
Adventures In Theoretical Physics
Selected Papers With Commentaries
By: Stephen L Adler (Editor)
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During the period 1964-1972, Stephen L Adler wrote seminal papers on high energy neutrino processes, current algebras, soft pion theorems, sum rules, and perturbation theory anomalies that helped lay the foundations for our current standard model of elementary particle physics. These papers are reprinted here together with detailed historical commentaries describing how they evolved, their relation to other work in the field, and their connection to recent literature. Later important work by Dr Adler on a wide range of topics in fundamental theory, phenomenology, and numerical methods, and their related historical background, is also covered in the commentaries and reprints.This book will be a valuable resource for graduate students and researchers in the fields in which Dr Adler has worked, and for historians of science studying physics in the final third of the twentieth century, a period in which an enduring synthesis was achieved.
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| Preface | p. vii |
| Commentaries | |
| Early Years, and Condensed Matter Physics | p. 1 |
| References for Chapter 1 | p. 3 |
| High Energy Neutrino Reactions, PCAC Relations, and Sum Rules | p. 4 |
| Introduction | p. 4 |
| Forward Lepton Theorem | p. 6 |
| Soft Pion Theorems | p. 8 |
| Sum Rules | p. 14 |
| More Low Energy Theorems; Weak Pion Production Redux | p. 20 |
| References for Chapter 2 | p. 24 |
| Anomalies: Chiral Anomalies and Their Nonrenormalization, Perturbative Corrections to Scaling, and Trace Anomalies to All Orders | p. 30 |
| Chiral Anomalies and [pi superscript 0] to [gamma gamma] Decay | p. 30 |
| Anomaly Nonrenormalization | p. 36 |
| Point Splitting Calculations of the Anomaly | p. 39 |
| The Non-Abelian Anomaly, Its Nonrenormalization and Geometric Interpretation | p. 41 |
| Perturbative Corrections to Scaling | p. 44 |
| Trace Anomalies to All Orders | p. 47 |
| References for Chapter 3 | p. 49 |
| Quantum Electrodynamics | p. 55 |
| Introduction | p. 55 |
| Strong Magnetic Field Electrodynamics: Photon Splitting and Vacuum Dielectric Constant | p. 56 |
| The "Finite QED" Program via the Callan-Symanzik Equations | p. 58 |
| Compactification of Massless QED and Applications | p. 60 |
| References for Chapter 4 | p. 62 |
| Particle Phenomenology and Neutral Currents | p. 65 |
| Introduction | p. 65 |
| Visits to Fermilab | p. 65 |
| Neutral Currents | p. 68 |
| References for Chapter 5 | p. 71 |
| Gravitation | p. 74 |
| Introduction | p. 74 |
| First Papers | p. 75 |
| Einstein Gravity as a Symmetry Breaking Effect | p. 77 |
| References for Chapter 6 | p. 80 |
| Non-Abelian Monopoles, Confinement Models, and Chiral Symmetry Breaking | p. 83 |
| Introduction | p. 83 |
| Non-Abelian Monopoles | p. 83 |
| Confinement Models | p. 87 |
| Chiral Symmetry Breaking | p. 92 |
| References for Chapter 7 | p. 94 |
| Overrelaxation for Monte Carlo and Other Algorithms | p. 98 |
| Introduction | p. 98 |
| Overrelaxation to Accelerate Monte Carlo | p. 98 |
| Image Normalization | p. 101 |
| References for Chapter 8 | p. 101 |
| Quaternionic Quantum Mechanics, Trace Dynamics, and Emergent Quantum Theory | p. 103 |
| Introduction | p. 103 |
| Quaternionic Quantum Mechanics | p. 103 |
| Quaternionic Projective Group Representations | p. 104 |
| Trace Dynamics and Emergent Quantum Theory | p. 107 |
| References for Chapter 9 | p. 109 |
| Where Next? | p. 111 |
| Index of Names in the Commentaries | p. 112 |
| Reprinted Papers | |
| Early Years, and Condensed Matter Physics | |
| From Elements of Radio to Elementary Particle Physics | p. 121 |
| Theory of the Valence Band Splittings at k = 0 in Zinc-Blende and Wurtzite Structures | p. 123 |
| Quantum Theory of the Dielectric Constant in Real Solids | p. 128 |
| High Energy Neutrino Reactions, PCAC Relations, and Sum Rules | |
| Tests of the Conserved Vector Current and Partially Conserved Axial-Vector Current Hypotheses in High-Energy Neutrino Reactions | p. 136 |
| Consistency Conditions on the Strong Interactions Implied by a Partially Conserved Axial-Vector Current | p. 140 |
| Consistency Conditions on the Strong Interactions Implied by a Partially Conserved Axial-Vector Current. II | p. 152 |
| Appendix A, from Current Algebras and Applications to Particle Physics | p. 158 |
| Calculation of the Axial-Vector Coupling Constant Renormalization in [beta] Decay | p. 166 |
| Sum Rules for the Axial-Vector Coupling-Constant Renormalization in [beta] Decay | p. 171 |
| Sum Rules Giving Tests of Local Current Commutation Relations in High-Energy Neutrino Reactions | p. 183 |
| Neutrino or Electron Energy Needed for Testing Current Commutation Relations | p. 195 |
| Low-Energy Theorem for the Weak Axial-Vector Vertex | p. 200 |
| Partially Conserved Axial-Vector Current Restrictions on Pion Photoproduction and Electroproduction Amplitudes | p. 211 |
| Possible Measurement of the Nucleon Axial-Vector Form Factor in Two-Pion Electroproduction Experiments | p. 219 |
