Arnold Perlmutter

Deeper pathways in high-energy physics

The conference contained 27 papers, for which 20 papers were prepared. Seven papers appeared previously in ERA. (JFP)

The Significance of Nonlinearity in the Natural Sciences

A review of some recent work on the collective coordinate approach to perturbation expansion about soliton solutions is presented. Consistent formulation of the method in framework of the Feynman path integral quantization procedure is described. As an illustrative application we discuss in detail a perturbation expansion for scattering of solitons. INTRODUCTION· After the relevance of classical soliton solutions to the quantum theory was established at the semi-classical level(l), the main problem remaining was to develop a systematic perturbation expansion about these solutions The straightforward way of doing this, which consists of shifting the field by the classical solution, runs into serious difficulties. Namely, by the shift various symmetries (like translational invariance) get broken * Research sponsored by the Energy Research and Development Administration Grant No. E(11-1)-2220.

Progress in Lasers and Laser Fusion

Opening Remarks.- Theoretical Interpretations of Enhanced Laser Light Absorption.- The Effects of Fluid Instabilities on Laser Fusion Pellets.- HF Chemical Lasers.- Experiments in Laser Fusion.- Outlook for Laser Fusion.- Three Quasi-CW Approaches to Short Wavelength Lasers.- Review of Soft X-Ray Lasers Using Charge Exchange.- Soft X-Ray Lasers Via Electron-Collisional Pumping.- X-Ray and ?-Ray Lasers.- Scattered Radiation and Neutron Production in Laser-Plasma Interaction.- The Theory of Powerful Laser Light Propagation in a Material Medium.- Participants.

Theories and experiments in high-energy physics

Recent Results for e+e? Annihilation at Spear.- Measurements of e+e? ? e+e?, e+e? ? ?+??and e+e? ? ?? at Center of Mass Energies Close to 3105 MeV.- Electron-Positron Annihilation and the Structure of Hadrons.- Electron-Positron Annihilation to Hadrons and Color Symmetries of Elementary Particle.- Electron-Positron Inclusive Hadron Reactions.- On the Consequences of Non-Linearity in a Unified Theory of Fundamental Interactions.- Particles, Forces and the New Mesons.- Theoretical Interpretation of Recent Neutral Current Results.- Unified Gauge Theories.- Monopole Strings and Charmonium.- Unified Approach to Multiparticle Production at High Energy.- Quantum Mechanical Approximations in Quantum Field Theory.- On the Problem of Causality in Conformal Invariant Theories.- Transport and Hydrodynamic Aspects of Multiparticle Production.- The Large Numbers Hypothesis and Its Consequences.- Are Quasars Local?.- Participants.

Global warming and energy policy

Introduction. Five Issues E. Teller, B.N. Kursunogammalu. Some Global Environmental Issues of Public Concern R. Wilson. A Scientific Assessment of Emission of Greenhouse Gases into the Atmosphere. Free Market Approaches to Controlling Carbon Dioxide Emissions to the Atmosphere K. Lackner, et al. The Precautionary Principle: A Guide for Action J. Couture. Nuclear Power - Meeting Tomorrows Electrical Generation Paradigm C.K. Paulson. Nuclear Energy and Environment: Facts and Myths. Nuclear Energy in the 21st Century L. Bennett, C.P. Zaleski. Nuclear Plant Financial Performance in a Restructured Utility System S. Brewer. Global Warming - An Opportunity for Nuclear Power? Well Yes, But P. Beck, M. Grimston. Near-Term Demonstration of Benign, Sustainable, Nuclear Power C.E. Walter. Energy Technologies and Climate Change: A World and European Outlook D. Rossetti di Valdalbero. Global Warming: A Science Overview M.C. MacCracken. Is Nuclear Energy Going to Miss Its Environment Mission? J. Eibenschutz. Californias Electricity Problem - and the Potential World Energy Disasters B. Wolfe. Nuclear Energy, Non-Proliferation, and Other Considerations. Non-Proliferation Issues for Generation IV Power Systems J. Magill, R. Schenkel. Black Light Power Technology R.L. Mills. Gas Resources for the 21st Century J. Maire. The Future of Nuclear Energy in the US A.S. Howard. Index.

Information processing in biological systems

This volume presents frontier research in information processing related to a variety of biological systems, including small assemblies of neurons in the cortex and large-scale metabolic systems; the statistics, dynamics, and phase transitions of stochastic information processing; and the microscopic-macroscopic interface in biological information processing. Physical principles and proteinoid experiments are discussed regarding the emergence of life and information and cause. The final paper offers a design for a one-dimensional brain.

