The Many Faces Of The Superworld

Author : Yuri Golfand,Mikhail A. Shifman
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 698 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Science
ISBN : 9810242069

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The Many Faces of the Superworld by Yuri Golfand,Mikhail A. Shifman Pdf

This invaluable volume is dedicated to the memory of Yuri Golfand, one of the discoverers of supersymmetry. Together with his student, he constructed in 1970 the superextension of the Poincar‚ algebra and obtained the first four-dimensional supersymmetric field theory, a version of supersymmetric QED. Golfand died in 1994 in Israel.Did the pioneers of supersymmetry ? Neveu, Schwarz, Ramond, Golfand, Volkov, Wess, Zumino and others ? foresee in the early 1970's that they would be opening to us the gates of the superworld? The superworld will become one of the most important components of our understanding of Nature ? a component that will stay with us forever.This book is a compilation of the original papers and review articles, devoted to various aspects of supersymmetry, written by the outstanding researchers in the field, theorists whose work shaped the present day theory and continues to make a profound impact on the frontier directions of the current development. A wide range of topics is covered ? from subtle results in the superstring theory to supersymmetry-based phenomenology. Most of the articles have been prepared specifically for this volume.The first part of the book consists of the Editor's essay presenting the basic stages of Golfand's life and work, the memoirs of his widow, Mrs N Koretz-Golfand and of his student, Dr E Likhtman. Also included is the article of Prof. M Marinov ?Revealing the Path to the Superworld?, outlining the main ideas that paved the way to the discovery of supersymmetry. The historical part of the book concludes with the English translation of the Golfand-Likhtman paper on supersymmetry published in 1972 in the Tamm Memorial Volume.

Author : M. A. Olshanetsky,Arkady Vainshtein
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 916 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789812380722

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Multiple Facets of Quantization and Supersymmetry by M. A. Olshanetsky,Arkady Vainshtein Pdf

This book is dedicated to the memory of Michael Marinov, the theorist who together with Felix Berezin introduced the classical description of spin by anticommuting Grassmann variables. The Volume contains original papers and reviews of physicists and mathematicians written specifically for this book. These articles reflect the current status and recent developments in the areas of Marinov's research interests: quantum tunneling, quantization of constrained systems, supersymmetry and others. Included personal recollections portray a human face of Michael Marinov, a person of great knowledge and integrity.

Author : Alexander Gorsky,Mikhail Vysotsky
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789814616867

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Pomeranchuk 100 by Alexander Gorsky,Mikhail Vysotsky Pdf

This book provides extended versions of the talks given at the memorial Pomeranchuk-100 Conference, June 5–6, held in the Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow, Russia and the review of the 2013 Pomeranchuk Prize Winner — Mikhail Shifman. It shall provide a broad review of the current status of the research in the high energy physics and astrophysics. Contents:Douglas Approach to Liouville Minimal Gravity (A Belavin and B Mukhametzhanov)Mirror Matter and Other Models for Dark Matter (S Blinnikov)Cosmology: From Pomeranchuk to the Present Day (A Dolgov)Hadron Structure and Elastic Scattering (I Dremin)RG Limit Cycles (K Bulycheva and A Gorsky)Composite Systems in Magnetic Field: From Hadrons to Hydrogen Atom (B Kerbikov)Gravitational Four-Fermion Interaction in the Early Universe (I Khriplovich and A Rudenko)Non-Perturbative Schwinger–Dyson Equations: From BPS/CFT Correspondence to the Novel Symmetries of Quantum Field Theory (N Nekrasov)Understanding Chiral Magnetic Effect (V Shevchenko)A New Method for Solving the Z > 137 Problem and for Determination of Energy Levels of Hydrogen-Like Atoms (V Neznamov and I Safronov)Two-Dimensional Sigma Models Related to Non-Abelian Strings in Super-Yang-Mills (M Shifman and A Yung)Vacuum Structure in 3d Supersymmetric Gauge Theories (A Smilga)Critical Nuclei in a Superstrong Magnetic Field (S Godunov and M Vysotsky)Anomaly and Long-Range Forces (V Kirilin, A Sadofyev and V Zakharov)Localization at Large N (J Russo and K Zarembo) Readership: Advanced undergraduates and graduate students in physics; experts in theoretical physics. Key Features:It provides a unique picture of the different aspects of the fundamental physicsAuthored by first class authors of the reviews in high energy physics and astrophysicsThe presentation is at the level suitable for the advanced graduate studentsKeywords:Quantum Field Theory;String Theory;Gauge/String Duality;Quantum Electrodynamics;Tunneling Phenomena;Structure of Vacuum;Instantons;Black Holes;Inflation;Charge Screening;Integrability;Renormalization;Regge Theory

