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This volume contains the Proceedings of the 17th Workshop of the INFN ELOISATRON Project on "QCD at 200 TeV", held at the "Ettore Majorana" Centre for Scientific Culture, EMCSC, Erice, Trapani, Italy, in the period 11-17 June 1991. The new multi-Te V frontiers of Subnuclear Physics are no more beyond our imagination. A conceptual design of the highest energy (100+100 TeV) proton-proton collider -the ELOISA TRON -already exists. Intensive R & D studies are on the go to develop the most promising and innovative detector technologies for the highest energy and luminosity. QCD (Quantum Chromo-Dynamics) will be the theory to describe the expected Physics scenario of future S upercolliders. The pu...
This open access book celebrates the contribution of Bruno Touschek to theoretical physics and particle colliders in Europe. It contains direct testimonials from his former students, collaborators, and eminent scientists, among them, two Nobel Prize winners in Physics, Giorgio Parisi and Carlo Rubbia. It reviews the main developments in theoretical and accelerator physics in the second half of the twentieth century, while at the same time providing an overview of future prospects worldwide. This book is unique in that it will be of interest to historians of physics and also to the younger generation of researchers. Through the contribution of the leading protagonists, the interested scholar will learn about the past, present status, and relevance of both theoretical and experimental accelerator physics. The overview of Bruno Touschek’s life and works across Europe, from pre-war Vienna to Germany, the UK, Italy, and France, adds a human dimension to the scientific narration, while the open access status makes this laudatory book available to anyone with interest.
Following discussions on scientific biography carried out over the past few decades, this book proposes a kaleidoscopic survey of the uses of biography as a tool to understand science and its context. The authors belong to a variety of academic and professional fields, including the history of science, anthropology, literary studies, and science journalism. The period covered spans from 1732, when Laura Bassi was the first woman to get a tenured professorship of physics, to 2009, when Elizabeth H. Blackburn and Carol W. Greider were the first women's team to have won a Nobel Prize in science.
This book presents in full the work of the Italian theoretical physicist Ettore Majorana and explains its impacts, which are still being felt. It opens with a contribution by A. Zichichi that considers in depth the scientific genius of Majorana. This introductory chapter is followed, in chronological order, by the eleven scientific papers by this great scientist, in most cases translated into English for the first time. Each paper is accompanied by a comment from an expert in the field in question. Although very few in number, Majorana's papers constitute a heritage of undeniable value and extraordinary scientific meaning, since they laid the foundations for research fields that remain topical today. With this in mind, two additional contributions on ongoing developments in these research fields are included: one on neutrino physics and the other on Majorana fermions in condensed matter. The volume closes with a note on Majorana's life until his ill-fated disappearance.
Benedict XIV and the Enlightenment offers a comprehensive assessment of Benedict's engagement with Enlightenment art, science, spirituality, and culture.
Hot Theoretical Topics: Ultraviolet Behavior of N=8 Supergravity (L J Dixon); Is the Best Superstring Model NP Complete? (M R Douglas); Erice Lecture on Microscopic Gravity (G Dvali); Supergravity: Foundations and Applications (S Ferrara); Orienfold String Vacua and Strings at the LHC (D Luest); Seminar on Specialized Topics: Status of Dark Matter and Neutrino Physics (A Bettini); Experimental Evidence for Pointlike Baryons at q2 = 4MB2 (S Pacetti); Neutrino Masses, Dark Matter, Baryon Asymmetry and Inflation can be Explained at Once (M Shaposhnikov); Results from RHIC with Implications for LHC (M J Tannenbaum); Quantum Gravity without Space-Time Singularities or Horizons (G 't Hooft); Diffr...
Proceedings of the 45th Session of the International Seminars on Nuclear War and Planetary Emergencies held in Erice, Sicily. This Seminar has again gathered, in 2012, over one hundred scientists from 43 countries in an interdisciplinary effort that has been going on for the last 31 years, to examine and analyze planetary problems which had been followed up, all year long, by the World Federation of Scientists' Permanent Monitoring Panels.
Contents:Aids (R C Gallo & G de The)Energy (H Yuping, V G Baryakhtar & E P Velikhov)Land, Ocean, Atmosphere (E Boschi, T Laevastu, J K D Söderman, A Longhetto, M-X Wang, Q-C Zeng & A Y Wong)International Cooperation on Defence Systems (ICDS) (H F Cooper, A G Basistov, T Cremins, E Teller, G M Chernavskii, A Mak, L Wood, B V Bunkin, G H Canavan, A Piontkowsky, A A Kuz'min & S P Worden)Proliferation of Weapons for Mass Destruction (WMD) (A Zichichi, R T Andrews, V Baryakhtar, D A Kay, Y Ne'eman & E Teller)Science and Technology for Developing and Developed Countries (T D Lee)Problems Relating to the CIS and Other Eastern European Countries (V Baryakhtar, J Pozela, K K Rebane & Z Rudzikas)Soil, Food and Improvement of Modern Life (G Fierotti, R A Clark, C Ponnamperuma, M Grätzel & J M Borthagaray) Readership:Scientists in all fields, universities and institutes in all fields of science — politicians and decision makers � ministries of science, interior and security, foreign affairs — international organisations.
Contents:Predicted Signals at the LHC from Technicolor (A Martin)How Supercritical String Cosmology Affects LHC (D V Nanopoulos)Progress on the Ultraviolet Finiteness of Supergravity (Z Bern)Quantum Gravity from Dynamical Triangulation (R Loll)Status of Superstring and M-Theory (J H Schwarz)Strongly Coupled Gauge Theories (R Kenway)Strongly Interacting Matter at High Energy Density (L McLerran)The Nature and the Mass of Neutrinos. Majorana vs Dirac (A Bettini)The Anomalous Spin Distributions in the Nucleon (A Deshpande)and other papers Readership: Students, researchers and academics in the field of subnuclear physics. Keywords:Black Holes;QCD;SUSY;QED;Collider;Attractors
This is a book of testimonials from participants to the famous Erice International Seminars on Nuclear War and Planetary Emergencies. The Erice International Seminars with their multidisciplinary scientific audiences have addressed, since 1981, a long list of planetary problems and emergencies. This book describes one of the most exciting intellectual and political ventures of the later part of the 20th century, of the decades of the Cold War, a period of bristling East-West tension with the omnipresent possibility that its management might get out of hand, and a war of unimaginable proportion and potential damage eruption. The Erice International Seminars — held in an idyllic setting of a...