The Gregory Breit Centennial Symposium: Yale University, USA,9789810245535

The Gregory Breit Centennial Symposium: Yale University, USA

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ISBN13: 9789810245535
ISBN10: 981024553X
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2001-04-01
Publisher(s): WORLD SCIENTIFIC PUB CO INC
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Summary

Proceedings of the Gregory Breit Memorial Symposium, devoted to the legacy of Gregory Breit and to a number of topics in physics, including nuclear physics, atomic physics, and particle physics. The symposium was held October 22-26, 1999, at Yale University.

Table of Contents

Preface
xiii
Program of the Gregory Breit Centennial Symposium
1(4)
Introductory Remarks about Gregory Breit
5(10)
Vernon W. Hughes
The Legacy of Gregory Breit
Topics from High Precision Test of Quantum Electrodynamics
15(20)
Toichiro Kinoshita
Introduction
15(1)
Lepton Magnetic Moment Anomaly
15(5)
Relativistic Two-Body Bound States
20(8)
Various Determinations of α
28(1)
Concluding Remarks
29(6)
Helium Fine Structure, from Breit Interaction to Precise Laser Spectroscopy
35(18)
F. Minardi
M. Inguscio
Introduction: Helium Atom and the Fine Structure Constant α
35(1)
Breit's Two-Electron Theory...
35(3)
...and Developments
38(1)
Experiments
39(3)
The Florence Experiments
42(6)
Fine Structure Constant Determinations and Perspectives
48(5)
The Isotope Shift
53(26)
E.W. Otten
Introduction
53(1)
The Discovery of the Nuclear Volume Effect in Isotope Shift
54(2)
Early Theory of Isotope Shift
56(3)
Survey of First Generation Results
59(6)
Second Generation of IS Physics
65(3)
Discussion of IS Systematics
68(5)
Present Trends in Isotope Shift Measurements
73(6)
Gregory Breit and the Fermion-Fermion Interaction
79(8)
G.E. Brown
The Breit Interaction
79(4)
The Nucleon-Nucleon Interaction
83(4)
Ultra-Relativistic Nuclei: A New Frontier
87(10)
L. McLerran
Two Fundamental Issues
87(1)
The Ultra-Relativistic Nucleus
88(3)
The High Density of Mesons
91(1)
Experimentally Probing High Density QCD
92(1)
AA Scattering
92(3)
Basic Physics We Want to Study
95(2)
Supersymmetry in Nuclei
97(10)
F. Iachello
Supersymmetry
97(1)
Supersymmetry in Nuclei
98(5)
Supersymmetry in Nuclei Confirmed
103(2)
Implications to Other Fields
105(1)
Conclusions
105(2)
100 Years of the Quantum - The Glory and the Shame
107(10)
John Archibald Wheeler
Banquet Addresses
On Gregory Breit
117(6)
McAllister Hull
Remarks from a Family Member
123(2)
Ralph Wyckoff
Martin Klein
Frontiers of Nuclear Physics
Color, Spin and Flavor-Dependent Forces in Quantum Chromodynamics
125(20)
R.L. Jaffe
Introduction
127(1)
Basics: Regularities of the Q-Q Interaction
127(3)
Baryons
130(3)
Mesons
133(4)
Back to Basics: Spectroscopic Rules for QN
137(1)
Baryons and Dibaryons
138(3)
Colorspin in Quark Matter
141(4)
Nuclear Structure with Stable and Radioactive Beams
145(36)
R.F. Casten
Introduction
145(2)
Nuclear Structure
147(10)
Studies with Stable Beams and Targets
157(10)
The Study of Exotic Nuclei with RNBs
167(11)
Conclusion
178(3)
Equation of State of Nuclear Matter
181(18)
Claus-Konrad Gelbke
Introduction
181(1)
Measuring Temperatures
182(4)
Observing Radial Expansion
186(2)
Measuring the Space-Time Characteristics
188(3)
Observing the Effects of Pressure
191(4)
Summary and Outlook
195(4)
Electric Dipole Tests of Time Reversal Symmetry
199(18)
Norman F. Ramsey
Introduction
199(2)
Neutron Beam Experiments
201(1)
Trapped Neutron Experiments
202(3)
Atomic and Molecular Electric Dipole Moment Experiments
205(5)
Theoretical Implications
210(7)
Laboratory Studies of Astrophysical Nuclear Reactions
217(10)
C. Rolfs
Introduction
217(1)
Nuclear Astrophysical Rates
218(2)
The LUNA-Project
220(2)
Other Rapidly Developing Experimental Techniques
222(1)
Summary
223(4)
Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider Physics
227(24)
John W. Harris
Introduction
227(7)
The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider Experiments
234(17)
Gregory Breit: July 14, 1899- September 11, 1981
251(20)
McAllister Hull
(Bibliographical Memoirs from the National Academy of Sciences)
Introduction
251(1)
Personal History
252(5)
Professional History
257(12)
Biographical Memoirs: Selected Bibliography
269(2)
Work on the Super and the Study of Atmospheric Ignition
271(10)
A Brief Reminiscence by McAllister Hull
271(3)
Gregory Breit's declassified report
274(7)
Bibliography of Gregory Breit
281

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