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During August 1980 a group of 85 physicists from 57 laboratories in 21 countries met in Erice for the 18th Course of the International School of Subnuclear Physics. The countries represented were Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Colombia, Czechoslovakia, the Federal Republic of Germany, France, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, the United States of America, and Yugoslavia. The School was sponsored by the Italian Ministry of Public Education (MFI) , the Italian Ministry of Scientific and Technological Research (MRST) , the Regional Sicilian Government (ERS), and the Weizmann Institute of Science. The programme of the School was mainly devoted to a review of the very low energy corner where we are all working at present, and to a discussion of what the future could be for subnuclear physics before the end of this century. On the theoretical front, the highlight of this Course was the lectures by S. Adler on the non-local U(2) gauge theory. The non locality at the colour-level should disappear at the colour-singlet level -- where all particles we know of exist and should the- fore not scare those who do not like the idea of giving up this basic principle of quantum field theory: locality. On the other hand, the great dream of producing the world where we live, starting from the simplest symmetry group U(2), now seems to have a good chance of becoming a reality.
List of contents
Opening speech.- Opening Speech.- Opening Lecture.- Induced Gravitation.- Theoretical Lectures.- Non-Local Gauge Theories.- How far we are in Unifying the Fundamental Interactions.- Simple Lie Algebras and Dynkin Diagrams.- The Role of Newton's Constant in Einstein's Gravity.- Electroweak Physics of the 80?s.- Bianchi-Bäcklund Transformations, Conservation Laws, and Linearization of Various Field Theories.- SU(5) Without SU(5): Why B-L is conserved and Baryon Number not in Unified Models of Quarks and Leptons.- Seminars on Specialized Topics.- Experiment to Detect Proton Decay and Neutrino Oscillations (Using Cosmic Ray Neutrino Events).- Quark Masses from the Vector Meson Spectrum.- Induced Gravity in Quantum Theory in a Curved Space.- Why most Flavor Dependence Predictions for Non-Leptonic Charm Decays are Wrong.- Prospects for Polarized Electrons at High Energies.- Theoretical Implications on ISABELLE Physics.- Multiparticle Hadronic Systems produced in High-Energy (pp) Interactions, and Comparison with (e+ e?).- Review Lectures.- Hadronic Physics of q% MathType!MTEF!2!1!+-% feaagCart1ev2aaatCvAUfeBSjuyZL2yd9gzLbvyNv2CaerbuLwBLn% hiov2DGi1BTfMBaeXatLxBI9gBaerbd9wDYLwzYbItLDharqqtubsr% 4rNCHbGeaGqiVu0Je9sqqrpepC0xbbL8F4rqqrFfpeea0xe9Lq-Jc9% vqaqpepm0xbba9pwe9Q8fs0-yqaqpepae9pg0FirpepeKkFr0xfr-x% fr-xb9adbaqaaeGaciGaaiaabeqaamaabaabaaGcbaGabmyCayaara% aaaa!3702!$$bar q$$ Light Quark Mesons, Quark Molecules and Glueballs.- QCD, Unification and the Road to "Asymptopia".- Exotic Multiquark States with Charm.- Status of Charmed Particles.- Deep Inelastic Phenomena.- Test of Quantum Electrodynamics and the Study of Heavy Leptons.- Lepton-Hadron Inclusive Scattering and QCD.- Some Recent Results in e+ e? Physics in the U.S..- A Study of e+ e?Annihilation into Hadrons in the 1400-2200 MeV Energy Range with the Magnetic Detector DM1 at DCI: Observation and Study of a ?' Vector Meson .- (e+ e?) Physics at PETRA.- Closing Lecture.- What we have Learned.- Closing Ceremony.- Prizes and Scholarships, etc.- List of Participants.
