The problem of the physical vacuum is presented in the opening lecture by T.D. Lee and the effective string-theoretical approach to cosmological vacua by G. Veneziano. Effective theoretical approaches to light and heavy quark physics are presented by H. Leutwyler and M. Neubert. V.N. Gribov discusses the quark confinement and N. Seiberg the problem of finding the effective actions in supersymmetric theories. A detailed analysis confronting electroweak theory with the high precision experimental data is presented by D. Schildknecht. The great specialist in membrane theory, M. Duff, presents...

This book reviews the present status of our understanding of subnuclear phenomena. The opening lecture, by G't Hooft, reaches the limits of our imagination in particle physics. A group of lectures by F Wilczek, D Nanopoulos and G Altarelli discuss the physics beyond the Standard Model. A Masiero reviews the problem of FCNCs which are not there in spite of Susy. Superstring and M-theory are discussed by M B Green, while S Glashow presents some puzzles in particle physics. The possible sources for new physics coming from new experimental results are presented by H Satz, G Wolf, G Kane and Y...

This volume is a unique report on the frontiers of sub nuclear physics presented by global specialists in a clear and rigorous style. The question of Lattice QCD is presented by R D Kenway, and that of Quark-Gluon Plasma Physics by F Karsch. Quantum Field theory is discussed by R G Dijkgraff, and the status of Local Super symmetry by M J Duff. Detailed analysis of Super symmetry in Nuclei is made by F Iachello, and that of Inflation, Dark Matter and Dark Energy by E W Kolb. Compactified dimensions are outlined by I Antoniadis, Horizons in the quantization of the gravitational force by Nobel...

Presents a collection of lectures given by physicists from around the world, covering the advances in theoretical physics and the results from experimental facilities. This volume also includes presentations by young physicists who distinguished themselves for the excellence of their research.

Predicted Signals at LHC from Technicolor (A Martin et al.); The Anomalous Spin Distributions in the Nucleon (A Deshpande); Quantum Gravity from Dynamical Triangulation (R Loll); Strongly Coupled Gauge Theories (R Kenway); Status of Superstring and M-theory (J H Schwarz); Quantum Gravity from Dynamical Triangulation (R Loll); Strongly Interacting Matter at Very High Energy Density (L Mclerran); How Supercritical String Cosmology Affects LHC (D Nanopoulos); Progress on the Ultraviolet Finiteness of Supergravity (Z Bern); The Nature and the Mass of Neutrinos: Majorana vs Dirac (A Bettini); and...

Covers topics such as: Ultraviolet Behavior of N=8 Supergravity; Is the Best Superstring Model NP Complete?; Erice Lecture on Microscopic Gravity; Supergravity: Foundations and Applications; Orienfold String Vacua and Strings at the LHC; Seminar on Specialized Topics: Status of Dark Matter and Neutrino Physics; and, more.

During July and August of 1976 a group of 90 physicists from 56 laboratories in 21 countries met in Erice for the 14th Course of the International School of Subnuclear Physics. The countries represented were Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, the Federal Republic of Germany, France, the German Democratic Republic, Greece, Israel, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Nigeria, Norway, Sweden, the United Kingdom, the United States of America, Vietnam, and Yugoslavia. The School was sponsored by the Italian Ministry of Public Education (MPI), the Italian Ministry of Scientific and Technological...

In August 1979 a group of 94 physicists from 60 laboratories in 21 countries met in Erice to attend the 17th Course of the International School of Subnuclear Physics. The countries represented at the School were: Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Federal Republic of Germany, France, Hungary, India, Italy, Japan, Korea, the Netherlands, Nor- way, Poland, Rumania, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom, the United States of America, and Yugoslavia. The School was sponsored by the Italian Ministry of Public Education (MPI), the Italian Ministry of Scientific and Techno- logical Research...

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...

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Lecture-papers from the 24th Course of the International School cover: two-dimensional superspaces; four-dimensional supergravities from superstrings; heterotic superstrings; anomalies, strings and algebraic geometry; ions and sparticles; proton decay in the superworld; superstring phenomenology; and the end of the superworld.
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