Author : Anders Bengtsson
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 503 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2023-09-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783110675542

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Interactions by Anders Bengtsson Pdf

Author : Misha Shifman,Gordon Kane
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2000-12-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789814491716

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The Supersymmetric World - The Beginning Of The Theory by Misha Shifman,Gordon Kane Pdf

The story of the discovery of supersymmetry is a fascinating one, unlike that of any other major development in the history of science. This engaging book presents a view of the process, mainly in the words of people who participated. It combines anecdotal descriptions and personal reminiscences with more technical accounts of the trailblazers, covering the birth of the theory and its first years — the origin of the idea, four-dimensional field theory realization, and supergravity. The eyewitnesses convey to us the drama of one of the deepest discoveries in theoretical physics in the 20th century. This book will be equally interesting and useful to young researchers in high energy physics and to mature scholars — physicists and historians of science.

Author : Mikhail A. Shifman
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9789812705327

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Felix Berezin by Mikhail A. Shifman Pdf

Felix Berezin was an outstanding Soviet mathematician who in the 1960s and 70s was the driving force behind the emergence of the branch of mathematics now known as supermathematics. The integral over the anticommuting Grassmann variables that he introduced in the 1960s laid the foundation for the path integral formulation of quantum field theory with fermions, the heart of modern supersymmetric field theories and superstrings. The Berezin integral is named for him, as is the closely related construction of the Berezinian, which may be regarded as the superanalog of the determinant.This book features a masterfully written memoir by Berezin's widow, Elena Karpel, who narrates a remarkable account of Berezin's life and his struggle for survival under the totalitarian Soviet regime. Supplemented with recollections by his close friends and colleagues, Berezin's accomplishments in mathematics, his novel ideas and breakthrough works, are reviewed in two articles written by Andrei Losev and Robert Minlos.

Author : Shifman Misha
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789814619318

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Physics In A Mad World by Shifman Misha Pdf

This book tells captivating stories of misadventures of two renowned theoretical physicists in the Soviet Union. The first part is devoted to Friedrich (Fritz) Houtermans, an outstanding Dutch-Austrian-German physicist who was the first to suggest that the source of stars' energy is thermonuclear fusion, and also made a number of other important contributions to cosmochemistry and geochemistry. In 1935, Houtermans, a German communist, in an attempt to save his life from Hilter's Gestapo, fled to the Soviet Union. He took up an appointment at the Kharkov Physico-Technical Institute, working there for two years with the Russian physicist Valentin P Fomin. In the Great Purge of 1937, Houtermans was arrested in December by the NKVD (Soviet Secret Police, KGB's predecessor). He was tortured, and confessed to being a Trotskyist plotter and German spy, out of fear of threats against his wife Charlotte. However, Charlotte had already escaped from the Soviet Union to Denmark, after which she went to England and finally the USA. As a result of the Hilter-Stalin Pact of 1939, Houtermans was turned over to the Gestapo in May 1940 and imprisoned in Berlin.The second part consists of two essays that narrate the life story of Yuri Golfand, one of the codiscoverers of supersymmetry, a major discovery in theoretical physics in the 20th century. In 1973, just two years after the publication of his seminal paper, he was fired from the Lebedev Physics Institute in Moscow. Because of his Jewish origin he could find no job. Under such circumstances, he applied for an exit visa to Israel, but his application was denied. Yuri Golfand became a refusnik and joined the Human rights movement, along with two other prominent physicists, Andrei Sakharov and Yuri Orlov. To earn his living, he had to do manual work, repeatedly being intimidated by KGB. Only 18 years later, shortly before the demise of the Soviet Union, did he obtain permission to leave the country, emigrating to Israel in 1990.These personal life stories of two outstanding theorists are interwined with the tragedies of the 20th century and make for compelling reading.

