Quantum Flavordynamics, Quantum Chromodynamics, and Unified Theories: (54 NATO Science Series B:)

The Advanced Study Institute on Quantum Flavordynamics, Quantum Chromodynamics and Unified Theories was held on the campus th of the University of Colorado at Boulder from July 9 through July 27th of 1979. There has been a rapid progress in the understanding of weak, electromagnetic and strong interactions and their unification during the past few years. The purpose of the Institute was to have a group of lecturers active in these areas of research give a series of lectures on various aspects of these topics beginning at the elementary level and ending with the up-to-date developments. There were three lecturers, Professors S. Ellis, R. Field and C. H. Llewellyn Smith who covered the different but related aspects of Quantum Chromodynamics. Their lectures were well coordinated, but some overlap was inevitable. Dr. Buras gave two lectures on QCD corrections beyond the leading order. Professor D. Gross covered the nonperturbative aspects and a possible mechanism of quark confinement. At a more phenomenological level, Professor C. De Tar covered the bag models. The subject matter of electro­ weak interactions was covered by Professor G. Altarelli. Professor J. Wess gave six lectures on supersymmetry and supergravity. All these lectures with the exception of those of Professor D. Gross are incorporated in this volume. The contents of Professor Gross' lectures are available elsewhere and therefore only references and problems are included here. In addition to the above lectures, there were workshop-like discussion sessions.

Table of Contents:
Phenomenology of Flavordynamics.- The standard model of electroweak interactions.- Neutral current couplings.- Quark mixings.- Leptonic mixings.- Remarks on ? physics.- Heavy quark decays.- Unification of strong and electroweak forces.- Topics in Quantum Chromodynamics.- to QCD.- Overview of perturbative QCD.- Chiral symmetry, current algebra and ?o ? ??.- Quantization of gauge theories.- Renormalization and renormalization group equations.- Deep inelastic processes in leading log approximation.- Factorization including non-leading log.- Jets and Quantum Chromodynamics.- Introduction: jets in hadron physics.- Parton model.- Parton model and jet data.- A specific jet model.- A specific jet model revisited.- Perturbative QCD and the leading log.- “Pure perturbation”: energy patterns.- Energy correlations.- Perturbative Quantum Chromodynamics and Applications to Large Momentum Transfer Processes.- The effective coupling.- Electron-positron annihilation.- Deep inelastic scattering.- Large-mass muon pair production.- QCD perturbation theory.- Large p? meson and “jet” production in hadron-hadron collisions.- Summary and conclusions.- Topics in Perturbative QCD Beyond the Leading Order.- Overview.- Basic formalism.- Next to leading order asymptotic freedom corrections to deep inelastic scattering (non-singlet case).- Singlet sector beyond the leading order.- Semi-inclusive processes.- Other higher order calculations.- Summary.- The MIT Bag Model.- and the static cavity approximation.- Deformation from the spherical orbitals: electric polarizability of mesons.- Rotationally excited states: long bags.- Exotics and cryptoexotics in the bag mod.- The nucleon-nucleon interaction.- Low energy scattering and quark eigenstates.- PCAC and the bag model: the pion mass.-PCAC and the bag model: the axial vector current.- Semi-classical Methods in QCD and Hadronic Structure.- List of references.- Problems.- Supergravity.- Methods of differential geometry in gauge theories and gravitational theory.- Formulae for the superspace formulation of supergravity.- Linearized theory.- Participants.