Photonic, Electronic, and Atomic Collisions

Photonic, Electronic, and Atomic Collisions
Author: Friedrich Aumayr
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company Incorporated
Total Pages: 706
Release: 1998
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9789810234256

This important book contains the invited papers (plenary and review lectures, progress and special reports) presented at XX.ICPEAC, the Twentieth International Conference on the Physics of Electronic and Atomic Collisions. It highlights the current status of research in photonic, electronic and atomic collision physics, for which experimental studies increasingly rely on laser and synchrotron radiation and are more and more interrelated with other fields, such as molecular and chemical physics, surface science, quantum optics, and spectroscopy and formation of exotic atoms.

10th Conference on the Intersections of Particle and Nuclear Physics

10th Conference on the Intersections of Particle and Nuclear Physics
Author: Marvin L. Marshak
Publisher: American Institute of Physics
Total Pages: 1010
Release: 2010-01-11
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9780735407237

CIPANP 2009 explores areas of common interest between nuclear physicists, high energy (particle) physicists and astrophysicists. These areas range from studies of the strong interactions that bind nuclei together to physics of the very early Universe and include such topics as neutrinos, hadron physics, spin physics, heavy ion physics, QCD and heavy flavor physics. The Conference papers include descriptions of searches for "new physics", phenomena that cannot be accounted for by current theories.

100 Years of Gravity and Accelerated Frames

100 Years of Gravity and Accelerated Frames
Author: Jong-Ping Hsu
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 662
Release: 2005
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9812563350

This collection of papers presents ideas and problems arising over the past 100 years regarding classical and quantum gravity, gauge theories of gravity, and spacetime transformations of accelerated frames. Both Einstein's theory of gravity and the Yang-Mills theory are gauge invariant. The invariance principles in physics have transcended both kinetic and dynamic properties and are at the very heart of our understanding of the physical world. In this spirit, this book attempts to survey the development of various formulations for gravitational and Yang-Mills fields and spacetime transformations of accelerated frames, and to reveal their associated problems and limitations.The aim is to present some of the leading ideas and problems discussed by physicists and mathematicians. We highlight three aspects: formulations of gravity as a Yang-Mills field, first discussed by Utiyama; problems of gravitational theory, discussed by Feynman, Dyson and others; spacetime properties and the physics of fields and particles in accelerated frames of reference.These unfulfilled aspects of Einstein and Yang-Mills' profound thoughts present a great challenge to physicists and mathematicians in the 21st century.

100 Years Werner Heisenberg

100 Years Werner Heisenberg
Author: Dietrich Papenfuss
Publisher: Wiley-VCH
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2002-12-03
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9783527403929

Over 40 renowned scientists from all around the world discuss the work and influence of Werner Heisenberg. The papers result from the symposium held by the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Heisenberg's birth, one of the most important physicists of the 20th century and cofounder of modern-day quantum mechanics. Taking atomic and laser physics as their starting point, the scientists illustrate the impact of Heisenberg's theories on astroparticle physics, high-energy physics and string theory right up to processing quantum information.