β Scribed by M. Herrero (auth.), T. Ferbel (eds.)
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The Proceedings of the tenth Advanced Study Institute (ASI) on TechΒ niques and Concepts of High Energy Physics are dedicated to Jane and Bob Wilson. Jane joined Bob at St. Croix for the first session of this Institute, after Bob had stepped down as director of Fermilab, and was scheming to build a modest charm factory in the parking lot of Columbia University's Nevis Laboratory. Through the years, Bob has been a great friend of the School, and much of its success and flavor can be attributed to his guidance and support. The 1998 meeting was held once again at the Hotel on the Cay, and, as before, the work and the fun went on very enjoyably. We had a toΒ tal of 76 participants from 23 countries, with the main financial support for the meeting provided by the Scientific Affairs Division of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). The ASI was co-sponsored by the U. S. Department of Energy, by the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), by the U.S. National Science Foundation, and by the University of Rochester. As in the case of the previous ASIs, the scientific program was designed for advanced graduate students and recent PhD recipients in experimental particle physics. The present volume of lectures should complement and update the material published (by Plenum) for the first nine ASIs and prove to be of value to a wider audience of physicists.
Front Matter....Pages i-xi
The Standard Model....Pages 1-59
Topics in Perturbative QCD....Pages 61-109
Rare and Exotic Decays....Pages 111-145
Experimental Tests of the Standard Model....Pages 147-192
Experimental Challenges at the LHC....Pages 193-238
Particle Physics in the Early Universe....Pages 239-261
Latest News on Neutrinos....Pages 263-290
When Can You Have Particle Oscillations?....Pages 291-293
Silicon Detectors....Pages 295-333
Calorimetry....Pages 335-386
Introduction to Microwave Linacs....Pages 387-486
Quark Mixing and CP Violation....Pages 487-595
Diffractive Hard Scattering....Pages 597-624
Back Matter....Pages 625-628
Nuclear Physics, Heavy Ions, Hadrons;Astronomy, Observations and Techniques;Electrical Engineering;Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory
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