Quantum electrodynamics and physics of the vacuum : QED 2000, Second Workshop, Trieste, Italy, 5-11 October 2000 / editor, Giovanni Cantatore.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Cantatore, Giovanni.

Conference Name:

Workshop on Frontier Tests of QED and Physics of the Vacuum (2nd : 2000 : Trieste, Italy)

Series:

AIP conference proceedings ; no. 564.

AIP conference proceedings, 0094-243X ; 564

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Quantum electrodynamics--Congresses.

Quantum electrodynamics.

Vacuum--Congresses.

Vacuum.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xii, 302 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Other Title:

QED 2000

Place of Publication:

Melville, N.Y. : American Institute of Physics, 2001.

Contents:

Aspects of Supercritical Heavy Ion Collisions / W. Greiner, J. Reinhardt 1

Towards a Lamb Shift Measurement in Muonic Hydrogen / F. Kottmann, F. Biraben, C. A. N. Conde, C. Donche-Gay, T. W. Hansch, F. J. Hartmann, P. Hauser, V. W. Hughes, O. Huot, P. Indelicato, P. Knowles, Y.-W. Liu, V. E. Markushin, F. Mulhauser, F. Nez, R. Pohl, P. Rabinowitz, J. M. F. dos Santos, L. A. Schaller, H. Schneuwly, W. Schott, D. Taqqu, J. F. C. A. Veloso 13

Precision Measurements of the Casimir Force Using an Atomic Force Microscope / B. W. Harris, F. Chen, Anushree Roy, U. Mohideen 21

QED in the Worldline Formalism / C. Schubert 28

Dissipative Effects in the Propagation of Polarized Photons / F. Benatti, R. Floreanini 37

Self-Energy Screening in Two-Electron Ions / P. Indelicato, P. J. Mohr 43

Density Effects in Antiprotonic Helium / D. Bakalov, M. Stoilov, E. Tchoukova, B. Jeziorski, T. Korona, K. Szalewicz 51

Quantum Algebraic Representation of Localization and Motion of a Dirac Electron / M.-T. Jaekel, S. Reynaud 58

From Effective Actions to Actual Effects / H. Gies 68

The PVLAS Collaboration: Experimental Search for Anisotropy of the Phase Velocity of Light in Vacuum Due to a Static Magnetic Field / E. Zavattini, F. Brandi, M. Bregant, G. Cantatore, S. Carusotto, F. Della Valle, G. Di Domenico, U. Gastaldi, E. Milotti, R. Pengo, G. Petrucci, E. Polacco, G. Ruoso, G. Zavattini 77

Pseudoscalar Production in Electromagnetic Fields by a Schwinger-like Mechanism / E. Masso 87

Decay of the Vacuum with Production of e[superscript +]e[superscript -] Pairs in Very Strong Magnetic Fields / G. Calucci 92

Lorentz and CPT Tests in QED / R. Bluhm 101

The Heat-Kernel Coefficient a[subscript 2] and the Casimir Energy of a Dielectric Cylinder / M. Bordag, I. G. Pirozhenko 109

A 25 T Dipole Pulsed Magnet to Study the Magnetic Birefringence of Vacuum: The BMV Project / S. Askenazy, J. Billette, P. Dupre, P. Ganau, J. Mackowski, J. Marquez, L. Pinard, O. Portugall, D. Ricard, G. L. J. A. Rikken, C. Rizzo, G. Trenec, J. Vigue|p115

Electro-optical Signal Readout for Gravitational Waves Resonant Detectors / F. Marin, M. Cerdonio, L. Conti, M. De Rosa, G. A. Prodi, L. Taffarello, J. P. Zendri 123

Treatment of Atomic Quasi-degeneracy in Bound-State QED: Application to the 1s2[subscript p] States of He-like Ions / I. Lindgren, A.-M. Martensson-Pendrill, S. Salomonson, B. Asen 131

The Magnetic Moment Anomaly of the Electron Bound in Hydrogenic Ions / W. Quint, T. Beier, H. Haffner, N. Hermanspahn, S. Karshenboim, H.-J. Kluge, G. Marx, T. Valenzuela, J. Verdu, G. Werth 144

Atomic Energy Levels with QED and Contribution of the Screened Self-Energy / E. O. Le Bigot, P. Indelicato 152

Neutrino Scattering in a Magnetic Field / K. S. McFarland, A. C. Melissinos 158

Second-Order Radiative Corrections to the Axial Vector Anomaly / W. Dittrich 168

Complete Result of the [alpha](Z[alpha superscript 3] Muonium Hyperfine Structure / M. Nio 178

Quantum Fluctuations of the Gravitational Field and Propagation of Light: A Heuristic Approach / S. Ansoldi, E. Milotti 186

