Fundamental Interactions in Low-Energy Systems

✍ Scribed by J. Bernabéu (auth.), P. Dalpiaz, G. Fiorentini, G. Torelli (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 1985
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 489
• Series: Ettore Majorana International Science Series 23
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The fourth course of the International School of Physics of Exotic Atoms took place at the "Ettore Majorana" Center for Scien­ tific Culture, Erice, from March 31 to April 6, 1984. As tradition, exotic atoms have been a tool for studying elec­ tromagnetic, weak and strong interactions at low energies. We felt it appropriate to have a full course devoted to a discussion of the information to be gained on the fundamental interactions from the study of low energy systems. In this kind of physics, which is characterized experimentally by very intense particle sources and very sensitive apparatuses, one can search for rare events and can perform precise measurements. Sensitive tests of the predictions of current theories of electro­ weak and strong interactions can thus be achieved. The course was attended by 54 participants from 23 institutes in 9 countries. The morning lectures reviewed the achievements of the field in the last few years and the afternoon seminars dealt with new results and projects.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Weak Interactions at Low Energy....Pages 1-23
Determination of the Muon Decay Parameters....Pages 25-33
Measurement of the ξ-Parameter in μ-Decay....Pages 35-42
Muon Capture in Hydrogen....Pages 43-70
Muon Capture in Deuterium....Pages 71-85
Parity Violation in Atoms....Pages 87-113
Neutral Currents in Muonic Atoms....Pages 115-125
Rare Muon Decays and Lepton-Family Number Conservation....Pages 127-155
Neutrino Masses and Mixing from Neutrino Oscillations....Pages 157-174
Searches for Mixed Heavy Neutrinos in Meson Decays and in Muon Capture....Pages 175-190
The Exotic Atoms of QCD: Glueballs, Hybrids and Baryonia....Pages 191-231
Quarkonium Spectroscopy....Pages 233-262
The LEAR Physics Programme....Pages 263-269
Electron-Positron Pair Production in $$p\bar p$$ Annihilation at LEAR....Pages 271-277
$$p\bar p$$ Annihilations at Rest in Hydrogen Gas: Report on Preliminary Results of the Asterix Experiment at Lear....Pages 279-291
First Physics Results from Experiment PS 172 at LEAR....Pages 293-300
Antiproton-Proton Reactions in the Momentum Range from 250 to 600 MeV/c....Pages 301-308
X-rays from Protonium — PS174 Progress Report....Pages 309-315
Antiproton X-ray Spectroscopy in the Cyclotron Trap: Preliminary Results....Pages 317-321
PS184: A Study of Antiproton-Nucleus Interactions at LEAR....Pages 323-328
Perspectives of Antineutron Physics....Pages 329-335
Weakly Charged Exotic Particles....Pages 337-362
Search for Muon-Hadron Interactions from Muonic X-rays....Pages 363-369
Experimental Search for Strong van der Waals Forces....Pages 371-379
Photon-Photon Interaction Detection via the Vacuum Birefringence Induced by a Magnetic Field: Status of the Experiment....Pages 381-403
Potential of Superconducting Tunnel Junctions as Detectors in Nuclear and Particle Physics....Pages 405-419
Development of a High Resolution Superconducting Detector for keV Radiation at SIN....Pages 421-428
New Detectors and Neutrino Mass....Pages 429-434
Different Facets of Muonic Molecules....Pages 435-447
New Experimental Results on Muon Catalyzed Fusion in Low Density Deuterium-Tritium Gas....Pages 449-457
Progress in Muon Catalyzed Fusion at JINR in Dubna (USSR)....Pages 459-463
Triplet State Lifetimes and Muon Capture in Gaseous Hydrogen....Pages 465-479
Formation of the Lightest Muonic Atoms and the 2S-Lifetime of the (μ −4 He) + — Ion....Pages 481-498
Back Matter....Pages 499-501

✦ Subjects

Physics, general