At The Frontier Of Particle Physics Handbook Of Qcd In 3 Vols

Author : Misha Shifman
Publisher : World Scientific
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This book consists of reviews covering all aspects of quantum chromodynamics as we know it today. The articles have been written by recognized experts in this field, in honor of the 75th birthday of Professor Boris Ioffe. Combining features of a handbook and a textbook, this is the most comprehensive source of information on the present status of QCD. It is intended for students as well as physicists — both theorists and experimentalists.Each review is self-contained and pedagogically structured, providing the general formulation of the problem, telling where it stands with respect to other issues and why it is interesting and important, presenting the history of the subject, qualitative insights, and so on. The first part of the book is historical in nature. It includes, among other articles, Boris Ioffe's and Yuri Orlov's memoirs on high energy physics in the 1950's, a note by B V Geshkenbein on Ioffe's career in particle physics, and an essay on the discovery of asymptotic freedom written by David Gross.

Author : M Shifman
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 420 pages
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Release : 2002-08-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789814488365

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At the Frontier of Particle Physics by M Shifman Pdf

This is the fourth and last volume of the invaluable publication At the Frontier of Particle Physics: Handbook of QCD. In this volume the reader will find three important sections. The first is devoted to QCD-based phenomenology. It covers issues deeply woven into the fabric of particle physics: weak interactions of light quarks (J Bijnens) and heavy quarkonium physics (A Hoang). The second section is a report on recent advances in the understanding of confinement in three dimensions in the Georgi–Glashow model (I Kogan and A Kovner). The third section deals with lattice QCD (A Kronfeld) and loop equations (A Dubin and Yu Makeenko). The five reviews in Volume 4, together with the 33 reviews in Volumes 1–3, constitute a full encyclopedia, covering all aspects of quantum chromodynamics as we know it today. The articles have been written by recognized experts in this field. Combining features of a handbook and a textbook, this is the most comprehensive source of information on the current status of QCD. It is intended for students as well as physicists — both theorists and experimentalists. Contents:QCD and Weak Interactions of Light Quarks (J Bijnens)Heavy Quarkonium Dynamics (A H Hoang)Monopoles, Vortices and Strings: Confinement and Confinement in 2+1 Dimensions at Weak Coupling (I I Kogan & A Kovner)Uses of Effective Field Theory in Lattice QCD (A S Kronfeld)Loop Equations and Nonperturbative QCD (A Dubin & Y Makeenko)Appendices:Pair Production by a Linearly Polarized Quantum (B L Ioffe)A Method for Production of Polarized Neutrons (B L Ioffe) Readership: Graduate students, lecturers and researchers in high energy physics. Keywords:Reviews:“The historical articles are interesting and, in places, riveting … a practitioner in any field-theory discipline, especially — a beginning practitioner, can spend rewarding hours delving into these descriptions. At the Frontier of Particle Physics will remain useful for a long time.”Physics Today

Author : Misha Shifman,Mikhail A. Shifman
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 428 pages
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Release : 2002
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ISBN : 981277727X

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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

Author : Mikhail A. Shifman
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 708 pages
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Release : 2001
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9810249675

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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

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
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Release : 2001
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Author : B. L. Ioffe,Mikhail A. Shifman
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 779 pages
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Release : 2001
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ISBN : 9789812810458

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At the Frontier of Particle Physics by B. L. Ioffe,Mikhail A. Shifman Pdf

This book consists of reviews covering all aspects of quantum chromodynamics as we know it today. The articles have been written by recognized experts in this field, in honor of the 75th birthday of Professor Boris Ioffe. Combining features of a handbook and a textbook, this is the most comprehensive source of information on the present status of QCD. It is intended for students as well as physicists OCo both theorists and experimentalists.Each review is self-contained and pedagogically structured, providing the general formulation of the problem, telling where it stands with respect to other issues and why it is interesting and important, presenting the history of the subject, qualitative insights, and so on. The first part of the book is historical in nature. It includes, among other articles, Boris Ioffe''s and Yuri Orlov''s memoirs on high energy physics in the 1950''s, a note by B V Geshkenbein on Ioffe''s career in particle physics, and an essay on the discovery of asymptotic freedom written by David Gross."

