Table Of ContentFUNDAMENTAL
INTERACTIONS
IN PHYSICS
Studies in the Natural Sciences
A Series from the Center for Theoretical Studies
University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida
Volume 1 - IMPACT OF BASIC RESEARCH ON TECHNOLOGY
Edited by Behram Kursunoglu and Arnold Perlmutter. 1973
Volume 2 - FUNDAMENTAL INTERACTIONS IN PHYSICS
Edited by Behram Kursunoglu, Arnold Perlmutter,
Steven M. Brown, Mou-Shan Chen, T. Patrick Coleman,
Werner Eissner, Joseph Hubbard, Chun-Chian Lu,
Stephan L. Mintz, and Mario Rasetti. 1973
FUNDAMENTAL
INTERACTIONS
IN PHYSICS
Conference Chairman
Behram Kursunoglu
Conference Secretary and Senior Editor
Arnold Perlmutter
Scientific Secretaries and Editors
Steven M. Brown Joseph Hubbard
Mou-Shan Chen Chun-Chian Lu
T. Patrick Coleman Stephan L. Mintz
Werner Eissner Mario Rasetti
Center for Theoretical Studies
University of Miami
Coral Gables, Florida
PLENUM PRESS • NEW YORK-LONDON • 1973
Proceedings of the Coral Gables Conference on Fundamental Interactions
January 22-26, 1973
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 73-84002
ISBN 97&-1-4684-0885-0 ISBN 97&-1-4684-0883-6 (eBook)
00110.1007197&-1-4684-0883-6
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PREFACE
The Center for Theoretical Studies of the University
of Miami has been the host of annual winter conferences
whose content has expanded from the particular topic of
symmetry principles in high energy physics to encompass
the bases and relationships of many branches of know
ledge. The scope of the Tenth Coral Gables Conference
on Fundamental Interactions included astrophysics, atomic
and molecular physics, fundamental theories of gravi
tation, of electromagnetism, and of hadrons, gauge
theories of weak and electromagnetic interactions, high
energy physics, liquid helium physics, and theoretical
biology. The range of topics is partially represented
by the scientific talks which form this book. The
tangible fruits of the conference are these papers; the
intangible ones are the changes of outlook which the
participants experienced and the new appreciation they
gained of the basic unity of all knowledge.
Historically, the early Coral Gables Conferences
witnessed the introduction of the concept of the quark
and the attempts to formulate a unification of the in
ternal and space-time symmetries of the elementary
particles, while later ones were the initial forums for
new unified theories of interactions and for the ideas
of scaling, light-cone dominance, and partons. As the
recent conferences have treated topics in which it was
felt that significant progress might occur and useful
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concepts be proposed as a result of the attention re
ceived in these meetings, it is fitting and proper that
this, the last of the Conferences on Fundamental Interact
ions, is generating a new, more general series of "Coral
Gables Orbs Scientiae" to continue this fruitful
process in a more capable framework.
The present conference was partially supported by
the United states Atomic Energy Commission.
We express our sincere thanks to Mrs. Helga
Billings, Mrs. Valerie Casuso, Mrs. Sandra Rice, Miss
Rhonda Saathoff, and Mrs. Jacquelyn Zagursky for their
kind assistance during the conference and for their
excellent work typing these Proceedings.
The Editors
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Section One
PARTICLE PHYSICS
Long Range Forces and Broken Symmetries
P. A. M. Dirac.................................. 1
Fundamental Interactions
Behram Kur sunoglu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 19
On SL(6,c) Gauge Invariance
Abdus Salam..................................... 55
Geometry and Physics of the Elementary Particles
D. I. Blokhintsev............................... 83
Initial Experiments at NAL
R. R. Wilson .................................... 97
Total Absorption Detectors and
Their Applications to High Energy Physics
Robert Hofstadter ............................... 109
Opening Comments on Gauge Theories
Benj amin Lee .................................... 125
Unified Gauge Theories of Strong,
Weak and Electromagnetic Interactions
M. B. Halpern ................................... 129
Concerning the Formulation of Charge
Independence of the Pion-Nucleon Interaction
G. Breit ........................................ 143
Theory of a One-Dimensional Relativistic
Elastic Continuum and Hadronic Wave Equation
Takehiko Takabayasi ............................. 169
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An Approach to Hadron Physics Through
Asymptotic SU(3) and Chiral SU(3) x SU(3)
Algebra
S. Oneda and Seisaku Matsuda .................... 175
The Electron and Muon as Eigensolutions
In Quantum Electromechanics
Fri t z Bopp and W. Lut zenberger .................. 183
Section Two
ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR PHYSICS
Slow Positron Collision in Gases
H. S. W. Massey .................................. 189
Variational Principles, and Atomic Scattering
Larry Spruch ..................................... 213
Panel Discussion: Spin and Polarization .. ........ 229
Effects in Atomic Processes
Electron-Molecule Scattering
A. Herzenberg .................................... 261
Panel Discussion: Electron-Molecule Collisions ... 285
Section Three
VARIOUS TOPICS
X-ray Astronomy
Herb ert Fri edman ................................. 315
Helium in Small Assemblies and Heavy Nuclei
M. Rasetti and T. Regge ....................•.•. .. 337
CONTENTS ix
Quantum Structural Stability and Biology
M. Dresden ....................................... 355
List of Participants .............................. '389
Index .............................................. 395
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