Beschreibung
The International Conference, Orbis Scientiae 1996, focused on the topics: The Neutrino Mass, Light Cone Quantization, Monopole Condensation, Dark Matter, and Gravitational Waves which we have adopted as the title of these proceedings. Was there any exciting news at the conference? Maybe, it depends on who answers the question. There was an almost unanimous agreement on the overall success of the conference as was evidenced by the fact that in the after-dinner remarks by one of us (BNK) the suggestion of organizing the conference on a biannual basis was presented but not accepted: the participants wanted the continuation of the tradition to convene annually. We shall, of course, comply. The expected observation of gravitational waves will constitute the most exciting vindication of Einstein's general relativity. This subject is attracting the attention of the experimentalists and theorists alike. We hope that by the first decade of the third millennium or earlier, gravitational waves will be detected, opening the way for a search for gravitons somewhere in the universe, presumably through the observations in the CMBR. The theoretical basis of the graviton search will take us to quantum gravity and eventually to the modification of general relativity to include the Planck scale behavior of gravity -at energies 19 of the order of 10 Ge V.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
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. Dirac''s 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.