Author : Harold C. Steinacker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2024-04-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781009440783

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Quantum Geometry, Matrix Theory, and Gravity by Harold C. Steinacker Pdf

This book describes quantum geometry in the framework of Matrix Theory, which offers a quantum theory of space-time and matter.

Author : Yuri L Dokshitzer,Peter Levai,Julia Nyiri
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789813141711

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Gribov-85 Memorial Volume: Exploring Quantum Field Theory - Proceedings Of The Memorial Workshop Devoted To The 85th Birthday Of V N Gribov by Yuri L Dokshitzer,Peter Levai,Julia Nyiri Pdf

Vladimir Naumovich Gribov is one of the creators of modern theoretical physics. The concepts and methods that Gribov has developed in the second half of the 20th century became cornerstones of the physics of high energy hadron interactions (relativistic theory of complex angular momenta, a notion of the vacuum pole — Pomeron, effective reggeon field theory), condensed matter physics (critical phenomena), neutrino oscillations, and nuclear physics.His unmatched insights into the nature of the quantum field theory helped to elucidate, in particular, the origin of classical solutions (instantons), quantum anomalies, specific problems in quantization of non-Abelian fields (Gribov anomalies, Gribov horizon), and the role of light quarks in the color confinement phenomenon.The fifth memorial workshop which marked Gribov's 85th birthday took place at the Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, Russia, in June 2015. Participants of the workshop who came to Chernogolovka from different parts of the world presented new results of studies of many challenging theoretical physics problems across a broad variety of topics, and shared memories about their colleague, great teacher and friend.This book is a collection of the presented talks and contributed papers, which affirm the everlasting impact of Gribov's scientific heritage upon the physics of the 21st century.

Author : K A Olive,M A Shifman,M B Voloshin
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 660 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2002-12-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789814487115

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Continuous Advances in QCD 2002 by K A Olive,M A Shifman,M B Voloshin Pdf

The symposium and workshop “Continuous Advances in QCD / Arkadyfest” was the fifth in the series of meetings organized by the William I Fine Theoretical Physics Institute at the University of Minnesota. This meeting brought together leading researchers in high-energy physics to exchange the latest ideas in QCD and gauge theories at strong coupling at large. It honored the 60th birthday of Professor Arkady Vainshtein, and the papers included in this proceedings volume also look back on the history of the subjects in which Arkady played such a central role: applications of PCAC, penguins, invisible axions, QCD sum rules, exact beta functions, condensates in supersymmetry, powerful heavy quark expansions, and new anomalies in 2D SUSY theories. The current status of these subjects was summarized in several excellent presentations that also outlined a historical perspective. A number of papers from leading researchers in the field present new developments and ideas in modern areas of study, such as the cosmological constant problem in extra-dimension theories, supersymmetric monopoles, solitons and confinement, AdS/CFT correspondence, and high density QCD. Contents:Perturbative and Nonperturbative QCD:Electromagnetic Form Factor of the Pion (H Leutwyler)Multiple Uses of the QCD Instantons (E V Shuryak)CP-Violation and Mixing in Charmed Mesons (A A Petrov)General Aspects of QCD and the Standard Model:Probing New Physics: From Charm to Superstrings (M K Gaillard)Dynamics of QCD in a Strong Magnetic Field (V A Miransky)On Mixed Phases in Gauge Theories (V L Chernyak)Gauge Dynamics at High Temperature and Density:What QCD Tells Us About Nature (F Wilczek)Domain Walls and Strings in Dense Quark Matter (A R Zhitnitsky)Topological Field Configurations, Dynamics in Supersymmetric Models, and Theoretical Issues:Non-Abelian Monopoles, Vortices and Confinement (K Konishi)Nonperturbative Solution of Supersymmetric Gauge Theories (J R Hiller)Testing ADS/CFT Correspondence with Wilson Loops (K Zarembo)Cosmology and Axions:Axions: Past, Present, and Future (M Srednicki)QCD Vacuum and Axions: What's Happening? (G Gabadadze & M Shifman)Arkadyfest:Arkady in Siberia (E Shuryak)Of a Superior Breed (V Zelevinsky)Reminiscences in Pastels (M Shifman)and other papers Readership: Graduate students and researchers in high-energy and theoretical physics. Keywords:Quantum Field Theory;Gauge Theories;Supersymmetry;Topological Field Configurations;Quantum Chromodynamics

Author : D. I. Kazakov,Alexei V. Gladyshev
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Science
ISBN : 9810248059

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Proceedings of the IX International Conference on Supersymmetry and Unification of Fundamental Interactions by D. I. Kazakov,Alexei V. Gladyshev Pdf

This book addresses the theoretical, phenomenological and experimental aspects of supersymmetry in particle physics as well as its implications in cosmology.

