Touring the Planck Scale - Antonio Aurilia Memorial Volume

This book, dedicated to Antonio Aurilia, provides an overview of one of the most enigmatic fields in theoretical physics: the fundamental interactions at energies ranging from the electroweak scale to the Planck scale. This includes physics beyond the standard model, string theory, p-branes, quantum gravity, quantum black holes, and early universe cosmology. Another goal of this work is to present the physical conditions under which evidence of new physics at extreme energies might be uncovered at current (or near-future) experimental facilities.
The book is organized into three parts. The first part introduces fundamental interaction problems and summarizes Prof. Aurilia's life and work, including some unpublished material. The second part forms the book's core, featuring contributions from internationally recognized specialists who collaborated with Prof. Aurilia. The third part summarizes the findings and concludes, with a particular focus on future developments.

List of contents

Introduction.- The issue of fundamental interactions.- Life and work of Antonio Aurilia.- The Physics from the electroweak to the Planck scale.- Particle sectors beyond the Standard Model.- Noncommutative and nonlocal quantum field theory.- Supergravity, superstrings and quantum gravity.- Evaporating black holes and black hole thermodynamics.- Quantum pregeometry and Planckian black holes.- Analogue gravity systems.- Higher dimensional spacetimes and terascale quantum gravity.- Dimensionally reduced Universe and Planck time cosmology.- Future perspectives.- Summary of the proposed results and potential developments.- Experimental observations in the near future.- Final remarks and conclusions.Contributors: Robert Balbinot (Bologna U. & INFN, Bologna), Patricio Gaete (CCTVal, Valparaiso & Santa Maria U., Valparaiso), José A. Helayël-Neto (Rio de Janeiro, CBPF), Robert Mann (Waterloo U. & Perimeter Inst. Theor. Phys.), Jonas Mureika (LMU, Los Angeles), Hermann Nicolai (Potsdam, MaxPlanck Inst.), Douglas Singleton (Fresno State), Anais Smailagic (INFN, Trieste), Euro Spallucci (Trieste U. & INFN, Trieste), Paul K. Townsend (Cambridge U., DAMPT).

Product details

• Assisted by: Piero Nicolini (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 01.01.2025, delayed
• EAN: 9783031760655
• ISBN: 978-3-0-3176065-5
• No. of pages: 281
• Illustrations: X, 281 p. 63 illus., 40 illus. in color.
• Series: Fundamental Theories of Physics
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Theoretical physics; Kosmologie und das Universum, Mathematische Physik, Teilchen- und Hochenergiephysik, Cosmology, Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics, Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory, Classical and Quantum Gravity, quantum gravity, Physics beyond the Standard Model, Fundamental Interactions, analogue gravity systems, Planck time cosmology, Planckian black holes, nonlocal quantum field theory, black hole thermodynamics, terascale quantum gravity, noncommutative quantum field theory, evaporating black holes, Planck-scale physics, quantum pregeometry, supergravity