Atomic Interferometry: Principles and Applications to Fundamental Physics / R. Delhuille, C. Champenois, M. Buchner, R. Mathevet, C. Rizzo, C. Robilliard, J. Vigue 192

The Muon Anomalous Magnetic Moment Experiment at Brookhaven / H. N. Brown, G. Bunce, R. M. Carey, P. Cushman, G. T. Danby, P. T. Debevec, H. Deng, W. Deninger, S. K. Dhawan, V. P. Druzhinin, L. Duong, W. Earle, E. Efstathiadis, F. J. M. Farley, G. V. Fedotovich, S. Giron, F. Gray, M. Grosse Perdekamp, A. Grossmann, U. Haeberlen, M. Hare, E. S. Hazen, D. W. Hertzog, V. W. Hughes, M. Iwasaki, K. Jungmann, D. Kawall, M. Kawamura, B. I. Khazin, J. Kindem, F. Krienen, I. Kronkvist, R. Larsen, Y. Y. Lee, W. Liu, I. Logashenko, R. McNabb, W. Meng, J. L. Mi, J. P. Miller, W. M. Morse, D. Nikas, C. J. G. Onderwater, Y. Orlov, C. S. Ozben, C. Pai, J. M. Paley, C. Polly, J. Pretz, R. Prigl, G. zu Putlitz, S. I. Redin, O. Rind, B. L. Roberts, N. Ryskulov, S. Sedykh, Y. K. Semertzidis, Y. M. Shatunov, E. Sichtermann, E. Solodov, M. Sossong, A. Steinmetz, L. R. Sulak, C. Timmermans, A. Trofimov, D. Urner, P. von Walter, D. Warburton, D. Winn, A. Yamamoto, D. Zimmerman 200

Hadronic Vacuum Polarization Contribution to the Spectra of Hydrogenic Atoms / R. N. Faustov, A. P. Martynenko 209

The DEAR Experiment on DA[Phi]NE / M. Augsburger, G. Beer, S. Bianco, A. M. Bragadireanu, M. Bregant, W. H. Breunlich, M. Cargnelli, D. Chatellard, C. Curceanu (Petrascu), J.-P. Egger, F. L. Fabbri, B. Gartner, C. Guaraldo, R. S. Hayano, M. Iliescu, T. Ishiwatari, T. M. Ito, M. Iwasaki, R. King, P. Knowles, T. Koike, B. Lauss, V. Lucherini, J. Marton, E. Milotti, F. Mulhauser, S. N. Nakamura, T. Ponta, A. C. Sanderson, L. A. Schaller, L. Schellenberg, H. Schneuwly, R. Seki, D. Tomono, T. Yoneyama, E. Zavattini, J. Zmeskal 217

Axial Anomaly and Mass Singularity Cancellation in QED / M. Verbeni 225

Metrology of Hydrogen Atom: Determination of the Rydberg Constant and Lamb Shifts / G. Hagel, C. Schwob, L. Jozefowski, B. de Beauvoir, L. Hilico, O. Acef, F. Nez, L. Julien, A. Clairon, F. Biraben 231

Limits on Sizes of Fundamental Particles and on Gravitational Mass of a Scalar / I. Dymnikova, J. Ulbricht, J. Zhao 239

QED Effective Actions in Inhomogeneous Backgrounds: Summing the Derivative Expansion / G. V. Dunne 247

QED Test at LEP200 Energies in the Reaction e[superscript +]e[superscript - right arrow gamma gamma]([gamma]) / A. Bajo, I. Dymnikova, A. Sakharov, E. Sanchez, J. Ulbricht, J. Zhao 255

A Sensitive Search for a Muon Electric Dipole Moment / R. M. Carey, J. P. Miller, O. Rind, B. L. Roberts, L. R. Sulak, H. Brown, G. T. Danby, J. W. Jackson, R. Larsen, D. M. Lazarus, W. Meng, W. M. Morse, C. S. Ozben, R. Prigl, Y. K. Semertzidis, V. Balakin, A. Bazhan, A. Dudnikov, B. I. Khazin, G. Sylvestrov, Y. Orlov, K. Jungmann, P. T. Debevec, D. W. Hertzog, C. J. G. Onderwater, E. J. Stephenson, P. Cushman, I. Kronkvist, F. J. M. Farley 263

Crystal Spectroscopy and Exotic Atoms / P. Indelicato, L. M. Simons 269

Proton Polarizability Contribution to the Hydrogen Lamb Shift and Hyperfine Splitting / R. N. Faustov, A. P. Martynenko 277

High-Precision Spectroscopy of Antiprotonic Helium / E. Widmann 285.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0735400008

OCLC:

47175515