Status of Theoretical Understanding and of Experimental Power for LHC Physics and Beyond

50th Anniversary Celebration of the QuarkProceedings of the International School of Subnuclear Physics

Nonfiction, Science & Nature, Science, Physics, Nuclear Physics, Mathematical Physics

• Author: Antonino Zichichi
• ISBN: 9789813148697
• Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
• Publication: November 1, 2016
• Imprint: WSPC
• Language: English

Proceedings of the International School of Subnuclear Physics, ISSP 2014, 52nd Course, ERICE, Erice, 24 June – 3 July 2014.

Contents:

• Opening Lecture:

  • A Lesson for the Future of Our Science. My Testimony on Lord Patrick M S Blackett (A Zichichi)

• Celebration Lecture:

  • Concrete Quarks (G Zweig)

• Status of Theoretical Understanding:

  • Higher Curvature Supergravity, Supersymmetry Breaking and Inflation (S Ferrara)
  • Problems with Ultrahigh-energy Neutrino Interactions (D Schildknecht)
  • Gauge Theories on the Coulomb Branch (J H Schwarz)
  • Canonical Methods in Deterministic Quantum Mechanics (G't Hooft)

• Status of Experimental Power:

  • Dark Matter Searches (A Bettini)
  • Highlights from ALICE (P Giubellino)
  • Planck Highlights (A Riazuelo)
  • Highlights from BNL and RHIC 2014 (M J Tannenbaum)
  • The QGCW Project (H Wenninger)
  • Complexity and New Physics (A Zichichi)

• Discussions:

  • The Mass Hierarchy and Physics Beyond the Standard Theory (I Antoniadis)
  • Recent Developments in Scattering Amplitudes (Z Bern)
  • Gravity as the Square of a Gauge Theory (M J Duff)
  • The INFN Vision for Neutrino Physics (F Ferroni)
  • Probing Subnuclear Structure with Neutrinos (J Knobloch)
  • Another Look at Quadratic Divergencies (H Nicolai)

• Closing Ceremony:

  • Diplomas and Awards
  • Participants

Readership: Directed to experts and advanced-level students in the field of Theoretical and Experimental Subnuclear Physics.