Author : D I Kazakov,A V Gladyshev
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2002-03-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789814489621

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Supersymmetry and Unification of Fundamental Interactions by D I Kazakov,A V Gladyshev Pdf

This book addresses the theoretical, phenomenological and experimental aspects of supersymmetry in particle physics as well as its implications in cosmology. Contents:SUSY and Higgs Searches: Experimental Results:Chargino and Neutralino Searches at LEP (C Hensel)Higgs Searches at LEP (S Andringa)R-Parity Violation Searches at LEP (R Barbier)Searches for Charged Higgs Bosons (M Ellert)SUSY, Higgs and GUT Phenomenology:SUSY Phenomenology at the EW and the GUT Scales (G Altarelli)Revealing SUSY at Colliders (H Baer)Neutralino Dark Matter (S Scopel)Linear Collider Signals of Anomaly Mediated Supersymmetry Breaking (S Roy)SUSY Theory and SUSY QFT:Low Energy Supersymmetry in Warped Brane Worlds (Z Lalak)Effective Field Theories on the Branes with Spontaneously Broken Supersymmetry (D Sorokin)Soft Supersymmetry Breaking from Coset Space Dimensional Reduction (P Manousselis & G Zoupanos)Interacting Noncommutative Lumps (C Sochichiu)and other papers Readership: Graduate students, academics and researchers in accelerator, high-energy and theoretical physics. Keywords:Supersymmetry;Particle Physics;Cosmology;SUSY;Higgs Searches;GUT Phenomenology;Neutralino Dark Matter;Warped Brane

Author : Elias Kiritsis
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 882 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780691155791

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String Theory in a Nutshell by Elias Kiritsis Pdf

The essential introduction to modern string theory—now fully expanded and revised String Theory in a Nutshell is the definitive introduction to modern string theory. Written by one of the world’s leading authorities on the subject, this concise and accessible book starts with basic definitions and guides readers from classic topics to the most exciting frontiers of research today. It covers perturbative string theory, the unity of string interactions, black holes and their microscopic entropy, the AdS/CFT correspondence and its applications, matrix model tools for string theory, and more. It also includes 600 exercises and serves as a self-contained guide to the literature. This fully updated edition features an entirely new chapter on flux compactifications in string theory, and the chapter on AdS/CFT has been substantially expanded by adding many applications to diverse topics. In addition, the discussion of conformal field theory has been extensively revised to make it more student-friendly. The essential one-volume reference for students and researchers in theoretical high-energy physics Now fully expanded and revised Provides expanded coverage of AdS/CFT and its applications, namely the holographic renormalization group, holographic theories for Yang-Mills and QCD, nonequilibrium thermal physics, finite density physics, and entanglement entropy Ideal for mathematicians and physicists specializing in theoretical cosmology, QCD, and novel approaches to condensed matter systems An online illustration package is available to professors

Author : Anonim
Publisher : American Mathematical Soc.
Page : 698 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780821838488

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Dirichlet Branes and Mirror Symmetry by Anonim Pdf

Research in string theory has generated a rich interaction with algebraic geometry, with exciting work that includes the Strominger-Yau-Zaslow conjecture. This monograph builds on lectures at the 2002 Clay School on Geometry and String Theory that sought to bridge the gap between the languages of string theory and algebraic geometry.

Author : Clay Mathematics Institute. Summer School,Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences
Publisher : American Mathematical Soc.
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 082183715X

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Strings and Geometry by Clay Mathematics Institute. Summer School,Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences Pdf

Contains selection of expository and research article by lecturers at the school. Highlights current interests of researchers working at the interface between string theory and algebraic supergravity, supersymmetry, D-branes, the McKay correspondence andFourer-Mukai transform.