Author : Hildegard Meyer-Ortmanns,Thomas Reisz
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 700 pages
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Release : 2006-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789814496278

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Principles of Phase Structures in Particle Physics by Hildegard Meyer-Ortmanns,Thomas Reisz Pdf

The phase structure of particle physics shows up in matter at extremely high densities and/or temperatures as they were reached in the early universe, shortly after the big bang, or in heavy-ion collisions, as they are performed nowadays in laboratory experiments. In contrast to phase transitions of condensed matter physics, the underlying fundamental theories are better known than their macroscopic manifestations in phase transitions. These theories are quantum chromodynamics for the strong interaction part and the electroweak part of the Standard Model for the electroweak interaction. It is their non-Abelian gauge structure that makes it a big challenge to predict the type of phase conversion between phases of different symmetries and different particle contents. The book is about a variety of analytical and numerical tools that are needed to study the phase structure of particle physics. To these belong convergent and asymptotic expansions in strong and weak couplings, dimensional reduction, renormalization group studies, gap equations, Monte Carlo simulations with and without fermions, finite-size and finite-mass scaling analyses, and the approach of effective actions as supplement to first-principle calculations. Contents:General Background from Statistical PhysicsField Theoretical Framework for Models in Particle PhysicsAnalytic Methods on the Lattice and in the ContinuumNumerical Methods in Lattice Field TheoriesEffective Actions in the ContinuumPhenomenological Applications to Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions Readership: Theoretical and high energy physicists. Keywords:

Author : Essig Rouven,Low Ian
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 636 pages
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Release : 2018-05-21
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ISBN : 9789813233355

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Anticipating the Next Discoveries in Particle Physics by Essig Rouven,Low Ian Pdf

This volume is a compilation of lectures delivered at the TASI 2016 summer school, 'Anticipating the Next Discoveries in Particle Physics', held at the University of Colorado at Boulder in June 2016. The school focused on topics in theoretical particle physics, phenomenology, dark matter, and cosmology of interest to contemporary researchers in these fields. The lectures are accessible to graduate students in the initial stages of their research careers.

Author : Jeff Paul Greensite,Stefan Olejník
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 327 pages
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Confinement, Topology, and Other Non-Perturbative Aspects of QCD by Jeff Paul Greensite,Stefan Olejník Pdf

The problem of quark confinement is one of the classic unsolved problems of particle physics and is fundamental to our understanding of the physics of the strong interaction and the behaviour of non-Abelian gauge theories in general. The confinement problem is also are area in which concepts from topology and techniques of computational physics both find important applications. This volume contains a snapshot of current research in this field as of January 2002. Particular emphasis is placed on the role of topological field configurations such as centre vortices and monopoles in proposed confinement mechanisms. Other topics covered include colour superconductivity, instantons and chiral symmetry breaking, matrix models and the construction of chiral gauge theories. Readership: Research scientists and graduate students of high energy physics and nuclear physics.

Author : Kohsuke Yagi,Tetsuo Hatsuda,Yasuo Miake
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 478 pages
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Category : Science
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Quark-Gluon Plasma by Kohsuke Yagi,Tetsuo Hatsuda,Yasuo Miake Pdf

Quark-Gluon Plasma introduces the primordial matter, composed of two types of elementary particles, created at the time of the Big Bang. During the evolution of the universe, Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP) undergoes a transition to hadronic matter governed by quantum chromodynamics, the law of strong interactions. After an introduction to gauge theories, various aspects of quantum chromodynamic phase transitions are illustrated in a self-contained manner. The cosmological approach and renormalization group are discussed, as well as the cosmological and astrophysical implications of QGP, on the basis of Einstein's equations. Recent developments towards the formation of QGP in ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions are also presented in detail. This text is suitable as an introduction for graduate students, as well as providing a valuable reference for researchers already working in this and related fields. It includes eight appendices and over a hundred exercises.

Author : Josip Trampetic,Julius Wess
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 482 pages
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Release : 2006-01-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783540267980

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Particle Physics and the Universe by Josip Trampetic,Julius Wess Pdf

The Adriatic Meetings have traditionally been conferences on the most - vanced status of science. They are one of the very few conferences in physics aiming at a very broad participation of young and experienced researchers with di?erent backgrounds in particle physics. Particle physics has grown into a highly multi-faceted discipline over the sixty years of its existence, mainly because of two reasons: Particle physics as an experimental science is in need of large-scale laboratory set-ups, involving typically collaborations of several hundreds or even thousands of researchers and technicians with the most diverse expertise. This forces particle physics, being one of the most fundamental dis- plines of physics, to maintain a constant interchange and contact with other disciplines, notably solid-state physics and laser physics, cosmology and - trophysics, mathematical physics and mathematics. Since the expertise necessary in doing research in particle physics has become tremendously demanding in the last years, the ?eld tends to organize purely expert conferences, meetings and summer schools, such as for detector development, for astroparticle physics or for string theory. TheAdriaticMeetingthroughitsentirehistoryhasbeenaplaceforest- lishing exchange between theory and experiment. The 9th Adriatic Meeting successfully continued this tradition and even intensi?ed the cross-discipline communication by establishing new contacts between the community of c- mologists and of particle physicists. The exchange between theorists and - perimentalists was impressively intensive and will certainly have a lasting e?ect on several research projects of the European and world-wide physics community.