Field theory in elementary particles

The Present State of Gravitational Theory.- QCD - Prospects and Problems.- Grand Unification: A Status Report.- Majorana Neutrinos - Their Electromagnetic Properties and Neutral Current Weak Interactions.- Proton Decay - 1982.- Prompt Neutrinos: Present Issues and Future Prospects.- Recent Results on Charmed Particle Lifetimes and Production.- The Weak Mixing Angle and its Relation to the Masses MZ, and MW.- Intermediate Vector Bosons and Neutrino Cosmology.- Precessional Period and Modulation of Relativistic Radial Velocities in SS 433.- Periodic and Secular Changes in SS 433.- Superstrings.- A Geometrical Approach to Quantum Field Theory.- Glueballs - A Status Report.- Glueballs - Some Selected Theoretical Topics.- Monte Carlo Computations of the Hadronic Mass Spectrum.- Learning from Mass Calculations in Quarkless QCD.- Beyond QCD: Why and How.- Large Magnetic Moment Effects at High Energies and Composite Particle Models.- The Next Layer of the Onion? Composite Models of Quarks and Leptons.- Composite Fermions: Constraints and Tests.- Light Composite Fermions - An Overview.- The N-Quantum Approximation, Concrete Composite Models of Quarks and Leptons, and Problems with the Normalization of Composite Massless Bound States.- Monte Carlo Evaluation of Hadron Masses.- Revival of the Old String Model.- QCD on a Random Lattice.- Collective Field Theory.- Program.- Participants.

On the path of Albert Einstein

Developments of Einsteins Theory of Gravitation.- A Non-Technical History of the Generalized Theory of Gravitation Dedicated to the Albert Einstein Centennial.- Supergravity: A Post-Einstein Unification.- Revolution in Science: The 1919 Eclipse Test of General Relativity.- Supersymmetry Formulated in Superspace.- Quantum Gravity.- Applied Quantum Gravity: Applications of the Semiclassical Theory.- Orbis Scientiae 1979, Program.- Participants.

Neutrino mass, dark matter, gravitational waves, monopole condensation, and light cone quantization

Prologue: Innermost Structure of Matter B.N. Kursunogammalu. Unbroken Non-Abelian Gauge Symmetry and Confinement K. Nishijima. Progress on New and Old Ideas: R-parity-violating Yukawa Couplings V. Barger, et al. Grand Unified Theories from Superstrings G.B. Cleaver. Gravitational Waves: Status of LIGO B. Barish. Cosmology and LIGO L.S. Finn. Neutrino Masses: LSND Neutrino Oscillation Results W.C. Louis. Theoretical Ideas about Neutrino Mass L. Wolfenstein. Diracs Legacy: Lightcone Quantization: Lightcone Quantization and Hadron Structure S. Brodsky. Discretized Lightcone Quantization H.C. Pauli. The Matter of Dark Matter: Formulation of a Photosphere around Macroscopic Black Holes A.F. Heckler. A Supersymmetric Model for Mixed Dark Matter A. Riotto. Progress on New and Old Ideas: Nonuniversality and Post-GUT Physics in Supergravity Unification P. Nath, R. Arnowitt. Pade Approximants, Borel Transform and Renormalons: The Bjorken Sum Rule as a Case Study J. Ellis, et al. Exactly Soluble Quantum Models: Matrix Elements of Local Fields in Integrable QFT G. Delfino, G. Mussardo. Epilogue: Sonoluminescence and the Heimlich Effect A. Chodos. 19 additional articles. Index.

High-energy physics in the Einstein centennial year

Evidence for Quarks from Neutrino-Nucleon Scattering.- Direct Experimental Evidence for Constituents in the Nucleon from Electromagnetic Scattering Experiments.- Physics After ? and ?.- Protons Are Not Forever.- Gauge Hierarchies in Unified Theories.- Anomalies, Unitarity and Renormalization.- Charm Particle Production by Neutrinos.- Techniques to Search for Proton Instability to 1034 Years.- Charged and Neutral-Current Interference: The Next Hurdle for Weinberg-Salam.- The Quark Model Pion and the PCAC Pion.- Quark Model Eigenstates and Low Energy Scattering.- On the Equations of State in Many Body Theory.- Dyson Equations, Ward Identities, and the Infrared Behavior of Yang Mills Theories.- Instantons and Chiral Symmetry.- QCD and Hadronic Structure.- High Energy Predictions from Perturbative Q.C.D..- Perturbative QCD: An Overview.- Topics in the QCD Phenomenology of Deep-Inelastic Scattering.- Quantum Chromodynamics and Large Momentum Transfer Processes.- Testing Quantum Chromodynamics in Electron-Positron Annihilation at High Energies.- Spin Effects in Electromagnetic Interactions.- Very Recent Spin Results at Large P?2.- Hadroproduction of Massive Lepton Pairs and QCD.- Orbis Scientiae 1979, Program.- Participants.