Current Topics in Elementary Particle Physics

✍ Scribed by R. Petronzio (auth.), K. H. Mütter, K. Schilling (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 1981
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 339
• Series: NATO Advanced Study Institutes Series 70
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This volume contains the contributions to the INTERNATIONAL SUMMER INSTITUTE ON THEORETICAL PHYSICS 1980 held from September 1st to September 12th in Bad Honnef, Germany. This Institute was organized by Wuppertal University. It was the eleventh in a series of Summer Schools on particle physics carried out by German Universities. The Institute was aimed to review the present status of gauge theories in elementary particle physics, with emphasis both on the phenomenological and formal aspects. The first part of the volume covers the recent progress in the development of perturbative methods both in quantum chromodynamics (QCD) and flavor dynamics (QFD). Applications to available data from electron­ positron storage rings and deep inelastic scattering are discussed. The second part presents new results on classical solutions and non-perturbative methods in gauge theories and related field theories like non­ linear a-models. A very topical account is given on the application of Monte Carlo methods within lattice gauge theories. At present these methods appear to be the most promising technique to establish the quark confinement hypothesis within the framework of non-Abelian gauge theories. The volume is closed with a progress report on the present understanding of sup~rgravity and its relation to grand unification schemes. The lectures on Grand Unified Theories given by Dr. D. V. Nanopoulos at the Bad Honnef meeting can be found in the proceedings of the 1980 Rencontre de Moriond (Ed. J. Tran Thanh Van).

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-viii
Different Hard Processes in QCD....Pages 1-21
Scaling Violations beyond the Leading Order....Pages 23-47
Picture of QCD Jets: Leading Log Approximation and Beyond It....Pages 49-66
The Photon Structure Function....Pages 67-75
Higher Order QCD Corrections in e + e − Annihilation into Hadrons....Pages 77-102
Infrared Sensitive Quantities and the Structure of Final States in QCD....Pages 103-108
Hunting for Higher Twists — A Precaution....Pages 109-116
Weak Decays and the Bound State Structure of Hadrons....Pages 117-141
Heavy Higgs Bosons....Pages 143-153
Computer Algebra....Pages 155-165
Muon-Nucleon Scattering, QCD Related Experimental Results....Pages 167-181
Inclusive Neutrino-Nucleon Scattering by Charged Currents....Pages 183-197
Classical Solutions in Gauge Theories — Spherically Symmetric Monopoles — Lax Pairs and Toda Lattices....Pages 199-217
Classical Solutions in Field Theory....Pages 219-229
Generalized Non-Linear Sigma Models....Pages 231-240
Monte Carlo Computations for Lattice Gauge Theories with Finite Gauge Groups....Pages 241-262
Infrared Singularities Caused by Gauge Fixing....Pages 263-277
Chiral Dynamics for Colour and Technicolour QCD Like Theories at Large N....Pages 279-292
Semiclassical Non-Perturbative Effects in Quantum Field Theories....Pages 293-303
Supergravity and Phenomenology....Pages 305-336
Back Matter....Pages 337-343

✦ Subjects

Science, general