constant help and encouragement. We also thank the National Science Foundation (USA) for their financial assistance.

Spis treści

Algebraic Construction of Gauge Invariant Theories.- References.- An Introduction to Lattice Gauge Theories.- Why a Lattice: an Example in Quantum Mechanics.- Double-Well Potential.- The Discretized Path Integral.- The Non-Linear ?-Model.- Lattice Gauge Theories.- Mean Field Theory: General Formalism.- References.- An Elementary Introduction to Computer Simulations of Hadronic Physics.- Euclidean Field Theory.- The Monte Carlo Method.- General Considerations.- Special Techniques.- Results.- References.- Supersymmetry and Supergravity: The Phenomenological View.- Motivation(s) for Supersymmetry.- Supersymmetry (SUSY).- Physical Properties of Supersymmetry.- “Low Energy” Physics and SUSY.- Supersymmetric GUTS.- Physical Structure of Simple (N=1) Supergravity.- Physics with Simple (N=1) Supergravity.- Experimental Evidence (?) for Supersymmetry.- Conclusions.- References.- e+e? Physics at Petra — The First Five Years.- Hadronic Events in e+e? Annihilation.- Three-Jet Events and Properties of the Gluon.- Electroweak Interaction.- References.- e+e? Physics at CESR.- CESR, CLEO, CUSB, and the Upsilons.- Upsilon Spectroscopy.- Above the Flavor Threshold.- Weak Interaction of the b Quark.- References.- Selected Topics in Upsilon Physics.- Search for Other States produced in e+e? Annihilations.- Further Tests of the QCD Multipole Expansions.- The B*-B Mass Difference.- Further Implications of the P State Measurements.- Measurement of ?(?gg)/?(ggg) in T and T’ Decays.- Measurement of ?(??)/?(ggg) from T(1S) and T(2S) Decays.- Search for Axions and Higgs Particles.- Future Prospects in T Physics.- References.- Hard Processes Involving Real Photons.- e+e? Physics.- Hard Photoproduction and Prompt-Gamma Physics.- Two-Gamma Processes.- Heavy-Flavour Photoprodution.- References.- Muon Experiments at High Energy.- Experimental Environment.- Radiative Corrections.- Measurement of F2.- Consequences.- Analysis of Scaling Violations.- Production of Open Charm in Muon Interactions.- Transverse Momentum Distribution.- References.- Neutrino Physics.- Structure Functions.- Dimuon Physics: Amount of Strange Sea.- References.- Accelerator Studies of Neutrino Oscillations: First Results from a Low-Energy Experiment at CERN.- Basic Formalism.- Accelerator Studies of Neutrino Oscillations.- First Results from the CDHSW Oscillation Experiment.- Conclusion.- References.- Selected Topics in Non-Accelerator Physics.- Massive Neutrinos and Lepton Conservation.- The Double ?-Decay.- Neutrino Oscillations and the Neutrino Mass.- The Solar Neutrino Puzzle.- Nucleon Decay.- The Search for Super-heavy Magnetic Monopoles.- References.- Selected Topics in Spectroscopy.- References.- Realistic Kaluza-Klein Theories?.- References.- Topics in Elementary Particle Physics.- Historical Digression.- Where is the Top Quark?.- Short Takes.- References.

O autorze

Jean-Louis Basdevant is Professor and Chair of the Department of Physics at the Ecole Polytechnique, and Director of Research for the CNRS.