Author : Debades Bandyopadhyay,Kamales Kar
Publisher : Springer Nature
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Release : 2022-03-28
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Supernovae, Neutron Star Physics and Nucleosynthesis by Debades Bandyopadhyay,Kamales Kar Pdf

This book deals with the interdisciplinary areas of nuclear physics, supernovae and neutron star physics. It addresses the physics and astrophysics of the spectacular supernova explosions, starting with the collapse of massive stars and ending with the birth of neutron stars or black holes. Recent progress in the understanding of core collapse supernova (CCSN) and observational aspects of future detections of neutrinos from CCSN explosions are discussed. The other main focus in this text is the novel phases of dense nuclear matter, its compositions and equation of state (EoS) from low to very high baryon density relevant to supernovae and neutron stars. The multi-messenger astrophysics of binary neutron star merger GW170817 and its relation to EoS through tidal deformability are also presented in detail. The synthesis of elements heavier than iron in the supernova and neutron star environment by the rapid (r)-process are treated here with special emphasis on the nucleosynthesis in the ejected material from GW170817. This monograph is written for graduate students and researchers in the field of nuclear astrophysics.

Author : Amitava Datta,B. Mukhopadhyaya,A. Raychaudhuri
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Physics at the Large Hadron Collider by Amitava Datta,B. Mukhopadhyaya,A. Raychaudhuri Pdf

In an epoch when particle physics is awaiting a major step forward, the Large Hydron Collider (LHC) at CERN, Geneva will soon be operational. It will collide a beam of high energy protons with another similar beam circulation in the same 27 km tunnel but in the opposite direction, resulting in the production of many elementary particles some never created in the laboratory before. It is widely expected that the LHC will discover the Higgs boson, the particle which supposedly lends masses to all other fundamental particles. In addition, the question as to whether there is some new law of physics at such high energy is likely to be answered through this experiment. The present volume contains a collection of articles written by international experts, both theoreticians and experimentalists, from India and abroad, which aims to acquaint a non-specialist with some basic issues related to the LHC. At the same time, it is expected to be a useful, rudimentary companion of introductory exposition and technical expertise alike, and it is hoped to become unique in its kind. The fact that there is substantial Indian involvement in the entire LHC endeavour, at all levels including fabrication, physics analysis procedures as well as theoretical studies, is also amply brought out in the collection.

Author : Daniel Iagolnitzer,Vincent Rivasseau,Jean Zinn-Justin
Publisher : Birkhäuser
Page : 981 pages
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Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
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International Conference on Theoretical Physics by Daniel Iagolnitzer,Vincent Rivasseau,Jean Zinn-Justin Pdf

The International Conference on Theoretical Physics, TH-2002, took place in Paris from July 22 to 27 in the Conference Center of the UNESCO, the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization, under aegis of the IUPAP, the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics and of the French and Euro pean Physical Societies, with a large support of several French, European and international Institutions. International and crossdisciplinary, TH-2002 welcomed around 1200 partic ipants representing all domains of modern theoretical physics. The conference offered a high-level scientific program, including 18 plenary lectures, 45 general lectures in thematic sessions and 140 more specialized lectures, partly invited and partly selected among proposals received from participants. Around 500 contribu tions were also presented as posters. Plenary lectures as well as general thematic lectures were addressed to a general audience of theoricians, not only to specialists. According to our commitments towards UNESCO and other sponsoring insti tutions, TH-2002 attributed more than 200 fellowships, mostly to scientists from developing countries and Eastern Europe, covering registration fees and, for more than half of them, stay expenses with student type accomodation. Special highlights of the conference included • the opening ceremony on July 22, with the participation of Mrs Claudie Haignere, French Minister of Research, and M. Walter Erdelen, General Ad joint Director for Sciences at UNESCO. Their opening addresses were espe cially appreciated and are reproduced below. This ceremony preceded the first lecture by Professor Cohen-Tannoudji, Physics Nobel prize winner.

Author : Philipp Gubler
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 191 pages
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Release : 2013-03-29
Category : Science
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A Bayesian Analysis of QCD Sum Rules by Philipp Gubler Pdf

The author develops a novel analysis method for QCD sum rules (QCDSR) by applying the maximum entropy method (MEM) to arrive at an analysis with less artificial assumptions than previously held. This is a first-time accomplishment in the field. In this thesis, a reformed MEM for QCDSR is formalized and is applied to the sum rules of several channels: the light-quark meson in the vector channel, the light-quark baryon channel with spin and isospin 1/2, and several quarkonium channels at both zero and finite temperatures. This novel technique of combining QCDSR with MEM is applied to the study of quarkonium in hot matter, which is an important probe of the quark-gluon plasma currently being created in heavy-ion collision experiments at RHIC and LHC.