Theoretical high energy physics : MRST 2001, a tribute to Roger Migneron : London, Ontario, Canada, 15-18 May 2001

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Author/Creator:

MRST 2001, Corporate Author.

Contributor:

Miranskiæi, V. A., Contributor.

Elias, Vic, Contributor.

Migneron, Roger, Contributor.

McKeon, Dennis Gerard Creaser, Contributor.

Conference Name:

MRST 2001

Series:

AIP conference proceedings Theoretical high energy physics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Particles (Nuclear physics)--Congresses.

Particles (Nuclear physics).

Other Title:

MRST 2001, a tribute to Roger Migneron

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] American Institute of Physics 2001

Language Note:

English

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: MIGNERON TRIBUTE SESSION I

Progress in M -Theory3

M. J. Duff

Perturbative SUSYM vs. AdS/CFT: A Brief Review 19

G. W. Semenoff

Production of Heavy Quarks in Deep-Inelastic Lepton-Hadron

Scattering40

W. L. van Neerven

Spinor and Supersymmetry in Spaces of Various Dimensions and

Signatures60

D. G. C. McKeon and T. N. Sherry

Dynamically Generating the Quark-Level SU(2) Linear Sigma Model 66

M. D. Scadron

GRAVITY/GEOMETRY

Oscillating Metrics and the Cosmological Constant 75

B. Holdom

Hiding a Cosmological Constant in a Warped Extra Dimension 82

H. Collins

5-Dimensional Warped Cosmological Solutions with

Radius Stabilization by a Bulk Scalar88

J. M. Cline and H. Firouzjahi

B-PHYSICS

Determining I Vub from the B

Xu Iv Dilepton Invariant

Mass Spectrum97

C. W. Bauer, Z. Ligeti, and M. Luke

B-*Xsl+F in the Vectorlike Quark Model 105

M. R. Ahmady, M. Nagashima, and A. Sugamoto

Renormalon Analysis of Heavy-Light Exclusive B Decays115

A. R. Williamson

MIGNERON TRIBUTE SESSION II

Composites in Color Superconducting Phase of Dense QCD with Two

Quark Flavors129

V. A. Miransky

Infrared Dynamics in Vector-Like Gauge Theories: QCD and Beyond 140

V. Elias

Topics on Neutrino Physics148

G. Karl and V. Novikov

QCD Sum-Rule Bounds on the Light Quark Masses151

T. G. Steele

QUARKS, GLUONS, AND MESONS

String Model Building at Low String Scale: Towards the

Standard M odel161

R. G. Leigh

Lepton Pair Production in a Charged Quark Gluon Plasma 168

A. Majumder and C. Gale

O(a/s) Estimate for the Longitudinal Cross Section in e+e

Annihilation to Hadrons175

F. A. Chishtie

Exploring Pseudoscalar Meson Scattering in Linear Sigma Models 182

D. Black, A. H. Fariborz, S. Moussa, S. Nasri, and J. Schechter

Probing Scalar Mesons Using a Toy Model in the Linear

Sigma M odel188

FIELD THEORY I

Cutoff Dependence of the Casimir Effect 197

C. R. Hagen

Pair Production of Arbitrary Spin Particles with EDM and AMM and

Vacuum Polarization 206

S. I. Kruglov

Analyzing the 't Hooft Model on a Light-Cone Lattice212

J. S. Rozowsky

Fuzzy Non-trivial Gauge Configurations 219

B. Ydri

Generalized Coherent State Approach to Star Products and

Applications to the Fuzzy Sphere 226

G. Alexanian, A. Pinzul, and A. Stem

FIELD THEORY II

Spontaneous CPT Violation in Confined QED 235

E. J. Ferrer, V. de la Incera, and A. Romeo

Issues on Radiatively Induced Lorentz and CPT Violation in

Quantum Electrodynamics242

W. F. Chen

Thermal Conductivity of the 2+1-Dimensional NJL Model in an

External Magnetic Field253

E. J. Ferrer, V. A. Gusynin, and V. de la Incera

Example of an Asymptotically Free Matrix Model 259

A. Agarwal and S. G. Rajeev

Variational Principle for Large N Matrix Models 267

L. Akant, G. S. Krishnaswami, and S. G. Rajeev

BRANES, STRINGS, AND THINGS

Analytic Semi-classical Quantization of a QCD String with

Light Quarks277

T. J. Allen, C. Goebel, M. G. Olsson, and S. Veseli

String Webs from Field Theory282

P. Argyres and K. Narayan

Geometry of Large Extra Dimensions versus Graviton Emission 287

F. Leblond

Quantum Myers Effect and its Supergravity Dual for DO/D4 Systems 295

P. J. Silva

AFTERWORD

Roger Migneron (1937-1999): Reminiscences on Sharing Life with a

Physicist305

I. P. Migneron

List of Participants311

Author Index313.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

0-7354-0045-8