| Photo-, Electro-, and Weak Single-Pion Production in the (3,3) Resonance Region (excerpts) | p. 225 |
| Anomalies: Chiral Anomalies and Their Nonrenormalization, Perturbative Corrections to Scaling, and Trace Anomalies to All Orders | |
| Axial-Vector Vertex in Spinor Electrodynamics | p. 241 |
| [pi superscript 0] Decay | p. 254 |
| Anomalous Commutators and the Triangle Diagram | p. 263 |
| Absence of Higher-Order Corrections in the Anomalous Axial-Vector Divergence Equation | p. 268 |
| Low Energy Theorem for [gamma] + [gamma] to [pi] + [pi] - [pi] | p. 288 |
| Breakdown of Asymptotic Sum Rules in Perturbation Theory | p. 293 |
| Bjorken Limit in Perturbation Theory | p. 297 |
| Anomalies in Ward Identities and Current Commutation Relations (excerpt) | p. 311 |
| Energy-Momentum-Tensor Trace Anomaly in Spin-1/2 Quantum Electrodynamics | p. 318 |
| Quantum Electrodynamics | |
| Photon Splitting in a Strong Magnetic Field | p. 328 |
| Photon Splitting and Photon Dispersion in a Strong Magnetic Field (excerpts) | p. 333 |
| Photon Splitting in a Strong Magnetic Field: Recalculation and Comparison with Previous Calculations | p. 354 |
| Quantum Electrodynamics without Photon Self-Energy Parts: An Application of the Callan-Symanzik Scaling Equations | p. 358 |
| Short-Distance Behavior of Quantum Electrodynamics and an Eigenvalue Condition for [alpha] | p. 368 |
| Constraints on Anomalies | p. 395 |
| Massless, Euclidean Quantum Electrodynamics on the 5-Dimensional Unit Hypersphere | p. 402 |
| Massless Electrodynamics in the One-Photon-Mode Approximation | p. 419 |
| Particle Phenomenology and Neutral Currents | |
| Three-Pion States in the K[subscript L] to [mu superscript + mu superscript -] Puzzle | p. 442 |
| Some Simple Vacuum-Polarization Phenomenology: e[superscript +]e[superscript -] to Hadrons; the Muonic-Atom X-Ray Discrepancy and g[subscript mu] - 2 | p. 445 |
| I = 1/2 Contributions to [nu subscript mu] + N to [nu subscript mu] + N + [pi superscript 0] in the Weinberg Weak-Interaction Model | p. 460 |
| Nuclear Charge-Exchange Corrections to Leptonic Pion Production in the (3,3)-Resonance Region | p. 462 |
| Application of Current Algebra Techniques to Neutral-Current-Induced Threshold Pion Production | p. 481 |
| Application of Current-Algebra Techniques to Soft-Pion Production by the Weak Neutral Current: V, A Case | p. 485 |
| Renormalization Constants for Scalar, Pseudoscalar, and Tensor Currents | p. 507 |
| Gravitation | |
| Trace Anomaly of the Stress-Energy Tensor for Massless Vector Particles Propagating in a General Background Metric | p. 517 |
| "No-Hair" Theorems for the Abelian Higgs and Goldstone Models | p. 527 |
| Order-R Vacuum Action Functional in Scalar-Free Unified Theories with Spontaneous Scale Breaking | p. 533 |
| A Formula for the Induced Gravitational Constant | p. 536 |
| Einstein Gravity as a Symmetry-Breaking Effect in Quantum Field Theory | p. 539 |
| Non-Abelian Monopoles, Confinement Models, and Chiral Symmetry Breaking | |
| Appendix A, from Theory of Static Quark Forces | p. 577 |
| Appendix A, from Classical Quark Statics | p. 582 |
| Relaxation Methods for Gauge Field Equilibrium Equations | p. 584 |
| Effective-Action Approach to Mean-Field Non-Abelian Statics, and a Model for Bag Formation | p. 609 |
| Flux Confinement in the Leading Logarithm Model | p. 620 |
| The Heavy Quark Static Potential in the Leading Log and the Leading Log Log Models | p. 627 |
| Quasi-Abelian versus Large-N[subscript c] Linear Confinement | p. 633 |
| Chiral Symmetry Breaking in Coulomb Gauge QCD | p. 635 |
| Gap Equation Models for Chiral Symmetry Breaking | p. 658 |
| Overrelaxation for Monte Carlo and Other Algorithms | |
| Over-Relaxation Method for the Monte Carlo Evaluation of the Partition Function for Multiquadratic Actions | p. 664 |
| Overrelaxation Algorithms for Lattice Field Theories | p. 668 |
| Stochastic Algorithm Corresponding to a General Linear Iterative Process | p. 682 |
| Study of an Overrelaxation Method for Gauge Theories | p. 685 |
| Algorithms for Pure Gauge Theory | p. 689 |
| General Theory of Image Normalization (excerpt) | p. 699 |
| Similarity and Affine Normalization of Partially Occluded Planar Curves Using First and Second Derivatives | p. 703 |
| Quaternionic Quantum Mechanics | |
| Nonadiabatic Geometric Phase in Quaternionic Hilbert Space | p. 709 |
| Coherent States in Quaternionic Quantum Mechanics | p. 720 |
| Projective Group Representations in Quaternionic Hilbert Space | p. 730 |
| A Rejoinder on Quaternionic Projective Representations | p. 739 |
| Stephen L. Adler: Vita | p. 744 |
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ISBN: 9789812565228
ISBN-10: 9812565221
Series: World Scientific Series in 20th Century Physics
Published: 19th January 2006
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 760
Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
Country of Publication: GB
Dimensions (cm): 27.8 x 21.8 x 3.6
Weight (kg): 2.08
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